Connectionists: Research workshop on computational modeling

[Dietmar Heinke]

Call for Attendance

This workshop is part of a series of published colloquia on 'Advances in 
cognitive neuroscience', held at the Behavioural Brain Sciences Centre, 
University of Birmingham. The general aim of the workshop is to bring 
together leading international researchers either using computational 
models, or collecting data directly relevant to models, to discuss the 
current state of the art, and to evaluate new directions in in the 
interaction between models and data.

Title: Closing the gap between neurophysiology and behaviour: A 
computational modelling approach

Organiser: Dietmar Heinke

Location: Behavioural Brain Sciences Centre, University of Birmingham, 
Birmingham, United Kingdom

Date: 31.May 2007 to  2.June 2007

Aims and Objective
At present modelling approaches range from "neurophysiological processes 
in details and indifferent to whole-system behaviour" to "modeling a 
broad range of behavioural data but oblivious to neurophysiological 
details". However, in order to close the gap between neurophysiological 
process and human behavior it may be necessary to connect both ends of 
that spectrum, such as modelling a broad range of behavioral data 
together with neurophysiological details. This workshop aims at 
discussing ways of closing the gap, i.e. how to develop an integrative 
approach, by bringing together computational modelling researchers from 
different points of the spectrum. A number of internationally renowned 
researchers have agreed to present a paper at this workshop (see 
http://comp-psych.bham.ac.uk/workshop.htm for details).

Registration
For further inquiries and registration please email the conference 
secretary, Elaine Fox e.fox at bham.ac.uk.
Please note that to cover our expenses we will charge a small 
registration fee of £ 30 per day to be paid at arrival.

Satellite workshop
Please note that there will be also a satellite workshop with the title 
"The method of computational modelling: A practical introduction". This 
workshop aims to give postdocs and postgraduates with a background in 
psychology a hands-on introduction to computational modelling (see 
http://comp-psych.bham.ac.uk/sat_workshop.htm for details).


 Dietmar Heinke

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School of Psychology
University of Birmingham
Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
http://www.psychresearch.bham.ac.uk/dgheinke/
Phone: +44 121-414-4920
FAX:   +44 121-414-4897