Connectionists: CCNC 2007 Abstract submission website now operational

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IMPORTANT UPDATES: 

* The website for submitting is now operational: 
      http://www.ccnconference.org/page6.html

* Like last year, we are planning another special issue of Brain
  Research for selected papers from this meeting -- no need to
  indicate interest with your abstract submission at the present time

* Also like last year, we plan to award a limited number of
  competitive travel fellowships for students -- look for a notice by
  late summer

* 2007 registration fee: $175 ($75 student)

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		~ Call-for-Abstracts ~
3RD ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
		www.ccnconference.org

To be held in conjunction with Dynamical Neuroscience XV immediately prior to
the 2007 SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE (SfN) meeting, November 3-7, 2007 at the San
Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA.

* CONFERENCE DATES: Thu-Fri November 1 & 2, 2007

The inaugural CCNC 2005 meeting held prior to Society for Neuroscience (SfN)
in Washington, DC (also in conjunction with the Dynamical Neuroscience
satellite) was a great success, with approximately 250 attendees, 60 presented
posters, and strongly positive reviews. For 2006, we went to Houston for the
much smaller Psychonomics meeting and still had over 100 attendees and almost
50 posters. In future years, we will continue to rotate among different
neuroscience and psychology meetings.
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* DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS: Friday, July 27, 2007 (NEW DATE!)

Abstracts are to be submitted online via the website:

	  www.ccnconference.org/page6.html

As in past years, there will be two categories of submissions:

   -Poster only
   -Poster, plus short talk (15 min) to highlight the poster

Abstracts should be limited to 250 words. Women and underrepresented
minorities are especially encouraged to apply. Reviewing of posters will be
inclusive and only to ensure appropriateness to the meeting. Short talks will
be selected on the basis of research quality, relevance to conference theme,
and expected accessibility in a talk format. Abstracts not selected for short
talks will still be accepted as posters as long as they meet appropriateness
criteria.

* NOTIFICATION OF POSTER ACCEPTANCE: Approx. August 15, 2007
* CONTRIBUTED SHORT TALK SELECTION: Approx. September 15, 2007
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Program:
* 2007 Keynote Speakers:
       Alex Pouget, University of Rochester
       Read Montague, Baylor College of Medicine


* 3 Symposia, each including a mixture of modelers and non-modelers and
  focused on a common theme or issue:

** Use of computational and cognitive models in functional brain-imaging

   Moderator: Todd Braver, Washington University - St. Louis

** Sequential structure learning 

   Moderator: TBA

** Hippocampal neurogenesis in learning and memory

   Moderator: Janet Wiles, University of Queensland

* Approximately 12 short talks will be chosen featuring selected posters

* Poster sessions
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2007 Planning Committee:

Suzanna Becker, McMaster University
Jonathan Cohen, Princeton University
Nathaniel Daw, New York University
David Noelle, University of California, Merced
Maximilian Riesenhuber, Georgetown University Medical Center

Randall O'Reilly, University of Colorado, Boulder (ex officio)

Executive Organizer: Thomas Hazy, University of Colorado, Boulder

For more information and to sign up for the mailing list visit:

	 www.ccnconference.org
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