Connectionists: CCNC 2007 --- Call-for-Abstracts DEADLINE EXTENDED to August 17, 2007

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IMPORTANT UPDATE: 
Because of the recent time change moving the start of the conference to 1:30PM 
on Thursday, November 1, along with the fact that we have not yet opened the 
online registration website, we are extending the deadline for submitting 
poster abstracts to Friday August 17, 2007. 

The CCNC 2007 planning committee had recently been made aware that the first 
day of conference, November 1, is the day after Halloween. In an effort to be 
family friendly, the committee is planning for the conference to start at 
1:30PM so as to allow attendees the possible option of flying in that 
morning. That will make for a rather late night on day one, but the committee 
feels that, on balance, the family friendly benefits of a late start will 
significantly outweigh that cost.  

OTHER UPDATES:
* Our meeting has been officially assigned to the San Diego Convention Center 
by SfN

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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, August 17, 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. September 5, 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

** Computational models in biological psychiatry

   Moderator: Michael Frank, University of Arizona

** 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 Staff: 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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