Connectionists: CCNC 2007 Call-for-Abstracts

[Randall C. O'Reilly]

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

To be held in conjunction with the 2007 SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE
CONFERENCE, November 3-7, 200 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 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 still plan to continue to rotate among different neuroscience and
psychology meetings.
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* DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS: Friday, July 13, 2007

Abstracts are to be submitted online via the website:

		 www.ccnconference.org.  

Notice will be given by early June when the online submission form
becomes operational.

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 for 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 ACCEPTANCE: Approx. August 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