Connectionists: CCNC 2009 Online Abstract Submission Now Open!

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           ~ Online Abstract Submission Open ~

4th CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
                 www.ccnconference.org

To be held in conjunction with the 2009 Annual Meeting of the
Psychonomic Society at the Sheraton Boston Hotel in Boston, MA.

CCN CONFERENCE DATES: Wed-Thu November 18 & 19, 2009

All three of our previous meetings have been a great success, two as 
satellites to Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting (2005, 2007) and  in 
2006 with Psychonomics.  Attendance has ranged from 115-250.

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* EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS: Friday, July 31, 2009

Abstracts are to be submitted online via the website 
www.ccnconference.org. 

* Look for an announcement regarding online registration opening soon. 

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, 2009
* CONTRIBUTED SHORT TALK SELECTION: Approx. September 15, 2009
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Program:
* 2009 Keynote Speakers:
   Neil Burgess, University College London
   Josh Tenenbaum, MIT

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

** Top-Down Mechanisms of Visual Attention

    Moderator: Steven Bressler, Florida Atlantic University

** Our Vision for the Word: Modeling Orthographic Processing

    Moderators: Carol Whitney, University of Maryland, College Park
                Jonathan Grainger, CNRS, France

** Context, Memory, and the Brain

    Moderators: Michael Hasselmo, Boston University
                Ken Norman, Princeton University

* Approximately 12 short talks will be chosen featuring selected posters.

* Poster sessions

* We are again 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.

* We plan to award a limited number of competitive travel fellowships for 
students -- look for a notice by late summer. We especially encourage 
applications from members of underrepresented minorities.

* Registration fees: $175 ($75 for students).
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2009 Planning Committee:
Suzanna Becker, McMaster University
Carlos Brody, Princeton University
Nathaniel Daw, New York University
Michael Hasselmo, Boston University
David Noelle, University of California, Merced
Ken Norman, Princeton University
Maximilian Riesenhuber, Georgetown University

Ex officio:
Randall O'Reilly, University of Colorado, Boulder
Jonathan Cohen, Princeton University

Executive Organizer: Thomas Hazy, University of Colorado, Boulder

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

      www.ccnconference.org