Connectionists: CCNC 2009: Call for Fellowship Applicants

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  ~ CCNC 2009 --- CALL FOR FELLOWSHIP APPLICANTS ~

The CCNC organizing committee is pleased to announce the availability of a
limited number of $500 fellowship awards to early-career computational
cognitive neuroscience researchers and potential researchers. Eligible
candidates should be undergraduates, graduate students, or post-docs. It is
anticipated that approximately ten (10) stipends will be awarded.

Criteria to be used in selection will include (in approximate order of
weighting):

* Financial need: e.g., student status, specific hardship, etc.

* Membership in a group underrepresented in science: e.g., African-American,
  Hispanic, Native American ancestry; female gender

* Distance to be traveled: Transoceanic vs. North America

* Participating author: e.g., are you a sole presenter, first author,
  auxiliary author on a poster?

Interested applicants should send an email to the conference administrator no
later than midnight Friday September 25, 2009:

Thomas E. Hazy, MD
thazy at colorado.edu

Your email should include your career status and address all of the selection
criteria listed above. Please also include the name and contact info of a
faculty reference who is familiar with your career status, academic work
and/or research interests and can corroborate your application if asked.

An overview of CCNC 2009 is provided below.

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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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* DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS: CLOSED

A limited number of late posters may be accepted on a space available basis.  
Abstracts can be submitted online via the website:
 
www.ccnconference.org. 

* Online registration is available at the conference website:

www.ccnconference.org. 

As in past years, there are 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: September 7, 2009
* CONTRIBUTED SHORT TALK SELECTION: September 7, 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 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