tjhorton@csri.toronto.edu (Tim Horton) (05/02/88)
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UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
Cognitive Science Events, May 1988
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The information here is very incomplete -- only whatever made itself available!
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May 4 (Wednesday), 12:15
Ebbinghaus Empire
Tim Shallice (Cambridge, MRC)
"Frontal amnesia and supervisory control of memory" (tentatitive title)
Sidney Smith Hall, rm 570
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May 9-13
Toronto Exxperience Conference:
Celebrating 20 years of Computer Science Research at U of T
A week-long series of talks, events, and social do-s. (*not* free).
The Friday morning session will be about A.I. research.
Contact the Department of Computer Science for information.
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May 11 (Wednesday), 12:15
Ebbinghaus Empire
Johannes Englekamp (U. des Saarlandes)
"Motor processes as part of the encoding of verbal information"
Sidney Smith Hall, rm 570
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May 18 (Wednesday), 12:15
Ebbinghaus Empire
Lee Ryan
"Transfer-appropriate processing in implicit and explicit memory"
Sidney Smith Hall, rm 570
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May 20 (Friday), 1:30-3pm
Clarke Institute Clinical Research Seminars
Mr. Isaac Smith (Clarke)
"Issues in Clinical Neuropsychology"
Clarke Inst, boardroom (rm 801)
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May 16-19 (Monday-Thursday)
University Lectures in Vision 1988
Key speaker: F.M. De Monasterio
(National Eye Institute, Chief, Section on Visual Processing).
May 16 (Monday) one day symposium, 9:30am - 5:00pm
George Ignatieff Theatre, Trinity College, 15 Devonshire Place
9:30 P. Kaiser "Minimally distinct borders"
10 B. Tansley "Border perception in the parafovea"
11 F. de Monasterio "Functional porperties of macaque ganglion cells"
2:00 P. Hallett "Chromatic borders and peripheral vision"
2:30 P. Cavanagh "Color space and spatial form"
3:30 F. de Monasterio "Tracing blue cone pathways in macaque retina in vivo
with tissue reactive dyes"
May 17 (Tuesday) 4-5pm,
Department of Anatomy, Medical Sciences Building, rm 6229
May 18 (Wednesday) 4-5pm
Hospital for Sick Children, Lecture Theatre 1527
"Topographical Correlations Between Cones and
Ganglion Cells in Human and Macaque Retina"
de Monasterio's papers will be discussed in Computer Science, Tuesday, 10-12
students will be making presentions Wednesday, 10:30-12
various receptions will occur over the 4 days.
For information, contact P.E. Hallett at 978-4339.
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May 25 (Wednesday), 12:15
Ebbinghaus Empire
John Furedy
"The Nature of Knowledge in Psychology: A Realist Perspective"
Sidney Smith Hall, rm 570
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June 1 (Wednesday), 12:15
Ebbinghaus Empire
In-Mao Liu (Hong Kong)
"Memorial consequences of generating words and nonwords"
Sidney Smith Hall, rm 570
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June 3-5 (Friday - Sunday)
Physicalism in Mathematics:
a conference on recent work in the philosophy of mathematics
All meetings will be held in rooms 5107A&B, Sidney Smith Hall
June 3, Friday
7pm Philip Kitcher (UCSD)
9pm Reception
June 4, Saturday
9:30am Yvon Gautier (U de Montreal)
11am Michael Mallett (McGill)
12:30pm Lunch
1:30pm Hartry Field (U of Southern California)
3pm Bob Hale (U of Lancaster)
June 5, Sunday
9:30am Alasdair Urquart (U of Toronto)
11am Penelope Maddy (U of California, Irvine)
12:30pm Lunch
For further information, please contact:
Andrew Irvine (416) 978-3316, or Jim Brown (416) 978-6789
Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto, M5S 1A1
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June 16
Dept of Psychiatry, 14th Annual Research Day
A series of short presentations (roughly 10 minutes each, several running
simultaneously) on research by faculty of Psychiatry and others associated with
the department. Keynote speaker will be Dr. Paul Garfinkel (psychiatrist in
chief, Toronto General, and professor of Psychiatry). Dr. P.L. Darby
(Wellesley Hospital) will chair. For information, contact Karen Drysdale,
979-2221 ext2455.
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May 10 (Tuesday), 1pm
York Cognitive Science Discussion Group [From yorkvm1.bitnet!COGSCI-L]
Johannes Engelkamp (Saarbrucken, Germany)
"Representation and Organization of Nouns and Verbs in Memory"
Abstract:
It is well known that nouns are better retained than verbs. Until
now, there has been no clear answer why this is the case. One
goal of my talk is to contribute to an answer. My main goal, how-
ever, is to show that nouns and verbs differ in their mental rep-
resentation and in the organization of their meanings in memory.
Mental representation refers to the meanings of a single word;
organization to the connections among the mental representations.
I will report on a series of experiments which we carried out
in Saarbrucken that served to test various assumptions as to the
representation and organization of both nouns and verbs. The
main conclusion will be that relational information is more typi-
cal for nouns than for verbs and that item-specific information
of nouns and verbs is different. Furthermore, it will be conclud-
ed that the generally better relational encoding of nouns as com-
pared with verbs contributes largely to the noun superiority
effect. Better item-specific encoding cannot, however, be exclud-
ed. In any case, it can be demonstrated that enhancing differen-
tially the item-specific encoding of verbs reduces the noun
superiority effect.
Behavioural Science Bldg, rm 207, York University
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Tenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, August 17-19
This international conference will be held at (almost nearby) McGill University
this year. The conference will feature symposia and invited speakers on the
topics of problem solving, educational and professional applications of
cognitive science, language processing, cognitive development, the relationship
between cognitive and neural sciences, and recent developments in parallel
distributed systems. The conference schedule will include paper sessions,
symposia, and a poster session, covering the full range of the cognitive
sciences.
Invited speakers: Philip Johnson-Laird (Applied Psychology, Cambridge), Alan
Newell (Computer Science, Carnegie-Mellon), Kenneth Wexler (Brain and Cognitive
Sciences, MIT), Gordon Bower (Stanford)
Invited symposia: cognitive science issues in medical problem solving and
decision making; psychological issues in natural langauge processing; new
directions in cogitive aging research; foundations of PDP systems; scientific
reasoning; transition mechanisms in cognitive development; neurological
correlates of PDP models and their biological basis
Registration: Nonmember $200 Member $150 Student $100, before June 17
Contact: Cognitive Science Secretariat, (514) 398-3770
3450 University Street,
Montreal, H3A 2A7
Note that McGill has recently announced a new Cognitive Science program.
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