tjhorton@csri.toronto.edu (Tim Horton) (05/02/88)
=============================================================================== UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO Cognitive Science Events, May 1988 No paper version available =============================================================================== The information here is very incomplete -- only whatever made itself available! =============================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ May 18 (Wednesday), 12:15 Ebbinghaus Empire Lee Ryan "Transfer-appropriate processing in implicit and explicit memory" Sidney Smith Hall, rm 570 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ May 20 (Friday), 1:30-3pm Clarke Institute Clinical Research Seminars Mr. Isaac Smith (Clarke) "Issues in Clinical Neuropsychology" Clarke Inst, boardroom (rm 801) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ May 25 (Wednesday), 12:15 Ebbinghaus Empire John Furedy "The Nature of Knowledge in Psychology: A Realist Perspective" Sidney Smith Hall, rm 570 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 1 (Wednesday), 12:15 Ebbinghaus Empire In-Mao Liu (Hong Kong) "Memorial consequences of generating words and nonwords" Sidney Smith Hall, rm 570 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ NEARBY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------