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CALL FOR PAPERS
29th Annual MATHEMATICAL PSYCHOLOGY Meeting
1-4 August 1996
Sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The 29th Annual Mathematical Psychology Meeting will be held at the Univ. of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The meetings will follow the usual format
with paper sessions over two and a half days (2-4 August) with a banquet
after the first day of papers. The Organizing Committee consists of
Christina A. Burbeck, Elliot L. Hirshman, Jonathan A. Marshall (Co-Chair),
Nestor A. Schmajuk, Thomas S. Wallsten (Co-Chair), and Yiu-Fai Yung.
Papers for the Mathematical Psychology Meeting may be submitted by regular
members, student members, and nonmembers. Any one person may present only
one paper but may be a coauthor of other papers, or may be an invited
speaker or symposium participant. Papers will be limited to those in which
mathematical, statistical, and simulation methods play a significant role in
the development of psychological ideas or in the interpretation of results.
Purely theoretical developments should clearly relate to some psychological
issue or contribute to methodologies of obvious use in psychology.
Experimental results should bear directly on some mathematical or simulation
model.
Programs of past meetings appear in the Journal of Mathematical Psychology
and may be consulted for ideas concerning symposia as well as for ideas
about areas that have not recently been covered. All members of the Society
for Mathematical Psychology are welcome to make suggestions for symposia
and invited speakers, to the Program Committee as soon as possible.
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Abstracts of papers must be received by 30 April 1996.
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Papers are accepted on the basis of their quality and suitability and not
according to the author's affiliation with the Society. For oral papers,
presentation time will be limited to 25 minutes including five minutes for
discussion. Sessions will be strictly timed.
This year, we are considering adding a poster session. If there are
sufficient submissions, we will do so. Poster presentations have the
advantage of longer discussion time, less formality, and closer audience
contact. The "status" associated with poster presentations will be equal
to that associated with oral presentations.
Submissions must include the following information:
1. For all authors and co-authors:
- Names
- Institutional affiliations
- Mailing addresses
- E-mail addresses
- Telephone and fax numbers
- Membership status in the Society for Mathematical Psychology
(member, student member, or nonmember)
2. A specification of which co-author will present the paper at the meeting
3. Your preference for spoken/poster presentation:
(a) Only wish to present a spoken paper
(b) Prefer spoken paper, willing to give a poster
(c) No preference; either spoken or poster is fine
(d) Prefer poster, willing to give a spoken paper
(e) Only willing to present a poster
4. Title of paper
5. Category of the paper. Choose the most appropriate category:
(a) categorization
(b) cognition and language
(c) judgment, decision, and choice
(d) information processing and performance
(e) learning and memory
(f) measurement and scaling
(g) methodology and statistics
(h) neural/neurophysiological modeling
(i) physiology
(j) psychophysics
(k) sensation and perception
(l) social psychology
(m) other (please specify)
6. An abstract of 150-250 words
E-mail submission of abstracts is greatly preferred, since this will
facilitate compiling (without retyping) of an abstract book to be
distributed at the meeting. Send abstracts to:
Professor Jonathan A. Marshall
Math Psych '96 Program Committee
Department of Computer Science
CB 3175, Sitterson Hall
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175, U.S.A.
E-mail marshall@cs.unc.edu
Tel +1-919-962-1887, fax +1-919-962-1799
Address symposium outlines, and invited speaker suggestions to:
Professor Thomas S. Wallsten
Math Psych '96 Program Committee
Department of Psychology
CB 3270, Davie Hall
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3270, U.S.A.
E-mail tom.wallsten@unc.edu
Tel +1-919-962-2538, fax +1-919-962-2537
Send all other questions concerning the Mathematical Psychology Meeting to:
Ms. Colleen R. Schwoerke
Division of Continuing Education
CB 1020, Friday Center
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-1020, U.S.A.
E-mail smp96@cs.unc.edu
Tel +1-919-962-6298, fax +1-919-962-2061
Expenses: Registration fees will be kept very low, as in past SMP
conferences. Low-cost dorm accommodations will be available, as will
standard hotel rooms.
Travel: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is approximately
20-25 minutes from the Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU).
Information about accommodations and transportation will be sent in early
spring to members of the Society for Mathematical Psychology; others should
contact Colleen Schwoerke at the above address.
Information about the Society for Mathematical Psychology is available via
the World Wide Web at http://www.socsci.uci.edu/smp/.
Sponsors:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill --
College of Arts and Sciences,
Department of Psychology,
Department of Computer Science
Society for Mathematical Psychology
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