Dear Hoover:
Please post the annoucement of the twenty-third meeting of the Annual
Interdisciplinary Conference (AIC-23), Feb 1-6, 1998, in Jackson, Wyoming.
Thanks! George Sperling < sperling@uci.edu >
P.S. It would appreciated if you could post it in the next couple of
days (before Psychonomics) so that people who had questions could catch
me there. -gs
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TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE
Teton Village, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
February 1 - February 6, 1998
Organizer: George Sperling, University of California, Irvine
CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
The TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE will meet in
Teton Village, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, February 1 - February 6, 1998.
The conference covers a wide range of subjects in what has come to be
called cognitive science, ranging from visual and auditory physiology
and psychophysics to human information processing, cognition, learning
and memory, to computational approaches to these problems including
neural networks and artificial intelligence. The aim is to provide
overview talks that are comprehensible and interesting to a wide
scientific audience --such as one might fantasize would occur at a
National or Royal Academy of Science. Attendance is limited by the
size of the conference facility to about 60 persons.
The Conference begins with a reception on Sunday evening, February 2,
at 5:00p followed by a half-session (BEHAVIORAL PREDICTIONS FROM
CORTICAL RECORDING). Regular sessions meet from Monday through Friday
from 4:00p to 8:00p; the rest of the day is free. On Friday, 8:00p,
there is a banquet for participants.
In 1998, the following sessions are planned:
BEHAVIORAL PREDICTIONS FROM CORTICAL RECORDING (David Heeger, Zhong-Lin
Lu, Sam Williamson, Larry O'Keefe),
VISION (Isabelle Buelthoff, Tatiana Pasternak, George Sperling, Jeff
Mulligan, Lenny Konsevich),
REACTION TIMES/INFORMATION PROCESSING (Asher Cohen, Rich Shiffrin,
Jerry Busemeyer, John Palmer, Philip Smith),
FORMAL APPROACHES TO FACIAL PERCEPTION (Herve Abdi, Garrison Cottrell,
Tom Busey, Dom Massaro, Jo-Anne Bachorowski, Alice O'Toole, Jim Tanaka,
Michael Wenger and Jim Townsend),
SPATIAL REPRESENTATION (Heinrich Buelthoff, Tim McNamara, George
Wolberg with, possibly, Dan Levin, Dan Simons, Roger Ratcliff),
LAW RELATED ASPECTS OF MEMORY plus miscellaneous contributions (Geof
Loftus, Marilyn Smith, Richard Anderson); BANQUET.
The complete program will be published at http://www.socsci.uci.edu/HIPLab/AIC
The conference hotel, the Best Western Inn at Jackson Hole, is directly at
the base of the ski slopes, a short walk from the tram and other ski lifts.
The Conference has arranged special room rates for registered participants.
To reserve lodging, first register with the conference, and then telephone
The Inn 1-800-842-7666 and inform the desk that you are with the
Interdisciplinary Conference (AIC). Other hotels, restaurants, ski rental
facilities, shops, and cross country ski trails, are all within walking
distance. There are flights directly to Jackson Hole AP (taxi or bus to the
hotel). Alternatively, Jackson is a five-hour drive from Salt Lake City.
For more information, electronic registration forms, and programs of recent
AICs, see the www pages at http://www.socsci.uci.edu/HIPLab/AIC
To attend the conference, register electronically at the conference web
site and mail the registration fee $120 ($140 after Jan 20) payable by check
to "Annual Interdisciplinary Conference" addressed to
Annual Interdisciplinary Conference
c/o Prof. George Sperling
Department of Cognitive Sciences SSP-A3
University of California
Irvine, CA 92697 Email: sperling@uci.edu
Registration includes admission to all sessions, daily snacks and
refreshments, and the closing banquet.
To receive future mailings (which may be electronic), provide your address
on the electronic or hardcopy registration forms.
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P.S. UCI continues to move forward (two recent Nobel Prizes) and the
Department of Cognitive Science is flourishing. Three new faculty
appointments were made in 1996: Charles Chubb, perception and mathematical
psychology; Gregory Hickock, language, brain imaging, and neuropsychology;
and Gavin Huntley- Fenner, cognitive development. For 1997-98, the
Department of Cognitive Sciences is advertising three additional faculty
appointments in broadly defined areas of Cognitive Sciences. In my lab,
there is an opening for a graduate student and for a postdoc, and there
are excellent opportunities for graduate students in the department of
Cognitive Sciences.
November 17, 1997
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