Hoover,
Would you please post the following announcement? Thanks.
Joe Lappin
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F I R S T C A L L F O R P A P E R S
31st Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology
August 6-9, 1998
Sponsored by
The Department of Psychology
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee
The 31st Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical
Psychology will be held at Vanderbilt University in Nashville,
Tennessee. The organizing committee consists of Keith Clayton,
Joseph Lappin, and Thomas Palmeri. The meetings will follow the
usual format with paper sessions over two and a half days
(August 7-9) with a banquet after the first day of paper.
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.
Abstracts of papers must be received by April 15, 1998.
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.
As was the case two years ago, 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 : Please 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 (SMP98@Vanderbilt.edu) 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:
Mathematical Psychology '98 Program Committee
Department of Psychology
301 Wilson Hall
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN 37240
E-mail : SMP98@Vanderbilt.edu
Fax : 1-615-343-8449
Symposium Outlines and Invited Speaker : Address suggestions to:
Joseph Lappin
Department of Psychology
301 Wilson Hall
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN 37240
E-mail : Joe.Lappin@vanderbilt.edu
Tel : 1-615-322-2398
Fax : 1-615-343-8449
Other Questions : send inquiries concerning the Mathematical Psychology
Meeting to:
Sylvia Ruppel
Department of Psychology
301 Wilson Hall
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN 37240
Email : psych1@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu
Tel : 1-615-322-0070
Fax : 1-615-343-8449
Expenses : Registration fees will be kept low, as in past SMP
conferences. Low-cost dorm accommodations will be available, as
will standard hotel rooms.
Travel : Vanderbilt University is approximately 15 minutes from
the Nashville International Airport. Nearly every major air
carrier flies into Nashville. Information about accommodations
and transportation will be sent in early spring to members of
the Society for Mathematical Psychology; others should contact
Sylvia Ruppel at the above address.
World Wide Web : Information about the 31st Annual Meeting is available via
the World Wide Web at http://www.vanderbilt.edu/smp98/
Information about the Society for Mathematical Psychology is available via
the World Wide Web at http://www.socsci.uci.edu/smp/
Sponsors:
Vanderbilt University
College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Psychology
Society for Mathematical Psychology
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Joseph S. Lappin (joe.lappin@vanderbilt.edu)
Dept. of Psychology phone: 615 - 322 - 2398
301 Wilson Hall fax: 615 - 343 - 8449
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN 37240