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Dear Hoover Chan,
please could you post the following announcement and call for
participation on cvnet.
There will be a symposium on the topics of
Neural binding of space and time:
Spatial and temporal mechanisms of feature-object binding
University of Leipzig, Germany
16th-18th March 2000
http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~psyall2/symposium/sympos.html
Organizers:
Hermann J. M¸ller1
Mark A. Elliott1
Axel Mecklinger2
Christoph S. Herrmann2
Glyn W. Humphreys3
1) Institute of Experimental Psychology, University of Leipzig, Germany
2) Max Planck Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Leipzig, Germany
3) School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
Introduction and objectives of the symposium
Some of the central problems to be solved by the brain - such as
figure-ground coding, object recognition, and the formation of object
memories - concern
the binding of separately coded feature elements into coherent object
representations. The binding problem has recently been approached by
investigators
in a variety of disciplines, notably psychology (psychophysics &
experimental psychology), physiology (electrophysiology &
neurophysiology) and
computational modeling (neurocomputing).
Although the wealth of empirical findings and theoretical insights
produced by these various research efforts is readily available in
specialist publications,
there is little direct exchange amongst the various disciplines
involved. However, arguably, future progress towards solving the binding
problem requires an
interdisciplinary approach. The purpose of the symposium is to promote a
dialogue amongst leading experts within the various disciplines, to help
identify
important shared issues and discuss ways of how these issues may be
addressed using convergent (integrated) methodologies. What follows is a
brief
overview of important issues and developments within the three
disciplines psychology, neurophysiology, and computational modeling,
relating to the theme
of the symposium.
The symposium will bring together about 30 leading scientists from
psychology, neurophysiology, and computational modeling in Leipzig,
Germany, in March
2000 (see list of invited participants), to help identify important
shared issues and discuss ways of how these issues may be addressed
using convergent
(integrated) methodologies. Papers presented at the symposium will focus
on issues of figure-ground coding, object recognition and memory
formation, and
will be organized around a set of keynote lectures on the highlighted
themes, to be given by the following speakers:
Gordon Baylis
(University of South Carolina, USA):
Psychology of figure-ground coding.
Robert Desimone
(National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, USA):
Neurophysiology of object coding.
Stephen Grossberg
(University of Boston, USA):
Computational modeling of binding.
Glyn W. Humphreys
(University of Birmingham, UK):
Neuropsychology of binding.
James McClelland
(Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA):
Computational modeling of the hippocampus.
Wolf Singer
(Max-Planck-Institut f¸r Hirnforschung, Frankfurt, Germany):
Neurophysiology of binding.
In addition, some 20 - 25 additoonal lectures will be given, details of
prospective speakers may be found at
http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~psyall2/symposium/participants.html
All keynote lectures and papers presented at the symposium will be
invited as contributions to a special issue of Visual Cognition (edited
by the conference organisers; acceptance for publication based peer
review) to disseminate the results of the symposium to the wider
scientific community.
Call for participation:
Attendance of the symposium will be open to up to 50 further
participants, above all to postdoctoral researchers and advanced (Ph.D.
level) students, actively engaged in research on the above issues.
Additional participants will be encouraged to present a poster of their
research. In this case a small charge of 75 DM (Deutschemark)
(approximately US$37), for registered Ph.D students and 150 DM (US$75)
for postdoctoral researchers, will be levied for attendance at the
symposium. Selected poster abstracts may be published in the Visual
Cognition special issue.
Participants who wish to present a poster at the symposium should submit
an abstract of no more than 2000 characters or 200 -250 words to
abstracts@psychologie.uni-leipzig.de
no later than November 30th, 1999.
For further information please email the secretariat at
symposium@psychologie.uni-leipzig.de.
many thanks
Mark Elliott
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Mark A. Elliott
Universit”t Leipzig.
Institut f¸r Allgemeine Psychologie.
Seeburgstr. 14/20,
D-04103 Leipzig.
Germany
Tel: ++49 (0)341 97 359 57
Fax: ++49 (0)341 97 359 69
email: elliott@uni-leipzig.de
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Dear Hoover Chan,
please could you post the following announcement and call for participation
on cvnet.
There will be a symposium on the topics of
Neural binding of space and time:
Spatial and temporal mechanisms of feature-object binding
University of Leipzig, Germany
16th-18th March 2000
http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~psyall2/symposium/sympos.html
Organizers:
Hermann J. Müller1
Mark A. Elliott1
Axel Mecklinger2
Christoph S. Herrmann2
Glyn W. Humphreys3
1) Institute of Experimental Psychology, University of Leipzig, Germany
2) Max Planck Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Leipzig, Germany
3) School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
Introduction and objectives of the symposium
Some of the central problems to be solved by the brain - such as figure-ground
coding, object recognition, and the formation of object memories - concern
the binding of separately coded feature elements into coherent object
representations. The binding problem has recently been approached by investigators
in a variety of disciplines, notably psychology (psychophysics &
experimental psychology), physiology (electrophysiology & neurophysiology)
and
computational modeling (neurocomputing).
Although the wealth of empirical findings and theoretical insights produced
by these various research efforts is readily available in specialist publications,
there is little direct exchange amongst the various disciplines involved.
However, arguably, future progress towards solving the binding problem
requires an
interdisciplinary approach. The purpose of the symposium is to promote
a dialogue amongst leading experts within the various disciplines, to help
identify
important shared issues and discuss ways of how these issues may be
addressed using convergent (integrated) methodologies. What follows is
a brief
overview of important issues and developments within the three disciplines
psychology, neurophysiology, and computational modeling, relating to the
theme
of the symposium.
The symposium will bring together about 30 leading scientists from psychology,
neurophysiology, and computational modeling in Leipzig, Germany, in March
2000 (see list of invited participants), to help identify important
shared issues and discuss ways of how these issues may be addressed using
convergent
(integrated) methodologies. Papers presented at the symposium will
focus on issues of figure-ground coding, object recognition and memory
formation, and
will be organized around a set of keynote lectures on the highlighted
themes, to be given by the following speakers:
Gordon Baylis
(University of South Carolina, USA):
Psychology of figure-ground coding.
Robert Desimone
(National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, USA):
Neurophysiology of object coding.
Stephen Grossberg
(University of Boston, USA):
Computational modeling of binding.
Glyn W. Humphreys
(University of Birmingham, UK):
Neuropsychology of binding.
James McClelland
(Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA):
Computational modeling of the hippocampus.
Wolf Singer
(Max-Planck-Institut für Hirnforschung, Frankfurt, Germany):
Neurophysiology of binding.
In addition, some 20 - 25 additoonal lectures will be given, details of prospective speakers may be found at
http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~psyall2/symposium/participants.html
All keynote lectures and papers presented at the symposium will be invited
as contributions to a special issue of Visual Cognition (edited by the
conference organisers; acceptance for publication based peer review) to
disseminate the results of the symposium to the wider scientific community.
Call for participation:
Attendance of the symposium will be open to up to 50 further participants, above all to postdoctoral researchers and advanced (Ph.D. level) students, actively engaged in research on the above issues. Additional participants will be encouraged to present a poster of their research. In this case a small charge of 75 DM (Deutschemark) (approximately US$37), for registered Ph.D students and 150 DM (US$75) for postdoctoral researchers, will be levied for attendance at the symposium. Selected poster abstracts may be published in the Visual Cognition special issue.
Participants who wish to present a poster at the symposium should submit an abstract of no more than 2000 characters or 200 -250 words to
abstracts@psychologie.uni-leipzig.de
no later than November 30th, 1999.
For further information please email the secretariat at
symposium@psychologie.uni-leipzig.de.
many thanks
Mark Elliott
-----------------------------------
Mark A. Elliott
Universität Leipzig.
Institut für Allgemeine Psychologie.
Seeburgstr. 14/20,
D-04103 Leipzig.
Germany
Tel: ++49 (0)341 97 359 57
Fax: ++49 (0)341 97 359 69
email: elliott@uni-leipzig.de
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