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VW Budapest - Berlin Minisymposium on Computational Neuroscience and
Neural Computation
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July 29th, 1999 Thursday,
KFKI Research Institue for Particle and Nuclear Physcis of the Hungarian
Academy of Sciences, III Bldg, Conference Room
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Program
9.30. Introduction (Peter Erdi and Klaus Obermayer)
9.40 Peter Adorjan (Be) Recurrent Cortical Competition: Strengthen or
Weaken
10.20 Zoltan Somogyvari (Bu): Statistical Properties of Dynamic Random
Boolean Networks: An Analytical Study
11.00 Hauke Bartsch (Be) Mean-field Models of Contextual Effects in the
Visual Cortex
11.40 Holger Schoener (Be) Extended Spatial Decorrelation Methods and
their Application to Optical Imaging Data
Lunch break
13.30 Mate Lengyel (Bu) Synchronization in a Model of Hippocampal
Inhibitory Neurons
14.10 Szabolcs Kali (University College London, UK and MIT, USA)
Spatial Representations in Related Environments in a Recurrent Model of
Area CA3 of the Rat
Break
14.20 Klaus Obermayer (Be): Topographic Clustering Methods
15.00 Martina Hasenjaeger (Bielefeld): Active Data Selection in Supervised
and Unsupervised Learning
15.40 Break
15.50 Stephan Schmidt (Be): A Model for the Representation of Sounds in
the Auditory Cortex
16.30 Zoltan Szatmary (Bu): Phase Precession - the Detuned Oscillator
Model
Break
17.20 Fulop Bazso (Bu): A Model of the Neuro-Immuno Interaction
18.00 Sambu Seo (Be): Comparing Support Vector Machines and Gaussian
Processes for Regression
Csaba Pleh
Cognitive Science Group
Department of Psychology
Attila Jozsef University, Szeged
Petofi sgt 30-34, 6722 Hungary
Phone: (36)(62) 454000, extension 3273
Home: Budakeszi Zichy P. u. 4 2092 Hungary, (36)(23) 453932 or 933
Editor, Hungarian Review of Psychology
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PSYCOLOQUY ISSN 1055-0143 Wednesday, 14th July 1999, Newsletter Section
(1) Conference: European Soc. for the Study of Cognitive Systems.
(2) Conference: ICSC Symposium on Neural Computation.
(3) Conference: Conference on Cognitive Modelling.
(4) Conference: Conference on Cognitive Science.
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From: Alberto Greco (greco(a)disa.unige.it)
Subject: European Society for the Study of Cognitive Systems.
EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF COGNITIVE SYSTEMS
16th ANNUAL WORKSHOP, 24-26 October 1999
Siena, Italy
The 16th annual workshop will take place near Siena, Italy,
from Sunday 24 October, 10 hours (10 a.m.) to Tuesday
26 October in the afternoon, preceding the 3rd European
Conference on Cognitive Science, 27-30 October 1999.
(see: ECCS-99 Webpage: http://www.media.unisi.it/eccs99).
The place of the workshop will be the same monastery as where
ECCS-99 will be held: The Certosa di Pontignano, some 10 km.
from Siena.
Papers may be either of a general kind, or specific, but with
sufficient attention for the general aspects, and understandable
for the audience from a wide variety of disciplines:
- psychology (cognitive, developmental), perception,
- artificial intelligence (general aspects),
- associative memory and neural networks, neuroscience,
- linguistics (also computational), disorders of language,
- education and instruction,
- philosophy, history of concepts,
- man-machine systems, cognitive ergonomics.
Experimental papers should be placed within a theoretical
framework. Papers accepted for the workshop may be
published in the journal of the ESSCS, 'Cognitive Systems'.
Please send abstracts of papers as soon as possible. Last-minute
participation is possible if room is available, but the number of
papers is limited to 24, and the number of participants to about 40.
Length of abstracts: between 20 and 40 lines (1-2 kByte), to
be sent by ordinary mail, and possibly also by E-mail.
The fee is ItL 50000 (about Euro/US$ 30 for members of the
ESSCS, and ItL 70000 (about US$ 35 in Feb. 1999) for others,
for students the fee is ItL 20000. Membership is NLG 25.-
per annum, subscription to the Journal (Volume 5) is NLG 80.-
for members, NLG 95.- for others, NLG 140.- for institutions.
(one US$ and one Euro is about NLG 2.30).
ESSCS (Dr. G.J. Dalenoort)
Dept. of Psychology (E&A), University of Groningen
Grote Kruisstraat 2/1, 9712 TS Groningen, The Netherlands
Telephone Netherlands +31-50-3636448 / 3636454 (or 3636472),
Fax +31-50-3636304, E-mail <G.J.Dalenoort(a)PPSW.RUG.NL>
Further information on the ESSCS, on previous workshops, and the
registration form, are available on the web page of the ESSCS:
http://www.ppsw.rug.nl/psy/psychol.htm
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From: Hans Heinrich Bothe (hans.bothe(a)ton.oru.se)
Subject: 2nd International ICSC Symposium on Neural Computation.
Second International ICSC Symposium on
NEURAL COMPUTATION / NC'2000
To be held at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany
May 23-26, 2000
http//www.icsc.ab.ca/nc2000.htm
SYMPOSIUM CHAIR
Prof. Hans Heinrich Bothe
Oerebro University
Dept. of Technology Science
Fakultetsgatan 1
S - 70182 Oerebro, Sweden
Email hans.bothe(a)ton.oru.se
Phone +46-19-10-3786
Fax +46-19-10-3463
and
Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
Department of Information Technology
Building 344
DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark
Email hhb(a)it.dtu.dk
Phone +45-4525-3632
Fax +45-4588-0117
PUBLICATION CHAIR
Prof. Raul Rojas
Freie Universitdt Berlin
Institut Informatik / FB Mathematik
Takustrasse 9
D - 14195 Berlin / Germany
Email rojas(a)inf.fu-berlin.de
Fax +49-30-8387-5109
SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZER
ICSC International Computer Science Conventions
P.O. Box 657
CH-8055 Zurich / Switzerland
Phone +41-878-888-150
Fax +41-1-761-9627
Email icsc(a)icsc.ch
WWW http//www.icsc.ab.ca
The science of neural computation focusses on mathematical aspects to
solve complex practical problems, and it also seeks to help neurology,
brain theory and cognitive psychology in the understanding of the
functioning of the nervous systemby means of computational models of
neurons, neural nets and subcellular processes. NC'2000 aims to become
a major point of contact for research scientists, engineers and
practitioners throughout the world in the field of Neural Computation.
Participants will share the latest research, developments and ideas in
the wide arena of disciplines encompassed under the heading of NC'2000
as a follow-up of the most successful NC'98 conference in Vienna,
Austria.
NC'2000 will include invited plenary talks, contributed sessions,
invited sessions, workhops and tutorials.
The organization of invited sessions is encouraged. Prospective
organizers are requested to send a session proposal (consisting of 4-5
invited papers, the recommended session-chair and co-chair, as well as
a short statement describing the title and the purpose of the session
to the Symposium Chairman or the Symposium Organizer. Invited sessions
should preferably start with a tutorial paper. The registration fee of
the session organizer will be waived, if at least 4 authors of invited
papers register to the conference.
Poster presentations are encouraged for people who wish to receive peer
feedback and practical examples of applied research are particularly
welcome. Poster sessions will allow the presentation and discussion of
respective papers, which will also be included in the conference
proceedings.
Prospective authors are requested to either send a draft paper or an
extended abstract for review by the International Program Committee.
All papers must be written in English, starting with a succinct
statement of the problem, the results achieved, their significance and
a comparison with previous work.
Submissions must be received by October 31, 1999. Regular papers, as
well as poster presentations, tutorial papers and invited sessions are
encouraged.
The abstract should also include
- Title of conference (NC'2000)
- Type of paper (regular, poster, tutorial or invited)
- Title of proposed paper
- Authors names, affiliations, addresses
- Name of author to contact for correspondence
- E-mail address and fax # of contact author
- Topics which best describe the paper (max. 5 keywords)
- Short CV of authors (recommended)
Contributions are welcome from those working in industry and having
experience in the topics of this conference as well as from academics.
The conference language is English.
It is strongly recommended to submit abstracts by electronic mail to
icsc(a)icsc.ch
or else by fax or mail (2 copies) to the following address
ICSC Switzerland
P.O. Box 657
CH-8055 Zurich
Switzerland
Fax +41-1-761-9627
IMPORTANT DATES
- Submission Deadline October 31, 1999
- Notification of Acceptance December 31, 1999
- Delivery of full papers February 15, 2000
- Tutorials and Workshops May 23, 2000
- NC'2000 Symposium May 24-26, 2000
Fully updated information is available from
http//www.icsc.ab.ca/nc2000.htm
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From: Niels Taatgen (niels(a)tcw3.ppsw.rug.nl)
Subject: 3rd International Conference on Cognitive Modelling.
Third International Conference on Cognitive Modelling
Groningen, Netherlands, 23-25 March 2000, with optional tutorials
on 22 March
Contributions are invited for the Third International Conference
on Cognitive Modelling, to be held at the University of Groningen
from 23 to 25 March 2000. This series of meetings was founded to
encourage international, inter-disciplinary co-operation in the
field of cognitive modelling. The first meeting, held in Berlin
in November 1996, attracted about 60 researchers from Europe and
USA working in artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology,
computer linguistics and philosophy of mind. The second meeting,
held in Notthingham in April 1998, was equally successful with an
attendance of around 70 researchers.
Submissions are welcome on any aspect of the computer modelling
of human cognition, but preference will be given to work which
describes both a running computer model and its comparison to
empirical data.
Further information about this Call, about the format for
submissions, and about the Conference itself can be found at
the conference Web site:
http://tcw2.ppsw.rug.nl/iccm/
Contributions can take the form of papers, posters, proposals for
symposia, or tutorials.
PAPERS
Papers can be submitted electronically to
J.Aasman(a)research.kpn.com
in one of the following formats:
- Plain text
- pdf
- html
- Word 7
Put ICCM in the subject line of you email. Submissions will be
confirmed within 3 workdays. Your submission should arrive before
5pm on 15 December 1999. Since the final paper consist of no more
than 8 pages, restrict your submission to around 4000 words or
less if you include figures. For the final submission hardcopy is
required: email and fax submissions are not acceptable. Papers
should include a cover page giving the name and contact
information of the first author, and stating any requirements for
audio-visual equipment. The paper itself should consist of not
more than 8 sides of A4 or US (8.5" x 11") paper, set in 10 point
type in two columns. For detailed formatting instructions,
sample pages, and templates for word processing, please consult
the Web page as given above.
POSTERS
Work can be submitted as a poster which for any reason is better
presented as a poster than as a written paper and talk. To
submit a poster, please send an abstract of up to two pages (1000
words) using the same guidelines as under papers. Authors of
accepted posters will be invited to address the audience for
three minutes as part of a "poster mania" session, in order to
whet the audience's appetite and encourage them to visit the
poster.
Important dates:
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Paper or poster: to ARRIVE by 5 pm on 15 December 1999
Decision: by 27 January 2000
Revised version: by 24 February 2000
Send submissions to:
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Jans Aasman: J.Aasman(a)research.kpn.com
For enquiries, contact:
Niels Taatgen: niels(a)tcw3.ppsw.rug.nl
Jans Aasman: J.Aasman(a)research.kpn.com
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From: Maurizio Tirassa (tirassa(a)psych.unito.it)
Subject: 6th Conference on Cognitive Science.
6th CONFERENCE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE
CENTRO DI SCIENZA COGNITIVA
UNIVERSITA` E POLITECNICO DI TORINO
Torino University
Aula Magna del Rettorato
via Verdi, 8
Torino, Italy
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Friday, 24 September 1999
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14.00 Introduction
14.15-15.15 George Butterworth, Sussex University
Origins of theory of mind in the facts of human
embodiment
15.15-16.00 Angelo Tartabini, Parma University
Individual differences and tactical deception in
non-human primates
16.00-16.30 Coffee break
16.30-17.15 Gabriella Airenti, Torino University
Communication and theory of mind
17.15-18.00 Monica Bucciarelli, Torino University
Communicative abilities in autism: Evidence for
attentional deficits
20.00 Social dinner
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Saturday, 25 September 1999
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9.30-10.30 Josef Perner, Salzburg University
Belief and the Perspectival Relativity of Sortals
10.30-11.15 Giuliana Mazzoni, Cosenza University
Source monitoring and understanding of belief in
3-year-old children predict memory suggestibility
11.15-11.45 Coffee break
11.45-12.30 Luca Surian, Padova University
Do theory of mind tasks assess a competence deficit?
A study on children with autism and adults with right
hemisphere lesions
12.30-14.30 Lunch
14.30-15.15 Cristina Meini, CREA, Paris
Simulation Theories, Theory Theories: Some distinctions
15.15-16.00 Maurizio Tirassa, Torino University
The innate bases of communication
Participation is free. No advance subscription is required.
Info: Monica Bucciarelli monica(a)psych.unito.it
Gabriella Airenti airenti(a)psych.unito.it
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Csaba Pleh
Cognitive Science Group
Department of Psychology
Attila Jozsef University, Szeged
Petofi sgt 30-34, 6722 Hungary
Phone: (36)(62) 454000, extension 3273
Home: Budakeszi Zichy P. u. 4 2092 Hungary, (36)(23) 453932 or 933
Editor, Hungarian Review of Psychology
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 17:14:18 +0100
From: Stevan Harnad <harnad(a)coglit.ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Reply-To: "PSYC: PSYCOLOQUY: Refereed Electronic Journal of Peer Discussion
in" <PSYC(a)PUCC.BITNET>
To: Multiple recipients of list PSYC <PSYC(a)PUCC.BITNET>
Subject: 4 BBS Calls for Commentary
Resent-Date: Thu, 15 Jul 99 18:13:39 +100
Resent-Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 18:16:26 +0100
Resent-From: <pleh(a)ludens.elte.hu>
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Below are the abstracts of 3 forthcoming BBS target articles
and the Precis for one BBS multiple book review:
(1) NEOCORTICAL DYNAMIC FUNCTION AND EEG (Nunez)
(2) SPEECH RECOGNITION: FEEDBACK IS NEVER NECESSARY (Norris et al.)
(3) LOCALIST CONNECTIONISM: BBS Call for Commentators (Page)
(4) Neural Organization: (Arbib/Erdi/Szentagothai) [BOOK FOR REVIEW]]
These articles have been accepted for publication in Behavioral and Brain
Sciences (BBS), an international, interdisciplinary journal providing
Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in
the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences.
Commentators must be BBS Associates or nominated by a BBS Associate. To
be considered as a commentator for this article, to suggest other
appropriate commentators, or for information about how to become a BBS
Associate, please send EMAIL by May 14th to:
bbs(a)cogsci.soton.ac.uk
or write to:
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
ECS: New Zepler Building
University of Southampton
Highfield, Southampton
SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM
http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs/http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS/
ftp://ftp.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/pub/bbs/
gopher://gopher.princeton.edu:70/11/.libraries/.pujournals
If you are not a BBS Associate, please send your CV and the name of a
BBS Associate (there are currently over 10,000 worldwide) who is
familiar with your work. All past BBS authors, referees and
commentators are eligible to become BBS Associates.
To help us put together a balanced list of commentators, please give
some indication of the aspects of the topic on which you would bring
your areas of expertise to bear if you were selected as a commentator.
An electronic draft of the full text is available for inspection
with a WWW browser, anonymous ftp or gopher according to the
instructions that follow after the abstract. PLEASE SPECIFY WHICH
ARTICLE YOU HAVE IN MIND:
(1) Nunez
(2) Norris
(3) Page
(4) Arbib (multiple book review)
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TOWARD A QUANTITATIVE DESCRIPTION OF LARGE SCALE
NEOCORTICAL DYNAMIC FUNCTION AND EEG.
Paul L. Nunez
Permanent Address:
Brain Physics Group,
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering,
Tulane University,
New Orleans,
Louisiana 70118
pnunez(a)mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu
Temporary Address (6/98 - 6/00):
Brain Sciences Institute,
Swinburne University of Technology,
400 Burwood Road,
Melbourne,
Victoria 3122,
Australia
pnunez(a)mind.scan.swin.edu.au
ABSTRACT: A conceptual framework for large-scale neocortical dynamic
behavior is proposed. It is sufficiently general to embrace brain
theories applied to different experimental designs, spatial scales
and brain states. This framework, based on the work of many
scientists, is constructed from anatomical, physiological and EEG
data. Neocortical dynamics and correlated behavioral/cognitive brain
states are viewed in the context of partly distinct, but interacting
local (regionally specific) processes and globally coherent
dynamics. Local and regional processes (eg, neural networks) are
enabled by functional segregation; global processes are facilitated
by functional integration. Global processes can also facilitate
synchronous activity in remote cell groups (top down) which function
simultaneously at several different spatial scales. At the same
time, local processes may help drive (bottom up) macroscopic global
dynamics observed with EEG (or MEG).
A specific, physiologically based local/global dynamic theory is
outlined in the context of this general conceptual framework. It is
consistent with a body of EEG data and fits naturally within the
proposed conceptual framework. The theory is incomplete since its
physiological control parameters are known only approximately. Thus,
brain state-dependent contributions of local versus global dynamics
cannot be predicted. It is also neutral on properties of neural
networks, assumed to be embedded within macroscopic fields.
Nevertheless, the purely global part of the theory makes
qualitative, and in a few cases, semi-quantitative predictions of
the outcomes of several disparate EEG studies in which global
contributions to the dynamics appear substantial. Experimental data
are used to obtain a variety of measures of traveling and standing
wave phenomena, predicted by the pure global theory. The more
general local/global theory is also proposed as a "meta-theory," a
suggestion of what large-scale quantitative theories of neocortical
dynamics may be like when more accurate treatment of local and
non-linear effects is achieved.
In the proposed local/global theory, the dynamics of excitatory and
inhibitory synaptic action fields are described. EEG and MEG are
believed to provide large-scale estimates of modulation of these
synaptic fields about background levels. Brain state is determined
by neuromodulatory control parameters. Some states are dominated by
local cell groups, in which EEG frequencies are due to local
feedback gains and rise and decay times of post-synaptic potentials.
Local frequencies vary with brain location. Other states are
strongly global, with multiple, closely spaced EEG frequencies, but
identical at each cortical location. Coherence at these frequencies
is high over large distances. The global mode frequencies are due to
a combination of delays in cortico-cortical axons and neocortical
boundary conditions. Many states involve dynamic interactions
between local networks and the global system, in which case observed
EEG frequencies may involve "matching" of local resonant frequencies
with one or more of the global frequencies.
KEYWORDS: EEG, neocortical dynamics, standing waves, functional
integration, spatial scale, binding problem, synchronization,
coherence, cell assemblies, limit cycles, pacemakers
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MERGING INFORMATION IN SPEECH RECOGNITION:
FEEDBACK IS NEVER NECESSARY
Dennis Norris
Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit,
15, Chaucer Rd.,
Cambridge, CB2 2EF, U.K.
Dennis.Norris(a)mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/
James M. McQueen and Anne Cutler
Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics,
Wundtlaan 1, 6525 XD Nijmegen,
The Netherlands
James.McQueen(a)mpi.nl and Anne.Cutler(a)mpi.nl
http://www.mpi.nl
ABSTRACT: Top-down feedback does not benefit speech recognition; on
the contrary, it can hinder it. No experimental data imply that
feedback loops are required for speech recognition. Feedback is
accordingly unnecessary and spoken word recognition is modular. To
de fend this thesis we analyse lexical involvement in phonemic
decision-making. TRACE (McClelland & Elman 1986), a model with
feedback from the lexicon to prelexical processes, is unable to
account for all the available data on phonemic decision-making. The
modular Race model (Cutler & Norris 1979) is likewise challenged by
some recent results however. We therefore present a new modular
model of phonemic decision-making, the Merge model. In Merge,
information flows from prelexical processes to the lexicon without
feedback. Because phonemic decisions are based on the merging of
prelexical and lexical information, Merge correctly predicts
lexical involvement in phonemic decisions in both words and
nonwords. Computer simulations show how Merge is able to account
for the data through a process of competition between lexical
hypotheses. We discuss the issue of feedback in other areas of
language processing, and conclude that modular models are
particularly well suited to the problems and constraints of speech
recognition.
KEYWORDS: feedback, modularity, phonemic decisions, lexical
processing, computational modelling, word recognition, speech
recognition, reading,
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CONNECTIONIST MODELLING IN PSYCHOLOGY:
A LOCALIST MANIFESTO
Mike Page
Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit,
15, Chaucer Rd.,
Cambridge, CB2 2EF, U.K.
mike.page(a)mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/
ABSTRACT: Over the last decade, fully-distributed models have become
dominant in connectionist psychological modelling, whereas the virtues
of localist models have been underestimated. This target article
illustrates some of the benefits of localist modelling. Localist models
are characterized by the presence of localist representations rather
than the absence of distributed representations. A generalized localist
model is proposed that exhibits many of the properties of fully
distributed models. It can be applied to a number of problems that are
difficult for fully distributed models and its applicability can be
extended through comparisons with a number of classic mathematical
models of behaviour. There are reasons why localist models have been
underused and thes e are addressed. In particular, many conclusions
about connectionist representation, based on neuroscientific
observation, are called into question. There are still some problems
inherent in the application of fully distributed systems and some
inadequacies in proposed solutions to these problems. In the domain of
psychological modelling, localist modelling is to be preferred.
KEYWORDS: connectionist modelling, neural networks, localist,
distributed, competition, choice, reaction-time, consolidation.
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Subject: Neural Organization: BBS call for Multiple Reveiw
Below is the abstract of the Precis of a book that will shortly be
circulated for Multiple Book Review in Behavioral and Brain
Sciences (BBS):
PRECIS FOR Structure, Function, and Dynamics: An Integrated
Approach to Neural Organization :BBS MULTIPLE BOOK REVIEW
by Michael Arbib, Peter Erdi and John Szentagothai
This book has been accepted for a muliple book review to be published
in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS), an international,
interdisciplinary journal providing Open Peer Commentary on important
and controversial current research in the biobehavioral and cognitive
sciences.
Reviewers must be BBS Associates or nominated by a BBS Associate.
(All prior BBS referees, editors, authors, and commentators are also
equivalent to Associates.) To be considered as a reviewer for this
article, to suggest other appropriate reviewers, or for information
about how to become a BBS Associate, please send EMAIL to, BEFORE
August 13, 1999:
bbs(a)cogsci.soton.ac.uk
or write to:
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
ECS: New Zepler Building
University of Southampton
Highfield, Southampton
SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM
http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs/http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/
If you are not a BBS Associate, please send your CV and the name of a
BBS Associate (there are currently over 10,000 worldwide) who is
familiar with your work. All past BBS authors, referees and
commentators are eligible to become BBS Associates.
To help us put together a balanced list of reviewers, please give
some indication of the aspects of the topic on which you would bring
your areas of expertise to bear if you were selected as a reviewer.
An electronic draft of the full text is available for inspection
with a WWW browser, anonymous ftp or gopher according to the
instructions that follow after the abstract. Please also specify
1) If you need the book
2) whether you can make it by the deadline of October 15, 1999.
Please note that it is the book, not the Precis, that is to be reviewed.
It would be helpful if you indicated in your reply whether you already
have the book or would require a copy.
_____________________________________________________________
PRECIS OF:
Structure, Function, and Dynamics: An Integrated Approach
to Neural Organization BBS MULTIPLE BOOK REVIEW
Michael Arbib
Director, USC Brain Project,
University of Southern California Los Angeles,
CA 90089-2520 USA.
Arbib(a)pollux.usc.edu
Peter Erdi
Head, Dept. Biophysics
KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
H-1525 Budapest, P.O. Box 49, Hungary.
erdi(a)rmki.kfki.hu
ABSTRACT: "Neural Organization: Structure, Function, and
Dynamics" (Arbib, Erdi, and Szentagothai, 1997, Cambridge, MA:
The MIT Press; henceforth Organization) shows how theory and
experiment can supplement each other in an integrated, evolving
account of structure, function, and dynamics. New data lead to
new models; new models suggest the design of new experiments.
Much of modern neuroscience seems excessively reductionist,
focusing on the study of ever smaller microsystems with little
appreciation of their contribution to the behaving organism. We
welcome these new data but are concerned to restore some
equilibrium between systems, cellular, and molecular
neuroscience. After a brief tribute to our late colleague John
Szentagothai, we trace the threads of Structure, Function and
Dynamics as they weave through the book, thus providing a broad
general framework for the integration of computational and
empirical neuroscience. Part II of Organization presents a
structural analysis of various brain regions - olfactory bulb and
cortex, hippocampus, cerebral cortex, cerebellum, and basal
ganglia - as prelude to our account of the dynamics of the neural
circuits and function of each region. To exemplify this approach,
this prcis analyzes the hippocampus in anatomical, dynamical, and
functional terms. We conclude by pointing the way to the use of
our methodology in the development of Cognitive Neuroscience.
KEYWORDS: neural organization, dynamics, Szentgothai,
computational neuroscience, neural modeling, modular
architectonics, neural plasticity, hippocampus, rhythmogenesis,
cognitive maps, memory.
____________________________________________________________
To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for
this article, an electronic draft is retrievable from the World Wide
Web or by anonymous ftp from the US or UK BBS Archive.
Ftp instructions follow below. Please do not prepare a commentary on
this draft. Just let us know, after having inspected it, what relevant
expertise you feel you would bring to bear on what aspect of the
article.
The URLs you can use to get to the BBS Archive:
http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs/http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/Archive/bbs.arbib.html
or norris.html page.html nunez.html
------------------------------------------------------------------
*** FIVE IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS ***
(1) There have been some very important developments in the
area of Web archiving of scientific papers very recently.
Please see:
Science: http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/science.html
Nature: http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/nature.html
American Scientist:
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/amlet.html
Chronicle of Higher Education:
http://www.chronicle.com/free/v45/i04/04a02901.htm
---------------------------------------------------------------------
(2) All authors in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences are
strongly encouraged to archive all their papers (on their
Home-Servers as well as) on CogPrints:
http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/
It is extremely simple to do so and will make all of our papers
available to all of us everywhere at no cost to anyone.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
(3) BBS has a new policy of accepting submissions electronically.
Authors can specify whether they would like their submissions
archived publicly during refereeing in the BBS under-refereeing
Archive, or in a referees-only, non-public archive.
Upon acceptance, preprints of final drafts are moved to the
public BBS Archive:
ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS/.WWW/index.htmlhttp://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/Archive/
--------------------------------------------------------------------
(4) BBS has expanded its annual page quota and is now appearing
bimonthly, so the service of Open Peer Commentary can now be be
offered to more target articles. The BBS refereeing procedure is
also going to be considerably faster with the new electronic
submission and processing procedures. Authors are invited to submit
papers to:
Email: bbs(a)cogsci.soton.ac.uk
Web: http://cogprints.soton.ac.ukhttp://bbs.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS:
http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs/instructions.for.authors.htmlhttp://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/instructions.for.authors.html
---------------------------------------------------------------------
(5) Call for Book Nominations for BBS Multiple Book Review
In the past, Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) journal had only
been able to do 1-2 BBS multiple book treatments per year, because
of our limited annual page quota. BBS's new expanded page quota
will make it possible for us to increase the number of books we
treat per year, so this is an excellent time for BBS Associates and
biobehavioral/cognitive scientists in general to nominate books you
would like to see accorded BBS multiple book review.
(Authors may self-nominate, but books can only be selected on the
basis of multiple nominations.) It would be very helpful if you
indicated in what way a BBS Multiple Book Review of the book(s) you
nominate would be useful to the field (and of course a rich list of
potential reviewers would be the best evidence of its potential
impact!).
Below is the abstract of a forthcoming BBS target article
THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN MATING: TRADE-OFFS AND STRATEGIC PLURALISM
by Steven W. Gangestad & Jeffry A. Simpson
*** please see also 5 important announcements about new BBS
policies and address change at the bottom of this message) ***
This article has been accepted for publication in Behavioral and Brain
Sciences (BBS), an international, interdisciplinary journal providing
Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in
the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences.
Commentators must be BBS Associates or nominated by a BBS Associate. To
be considered as a commentator for this article, to suggest other
appropriate commentators, or for information about how to become a BBS
Associate, please reply by EMAIL by AUGUST 13th to:
bbs(a)cogsci.soton.ac.uk
or write to:
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
ECS: New Zepler Building
University of Southampton
Highfield, Southampton
SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM
http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs/http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/
If you are not a BBS Associate, please send your CV and the name of a
BBS Associate (there are currently over 10,000 worldwide) who is
familiar with your work. All past BBS authors, referees and
commentators are eligible to become BBS Associates.
To help us put together a balanced list of commentators, please give
some indication of the aspects of the topic on which you would bring
your areas of expertise to bear if you were selected as a commentator.
An electronic draft of the full text is available for inspection
with a WWW browser, anonymous ftp or gopher according to the
instructions that follow after the abstract.
_____________________________________________________________
THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN MATING: TRADE-OFFS AND STRATEGIC PLURALISM
by Steven W. Gangestad & Jeffry A. Simpson
Steven W. Gangestad
Department of Psychology,
University of New Mexico,
NM 87131, USA
sgangest(a)unm.edu
Jeffry A. Simpson
Department of Psychology,
Texas A&M University,
College Station, TX 77843, USA
jas(a)psyc.tamu.edu
ABSTRACT: During human evolutionary history, there were
"trade-offs" between expending time and energy on child-rearing and
mating, so both men and women evolved conditional mating strategies
guided by cues signalling the circumstances. For some men, many
short-term matings might be successful, whereas others might try to
find and keep a single mate, investing effort in rearing her
offspring. Recent evidence suggests that men with features
signalling genetic benefits to offspring should be preferred by
women as short-term mates, but there are trade-offs between a mates
genetic fitness and his willingness to help in child-rearing. It is
circumstances and the cues that signal them that underlie the
variation in short and long-term mating strategies between and
within the sexes.
KEYWORDS: mating, reproductive strategies, conditional strategies,
evolutionary psychology, sexual selection, fluctuating asymmetry
____________________________________________________________
To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for
this article, an electronic draft is retrievable from the World Wide
Web or by anonymous ftp from the US or UK BBS Archive.
Ftp instructions follow below. Please do not prepare a commentary on
this draft. Just let us know, after having inspected it, what relevant
expertise you feel you would bring to bear on what aspect of the
article.
The URLs you can use to get to the BBS Archive:
http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs/http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/Archive/bbs.gangestad.html
____________________________________________________________
*** FIVE IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS ***
------------------------------------------------------------------
(1) There have been some very important developments in the
area of Web archiving of scientific papers very recently.
Please see:
Science:
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/science.html
Nature:
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/nature.html
American Scientist:
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/amlet.html
Chronicle of Higher Education:
http://www.chronicle.com/free/v45/i04/04a02901.htm
---------------------------------------------------------------------
(2) All authors in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences are
strongly encouraged to archive all their papers (on their
Home-Servers as well as) on CogPrints:
http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/
It is extremely simple to do so and will make all of our papers
available to all of us everywhere at no cost to anyone.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
(3) BBS has a new policy of accepting submissions electronically.
Authors can specify whether they would like their submissions
archived publicly during refereeing in the BBS under-refereeing
Archive, or in a referees-only, non-public archive.
Upon acceptance, preprints of final drafts are moved to the
public BBS Archive:
ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS/.WWW/index.htmlhttp://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/Archive/
--------------------------------------------------------------------
(4) BBS has expanded its annual page quota and is now appearing
bimonthly, so the service of Open Peer Commentary can now be be
offered to more target articles. The BBS refereeing procedure is
also going to be considerably faster with the new electronic
submission and processing procedures. Authors are invited to submit
papers to:
Email: bbs(a)cogsci.soton.ac.uk
Web: http://cogprints.soton.ac.ukhttp://bbs.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS:
http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs/instructions.for.authors.htmlhttp://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/instructions.for.authors.html
---------------------------------------------------------------------
(5) Call for Book Nominations for BBS Multiple Book Review
In the past, Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) journal had only
been able to do 1-2 BBS multiple book treatments per year, because
of our limited annual page quota. BBS's new expanded page quota
will make it possible for us to increase the number of books we
treat per year, so this is an excellent time for BBS Associates and
biobehavioral/cognitive scientists in general to nominate books you
would like to see accorded BBS multiple book review.
(Authors may self-nominate, but books can only be selected on the
basis of multiple nominations.) It would be very helpful if you
indicated in what way a BBS Multiple Book Review of the book(s) you
nominate would be useful to the field (and of course a rich list of
potential reviewers would be the best evidence of its potential
impact!).
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 18:42:11 +0100 (BST)
From: Behavioral and Brain Sciences <harnad1(a)coglit.ecs.soton.ac.uk>
To: gk(a)hps.elte.hu
Subject: Neural Organization: BBS call for Multiple Reveiw
Errors-to: harnad1(a)coglit.soton.ac.uk
Reply-to: bbs(a)coglit.soton.ac.uk
From: "Behavioral and Brain Sciences" <bbs(a)coglit.soton.ac.uk>
Below is the abstract of the Precis of a book that will shortly be
circulated for Multiple Book Review in Behavioral and Brain
Sciences (BBS):
*** please see also 5 important announcements about new BBS
policies and address change at the bottom of this message) ***
PRECIS FOR Structure, Function, and Dynamics: An Integrated
Approach to Neural Organization :BBS MULTIPLE BOOK REVIEW
by Michael Arbib, Peter Erdi and John Szentagothai
This book has been accepted for a muliple book review to be published
in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS), an international,
interdisciplinary journal providing Open Peer Commentary on important
and controversial current research in the biobehavioral and cognitive
sciences.
Reviewers must be BBS Associates or nominated by a BBS Associate.
(All prior BBS referees, editors, authors, and commentators are also
equivalent to Associates.) To be considered as a reviewer for this
article, to suggest other appropriate reviewers, or for information
about how to become a BBS Associate, please send EMAIL to, BEFORE
August 13, 1999:
bbs(a)cogsci.soton.ac.uk
or write to:
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
ECS: New Zepler Building
University of Southampton
Highfield, Southampton
SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM
http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs/http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/
If you are not a BBS Associate, please send your CV and the name of a
BBS Associate (there are currently over 10,000 worldwide) who is
familiar with your work. All past BBS authors, referees and
commentators are eligible to become BBS Associates.
To help us put together a balanced list of reviewers, please give
some indication of the aspects of the topic on which you would bring
your areas of expertise to bear if you were selected as a reviewer.
An electronic draft of the full text is available for inspection
with a WWW browser, anonymous ftp or gopher according to the
instructions that follow after the abstract. Please also specify
1) If you need the book
2) whether you can make it by the deadline of October 15, 1999.
Please note that it is the book, not the Precis, that is to be reviewed.
It would be helpful if you indicated in your reply whether you already
have the book or would require a copy.
_____________________________________________________________
PRECIS OF:
Structure, Function, and Dynamics: An Integrated Approach
to Neural Organization BBS MULTIPLE BOOK REVIEW
Michael Arbib
Director, USC Brain Project,
University of Southern California Los Angeles,
CA 90089-2520 USA.
Arbib(a)pollux.usc.edu
Peter Erdi
Head, Dept. Biophysics
KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
H-1525 Budapest, P.O. Box 49, Hungary.
erdi(a)rmki.kfki.hu
ABSTRACT: "Neural Organization: Structure, Function, and
Dynamics" (Arbib, Erdi, and Szentagothai, 1997, Cambridge, MA:
The MIT Press; henceforth Organization) shows how theory and
experiment can supplement each other in an integrated, evolving
account of structure, function, and dynamics. New data lead to
new models; new models suggest the design of new experiments.
Much of modern neuroscience seems excessively reductionist,
focusing on the study of ever smaller microsystems with little
appreciation of their contribution to the behaving organism. We
welcome these new data but are concerned to restore some
equilibrium between systems, cellular, and molecular
neuroscience. After a brief tribute to our late colleague John
Szentagothai, we trace the threads of Structure, Function and
Dynamics as they weave through the book, thus providing a broad
general framework for the integration of computational and
empirical neuroscience. Part II of Organization presents a
structural analysis of various brain regions - olfactory bulb and
cortex, hippocampus, cerebral cortex, cerebellum, and basal
ganglia - as prelude to our account of the dynamics of the neural
circuits and function of each region. To exemplify this approach,
this prcis analyzes the hippocampus in anatomical, dynamical, and
functional terms. We conclude by pointing the way to the use of
our methodology in the development of Cognitive Neuroscience.
KEYWORDS: neural organization, dynamics, Szentgothai,
computational neuroscience, neural modeling, modular
architectonics, neural plasticity, hippocampus, rhythmogenesis,
cognitive maps, memory.
____________________________________________________________
To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for
this article, an electronic draft is retrievable from the World Wide
Web or by anonymous ftp from the US or UK BBS Archive.
Ftp instructions follow below. Please do not prepare a commentary on
this draft. Just let us know, after having inspected it, what relevant
expertise you feel you would bring to bear on what aspect of the
article.
The URLs you can use to get to the BBS Archive:
http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs/http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/Archive/bbs.arbib.html
------------------------------------------------------------------
*** FIVE IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS ***
(1) There have been some very important developments in the
area of Web archiving of scientific papers very recently.
Please see:
Science: http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/science.html
Nature: http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/nature.html
American Scientist:
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/amlet.html
Chronicle of Higher Education:
http://www.chronicle.com/free/v45/i04/04a02901.htm
---------------------------------------------------------------------
(2) All authors in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences are
strongly encouraged to archive all their papers (on their
Home-Servers as well as) on CogPrints:
http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/
It is extremely simple to do so and will make all of our papers
available to all of us everywhere at no cost to anyone.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
(3) BBS has a new policy of accepting submissions electronically.
Authors can specify whether they would like their submissions
archived publicly during refereeing in the BBS under-refereeing
Archive, or in a referees-only, non-public archive.
Upon acceptance, preprints of final drafts are moved to the
public BBS Archive:
ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS/.WWW/index.htmlhttp://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/Archive/
--------------------------------------------------------------------
(4) BBS has expanded its annual page quota and is now appearing
bimonthly, so the service of Open Peer Commentary can now be be
offered to more target articles. The BBS refereeing procedure is
also going to be considerably faster with the new electronic
submission and processing procedures. Authors are invited to submit
papers to:
Email: bbs(a)cogsci.soton.ac.uk
Web: http://cogprints.soton.ac.ukhttp://bbs.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS:
http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs/instructions.for.authors.htmlhttp://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/instructions.for.authors.html
---------------------------------------------------------------------
(5) Call for Book Nominations for BBS Multiple Book Review
In the past, Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) journal had only
been able to do 1-2 BBS multiple book treatments per year, because
of our limited annual page quota. BBS's new expanded page quota
will make it possible for us to increase the number of books we
treat per year, so this is an excellent time for BBS Associates and
biobehavioral/cognitive scientists in general to nominate books you
would like to see accorded BBS multiple book review.
(Authors may self-nominate, but books can only be selected on the
basis of multiple nominations.) It would be very helpful if you
indicated in what way a BBS Multiple Book Review of the book(s) you
nominate would be useful to the field (and of course a rich list of
potential reviewers would be the best evidence of its potential
impact!).
Below is the abstract of the Precis of a book that will shortly be
circulated for Multiple Book Review in Behavioral and Brain
Sciences (BBS):
*** please see also 5 important announcements about new BBS
policies and address change at the bottom of this message) ***
PRECIS FOR Structure, Function, and Dynamics: An Integrated
Approach to Neural Organization :BBS MULTIPLE BOOK REVIEW
by Michael Arbib, Peter Erdi and John Szentagothai
This book has been accepted for a muliple book review to be published
in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS), an international,
interdisciplinary journal providing Open Peer Commentary on important
and controversial current research in the biobehavioral and cognitive
sciences.
Reviewers must be BBS Associates or nominated by a BBS Associate.
(All prior BBS referees, editors, authors, and commentators are also
equivalent to Associates.) To be considered as a reviewer for this
article, to suggest other appropriate reviewers, or for information
about how to become a BBS Associate, please send EMAIL to, BEFORE
August 13, 1999:
bbs(a)cogsci.soton.ac.uk
or write to:
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
ECS: New Zepler Building
University of Southampton
Highfield, Southampton
SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM
http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs/http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/
If you are not a BBS Associate, please send your CV and the name of a
BBS Associate (there are currently over 10,000 worldwide) who is
familiar with your work. All past BBS authors, referees and
commentators are eligible to become BBS Associates.
To help us put together a balanced list of reviewers, please give
some indication of the aspects of the topic on which you would bring
your areas of expertise to bear if you were selected as a reviewer.
An electronic draft of the full text is available for inspection
with a WWW browser, anonymous ftp or gopher according to the
instructions that follow after the abstract. Please also specify
1) If you need the book
2) whether you can make it by the deadline of October 15, 1999.
Please note that it is the book, not the Precis, that is to be reviewed.
It would be helpful if you indicated in your reply whether you already
have the book or would require a copy.
_____________________________________________________________
PRECIS OF:
Structure, Function, and Dynamics: An Integrated Approach
to Neural Organization BBS MULTIPLE BOOK REVIEW
Michael Arbib
Director, USC Brain Project,
University of Southern California Los Angeles,
CA 90089-2520 USA.
Arbib(a)pollux.usc.edu
Peter Erdi
Head, Dept. Biophysics
KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
H-1525 Budapest, P.O. Box 49, Hungary.
erdi(a)rmki.kfki.hu
ABSTRACT: "Neural Organization: Structure, Function, and
Dynamics" (Arbib, Erdi, and Szentagothai, 1997, Cambridge, MA:
The MIT Press; henceforth Organization) shows how theory and
experiment can supplement each other in an integrated, evolving
account of structure, function, and dynamics. New data lead to
new models; new models suggest the design of new experiments.
Much of modern neuroscience seems excessively reductionist,
focusing on the study of ever smaller microsystems with little
appreciation of their contribution to the behaving organism. We
welcome these new data but are concerned to restore some
equilibrium between systems, cellular, and molecular
neuroscience. After a brief tribute to our late colleague John
Szentagothai, we trace the threads of Structure, Function and
Dynamics as they weave through the book, thus providing a broad
general framework for the integration of computational and
empirical neuroscience. Part II of Organization presents a
structural analysis of various brain regions - olfactory bulb and
cortex, hippocampus, cerebral cortex, cerebellum, and basal
ganglia - as prelude to our account of the dynamics of the neural
circuits and function of each region. To exemplify this approach,
this prcis analyzes the hippocampus in anatomical, dynamical, and
functional terms. We conclude by pointing the way to the use of
our methodology in the development of Cognitive Neuroscience.
KEYWORDS: neural organization, dynamics, Szentgothai,
computational neuroscience, neural modeling, modular
architectonics, neural plasticity, hippocampus, rhythmogenesis,
cognitive maps, memory.
____________________________________________________________
To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for
this article, an electronic draft is retrievable from the World Wide
Web or by anonymous ftp from the US or UK BBS Archive.
Ftp instructions follow below. Please do not prepare a commentary on
this draft. Just let us know, after having inspected it, what relevant
expertise you feel you would bring to bear on what aspect of the
article.
The URLs you can use to get to the BBS Archive:
http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs/http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/Archive/bbs.arbib.html
------------------------------------------------------------------
*** FIVE IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS ***
(1) There have been some very important developments in the
area of Web archiving of scientific papers very recently.
Please see:
Science: http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/science.html
Nature: http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/nature.html
American Scientist:
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/amlet.html
Chronicle of Higher Education:
http://www.chronicle.com/free/v45/i04/04a02901.htm
---------------------------------------------------------------------
(2) All authors in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences are
strongly encouraged to archive all their papers (on their
Home-Servers as well as) on CogPrints:
http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/
It is extremely simple to do so and will make all of our papers
available to all of us everywhere at no cost to anyone.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
(3) BBS has a new policy of accepting submissions electronically.
Authors can specify whether they would like their submissions
archived publicly during refereeing in the BBS under-refereeing
Archive, or in a referees-only, non-public archive.
Upon acceptance, preprints of final drafts are moved to the
public BBS Archive:
ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS/.WWW/index.htmlhttp://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/Archive/
--------------------------------------------------------------------
(4) BBS has expanded its annual page quota and is now appearing
bimonthly, so the service of Open Peer Commentary can now be be
offered to more target articles. The BBS refereeing procedure is
also going to be considerably faster with the new electronic
submission and processing procedures. Authors are invited to submit
papers to:
Email: bbs(a)cogsci.soton.ac.uk
Web: http://cogprints.soton.ac.ukhttp://bbs.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS:
http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs/instructions.for.authors.htmlhttp://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/instructions.for.authors.html
---------------------------------------------------------------------
(5) Call for Book Nominations for BBS Multiple Book Review
In the past, Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) journal had only
been able to do 1-2 BBS multiple book treatments per year, because
of our limited annual page quota. BBS's new expanded page quota
will make it possible for us to increase the number of books we
treat per year, so this is an excellent time for BBS Associates and
biobehavioral/cognitive scientists in general to nominate books you
would like to see accorded BBS multiple book review.
(Authors may self-nominate, but books can only be selected on the
basis of multiple nominations.) It would be very helpful if you
indicated in what way a BBS Multiple Book Review of the book(s) you
nominate would be useful to the field (and of course a rich list of
potential reviewers would be the best evidence of its potential
impact!).
Below is the abstract of a forthcoming BBS target article
CONNECTIONIST MODELLING IN PSYCHOLOGY:
A LOCALIST MANIFESTO
by Mike Page
*** please see also 5 important announcements about new BBS
policies and address change at the bottom of this message) ***
This article has been accepted for publication in Behavioral and Brain
Sciences (BBS), an international, interdisciplinary journal providing
Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in
the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences.
Commentators must be BBS Associates or nominated by a BBS Associate. To
be considered as a commentator for this article, to suggest other
appropriate commentators, or for information about how to become a BBS
Associate, please reply by EMAIL by July 21st to:
bbs(a)cogsci.soton.ac.uk
or write to [PLEASE NOTE SLIGHTLY CHANGED ADDRESS]:
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
ECS: New Zepler Building
University of Southampton
Highfield, Southampton
SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM
http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs/http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/
If you are not a BBS Associate, please send your CV and the name of a
BBS Associate (there are currently over 10,000 worldwide) who is
familiar with your work. All past BBS authors, referees and
commentators are eligible to become BBS Associates.
To help us put together a balanced list of commentators, please give
some indication of the aspects of the topic on which you would bring
your areas of expertise to bear if you were selected as a commentator.
An electronic draft of the full text is available for inspection
at BBS's Princeton or Southampton Website.
_____________________________________________________________
CONNECTIONIST MODELLING IN PSYCHOLOGY:
A LOCALIST MANIFESTO
Mike Page
Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit,
15, Chaucer Rd.,
Cambridge, CB2 2EF, U.K.
mike.page(a)mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/
ABSTRACT: Over the last decade, fully-distributed models have become
dominant in connectionist psychological modelling, whereas the virtues
of localist models have been underestimated. This target article
illustrates some of the benefits of localist modelling. Localist models
are characterized by the presence of localist representations rather
than the absence of distributed representations. A generalized localist
model is proposed that exhibits many of the properties of fully
distributed models. It can be applied to a number of problems that are
difficult for fully distributed models and its applicability can be
extended through comparisons with a number of classic mathematical
models of behaviour. There are reasons why localist models have been
underused and thes e are addressed. In particular, many conclusions
about connectionist representation, based on neuroscientific
observation, are called into question. There are still some problems
inherent in the application of fully distributed systems and some
inadequacies in proposed solutions to these problems. In the domain of
psychological modelling, localist modelling is to be preferred.
KEYWORDS: connectionist modelling, neural networks, localist,
distributed, competition, choice, reaction-time, consolidation.
___________________________________________________________
To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for
this article, an electronic draft is retrievable from the World Wide
Web at the US or UK BBS Archive. Please do not prepare a commentary on
this draft. Just let us know, after having inspected it, what relevant
expertise you feel you would bring to bear on what aspect of the
article.
The URLs you can use to get to the BBS Archive:
http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs/http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/Archive/bbs.page.html
____________________________________________________________
*** FIVE IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS ***
------------------------------------------------------------------
(1) There have been some very important developments in the
area of Web archiving of scientific papers very recently.
Please see:
Science:
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/science.html
Nature:
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/nature.html
American Scientist:
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/amlet.html
Chronicle of Higher Education:
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(2) All authors in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences are
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public BBS Archive:
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(4) BBS has expanded its annual page quota and is now appearing
bimonthly, so the service of Open Peer Commentary can now be be
offered to more target articles. The BBS refereeing procedure is
also going to be considerably faster with the new electronic
submission and processing procedures. Authors are invited to submit
papers to:
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Web: http://cogprints.soton.ac.ukhttp://bbs.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/
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(5) Call for Book Nominations for BBS Multiple Book Review
In the past, Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) journal had only
been able to do 1-2 BBS multiple book treatments per year, because
of our limited annual page quota. BBS's new expanded page quota
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biobehavioral/cognitive scientists in general to nominate books you
would like to see accorded BBS multiple book review.
(Authors may self-nominate, but books can only be selected on the
basis of multiple nominations.) It would be very helpful if you
indicated in what way a BBS Multiple Book Review of the book(s) you
nominate would be useful to the field (and of course a rich list of
potential reviewers would be the best evidence of its potential
impact!).
Below is the abstract of a forthcoming BBS target article
MERGING INFORMATION IN SPEECH RECOGNITION:
FEEDBACK IS NEVER NECESSARY
by Norris D., McQueen J. M., Cutler A.,
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Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in
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MERGING INFORMATION IN SPEECH RECOGNITION:
FEEDBACK IS NEVER NECESSARY
Norris Dennis.
Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit,
15, Chaucer Rd.,
Cambridge, CB2 2EF, U.K.
Dennis.Norris(a)mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/
James M. McQueen and Anne Cutler
Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics,
Wundtlaan 1, 6525 XD Nijmegen,
The Netherlands
James.McQueen(a)mpi.nl and Anne.Cutler(a)mpi.nl
http://www.mpi.nl
ABSTRACT: Top-down feedback does not benefit speech recognition; on
the contrary, it can hinder it. No experimental data imply that
feedback loops are required for speech recognition. Feedback is
accordingly unnecessary and spoken word recognition is modular. To
de fend this thesis we analyse lexical involvement in phonemic
decision-making. TRACE (McClelland & Elman 1986), a model with
feedback from the lexicon to prelexical processes, is unable to
account for all the available data on phonemic decision-making. The
modular Race model (Cutler & Norris 1979) is likewise challenged by
some recent results however. We therefore present a new modular
model of phonemic decision-making, the Merge model. In Merge,
information flows from prelexical processes to the lexicon without
feedback. Because phonemic decisions are based on the merging of
prelexical and lexical information, Merge correctly predicts
lexical involvement in phonemic decisions in both words and
nonwords. Computer simulations show how Merge is able to account
for the data through a process of competition between lexical
hypotheses. We discuss the issue of feedback in other areas of
language processing, and conclude that modular models are
particularly well suited to the problems and constraints of speech
recognition.
KEYWORDS: feedback, modularity, phonemic decisions, lexical
processing, computational modelling, word recognition, speech
recognition, reading,
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Please see:
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Nature:
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/nature.html
American Scientist:
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/amlet.html
Chronicle of Higher Education:
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strongly encouraged to archive all their papers (on their
Home-Servers as well as) on CogPrints:
http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/
It is extremely simple to do so and will make all of our papers
available to all of us everywhere at no cost to anyone.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
(3) BBS has a new policy of accepting submissions electronically.
Authors can specify whether they would like their submissions
archived publicly during refereeing in the BBS under-refereeing
Archive, or in a referees-only, non-public archive.
Upon acceptance, preprints of final drafts are moved to the
public BBS Archive:
ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS/.WWW/index.htmlhttp://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/Archive/
--------------------------------------------------------------------
(4) BBS has expanded its annual page quota and is now appearing
bimonthly, so the service of Open Peer Commentary can now be be
offered to more target articles. The BBS refereeing procedure is
also going to be considerably faster with the new electronic
submission and processing procedures. Authors are invited to submit
papers to:
Email: bbs(a)cogsci.soton.ac.uk
Web: http://cogprints.soton.ac.ukhttp://bbs.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS:
http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs/instructions.for.authors.htmlhttp://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/instructions.for.authors.html
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(5) Call for Book Nominations for BBS Multiple Book Review
In the past, Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) journal had only
been able to do 1-2 BBS multiple book treatments per year, because
of our limited annual page quota. BBS's new expanded page quota
will make it possible for us to increase the number of books we
treat per year, so this is an excellent time for BBS Associates and
biobehavioral/cognitive scientists in general to nominate books you
would like to see accorded BBS multiple book review.
(Authors may self-nominate, but books can only be selected on the
basis of multiple nominations.) It would be very helpful if you
indicated in what way a BBS Multiple Book Review of the book(s) you
nominate would be useful to the field (and of course a rich list of
potential reviewers would be the best evidence of its potential
impact!).
Csaba Pleh
Cognitive Science Group
Department of Psychology
Attila Jozsef University, Szeged
Petofi sgt 30-34, 6722 Hungary
Phone: (36)(62) 454000, extension 3273
Home: Budakeszi Zichy P. u. 4 2092 Hungary, (36)(23) 453932 or 933
Editor, Hungarian Review of Psychology
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 99 16:56:24 BST
From: INFO-PSYLING moderator Kerry Kilborn <psyling(a)psy.gla.ac.uk>
To: distribute-psyling(a)psy.gla.ac.uk
Subject: InfoPsyling
Resent-Date: Tue, 6 Jul 99 18:05:21 +100
Resent-From: pleh(a)izabell.elte.hu
Resent-To: pleh(a)sol.cc.u-szeged.hu
1. Cambridge Post-doctoral Research Associate: Deadline Correction
2. Call for bids for ICSLP 2002
3. PhD studentship: EPSRC Industrial CASE Award,Glasgow
4. PhD scholarship: Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen
5. ICCS/JCSS99 call for participation
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1. Cambridge Post-doctoral Research Associate: Deadline Correction
The application deadline for the job opening below was incorrectly
listed at July 6.
The correct deadline is July 16.
From: "L.K.Tyler" (lktyler(a)csl.psychol.cam.ac.uk)
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE CENTRE FOR SPEECH AND LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT
OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
Post-doctoral Research Associate (full time)
Applications are invited for a Research Associate to work as part
of a multi-disciplinary team, led by Professor L K. Tyler, on
language processing in normal and brain-damaged subjects.
Candidates should have an interest in semantic s, morphology or
speech processing, and have a background and training in
computational modelling, experimental psychology or neuro-imaging. This
post is funded for a maximum of 2 years, from October 1 1999.
Salary will be on the RA1A scale #15735 - #23,651 (under review)
according to age and experience.
Applications in the form of a covering letter, full c.v. and the
names and addre sses of three referees should be sent to
Professor L. K. Tyler, Department of Experimental Psychology,
University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB23E B to
arrive no later than 16 July 1999. Informal enquiries can be
emailed to lktyler(a)csl.cam.ac.uk
The University of Cambridge is an equal opportunities employer.
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2. Call for bids for ICSLP 2002
==================================
President: Roger Moore DERA, UK
Vice-President: Yoh'ichi Tohkura NTT, Japan
Secretary: Bruce Millar ANU, Australia
WWW Home Page : URL=http://cslab.anu.edu.au/pcicslp
==================================
Call for bids for ICSLP'2002
The Permanent Council of the International Conferences on Spoken
Language Processing (PC-ICSLP) calls for bids to convene the
next-but-one conference in the ICSLP series, currently scheduled
to take place in the latter half of 2002. This will follow the
next ICSLP conference which is being organised in Beijing, China
in October 2000.
The selection criteria that will be used to evaluate bids are
posted on the WWW Home Page of the Permanent Council
http://cslab.anu.edu.au/pcicslp All bids should specifically
address the detail of the selection criteria.
The deadline for receipt of bid documents (electronic form
preferred, or else 25 copies) by the Council Secretary is 31st
July 1999. Notification of an intention to bid should be directed
to the Council Secretary as soon as possible.
Bids will be considered by the Permanent Council in
August/September 1999.
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Please Reply to Council
Secretary:
by EMAIL: bruce.millar(a)anu.edu.au or FAX: +61-2-6279-8645 or
POST: Dr J Bruce Millar, Computer Sciences Laboratory,
R.S.I.S.E., Institute of Advanced Studies Australian National
University Canberra, ACT, 0200, AUSTRALIA
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3. PhD studentship: Glasgow
From: Kerry Kilborn (kerry(a)psy.gla.ac.uk)
Applications are invited for a PhD studentship in the Department
of Psychology, University of Glasgow. This 3-year post is an
Industrial CASE award funded jointly by the Engineering and
Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Diagnostic
Potentials Ltd. CASE funding attracts full Research Council
support supplemented by an additional contribution from the
industrial partner. Research leading to the PhD is supervised
jointly by members of the Department of Psychology and Diagnostic
Potentials Ltd. The PhD research will be linked to a
multidisciplinary project on language and cognition in healthy
elderly and Alzheimer's patients, and will make use of dense
array EEG/ERP facilities at both university and company locations
in Glasgow. Please email or fax an application letter, CV, and
contact details for three referees. Consideration of applications
will begin immediately.
Direct replies and queries to:
Dr. Kerry Kilborn
Department of Psychology
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QQ
Scotland
email: kerry(a)psy.gla.ac.uk
fax: +44 (0)141 339 8889
tel: +44 (0)141 330 4686
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4. PhD scholarship: Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen
From: Anne Cutler <anne(a)mpi.nl>
The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics is offering a
scholarship for research leading towards a PhD in the field of
spoken-language comprehension.
The successful candidate will develop a research project on a topic
related to the ongoing themes of the two institute projects
"Phonological Structure in Comprehension" and "Spoken-Word
Recognition". The Institute's website, especially the most recent
Annual Reports, can provide more information about these projects.
The research may involve language comprehension by adult or infant
subjects; it will certainly involve laboratory experimentation, and
candidates should have native or near-native competence in German or
Dutch. There is scope for cross-linguistic comparisons, or for
computational modelling. Candidates with a background in experimental
psycholinguistics may receive preference.
Contact: Dr. Anne Cutler
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Psycholinguistik
Postbus 310
NL-6500 AH Nijmegen
fax: 31-24-3521213
e-mail: anne.cutler(a)MPI.NL
WWW: http://www.mpi.nl
Deadline for receipt of applications: 15 August 1999
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5. ICCS/JCSS99 call for participation
From: Koiti Hasida <hasida(a)etl.go.jp>
The Second International Conference on Cognitive Science
and
The 16th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society
Joint Conference (ICCS/JCSS99)
July 27-30, 1999.
International Conference Center, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
http://www.sccs.chukyo-u.ac.jp/ICCS99/
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