Abstracts
A full list of abstracts can be found here.
Programme
THURSDAY 28th AUGUST
Session 1: Memory and Learning (Session Chair - Jon Bullinaria)
| 08:45 - 09:10 |
Registration |
| 09:10 - 09:15 |
Welcome |
| 09:15 - 10:00 |
Invited Paper:
Marius Usher and Eddy Davelaar
Birkbeck College, University of London
Short/long term memory in terms of activation versus weight based
processes
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| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Eddy Davelaar and Marius Usher
Birkbeck College, University of London
On the Nature of Active Memory
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| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Serban C. Musca, Stephane Rousset and Bernard Ans
Universite Pierre Mendes France, Grenoble
Effect of the learning material
structure on retroactive and proactive interference
in humans: When the
self-refreshing neural network mechanism provides new insights
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11:00 - 11:30 COFFEE BREAK
Session 1 (continued): Memory and Learning (Session Chair - Jon Bullinaria)
| 11:30 - 12:00 |
Paul D Bartos
Open University
Limited capacity dimensional attention and the configural-cue model
of stimulus representation
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Session 2: Vision (Session Chair - Peter Hancock)
| 12:00 - 12:30 |
Jarmo Hurri, Jaakko Vayrynen and Aapo Hyvarinen
Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Spatiotemporal Linear Simple-Cell Models Based on Temporal
Coherence
and Independent Component Analysis
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| 12:30 - 13:00 |
Joni Karanka and David Luque
Predicting collision: a connectionist model
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13:00 - 14:00 LUNCH
Session 3: Face Recognition - session of invited papers
(Session Chair - Bob French)
| 14:00 - 14:45 |
Invited Paper: Gary Cottrell
University of California, San Diego, USA
Modeling Face Perception
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| 14:45 - 15:30 |
Invited Paper: Peter Hancock, Mike Burton and Rob Jenkins
Stirling University, Scotland
Face Recognition: Average or Examplar?
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| 15:30 - 16:15 |
Invited Paper: C.J. Solomon, S.J. Gibson, A. Pallares-Bejarano
and M. Maylin
University of Kent at Canterbury
Exploring the Case for a Psychological "Face-space"
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16:15 - 16:45 COFFEE BREAK
Session 4: Action and Navigation (1) (Session Chair - Richard Shillcock)
| 16:45 - 17:15 |
Dionyssios Theofilou, Arnaud Destrebecqz and Axel Cleeremans
Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Applying forward models to sequence learning: A connectionist implementation
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| 17:15 - 17:45 |
Fiona Richardson, N. Davey and L. Peters
University of Hertfordshire
The Simulation of Character Production Behaviours in Connectionist Networks
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| 17:45 - 18:15 |
Benoit Girard a, David Filliat b, Alain Berthoz c,
Jean-Arcady Meyer a and
Agnès Guillot a
a : CNRS-Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
b : DGA/Centre Technique d'Arcueil, Arcueil, France
c : CNRS-Collège de France, Paris, France
An integration of two control architectures of action selection and
navigation
inspired by neural circuits in the vertebrate: the basal
ganglia
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FRIDAY 29th AUGUST
Session 5: Developmental Processes
(Session Chair - Tim Valentine)
| 09:00 - 09:45 |
Invited Paper:
Bob French
University of Liege, Belgium
The bottom-up nature of category acquisition in 3- to 4-month old
infants:
Predictions
of a connectionist model and empirical data
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| 09:45 - 10:15 |
Gert Westermann and Denis Mareschal
Birkbeck College, University of London
Asymmetric Categorization of Cats and Dogs: The Representational
Acuity Hypothesis
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| 10:15 - 10:45 |
Jochen Triesch and Eric Carlson
University of California, San Diego, USA
An Embodied Computational Model for the Emergence of Gaze Following
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| 10:45 - 11:15 |
Joe Levy
Roehampton University of Surrey
Connectionist models of autism
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11:15 - 11:45 COFFEE BREAK
Session 6: Category Acquisition and Binding
(Session Chair - Viv Moore)
| 11:45 - 12:15 |
Michael Fink a, Gershon Ben-Shakhar a and David Horn b
a : Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
b : Tel Aviv University, Israel
Empirical Evidence & Neural Network Modeling of Feature
Creation during
Perceptual
Category Acquisition
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| 12:15 - 12:45 |
Martial Mermillod a, Nathalie Guyader b,c and Alan Chauvin b,c
a : University of Liege,
b : Laboratoire de Psychologie Experimentale, CNRS,
c : Laboratoire des Images et des Signaux, CNRS, Grenoble
Does the energy spectrum from Gabor wavelet filtering contain sufficient
information for neural network recognition and classification tasks?
|
| 12:45 - 13:15 |
Carolyn Mair and Martin Shepperd
Bournemouth University
Understanding Object Feature Binding through Experimentation and
Modelling
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13:15 - 14:15 LUNCH
Session 7: Attention and Cognitive Architectures
(Session Chair - Marius Usher)
| 14:15 - 15:00 |
Invited Paper: John G. Taylor
King's College Strand, University of London
Through Attention to Consciousness by CODAM
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| 15:00 - 15:30 |
Dietmar Heinke and Glyn W. Humphreys
University of Birmingham
Model Visual Search Experiments: A new version of the Selective Attention
for
Identification Model (SAIM)
|
| 15:30 - 16:00 |
Roman Borisyuk and Yakov Kazanovich
University of Plymouth
An Oscillatory Neural Model of Cognitive Functions: Feature Representation,
Binding,
Memory and Attention
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| 16:00 - 16:30 |
Howard Bowman a and Phil Barnard b
a : University of Kent at Canterbury
b : Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge
Neural Networks Models of the Attentional Blink
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16:30 - 17:00 COFFEE BREAK
Session 8: High Level Cognition and Implementation Issues
(Session Chair - Miguel Mendao)
| 17:00 - 17:30 |
Robert Leech, Denis Mareschal and Richard Cooper
Birkbeck College, University of London
A connectionist account of the development of transitive analogies
|
| 17:30 - 18:00 |
Frank Van Overwalle
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Multiple Person Inferences: A View of a Connectionist Integration
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| 18:00 - 18:30 |
Ioana Marian a, Colm G. Connolly a, Ronan G. Reilly b
a : University College Dublin, Ireland
b : National University of Ireland, Maymooth Ireland
Approaches to efficient simulation with spiking neural networks
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SATURDAY 30th AUGUST
Session 9: Language and Speech (Session Chair - Gary Cottrell)
| 09:00 - 9:45 |
Invited Paper:
Richard Shillcock and Padraic Monaghan
University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Sublexical units in the computational modelling of visual word recognition
|
| 9:45 - 10:15 |
Jenny Hayes, Victoria Murphy, Neil Davey and Pam Smith
University of Hertfordshire
How the constraints on English compound production might be learnt
from the
linguistic input: Evidence from 4 connectionist models
|
| 10:15 - 10:45 |
Fermin Moscoso del Prado Martin, Robert Schreuder
and R. Harald Baayen
University of Nijmegen &
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Using the Structure Found in Time:
Building real-scale orthographic
and phonetic representations by
Accumulation of
Expectations
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| 10:45 - 11:15 |
James Hammerton
University of Groningen, The Netherlands
A SOM-based model of speech segmentation
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11:15 - 11:45 COFFEE BREAK
Session 10: Evolution
(Session Chair - Colin Johnson)
| 11:45 - 12:30 |
Invited Paper:
John A. Bullinaria
The University of Birmingham
On the Evolution of Irrational Behaviour
|
| 12:30 - 13:00 |
Jean-Jacques Mariage
Paris 8 University, France
SOH, a Self Observing Heuristic to control neural networks learning process
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13:00 - 14:00 LUNCH
Session 11: Action, Navigation and Location in Space (2)
(Session Chair - Howard Bowman)
| 14:00 - 14:30 |
Corina Sas and Ronan Reilly
University College Dublin, Ireland
Extracting a Spatial Grammar from Recurrent Neural Network
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| 14:30 - 15:00 |
M.K. Weir and A.P. Wale
St Andrews University, Scotland
Smooth Shifts In Animate Goal-Directed Behaviour
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| 15:00 - 15:30 |
Wolfram Schenck and Ralf Moller
Max-Planck-Institute for Psychological Research, Munich,
Germany
Staged Learning of Saccadic Eye Movements
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15:30 - 15:40 CLOSING REMARKS
