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>Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 15:27:08 +0000 (GMT)
>From: INFO-PSYLING moderator Kerry Kilborn <psyling@psy.gla.ac.uk>
>Subject: InfoPsyling: Conferences
>To: distribute-psyling@psy.gla.ac.uk
>
>1. 2nd International Conference on Cognitive Science: Toyko
>2. Australian Language and Speech Conference
>3. Learning Disorders as a Barrier to Human Development (Dyslexia)
>4. Conference on cognition and consciousness; final call
>5. Third International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems
>
>
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>
>1. 2nd International Conference on Cognitive Science: Toyko
>
>From: charon@uclink4.berkeley.edu
>2nd International Conference on Cognitive Science: Toyko
>
>
>******* CALL FOR PAPERS ********
>
>Second International Conference on Cognitive Science (ICCS'99)
>
>in Conjunction with 16th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive
>Science Society (JCSS'99)
>
><< Sponsored by The Japanese Cognitive Science Society 
>
>Dates: July 27-30, 1999. Location: International Convention
>Center at Waseda University Tokyo, Japan. Abstract submissions
>due: February 20, 1999 (oral presentation) February 27, 1999
>(poster presentation)
>
>The Second International Conference on Cognitive Science
>Program (B Committee invites abstracts for papers presenting
>research in broadly defined studies of cognition.  Pieces of work
>are welcome from, but not limited to, cognitive psychology,
>artificial intelligence, linguistics, philosophy, cognitive
>anthropology, social cognition, neuroscience, brain studies and
>comparative cognition.  Specific encouragement is given to, but
>not limited to, interdisciplinary topics such as studies on
>emotion, computer human interaction, computer-supported
>collaborative work and learning, AI and games, language
>acquisition, communication, connectionist models of cognitive
>development, natural language processing and neural studies on
>memory and higher-order cognition.  We welcome international
>viewpoints, in hope of bringing yet newer challenges to this
>growing interdisciplinary research field.
>
>The conference will be held at the International Convention
>Center at Waseda University, Tokyo.  For reservation, contact the
>local arrangement person.  Registration details will be announced
>soon.
>
>SESSIONS AND LANGUAGES
>
>There will be oral and poster sessions at this conference.  Oral
>presentations will be given in English, with English manuscripts
>for the proceedings.  Poster presentations will be given either
>in English or Japanese, with English or Japanese manuscripts.  We
>will also consider chances for poster presentations to be given
>in yet other languages: If you are considering presenting your
>work in some other language than either English or Japanese,
>please contact us at ICCS99@sccs.chukyo-u.ac.jp.
>
>Some plenary talks will be arranged to cover cutting-edge
>research topics from various cognitive science research groups
>representing Asia, Australia, Europe, the U.S., and other places
>where there has been strong tradition of cognitive science
>research.
>
>We are also in the process of organizing workshops and symposia
>to highlight the international-interdisciplinary approach to this
>second conference on studies of cognition.  Comments and
>suggestions are welcome at ICCS99@sccs.chukyo-u.ac.jp and
>iccs99org@etl.go.jp.
>
>GUIDELINES FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS
>
>Abstracts of 2000 (two thousand) words (or 6,000 (six thousand)
>characters in case of Japanese) or less for original work are
>invited on topics broadly related to studies on cognition.
>
>For oral presentations, please submit English abstract.  If you
>already have a full paper, we encourage you to submit it with the
>abstract (URLs are fine).  This full version can either be in
>English or Japanese, though the abstract should be in English. 
>This full version is encouraged for securing high quality review.
>This does not guarantee, even after acceptance, that the
>originally submitted full version would automatically appear in
>the proceedings because of the space availability.
>
>For posters, please submit abstracts either in English or in
>Japanese. The poster presentation, as well as the poster itself,
>can be given in any language if you prefer, though the abstract
>and the proceedings manuscript should be written either in
>English or in Japanese.  Please indicate in which language you
>prefer to present the work.  We will encourage attaching English
>captions to the posters when you choose to give it in non-English
>languages.
>
>Please send us four (4) anonymous copies of the abstract with a
>cover sheet including author(s)'s name(s) and affiliations(s),
>contact person's name and address, and the e-mail address (please
>add the fax number if you have one).  Also please identify the
>preferred presentation style (we may need to ask you to present
>the work in other format than your proposal).  A template is
>provided below.
>
>-----------------begin template---------------------------- ICCS'99
>SUBMISSION
>
>Author's name and affiliation: (repeat this line in case of
>multiple authors) Contact person's name and address (if not the
>same as above): Contact person's e-mail address: Contact person's
>fax number:
>
>Presentation title: Genre of work:
>
>Preferred presentation style (oral or poster): Preferred language
>for presentation:
>
>Other comments for reviewers:
>
>-----------------end template-----------------------------
>
>E-mail submission is welcome at
>submission-ICCS99@sccs.chukyo-u.ac.jp. In addition to plain ASCII
>files, we can handle PostScript, PDF, RTF, dvi, and MS Word (on
>Mac or Windows) files.  Please send these files at your own risk
>and WELL IN ADVANCE because these processes are not error-free.
>
>The review results will be announced by the end of March.  The
>accepted papers will be published in the proceedings, where 6 to
>8 pages are allocated for each presentation.  For the accepted
>papers, the camera-ready, hard copy manuscripts for the
>proceedings should be sent by June 1, 1999 to :
>
>ICCS99 SCCS,  Chukyo University,  Toyota, 470-0393,  JAPAN (The
>postal-code is essential.)
>
>Sorry, we do NOT plan to provide any editorial or printing help
>for the manuscripts, and no e-mail submissions would be handled
>for the camera-ready manuscripts.
>
>TIMETABLE Abstract submissions due for oral presentation:  
>February 20, 1999. for poster presentation: February 27, 1999.
>Notification of acceptance:  March 31, 1999. Camera ready
>manuscripts due:  June 1, 1999.
>
>We are looking forward to receiving high-quality, inspiring
>reports. If you have any questions and/or suggestions feel free
>to contact us at ICCS99@sccs.chukyo-u.ac.jp and/or
>iccs99org@etl.go.jp.
>
>------------------------------------------
>
>CONFERENCE CHAIR: Yutaka Sayeki (U. of Tokyo)
>
><ADVISORY COMMITTEE CHAIR: Shun Ishizaki (Keio U) CO-CHAIR:
>Yukio Otsu (Keio U) CO-CHIAR: Chungmin Lee (Seoul National U)
>
><PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR: Naomi Miyake (Chukyo U)
>
><ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIR: Koiti Hasida (ETL) CO-CHAIR:
>Hiroaki Suzuki (Aoyama Gakuin U)
>
><OVERSEAS ADVISORS Jin-Hyung Kim (KAIST) Razali Arof (U Malaysia
>Sarawak) Charles Ling (U of Western Ontario) Dedre Gentner
>(Northwestern U) Ken Forbus (Northwestern U) Marvin Minsky (MIT)
>Allan Collins (Boston College)
>
>------------------------------
>
>Inquiries regarding presentations and abstract submission should
>be addressed to: Naomi Miyake (Chukyo University) at
>inquiry-ICCS99@sccs.chukyo-u.ac.jp or FAX: +81-565-46-1296
>
>Inquiries regarding organization should be addressed to: Koiti
>Hasida (ETL) at iccs99org@etl.go.jp
>
>-----------------------------------
>We invite you to visit our web site at:
>
>http://www.sccs.chukyo-u.ac.jp/ICCS99/
>
>to find additional information on the conference.
>
>
>***********************************************************************
>2. Australian Language and Speech Conference
>
>
>From: Edith Bavin <ebavin@nmu.edu
>
>
>AUSTRALIAN LANGUAGE & SPEECH CONFERENCE
>
>
>This is a preliminary announcement for the next biennial Australian Language
>and Speech Conference to be held at La Trobe University (Bundoora campus)
from
>November 5-7th, 1999.  The conference provides a meeting place for
researchers
>interested in the perception, production, and comprehension of spoken and
>written language.  The intent is for researchers from a variety of
disciplines
>- psychology, speech pathology, special education, linguistics, philosophy
>- to
>gather to discuss their research.  Graduate/postgraduate students and
>practitioners are encouraged to participate. 
>
>Participants from outside Australia will be particularly welcome.  La Trobe
>University is in Melbourne, a vibrant city with a population of over 3
million
>people of wide ethnic diversity.  Melbourne is known (especially to its
>inhabitants) as the cultural capital of Australia.  The Bundoora campus of La
>Trobe University is accessible by tram or bus from the city centre. 
>
>Typically twenty minute papers are presented, with an additional 10 minutes
>for
>discussion. Two parallel sessions are organised.  The key-note speaker for
the
>1999 conference is still to be determined.
>
>A formal call for papers will be posted in early July, with an August
deadline
>for abstracts.  Suggestions for symposia will be gladly received.
>
>
>***********************************************************************
>3. Learning Disorders as a Barrier to Human Development (Dyslexia)
>
>From: Usha Goswami <u.goswami@ich.ucl.ac.uk
>
>ANNOUNCEMENT
>Learning Disorders as a Barrier to Human Development (Dyslexia)
>COST A8 FINAL WORKSHOP
>St John's College, Cambridge,  9 - 11 September 1999
>
>
>
>The final meeting of the European Concerted Action (COST-A8) on Learning
>Disorders as a Barrier to Human Development with special reference to
>dyslexia will be held in Cambridge, England, at St. John's College, from 9 -
>10 September 1999.  The final meeting is intended to inform a wider audience
>about the achievements of the Action, and there are places for 70 - 80
>non-COST delegates to attend.  As significant interest is expected, places
>will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. The meeting will
>comprise presentations from COST delegates from across Europe on research
>carried out within the Action, complemented by presentations from key
>researchers outside the Action who are addressing similar research issues.
>Speakers include Heikki Lyytinen, Heinz Wimmer, Philip Seymour, Uta Frith,
>Peter Bryant, Carsten Elbro, Sven Stromquist, Rebecca Treiman, Keith
>Stanovich, Ake Olofsson, Joseph Torgesen, Dorothy Bishop and Susan
>Gathercole. The meeting will adopt a workshop format, as we would like to
>involve the audience in informal discussion concerning the themes of the
>Action outside of the presentations themselves.  Prospective delegates are
>thus asked to attend the entire workshop. We apologise for the fact that,
>due to our accommodation being College-based, payment for the workshop must
>be made in full when a place is reserved, and credit cards cannot be
>accepted. Further details can be obtained from Jennifer Smith, Institute of
>Child Health, 30 Guilford St., London WC1N 1EH, e-mail
>j.smith@ich.ucl.ac.uk, tel. 0171 831 0975.
>
>
>Usha Goswami
>Professor of Cognitive Developmental Psychology
>Behavioural Sciences Unit
>Institute of Child Health
>University College London
>30 Guilford St.
>London WC1N 1EH
>
>tel. 0171 831 0975
>fax. 0171 831 7050
>
>***************************************************************************
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>
>4. Conference on cognition and consciousness; final call
>
>
>From: sonualla@compapp.dcu.ie (Sean Onuallain CA)
>
>
> "Mind-IV: TWO SCIENCES OF MIND"     Final Call			     
>	
>
>Keynote addresses:
>
>Bernard Baars                            
>                                                        
> The Compassionate Implications of Brain Imaging of    
> Conscious Pain: New Vistas in Applied Cognitive Science. 
>
>
>Stuart Hammeroff  
>
>Quantum Computing and Consciousness
>
>
>			"Mind-IV: TWO SCIENCES OF MIND"             
>
>			     Dublin City University
>
>                 Monday 16th  - Thursday 19th August, 1999
>
>                http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~tdoris/mind4.html
>
>
>
>                    The invited talks also include:
>
>		David Galin "The Experience of 'Spirit' in Cognitive Terms."
>
>		Jacob Needleman "Inner and Outer Empiricism in Consciousness Research"
>	
>		Steve Nachmanovitch "Creativity and Consiousness"
>
>		
>
>	Each of these talks will be followed by a panel discussion discussing
>	respectively, consciousness as explored experientially, through
>	scientific investigation, and in the arts.
>
>Conference chair; Sean O Nuallain
>
>********************
>
>Stream 1: 
>
>Co-chairs:
>
>		Sean O Nuallain
>			Dublin City University, 
>			Dublin 9, 
>			Ireland
>			sonualla@compapp.dcu.ie
>
>		Bernard Baars
>			Wright Institute, Berkeley, Ca
>			Baars@cogsci.berkeley.edu
>	--------------------------------------------------------------
>	!                                                            !
>	!   Outer and Inner empiricism in consciousness research     !
>	!                                                            !
>	--------------------------------------------------------------
>
>	This stream will feature papers that attempt to show how "inner" states
>	can be elucidated with reference to external phenomena. "Inner
>        empiricism" designates experience, or qualia. They are shaped
(somehow)
>               
>        by brain processes or states which sense and interpret the external 
>        phenomena. The physical nature of these processes or states may tell 
>        us much about consciousness. Likewise, the argument that we are 
>        conscious of only one thing at a time because of the gating action
of 
>        the nuclei reticularis thalami (Taylor, Baars, etc) is indicative of 
>        the kind of thinking we are trying to encourage. In this vein, pain 
>        experience and its imperfect relationship to neural activity are 
>        similarly relevant. We particularly welcome papers that feature 
>        empirical data, or, lacking these data, show a grasp of the  range of
>        disciplines necessary to do justice to the topic.
>
>
>	Papers are also invited that
>
>		- Interpret qualia in terms of a quantum-mechanics based
>                  panpsychism (or, in current terms, pan-protopsychism)
>
>		- Establish links with developments like Whitehead's 
>                  pan-experientialism and process thought
>
>		- Interrelate physiological processes at the neural level with 
>                  current thought in QM
>
>		- Emphasize "relational empiricism", ie second-person 
>                  considerations 
>
>		- Investigate the brain processes or states giving rise to 
>                  qualia at whatever level the writer considers appropriate 
>                  (eg intra-cellular cytoskeletal activities and/or 
>                  quantum-level phenomena).
>
>		- Involve studies of central pain states as well as other 
>                  curiosities like allodynia, spontaneous analgesia, pain 
>                  asymbolia, and hypnotic analgesia.
>
>
>	********************
>
>Stream 2: 
>	
>	--------------------------------------------------------------
>	!                                                            !
>	!            Foundations of Cognitive Science                !
>	!                                                            !
>	--------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>	Co-chairs:
>
>		Sean O Nuallain
>			Dublin City University, 
>			Dublin 9, 
>			Ireland
>			sonualla@compapp.dcu.ie
>
>
>		Robert L. Campbell
>			Department of Psychology, 
>			Clemson University,
>			Clemson, 
>			SC USA
>			campber@clemson.edu
>
>
>
>	WHAT THE STREAM IS ABOUT
>
>
>	Though deep and contentious questions of theory and metatheory have
>	always been prevalent in Cognitive Science--they arise whenever an 
>	attempt is made to define CS as a discipline--they have frequently 
>	been downrated by researchers, in favor of empirical work that 
>	remains safely within the confines of established theories and methods.
>
>	Our goal to is redress the balance.  We encourage participants in this
>	stream to raise and discuss such questions as:
>
>
>	* the adequacy of computationalist accounts of mind
>
>	* the adequacy of conceptions of mental representation as structures
>	  that encode structures out in the environment
>
>	* the consequences of excluding emotions, consciousness, and the social
>	  realm from the purview of cognitive studies
>
>	* the consequences of Newell and Simon's "scientific bet" that
>	  developmental constraints do not have to be studied until detailed
>	  models of adult cognition have been constructed and tested
>
>	* the relationship between cognitive science and formal logic
>
>	A wide range of theoretical perspectives is welcome, so long as the
>	presenters are willing to engage in serious discussion with the
>	proponents of perspectives that are different from their own:
>
>
>	* Vygotskian approaches to culture and cognition
>
>	* Dynamic Systems theories
>
>	* Piagetian constructivism
>
>	* interactivism
>
>	* neuroscience accounts such as those of Edelman and Grossberg
>
>	* accounts of emergence in general, and emergent knowledge in particular
>
>	* perception and action robotics
>
>	* functional linguistics
>
>	* genetic algorithms
>
>	* Information ProcesSing
>
>	* connectionism
>
>	* evolutionary epistemology
>
>********************
>
>Submission details:
>
>	Contributors will be asked to submit short papers (3000 word limit) in
>	the form of ASCII text files (HTML files are also welcome, but are
>	optional) to Robert Campbell (for stream 2) and Sean O Nuallain (stream 
>        1).
>
>	E-mails 
>		campber@CLEMSON.EDU
>
>		sean@compapp.dcu.ie
>
>	The deadline is April 5, 1999.  We will email notification of acceptance
>	or rejection by April 19.
>
>	The standard presentations during the streams will be 20-minute talks
>	and poster sessions.
>
>********************
>
>Publication of Proceedings:
>
>	The "MIND" conferences have normally had their proceedings published by
>	John Benjamins. We have already been approached by prospective
>	publishers for Mind 4. All accepted papers and posters will be included 
>        in a preprint.
>        Previous publications; (Both John Benjamins)
>	"Two Sciences Of Mind"; ed O Nuallain et al(1997) (proceedings of Mind 1)
>	"Spatial cognition and multimedia" ed O Nuallain(in press) (proceedings
of Mind 3)
>********************
>
>Program Committee:
>                                  Bernard Baars
>                                  Mark Bickhard
>                                 Robert Campbell
>                              Christian de Quincey
>                                 Stuart Hammeroff
>                                  Paul Mc Kevitt
>                                  Kathy McGovern
>                              Steven Nachmanovitch
>                                 Jacob Needleman
>                                 Sean O Nuallain
>                                  Yoshi Nakamura
>                                   Max Velmans
>                                  Terry Winegar
>
>****************************************************************************
>
>5. Third International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems
>
>
>From: cas-cns@cns.bu.edu
>
>
>***** CALL FOR REGISTRATION ***** 
>
>
>THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS 
>
>Tutorials: May 26, 1999
>Meeting: May 27-29, 1999 
>
>Boston University
>677 Beacon Street
>Boston, Massachusetts 02215
>http://cns-web.bu.edu/meetings/
>
>Sponsored by Boston University's
>Center for Adaptive Systems
>and 
>Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems
>with financial support from DARPA and ONR 
>
>
>How Does the Brain Control Behavior?
>
>How Can Technology Emulate Biological Intelligence? 
>
>The conference will include invited tutorials and lectures, and
>contributed lectures and posters by experts on the biology and
>technology of how the brain and other intelligent systems adapt 
>to a changing world. The conference is aimed at researchers and 
>students of computational neuroscience, connectionist cognitive 
>science, artificial neural networks, neuromorphic engineering, 
>and artificial intelligence.
>
>A single oral or poster session enables all presented work to be
>highly visible.
>
>Costs are kept at a minimum without compromising the quality of
>meeting handouts and social events.
>
>SEE BELOW FOR THE COMPLETE MEETING SCHEDULE (printed after the
>registration form). 
>
>SEE THE WEB SITE FOR HOTEL AND OTHER CONFERENCE INFORMATION. 
>
>
>********************
>
>REGISTRATION FORM 
>
>Third International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems 
>
>Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems
>Boston University 
>677 Beacon Street 
>Boston, Massachusetts 02215 
>Tutorials: May 26, 1999
>Meeting: May 27-29, 1999 
>FAX: (617) 353-7755 
>http://cns-web.bu.edu/meetings/
>
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