[Editor], '[Part1] Newsletter Section', Psycoloquy 941023 URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/psycoloquy/psycol-941023-[editor]-part1 PSYCOLOQUY ISSN 1055-0143 Sun, 23 October 94 Newsletter Section (1) Announcement: Cognitive Neuroscience Research Grants (2) Conference: Subjective Probability, Aug 20-24 '95, Jerusalem (3) Conference: Human-Computer Interaction, July 4-8 '95, Moscow (4) Conference: Geneva Emotion Week, April 8-13 '95, Geneva, CH (5) Conference: The Cognitive Sciences, Nov 30-Dec 2 '94, Lyon, FR (6) New List: APA Division 12 (Clinical Psychology) Net (7) New Website: University of Michigan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Stephen Hanson Subject: (1) Announcement: Cognitive Neuroscience Research Grants McDonnell-Pew Program in Cognitive Neuroscience McDonnell-Pew Program in Cognitive Neuroscience announces new guidelines for Investigator - Initiated Grants. Awards are $35,000/year for up to three years for interdisciplinary research and training. Deadline for receipt of proposals is February, 1995. For proposal guidelines and additional information contact; Susan Fitzpatrick, Program Officer, James S. McDonnell Foundation email: C06819CN@WUVMD.WUSTL.edu phone: 314-721-1532 or fax: 314-721-7421. Stephen J. Hanson, Ph.D. Head, Learning Systems Department SIEMENS Research 755 College Rd. East Princeton, NJ 08540 ------------------------------ From: David Budescu Subject: (2) Conference: Subjective Probability, Aug 20-24 '95, Jerusalem SPUDM-15: The 15th Bi-annual Conference on Subjective Probability, Utility and Decision Making Sponsored by EADM (the European Association of Decision Making), SPUDM-15 will be held in Jerusalem, Israel, from Sunday, August 20 to Thursday, August 24, 1995 (registration begins on Saturday evening, August 19). The conference will take place in the 4-star deluxe "Shalom Jerusalem Hotel", which will provide us both with lodging and with conference rooms (all air-conditioned which is important in Jerusalem in August!). Since airfare to Israel is reduced for a minimum 6-night stay (this is called the APEX fare, and applies with or without a Saturday night) we have decided to schedule the conference over five days rather than the usual four, including two half day tours in the program. In addition, we will offer post-conference tours to major attractions in Israel. Information regarding registration and the extra-curricular activities, as well as more detail about the program, will be provided in April 1995. The organizing committee members for SPUDM-15 are: Maya Bar-Hillel (The Hebrew University, Israel; local organizer) Ruth Beyth-Marom (The Open University, Israel) David Budescu (University of Illinois, USA) John Maule (Leeds University, England; editor of the EADM Bulletin) Richard Thaler (Cornell University, USA) Correspondence and submissions should be sent to: Prof. Maya Bar-Hillel Center for Rationality The Hebrew University Jerusalem 91904 Israel E-mail: msmaya@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il Fax: 972-2-513681 Tel. 972-2-586253. 972-2-883401 (office) Tel. 972-2-630742 (home) As usual, the conference will have Invited Papers, Workshops, Oral Paper Sessions, and Poster Sessions. Invited Speakers for SPUDM-15 are: Colin Camerer (California Institute of Technology) Philip Johnson-Laird (Princeton University) Janet Sniezek (University of Illinois) Amos Tversky (Stanford University and Tel Aviv University) Willem-Albert Wagenaar (Leiden University, EADM President). Conference guidelines are available from: Dr. John Maule School of Business and Economic Studies University of Leeds LS2 9JT Leeds U.K. E-mail: m@bess.novell.leeds.ac.uk Fax: 44-532-332640 ------------------------------ From: instone@cs.bgsu.edu (Keith Instone) Subject: (3) Conference: Human-Computer Interaction, July 4-8 '95, Moscow CALL FOR PARTICIPATION E W H C I '95 The 1995 East-West International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction Moscow, Russia 4 - 8 July, 1995 Participation is invited for the fifth annual conference devoted to the interchange of work and ideas in the area of Human-Computer Interaction between researchers in the former Soviet Union and those in the rest of the world. The conference will bring together researchers and practitioners involved in the theory, development, deployment, and analysis of interactive, computer-based systems. The conference is scheduled to follow immediately after Interact '95 in Norway, and the organizers of both Interact and EWHCI are cooperating to make attendance at both conferences as easy as possible. There are a variety of convenient (and pleasant) travel options available from Lillehammer to Moscow. In addition, plans are underway to provide group travel for Interact attendees going to Moscow. The 1995 conference will provide a mix of innovative technical sessions and cultural events to promote the understanding and development of human-computer interaction research world-wide. In addition to traditional paper presentations, the conference will include extended poster presentations, demonstrations, small group discussions, and cooperatively produced summaries of research areas. The 1994 conference had approximately 100 attendees from Europe, North America, Australia, Korea, Japan and the former Soviet Union. Sponsors for last year's conference included ACM SIGCHI, The Moscow Chapter of ACM SIGCHI, The International Centre for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI), and Apple Computer, Inc. (USA). Additional supporters this year include the Bowling Green State University Computer-Human Interaction Lab (BGSU CHIL). Language The working language of the conference will be English, with translation into Russian provided when necessary. Presenters are encouraged to take advantage of the available interpreters to emphasize the important points of their papers. Interpreters will also be available outside of technical sessions to assist with informal discussions (interpreters for this conference are bi-lingual computer professionals). A proceedings of the conference will be published. In addition, selected papers will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Deadlines (materials are to arrive by): 16 December 1994 Notification of intention to participate by sending email to ew-submit.chi@xerox.com. 6 January 1995 Postscript submissions due to Claus Unger (see below), for those chosing this option. 13 January 1995 Physical submissions and World Wide Web submissions due. Note: submissions must ARRIVE by this date. Send 6 copies of papers (up to 4000 words) or 6 copies of poster proposals (extended abstract, up to 2000 words) or 6 copies describing proposed demonstrations (1000 words) or 6 copies of a tutorial proposal (2000 words) or 1 copy of a videotape (VHS) with 4 copies of a 1000 word abstract. 10 March 1995 Notification of acceptance. 21 April 1995 Submission of camera-ready copy for the Proceedings. Submission information: Anyone submitting a paper, tutorial, poster, demonstration, or video should email their name, title, format, and abstract to Claus Unger (unger@fernuni-hagen.de) before the 13 January 1995 deadline. This information will be used to assign submissions to reviewers. The actual submissions may be sent by physical mail, electronic mail (in postscript format), or posted on the World Wide Web (in HTML format). Physical submission: For those outside of the former Soviet Union, papers, poster proposals, demonstration proposals, tutorial proposals, and videotapes may be sent in hardcopy to: Claus Unger Praktische Informatik II University of Hagen Feithstr. 140 D-58084 Hagen GERMANY or to: Brad Blumenthal Dept. of EECS (M/C 154) 851 South Morgan (SEO 1120) Chicago, IL 60608 USA All submissions from within the former Soviet Union should be sent to: Juri Gornostaev International Centre for Scientific and Technical Information Russia, 125252, Moscow, ul. Kuusinena, 21-B ------------------------------ From: KAISER@uni2a.unige.ch Subject: (4) Conference: Geneva Emotion Week, April 8-13 '95, Geneva, CH Call for Applications GENEVA EMOTION WEEK '95 April 8 to April 13, 1995 University of Geneva, Switzerland The Emotion Research Group at the University of Geneva announces the third GENEVA EMOTION WEEK (GEW '95), consisting of a colloquium focusing on a major topic in the psychology of emotion, and of a series of workshops designed to introduce participants to advanced research methods in the field of emotion. The colloquium consists of extensive presentations of theoretical and methodological approaches as well as recent empirical work by a group of invited speakers and faculty members of the University of Geneva. Ample time is allotted for discussion. The colloquium lasts 3 days. The theme chosen for the GEW '95 is: Artificial Emotions The intention of GEW'95 is to bring together researchers in diverse disciplines, including AI, neurosciences, philosophy, and psychology, who share an interest in architectures and mechanisms underlying emotion, motivation, and intelligence. The focus is on architectural requirements for an autonomous agent, combining the various sub- functions and sub-mechanisms normally studied separately in AI and Psychology. GEW'95 is organized in collaboration with the Cognition and Affect Group under the direction of Prof. Aaron Sloman at the Cognitive Science Research Center, University of Birmingham. This group organized the first Workshop on Architectures for Understanding Motivation and Emotions (WAUME93) at Birmingham and is pleased that WAUME95 is to be merged with GEW'95. Speakers and Topics of the colloquium: Prof. Joseph Le Doux, New York University: - Neural Computation of Emotional Meaning by the Brain. Prof. Stevan Harnad, University of Southampton: - Measuring and Modelling Performance Capacities and Qualitative States. Prof. Aaron Sloman, University of Birmingham: - Architectures for Emotional Agents. Prof. Klaus Scherer, University of Geneva: - Computer Modeling of Appraisal Processes. Discussant: Prof. Nico Frijda, Univ. Amsterdam For more information, please contact: Dr. Susanne Kaiser University of Geneva, FPSE Section de Psychologie 9, route de Drize, CH-1227 Carouge Switzerland Fax: +41/22/300 1482; E-mail: kaiser@uni2a.unige.ch ------------------------------ From: payette@uranus.atoci.uqam.ca Subject: (5) Conference: The Cognitive Sciences, Nov 30-Dec 2 '94, Lyon, FR The Seventh Colloquium of the Jacques Cartier Center Lyon, France THE COGNITIVE SCIENCES: FROM COMPUTATIONAL MODELS TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF MIND Wednesday, November 30th to Friday, December 2nd 1994 under the aegis of: the Pole Rhones-Alpes of the Cognitive Sciences, Programme Interdisciplinaire de Recherche Cognisciences, CNRS Universite du Quebec a Montreal Universite de Montreal Universite Joseph Fourier Universite Claude Bernard DATES: Wednesday, November 30th to Friday, December 2nd 1994 CONFERENCE SITE: Amphitheatre CHARLES BERAUDIER. Conseil Regional RHONE-ALPES,78 route de Paris, 69751 CHARBONNIERES-les-BAINS. France Talks will only be given by invited speakers. (Simultaneous French-English and English-French will be provided). THEME OF COLLOQUIUM The modeling of mental processes in the various human cognitive activities has generated increasing interest in the scientific world today. Cognitive models, cognitive simulations, auto-organization, adaptation, emergence, genetic selection, Darwinian mentalism and enaction are active research topics in neurological and psychological theory. The cognitive sciences offer a continuum of research extending from the engineering sciences to the philosophy of mind, including the neurosciences, cognitive psychology, linguistics, semantics, semiotics and artificial intelligence. Three subconferences will organize themselves around the following major complementary themes: (i) Modeling (cognitive and brain functions), (ii) Philosophy of Mind and Epistemology, and (iii) Applications (AI, technical and computational engineering). (i) Modeling is a point of intersection for all these specialties because it includes the modeling of functions and dysfunctions of the central nervous system, the neurocomputer sciences, the modeling of psychocognitive and mental processes, the emergence of intentional structure on the basis of biological structure, enaction, genetic algorithms, neural networks, artificial "life," etc. (ii) The philosophical and epistemological subcomponent poses questions like the following: Can we elaborate mathematical models of the mind and use them to describe and explain human behavior? Are we aiming toward a mathematical model of the mind? Can we capture the formal principles of the development and emergence of cognition? Can we technologically recreate thought? Is the computational symbolic paradigm, which has imposed itself for the last decades, still a powerful conceptual tool or is it proving too reductionistic and if so, how? What is the epistemological status of, for example, the alternative proposed by the parallel distributed model to the computational models of classical cognitivism? Wich relations can be established between the modeling activity of the cognitive and neurosciences and human experience? (iii) The applications subconference will consider practical domains in which scientific results have been applied in the treatment of language, the automated cognitive analyses of textual documents (an intersection of linguistics, semantics, semiotics and artificial intelligence), aids to decision making, applications in sensory information processing, etc. For more information contact: CENTRE JACQUES CARTIER, 86 rue Pasteur, 69365 Lyon Cedex 07, France. Phone:(33) 78 69 72 21 Email: ferreira@diogene.univ-lyon2.fr ------------------------------ From: "Joseph J. Plaud" Subject: (6) New List: APA Division 12 (Clinical Psychology) Net APA Division 12 (Clinical Psychology) Net On behalf of the Division of Clinical Psychology (Division 12) of APA, I am pleased to announce that we now have an official division net open to all current members of Division 12 and graduate student affiliates. This new list is not the same as the mailbase clinical-psychology list (which is an open list). If you are a member of APA Division 12 or a graduate student affiliate, you are welcome to join the list, and become an active contributor to the net. This list will provide an opportunity for the world-wide membership of Division 12 (Clinical Psychology) of the American Psychological Association to disseminate and share ideas concerning the Division and Clinical Psychology as a scientific endeavor and area of practice. Discussion is welcomed regarding: 1) basic issues in clinical psychology 2) research issues in clinical psychology 3) professional concerns related to the practice of clinical psychology 4) the governance of clinical psychology related (but not limited to) Division 12 activities 5) clinical issues (maintaining confidentiality) 6) multidisciplinary integration of clinical psychology with other disciplines, such as counseling psychology, psychiatry, and behavior analysis 7) theoretical issues in clinical psychology A committed group of clinical psychologists willing to share their ideas and interests will enhance the scope of this List. The list is open to all current members of Division 12 and graduate student affiliates. The topics of discussion will reside in the members of the List. All List members are encouraged to be active participants. Members will also receive a weekly Digest which summarizes the topics of List discussion for the week. If you are a Division 12 member or graduate student affiliate and wish to subscribe to the list, send the following command to LISTSERV@VM1.NODAK.EDU: SUBSCRIBE Div12 yourfirstname yourlastname All requests for List subscriptions will be reviewed by the list owners (including myself, Dr. Nancy D. Vogeltanz, and Dr. Jeffrey E. Holm). You will receive a Welcome file that describes the List in greater detail once you join the List. There are many exciting possibilities related to this new list for Division 12, and on behalf of the President of the Division, Dr. Martin E.P. Seligman, I hope that you will help our new net be an active forum for debate, sharing ideas, and focusing discussion on the future of clinical psychology. ------------------------------ From: "Milton Huang" Subject: (7) New Website: University of Michigan I would like to announce the introduction of the new Website for the University of Michigan Department of Psychiatry. The URL is http://www.med.umich.edu/psychiatry/homepage.html It contains information about the program as well as a few pointers to useful locations. The person in charge is Randolph Nesse, M.D. and comments about the site should be sent to him at Randolph.Nesse@med.umich.edu Dr. Nesse is the associate chair for education and academic affairs. The page was constructed by the myself and Pete James who work on the Psychiatry Multimedia Project. The project is under the direction of Dr. Norman Alessi. I am currently a fellow in psychiatric informatics at the University of Michigan, and Pete is a work study student. The fellowship is sponsored by the department of Psychiatry. The Multimedia development team is currently in the process of setting up a Website for the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry which should be online in the next month. Please give us feedback! Milton Huang, M.D. (milton.huang@med.umich.edu) End of PSYCOLOQUY Digest ******************************