[Editor], '[Part 1] Newsletter Section', Psycoloquy 941212 URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/psycoloquy/psycol-941212-[editor]-part PSYCOLOQUY ISSN 1055-0143 Mon, 12 December 94 Newsletter Section (1) Announcement: Cognitive Science Program at Rutgers U, NJ (2) Announcement: Dissertation Award in Community Psychology (3) Announcement: New Journal: Culture & Psychology (4) Announcement: New List on Pediatric Sleep (5) Conference: Memory/Awareness in Aneasthesia, June 95, Rotterdam (6) Conference: Learning & Memory, March 95, Cambridge, UK (7) Conference: Philosophy & Society, Aug/Sept 95, Oxford, UK (8) Conference: British Aphasiology Society, Sept 95, York, UK (9) Conference: Psychometric Society, July 95, Leiden, NL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ruccsadm@ruccs.rutgers.edu (Ruccs Admin) Subject: (1) Announcement: Cognitive Science Program at Rutgers U, NJ GRADUATE STUDIES IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE AT RUTGERS UNIVERSITY The Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science The Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS) carries out and coordinates research activities in cognitive science throughout the university and is responsible for the cross-disciplinary training of graduate students in Cognitive Science. Members and associates of RuCCS often have appointments in a variety of departments including psychology, computer science, linguistics, philosophy, biomedical engineering, mathematics, electrical engineering, biology and neuroscience, as well as a number of research centers. RuCCS is housed in a new facility on Busch campus, adjacent to the Laboratory of Vision Research and close to the departments of Psychology and Computer Science. It provides offices and laboratories for its faculty and graduate students and maintains its own modern network of computers, fileservers, workstations and microcomputers. Graduate Studies in Cognitive Science The Center for Cognitive Science provides training for graduate students through its Certificate Program in Cognitive Science. Students who are registered in a PhD program in one of the participating departments may earn a Certificate in Cognitive Science along with their PhD. Requirements for the Certificate include earning credit in an interdisciplinary seminar organized by RuCCS, earning a specified number of credits through approved courses outside the graduate department in which the student is registered, and completing a research project in cognitive science outside the student's principal discipline. Certificate students are eligible for a number of Excellence Fellowships awarded by the Center and may use the Center's laboratory space and resources. Rutgers University Rutgers University is the State University of New Jersey and serves more than 43,000 students. The university has a modern and extensive computer facility and provides excellent services for students and researchers. Rutgers New Brunswick is centrally located close to a large number of academic and industrial research laboratories and within easy reach of the cultural and recreational resources of the New York - Philadelphia region. Further Information For information on graduate programs, consult the director of the graduate program in the department in which you plan to register. Write to the principal participating departments at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903. Department of Psychology (Busch Campus) Department of Philosophy (P.O. Box 270) Department of Computer Science (Hill Center) Department of Linguistics (Seminary Place) For further information about the Center's activities or about the Cognitive Science Certificate Program, write to the address below, or email to admin@ruccs.rutgers.edu. Extensive information is also available over the Internet through World Wide Web, or you may log in to info.rutgers.edu and select "other www or gopher servers" which will allow you to access RuCCS information, including technical reports. [The URL for RuCCS is http://ruccs.rutgers.edu and for Rutgers University it is http://www.rutgers.edu.] Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS), Psychology Annex, Busch Campus, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08903. Phone: (908)-445-0635 Fax: (908)-445-0634. ------------------------------ From: Krys_Kaniasty Subject: (2) Announcement: Dissertation Award in Community Psychology Dissertation Award Best Dissertation on a Topic Relevant to Community Psychology The Society for Community Research and Action (Division 27 of the American Psychological Association) announces an open competition for its annual dissertation award. The purpose is to identify the best doctoral dissertation on a topic relevant to the field of community psychology completed between September 1, 1992 and August 31, 1994-- any dissertation completed during the past two years can be submitted. The completion date for the dissertation refers to the date of acceptance of the dissertation by the granting university's designate officer (e.g., the graduate registrar), not the graduation date. Criteria for the award include: relevance to community psychology, with particular emphasis on important and emerging trends in the field; scholarly excellence; innovation and implications for theory, research and action; and methodological appropriateness. The winner will receive a prize of $200 and membership in the Society. The award will be announced during the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association in August, 1995. Materials required: You may nominate yourself or be nominated by a member of SCRA. The cover letter should include your name, graduate school affiliation and thesis advisor, and your current address, phone, and (if available) email address and FAX number. Identifying information should be omitted from the abstract. Your detailed abstract should present a statement of the problem, methods, findings, and conclusions. No abstract may exceed ten double-spaced pages, including tables and figures. Abstracts typically range from 3-8 pages. Evaluation process: The dissertation award committee will review all abstracts. Finalists will be chosen and asked to submit three copies of their entire dissertation. (We may ask finalists whose dissertations exceed 150 pages to send selected chapters instead.) These will be reviewed by the committee which will choose a winner. Deadline for submission (postmarked): January 1, 1995. Send your cover letter and three copies of the dissertation abstract to: Doug Perkins FCS Dept./AEB Univ. of Utah Salt Lake City, UT 84112 ------------------------------ From: "Harnby, Louise" Subject: (3) Announcement: New Journal: Culture & Psychology CULTURE & PSYCHOLOGY Edited by Jaan Valsiner Developmental Psychology Program University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill AIMS AND FOCUS Culture & Psychology is a new interdisciplinary journal that addresses the centrality of culture necessary to a proper understanding of human beings: their identity, their social conduct, their intersubjective experiences, their emotions, development and language. The journal will develop a critical and socially embedded understanding of the self by drawing on diverse theoretical perspectives and empirical reflections upon psychological phenomena. FORTHCOMING ARTICLES Volume 1, Number 1, 1995 * Gustav Jahoda: The Ancestry of a Model * Michael Cole: Culture and Cognitive Development: From Cross Cultural Research to Creating Systems of Cultural Mediation * Derek Edwards: A Commentary on Discursive and Cultural Psychology * Lutz H. Eckensberger: Activity or Action: Two Different Ways Towards an Integration of Culture into Psychology * James V. Wertsch: Sociocultural Research in the Copyright Age * Hubert J. M. Hermans and Harry J. G. Kempen: Body, Mind and Culture: The Dialogical Nature of Mediated Action * Richard A. Shweder: The Confessions of a Methodological Individualist * Marc. H. Bornstein: Form and Function: Implications for Studies of Culture and Human Development * Hideo Kojima: Form and Function as Categories of Comparison * Aydan Gulerce Interview with K. J. Gergen (Part 1): Culture and Self in Postmodern Psychology: Dialogue in Trouble? BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION Published quarterly in March, June, September and December First issue: March 1995 MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION The editor welcomes contributions from academic across the social sciences and from individuals at all stages of their careers. The journal will contain articles (approximately 8000 words) and will also include short commentaries on articles, as well as book reviews and review articles. Contributions must be typed (or word-processed) double-spaced and six copies submitted to the Editor. Contact the Editor for submission instructions and for a preliminary informal discussion of your paper by: Electronic Mail: Postal Address: Jaan Valsiner Developmental Psychology Program University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill North Carolina, NC 27599-3270 USA FURTHER INFORMATION To receive any other information on the journal contact Louise Harnby ------------------------------ From: sadeh@ccsg.tau.ac.il (Avi Sadeh) Subject: (4) Announcement: New List on Pediatric Sleep Dear Colleagues, After consulting some of you and toying with the idea for awhile, I have decided to establish an internet list focused on pediatric sleep. I'm very happy to announce the birth of the Pediatric Sleep list (pedsleep). This list covers developmental and clinical sleep-related issues from birth to adolescence. The list is open to all clinical and academic professionals in the fields of sleep medicine, pediatrics, psychology, psychiatry, education, and other related fields of medicine and child-care. This list is moderated to prevent commercialization and undesired messages and errors seen in many lists. Messages will not be censored unless totally inappropriate. The list have the following specific aims: (1) to encourage multidisciplinary exchange of ideas and knowledge; (2) to provide a framework for organizing and generating scientific meeting, symposia, books, papers etc.; (3) to encourage professionals from bordering fields of child-care to get involved and learn and disseminate knowledge on pediatric sleep issues. In contrary to our older sister (the sleep-l list) which is mostly dedicated to specific questions and answers, you are encouraged to share new research findings (yours and those of others you have found to be of interest). This could be in the form of citations, abstracts prepared for conferences or abstracts of papers (recently published or "in press"). You are discouraged from sending complete manuscripts because this may cause inconvenience to other members of the list and may violate copyrights. If you are interested in joining the list, please send a message to my e-mail address above. I'd appreciate it very much if you transfer this message to all your colleagues who might be interested. How to join the list: Send email to: sadeh@ccsg.tau.ac.il Two lines (* see example for bill clinton): First line: ADD PEDSLEEP email-address firstname lastname * ADD PEDSLEEP bill@whitehouse Bill Clinton Second line: Professional identity (e.g., Pediatrician, Psychologist, etc.). * President Cordially, Avi Sadeh Department of Psychology Tel-Aviv University ------------------------------ From: "Dr. Benno Bonke" Subject: (5) Conference: Memory/Awareness in Aneasthesia, June 95, Rotterdam The third International Symposium on Memory and Awareness in Anaesthesia will be held 8-10 June 1995 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. It continues a tradition that started in 1989 in Glasgow, Scotland, and was followed by a second successful congress in 1992 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The conference brings together scientists form such seemingly diverse specialties as psychology, anesthesiology, psychiatry, surgery, neurophysiology, and others. Main topics are: Cognitive Performance during Anaesthesia Unconscious Perception and Learning Awareness and Unexpected Awakening 'Depth' of Anaesthesia Drug-effects Therapeutic Suggestions, and Methodological Issues All topics within the same area of anaesthesia and other altered states of consciousness. Deadline for submission of abstracts: 1 December 1994 Further information can be obtained from Benno Bonke, PhD, electronic mail address: BONKE@MPP.FGG.EUR.NL Or by writing to: Benno Bonke, PhD Dept. Medical Psychology & Psychotherapy Erasmus University PO Box 1738 3000 DR Rotterdam The Netherlands (telephone: [31]-10-408 7808) (telefax: [31]-10-436 3981) ------------------------------ From: Jaap Murre Subject: (6) Conference: Learning & Memory, March 95, Cambridge, UK Easter School on Computational Modelling in Psychology: Learning and Memory King's College, Cambridge, England, 26-28 March 1995 Closing date for applications: 31 December 1994 This is an initiative of the Ph.D. Euroconference Program in Cognitive Science supported by the E.C.C. Participation Ph.D. students and advanced undergraduates and post-docs can participate. There will be a selection process. Applicants are asked to provide a brief CV, two letters of recommendation, and one page of text, describing their research and how this would benefit from participation. Letters of acceptance (email messages) will be sent out at the end of January. Costs Participation fee is 228 pounds Sterling and includes full board and lodging at King's College. In many cases, partial or full scholarships towards this fee will be available. In exceptional cases, scholarships can be extended to cover part of the travel costs. Description The school will be held at King's College, one of the most prominent locations in Cambridge (50 min from London by train). It will start at Sunday morning 26 March and continue until the evening of Tuesday 28 March. Throughout the three days there will be lectures by all staff members as well as tutorial sessions in smaller groups. The number of participants will be restricted to 30. Please note that this is not an introductory course into connectionism. The advised entrance level is at least *basic* knowledge of the following areas: connectionism, experimental psychology, neuroanatomy, statistics. Lectures and tutorials will cover models of: categorization, recall, recognition, interference, spacing of learning, amnesia, and the neurobiology of memory (hippocampus, neural substrates of learning). Both connectionist models and non-connectionist computational models (e.g., SAM and Generalized Context Model) will be discussed. For additional information, contact: Jaap Murre Medical Research Council: Applied Psychology Unit 15 Chaucer Road Cambridge CB2 2EF United Kingdom phone: +44 223 355294 x 810 fax: +44 223 359062 email: jaap.murre@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk ------------------------------ From: Euro-SPP Subject: (7) Conference: Philosophy & Society, Aug/Sept 95, Oxford, UK EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIETY Fourth Annual Meeting St. Catherine's College, Oxford Wednesday 30 August - Friday 1 September, 1995 FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS The Fourth Annual Meeting of the Euro-SPP will begin at 11.30 am on Wednesday 30 August and will end at 5.30 pm on Friday 1 September. Themes for Invited Symposia include: emotion, attention, artificial life, and brain imaging. The conference will be held in St. Catherine's College, Oxford, where accommodation will be available. We expect to be able to offer an accommodation and meals package for the period from Wednesday morning until Friday afternoon for 108 pounds. In addition, bed and breakfast accommodation will be available for the Tuesday night before the conference, and for the Friday and Saturday nights after the conference, at a cost of 28 pounds per night. A limited number of superior rooms with private bath will be available at a higher rate. The Society welcomes submitted papers and posters for this meeting. Submitted papers and posters are refereed and selected on the basis of quality and relevance to both psychologists and philosophers. For further information about local arrangements, email: espp95@psy.ox.ac.uk. ------------------------------ From: Carmel Lum Subject: (8) Conference: British Aphasiology Society, Sept 95, York, UK Biennial Conference of the BRITISH APHASIOLOGY SOCIETY September 12-14th,1995 University of York, UK CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Due date: April 30th, 1995 INVITED SPEAKERS Prof David Caplan - Massachusetts General Hospital Prof Andrew Ellis - University of York Prof Ruth Lesser - University of Newcastle Sylvia McLauchlan - Director General of the U.K. Stroke Association There will be Free Paper sessions lasting 20 minutes with 5 minutes for questions and two Symposia on "Sentence Processing" and "Social Models of Aphasia". GUIDELINES FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS The BAS Conference encourages papers on the subjects of aphasia and the care of people with aphasia and so abstracts on academic, clinical and social issues are welcome. Authors should submit abstracts with a maximum length of a single side of A4/US letter, by 30th April, 1995 to: Dr. Sue Franklin BAS Conference 1995 Dept of Psychology University of York Heslington YORK YO1 5DD Telephone: +44 1904 44 3166 Email: sef3@york.ac.uk FURTHER INFORMATION Email: Sue Franklin sef3@york.ac.uk Carmel Lum Carmel.Lum@ed.ac.uk ------------------------------ From: groenen@ruls30.fsw.LeidenUniv.nl (Patrick Groenen) Subject: (9) Conference: Psychometric Society, July 95, Leiden, NL ANNOUNCEMENT: 9TH EUROPEAN MEETING OF THE PSYCHOMETRIC SOCIETY JULY 4 - 7, 1995 LEIDEN UNIVERSITY THE NETHERLANDS Persons wishing information on submission of papers or proposals for symposia should contact the Chair of the Scientific Program Committee: Willem J. Heiser, Department of Data Theory, Faculty of Social Sciences, Wassenaarseweg 52, P.O. Box 9555, 2300 RB Leiden, The Netherlands. Topics include (but are not limited to) Categorical Data Analysis, Classical Test Theory, Classification, Clustering, Correspondence Analysis, Exploratory Data Analysis, Factor Analysis, Graphical Models, Item Response Theory, (Generalized) Linear Models, Longitudinal Data Analysis, Multidimensional Scaling, Multivariate Analysis, Optimal Scaling, Statistical Methods, Structural Equations Models, Variance Components Analysis. The meeting will be held at Leiden University. Leiden is located in the West of the Netherlands, at short distance from Amsterdam, The Hague and Rotterdam, and is easily reachable by air through Schiphol International Airport, and by train. Further information on the conference can be obtained by writing to the Chair of the Local Organizing Committee: Jacqueline J. Meulman, Department of Data Theory, Faculty of Social Sciences, Wassenaarseweg 52, P.O. Box 9555, 2300 RB Leiden, The Netherlands, or from the Conference Secretary: Susanna Verdel, e-mail: psleiden@rulfsw.leidenuniv.nl phone: +31 71 273829, fax: +31 71 273865. The deadline for receipt of papers and symposium proposals is March 1, 1995. End of PSYCOLOQUY Digest ******************************