PROGRAM

Thursday July 12th, 2012.

08:00 - 08:45  

Registration and Welcome coffee

08:45 - 09:00  

Conference welcome by Julien Mayor, co-organiser of the NCPW13 conference and by Manuel Carreiras, BCBL Director

09:00 - 10:00  

Keynote lecture 1. Jeff Elman “Why the lexicon may be a bad idea”

10:00 - 10:40  

Oral Session 1
[OS-1.1] Nouns refer to shapes, adjectives to properties: emergent biases in early vocabulary development
[OS-1.2] Using computational models to understand atypical word learning

10:40 - 11:00  

Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:40  

Oral Session 2
[OS-2.1] A connectionist model of early motor speech development that learns by using reinforcement
[OS-2.2] A developmental model of vocabulary production
[OS-2.3] The neural mechanisms of early categorization: a connectionist model of infant ERP
[OS-2.4] Testing the predictions of a dynamic neural field model of infant categorization
[OS-2.5] A Computational Model of the Headturn Preference Procedure: Design, Challenges, and Insights

12:40 - 15:00  

Lunch Poster & Session 1

15:00 - 16:40  

Oral Session 3
[OS-3.1] Context, cortex, and associations: a connectionist developmental approach to verbal analogies
[OS-3.2] Modeling Infant Speech Perception with TRACE
[OS-3.3] Without a TRACE: A time-invariant model of spoken word recognition
[OS-3.4] The multinomial interactive activation model
[OS-3.5] Modelling small words in problem solving

16:40 - 17:00  

Coffee Break

17:00 - 17:40  

Oral Session 4
[OS-4.1] Knowing when to quit: another step towards autonomous learning
[OS-4.2] Modelling multimodal interactions in language mediated eye gaze

20:30 - 23:00  

Conference Dinner

Friday July 13th, 2012.

09:00 - 10:00  

Keynote lecture 2. Mark Seidenberg, title TBA

10:00 - 10:40  

Oral Session 5
[OS-5.1] Neural Network models of letter perception account for human letter identification times
[OS-5.2] Encoding words in an attractor neural network

10:40 - 11:00  

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:40  

Oral Session 6
[OS-6.1] Using individual differences in morphological priming to distinguish between theories of morphological representation
[OS-6.2] Modelling cognitive effort during reading: Neural networks outperform grammars (again)
[OS-6.3] Modelling the emergence of sensitivity to word order: the case of adjective-noun constructions
[OS-6.4] The effects of verbal labels on cognition and perception: Toward a theory of language augmented thought
[OS-6.5] Cognitive "Tricks" in embodied grounded language learning: going beyond labels

12:40 - 15:00  

Lunch & Poster Session 2

15:00 - 16:40  

Oral Session 7
[OS-7.1] Predictive neural computations in speech perception
[OS-7.2] Left inferior frontal connectivity in the bilingual speech production system
[OS-7.3] Neural representations of events arise from temporal 'community' structure
[OS-7.4] Graded function connectivity explains category-specific activations in ventral fusiform cortex for both sighted and congeniality blind individuals
[OS-7.5] Sparse connectivity asymmetry in an autoencoder can explain visual hemispheric asymmetries in local/global, face, and spatial frequency processing

16:40 - 17:00  

Coffe Break

17:00 - 17:40  

Oral Session 8
[OS-8.1] Why do neurons in cortex respond so selectively to words, objects, and faces?
[OS-8.2] Seeing two things at once: a neural network model

19:00 - 20:30  

Brain Talk. Jeff Elman, “Grey Matters: Understanding Language”

Saturday July 14th, 2012.

09:00 - 10:00  

Keynote lecture 4. Randall O’Reilly “How Adaptive Control Emerges from Multiple Interacting Brain Systems”

10:00 - 10:40  

Oral Session 9
[OS-9.1] A bio-inspired cognitive architecture for short-term memory in humanoid robots
[OS-9.2] Is interval timing learned, memory-based and embodied? Answers from a new connectionist, developmental model

10:40 - 11:00  

Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:40  

Oral Session 10
[OS-10.1] A connectionist model of maintenance/elaborative rehearsal
[OS-10.2] REMERGE: a complementary learning systems account of the hippocampal contribution to generalization
[OS-10.3] A 'deep network' model of numerosity perception: development, skilled performance, and dyscalculia
[OS-10.4] Exploring the influence of architecture and learning algorithm on the breakdown of the "hub" model of semantic cognition
[OS-10.5] Connectionist model of object reaching and grasping based on reinforcement learning

12:40 - 13:00  

Closing Remarks by Pablo Gomez, co-organiser of the NCPW13 conference.