PROGRAM
Thursday, July 12th, 2012. Palacio Miramar, Donostia - San Sebastian
- 08:00 - 08:45
- Registration & 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. James McClelland "Half a century of neural networks -- What's Next?"
- 10:00 - 10:40
- Oral Session 1
- 10:00 - 10:20 [OS-1.1] Nouns refer to shapes, adjective to properties: emergent biases in early vocabulary development Nadja Althaus & Kim Plunkett
- 10:20 - 10:40 [OS-1.2] Using computational models to understand atypical word learning Eliana Colunga, Savannah Schilling & Clare Sims
- 10:40 - 11:00
- Coffee break
- 11:00 - 12:40
- Oral Session 2
- 11:00 - 11:20 [OS-2.1] A connectionist model of early motor speech development that learns by using reinforcement Anne S. Warlaumont, Gert Westermann & D. Kimbrough Oller
- 11:20 - 11:40 [OS-2.2] A developmental model of vocabulary production Anna Fedor, Wendy Best, Jackie Masterson & Michael Thomas
- 11:40 - 12:00 [OS-2.3] The neural mechanism of early categorization: a connectionist model of infant ERP Gert Westermann, Sabina Pauen, Sebastian Wahl & Stefanie Hoehl
- 12:00 - 12:20 [OS-2.4] Testing the predictions of a dynamic neural field model of infant categorization Katherine Twomey & Jessica Horst
- 12:20 - 12:40 [OS-2.5] A computational model of the headturn preference procedure: design, challenges, and insights Christina Bergmann, Louis ten Bosch, Maarten Versteegh & Lou Boves
- 12:40 - 15:00
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[PS-1.1] Division of labour between semantics and modality-specific systems in Japanese pitch accent processing: Convergent evidence from experimental psychology, developmental psychology, and computational modelling Taiji Ueno, Yuuki Tanida, Satoru Saito & Matthew Lambon Ralph
[PS-1.2] Modeling the emergence of transitivity relations in equivalence classes using Hebbian learning Angel E. Tovar & Gert Westermann
[PS-1.3] Hypernetwork Analysis of Language Networks and Its Implication for Brain Networks Minsu Zhang, Joon Shik Kim & Jun-Hee Nam
[PS-1.4] Variance Distribution and Inclusion Relationship are Necessary but not Sufficient to Produce the Asymmetric Categorization Effect: Revisiting French et al. (2004) Martial Mermillod, Nicolas Vermeulen, Gwenael Kaminsky, Edouard Gentaz & Patrick Bonin
[PS-1.5] The role of visual processing in accounting for "serial" effects in reading Ya-Ning Chang, Steve Furber & Stephen Welbourne
[PS-1.6] Are semantic representations of words radically distributed? Christopher Cox, Mark Seidenberg, Jeff Binder, Rutvik Desai & Tim Rogers
[PS-1.7] Becoming modular: Cognitive control affects the degree to which lexical and semantic representations interact Lang Chen & Timothy Rogers
[PS-1.8] Reading aloud is quicker than reading silently---an example of enhancement of cognitive processing by action Hiro-Fumi Yanai, Tatsuki Konno & Atsushi Enjyoji
[PS-1.9] Right otitis media in early childhood and language development María Francisca Alonso, Paulino Uclés & Pablo Saz
[PS-1.10] The conceptualisation of emotion qualia: Semantic clustering of emotional tweets Eugene Y Bann & Joanna J Bryson
[PS-1.11] Satiating categorical meaning: Simulating the reversal of semantic priming into semantic satiation in a category matching task Bruno GALMAR & Jenn-Yeu CHEN
[PS-1.12] Differences in fMRI representation of concrete and abstract concepts andrew anderson, brian murphy & massimo poesio
[PS-1.13] The N400 component of the ERP: Some explorations with a connectionist attractor model of conceptual processing Milena Rabovsky & Ken McRae
[PS-1.14] A dynamic cognitive model of novel conceptual combinations Simona Doboli
[PS-1.16] The computational mechanisms underlying learning during sleep Anna Schapiro, Seth Herd, Aaron Trippe, Randall O'Reilly, Timothy Rogers & Kenneth Norman
- 15:00 - 16:40
- Oral Session 3
- 15:00 - 15:20 [OS-3.1] Context, cortex, and associations: a connectionist developmental approach to verbal analogies Pavlos Kollias & James McClelland
- 15:20 - 15:40 [OS-3.2] Modeling Infant Speech Perception with TRACE Julien Mayor & Kim Plunkett
- 15:40 - 16:00 [OS-3.3] Without a TRACE: A time-invariant model of spoken word recognition Thomas Hannagan, James Magnuson & Jonathan Grainger
- 16:00 - 16:20 [OS-3.4] The multinomial interactive activation model James McClelland & Pranav Kaitan
- 16:20 - 16:40 [OS-3.5] Modelling small words in problem solving Padraic Monaghan, Tom Ormerod & Ut Na Sio
- 16:40 - 17:00
- Coffe Break
- 17:00 - 18:00
- Oral Session 4
- 17:00 - 17:20 [OS-4.1] Knowing when to quit: another step towards autonomous learning Thomas Shultz
- 17:20 - 17:40 [OS-4.2] Modelling multimodal interactions in language mediated eye gaze Alastair Smith, Falk Huettig & Padraic Monaghan
- 17:40 - 18:00 [OS-4.3] REMERGE: a complementary learning systems account of the hippocampal contribution to generalization Dharshan Kumaran & James McClelland
- 20:30 - 23:00
- Conference Dinner
Friday, July 13th, 2012. Palacio Miramar, Donostia - San Sebastian
- 10:00 - 10:40
- Oral Session 5
- 10:00 - 10:20 [OS-5.1] Neural Network models of letter perception account for human letter identification times Michael Klein, Arnaud Rey, Sylvain Madec & Jonathan Grainger
- 10:20 - 10:40 [OS-5.2] Encoding words in an attractor neural network Sahar Pirmoradian & Alessandro Treves
- 10:40 - 11:00
- Coffe Break
- 11:00 - 12:40
- Oral Session 6
- 11:00 - 11:20 [OS-6.1] Using individual differences in morphological priming to distinguish between theories of morphological representation Sally Andrews & Steson Lo
- 11:20 - 11:40 [OS-6.2] Modelling cognitive effort during reading: Neural networks outperform grammars (again) Stefan Frank, Irene Fernandez Monsalve & Robin Thompson
- 11:40 - 12:00 [OS-6.3] Modelling the emergence of sensitivity to word order: the case of adjective-noun constructions Vivian M. De La Cruz & Alessio Plebe
- 12:00 - 12:20 [OS-6.4] The effects of verbal labels on cognition and perception: Toward a theory of language augmented thought Gary Lupyan
- 12:20 - 12:40 [OS-6.5] Cognitive "Tricks" in embodied grounded language learning: going beyond labels Anthony Morse, Davide Marocco, Fischer Kerstin & Angelo Cangelosi
- 12:40 - 15:00
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[PS-2.1] Heterarchy in computational models of cognition Richard Shillcock
[PS-2.2] Sparsification based on sampeled unary sub-vectors Ângelo Cardoso, João Sacramento & Andreas Wichert
[PS-2.3] A Conflict/Control-Loop Hypothesis of Hemispheric Brain Reserve Capacity Nicholas Rendell & Eddy Davelaar
[PS-2.4] The schema theory of memory consolidation: A stochastic neural network model Maria Shippi, Mark van Rossum, Richard G.M. Morris & Anders Lansner
[PS-2.5] Error Driven Learning within the Hippocampus; theta rhythm, and novelty based learning signals Nichoals Ketz, Srinimish Gnanasekaran & Randall O'Reilly
[PS-2.6] Modeling the actor-critic architecture by combining recent work in reservoir computing and temporal difference learning in complex environments Jeffrey Rodny & David Noelle
[PS-2.7] Modeling cognitive control in a hierarchical prefrontal cortex with echo state networks Remco Tukker, Anne van Rossum, Pim Haselager & Stefan Frank
[PS-2.8] A dynamic neural field model for learning sequential tasks by observation Emanuel Sousa, Wolfram Erlhagen & Estela Bicho
[PS-2.9] A game of mirrors: emergent geometric alignments of concept representations allow analogical inferences Sergio Varona-Moya & Pedro L. Cobos
[PS-2.10] The zoom lens of attention: Simulating shuffled versus normal text reading using the SWIFT model Daniel J. Schad & Ralf Engbert
[PS-2.11] Associative Concept Structure for Concept Combination and Innovation in Electronic Circuit Design Alex Doboli
[PS-2.12] Reassessing perceptrons' ability to generalize between analogous domains Sergio Varona-Moya & Pedro L. Cobos
[PS-2.13] Mind wandering can support automaticity David C. Noelle
[PS-2.14] Searching for something familiar or novel: ERP correlates of top-down attentional selection for specific items or categories Rachel Wu, Gaia Scerif, Richard N. Aslin, Tim J. Smith & Martin Eimer
[PS-2.15] Neuro-computational Laughter Study María Francisca Alonso, Pablo Loste & Pedro Marijuán
[PS-1.15] When failures of models are informative: The case of frontostriatal mechanisms in the development of cognitive control Christopher Chatham, Benjamin Yerys & Yuko Munakata
- 15:00 - 16:20
- Oral Session 7
- 15:00 - 15:20 [OS-7.1] Predictive neural computations in speech perception Matt Davis
- 15:20 - 15:40 [OS-7.2] Neural representations of events arise from temporal 'community' structure Anna Schapiro, Timothy Rogers, Natalia Cordova, Nicholas Turk-Browne & Matthew Botvinick
- 15:40 - 16:00 [OS-7.3] Graded functional connectivity explains category-specific activations in ventral fusiform cortex for both sighted and congeniality blind individuals Lang Chen & Timothy Rogers
- 16:00 - 16:20 [OS-7.4] Sparse connectivity asymmetry in an autoencoder can explain visual hemispheric asymmetries in local/global, face, and spatial frequency processing Ben Cipollini & Garrison Cottrell
- 16:20 - 16:40
- Coffee break
- 16:40 - 17:20
- Oral Session 8
- 16:40 - 17:00 [OS-8.1] Why do neurons in cortex respond so selectively to words, objects, and faces? Jeffrey Bowers, Markus Damian, Colin Davis & Ivan Vankov
- 17:00 - 17:20 [OS-8.2] Seeing two things at once: a neural network model Cynthia M. Henderson & James L. McClelland
Saturday, July 14th, 2012. Palacio Miramar, Donostia - San Sebastian
- 09:00 - 10:00
- Keynote lecture 3. Randall O'Reilly "How Adaptive Control Emerges from Multiple Interacting Brain Systems"
- 10:00 - 10:40
- Oral Session 9
- 10:00 - 10:20 [OS-9.1] A bio-inspired cognitive architecture for short-term memory in humanoid robots Fabio Ruini, Jens K. Apel, Anthony F. Morse, Angelo Cangelosi, Rob Ellis, Jeremy Goslin & Martin Fischer
- 10:20 - 10:40 [OS-9.2] Is interval timing learned, memory-based and embodied? Answers from a new connectionist, developmental model Caspar Addyman, Robert French, Denis Mareschal & Elizabeth Thomas
- 10:40 - 11:00
- Coffee break
- 11:00 - 12:20
- Oral Session 10
- 11:00 - 11:20 [OS-10.1] A connectionist model of maintenance/elaborative rehearsal Eddy Davelaar
- 11:20 - 11:40 [OS-10.2] A 'deep network' model of numerosity perception: development, skilled performance, and dyscalculia Marco Zorzi & Ivilin Stoianov
- 11:40 - 12:00 [OS-10.3] Exploring the influence of architecture and learning algorithm on the breakdown of the "hub" model of semantic cognition Olivia Guest, Richard Cooper & Eddy Davelaar
- 12:00 - 12:20 [OS-10.4] Connectionist model of object reaching and grasping based on reinforcement learning Lukas Zdechovan & Igor Farkas
- 12:20 - 13:00
- Closing Remarks by Pablo Gomez, co-organiser of the NCPW13 conference.