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Subject: ACSC-93
From: liu@latcs2.lat.oz.au (Nga Kwok Liu)
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 04:36:34 GMT
Distribution: melb
Organization: Comp Sci, La Trobe Uni, Australia



2nd Australian Cognitive Science Conference
University of Melbourne
3 - 5 February, 1993


This is a draft program of the coming Cognitive Science Conference:


WEDNESDAY PROGRAM (3 Feb)
Keynote Address

Situated Cognition: Minds in Machines 
or Friendly Photocopiers.
Peter Slezak


WA1	Fundamentals 1

Are non-standard Models of computation a problem for functionalism?
Jack Copeland

Nexus & Networks: Philosophical approaches to connectionism.
Peter Farleigh

Creativity and Representational Redescription.
Terry Dartnall

WP1	Fundamentals 2

Is Functionalism an appropriate theory for Cognitive Science?
Brendan Kitts

Overcoming the knowledge acquisition bottleneck by providing metaphorical bridges.
Rye Senjen and Chris Rowles 

The Conceptual Structures of Knowledge, Belief and Consciousness.
Roderick A Girle

Rational Agents and their Behaviour: An Extended Abstract.
Anand S Rao, Michael P Georgeff


WA2	Language 1

Approaching Language for a Dynamic Perspective.
Louise Ravelli

Lexical Semantics for Text Retrieval.
Peter Wallis

First Language Acquisition; is there justification for the pro-drop parameter?
Edith L Bavin

WP2	Language

A Computer Model of a Language Learning Procedure.
Michael Fearn-Wannan

Pragmatics and Computation: the genesis of an NLP model.
Catherine Relf and Roger Wales

Aspects of the development of grammar and discourse in the later years.
Peter Collins

On-Line Schema Creation: A Challenge fot Topic Based Approaches
June Luchjenbroers



THURSDAY PROGRAM (4 Feb)


	Keynote Address
	Geoff Hinton


TA1	Neural Networks and Pattern Recognition 1

Ca2+ Imaging of Neurons in Living Brain Slices: A Tool to Study Neural Networks.
Pascal Carrive

Neuropsychological Diagnosis Using a Neural Network.
Maureen Molloy, Wilson X Wen, Vic Ciesielski and Andrew Jennings

A Neural Network User Model: Evaluation.
Andrew Jennings

TP1	Neural Networks and Pattern
Recognition 2 

The Reversible Phenomena and the Conjugate Classification.
Zhi Jie Zheng and Anthony Maeder

The Null List-Strength Effect can be Modelled by a Neural Network.
Mark Chappell and Michael S Humphreys

Opening the Black Box: Structure inside Neural Networks.
Janet Wiles

TE1	Neural Networks and Pattern
Recognition 3

Connectionist Modelling of Attentional Biases in Form Peception.
Cyril Latimer and Catherine Stevens

Modelling Proactive and Retroactive Interference with Connectionist Networks.
Zoltan Schreter

Adding Memory to Recurrent Networks: The Hybrid Recurrent Network.
Simon Dennis

TA2	Perception and Psychophysics

Conflict between information processing and emergent behaviour paradigms: the case of cognitively driven musical polyrhythms.
Jeff Pressing

Man to Machine Skill Transfer in an Intelligent Robotics Context through Virtual Reality Interaction.
R A Jarvis and A J Lipton

On Human and Machine Object Recognition Systems.
Terry Caelli

TP2	Perception and Psychophysics 2

A Symbolic Object-Oriented Picture Interpretation Network: SOO-PIN.
Sandy Dance and Terry Caelli 

The Role of Instructions and Development in the Acquisition of Attentional Biases in Form
Perception.
Cyril Latimer, Leanne Webber and Donna Rose

The Role of Design Discipline and Pictorial Information in Fixation Effects in Design
Problem Solving.
Ben Colbron, John Gero, Terry Purcell and Peter Williams

TE3	Perception and Psychophysics 3

The Power Law of Practice is not Universal: Exponental Learning in Visual Search.
Andrew Heathcote and D J K Hewhart

Minimum Boltzman Entrophy in the Identification of n-Dimensional Psychophysics.
Robert A M Gregson

A Computational Model of Emergent Visual Forms.
John S Gero, Suleyman Sevlne and Dorothy Choi

TA3	Learning and Expertise 1

A review of semiological and development theories, their implications for education and the choice of a compter as the medium for instruction.
Helen Purchase

Indicators of Effective Computer Use.
Helga A H Rowe

TP3	Learning and Expertise 2

An Environment for Learning to Fly 
Simon Goss

Fidelity in Simulation: Training for Expertise.
Kevin Bluff and J G Wallace

Behavioural Clones: Combining Cognitive Science with Technology.
Claude Sammut

TE3	Physiology 

Preliminary aspects of the SAM theory of the Cerebral Neocortex.
Ashley Aitken

What happens to old skills when we perform new tasks?
Graig Speelman and Kim Kirs


FRIDAY PROGRAM (5 Feb)


9.30 am	Keynote Address
	Graeme Halford
	Analogical Reasoning

FA1	Memory and Reasoning

Skill Acquisition Models and Implicit Memory: The Case for Unification
Kim Kirsner, Craig Spellman and John Dunn

Connectionist model of dorsolateral perfrontal cortex and on-line spatial memory.
Brendan Kitts

Priming as evidence for mapping in analogical reasoning.
Bruce Burns

	Motion Performance


Development Changes in the Temporal Patterning of Spontaneous Movements in Infants.
Jan Piek, Rebecca Coleman and Darryl Fitzgerald

Control Principles underlying the generation of Sequential Arm movements.
Nicholas Barrett.

FA2	Decisions 1

Modelling Decision Making in Network Management.
G Mansfield, K Jayanthi, K Higuchi, Y Nemoto and S Noguchi

Decision-Theoretic Salience Interactions in Phrase Choice
T Pattabhiraman

Linking Global Memory Models and Decision Processes: A Reanalysis of the List-Strength 
Effects in Recognition Memory Using Relative Judgement Theory.
Richard Heath

FP2	Decisions 2
The influence of cognitive effort in decision making.
A P Ablong

Quantifying Qualitative Changes in Decision Rule Use.
Chris Ball

	Symbolic AI and Expert Systems 1

Keeping the Patient Asleep and Alive: Investigating Specialist's Disturbance, Management in Anasthesia.
Elizabeth A Sonenberg , Jeanette Lawrence, and John Zelcer

Knowledge History.
P Compton and B Kang

Mixing Qualitative Methodology and Knowledge Engineering: Triangulation in Knowledge
Acquisition.
Hoi-Kau Yuen and Tom J Richards

FP3	Symbolic AI and Expert Systems 2

A Cognitive Architecture for program design.
Robert S Rist

Expert Model in Compounds, an ITS for Second Language Learning.
Pascale Sebillot, Frederic Danna and Paul Boucher




	S Gero, Suleyman Sevlne and Dorothy Choi

TA3	Learning and Expertise 1

A review of semiological and development theories, their implications for education and the choice of a compter as the medium for instruction.
Helen Purchase

Indicators of Effective Computer Use.
Helga A H Rowe

TP3	Learning and Expertise 2

An Environment for Learning to Fly 
Simon Goss

Fidelity in Simulation: Training for Expertise.
Kevin Bluff and J G 
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