Forthcoming EPS Research Workshops
For information about conferences organised by EPS, see Meetings.
EPS/British Academy workshop - Attention and Memory: Mechanisms of Selection and Maintenance, 19-20 April 2012.
As well as being two of the most heavily researched topics in modern cognitive psychology, recent advances have seen many researchers drawing explicit links between attention and memory. This is the case across a wide variety of different research literatures, including areas of cognitive and developmental psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. The workshop focuses on these links, bringing together world-leading researchers to discuss their work across the boundary of attention and memory. Professor Marvin Chun (Yale) will deliver the keynote.
Organised by Duncan Astle this workshop will take place at the British Academy in Central London, on the 19th and 20th of April 2012. The organisers have reserved 30 EPS-subsidised places for early-career researchers. If you are interested in attending the workshop then Early registration is advisable as the total number of delegates will be restricted to 80.
For further information please see https://sites.google.com/site/attentionandmemory
Details of an EPS Research Workshop: Festschrift for Graham Hitch.
Graham Hitch has recently retired "officially" after an illustrious research career in experimental psychology. The Festschrift is scheduled for 10 July 2012, the day before the EPS Bristol meeting, and includes planned contributions from colleagues and researchers across a variety of fields where Graham's work has had an impact. Invited speakers include Randy O Reilly (University of Colorado at Boulder) and David Geary (University of Missouri), as well as long-time colleague Alan Baddeley (University of York). All EPS members are warmly invited to celebrate and reflect on ideas and data that have shaped our discipline. The workshop is convened by John Towse (University of Lancaster;
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) and members are very welcome to contact him for more information, and to get in touch with offers and suggestions for research posters and activities during the day.
Other Conference Announcements
Other Announcements
Swiss National Science Foundation European Summer School on "Computational Modeling of Memory and Decision Making: From Bayesian techniques to applications in society and economics"
24 June - 7 July 2012, Bergün (Graubünden), Switzerland Web site: http://ss.cidlab.com/
Most areas of cognitive psychology have recognized the power of computational and mathematical models and have embraced their benefits to rigorous theorizing. One illustration of this trend is the growing popularity of Bayesian approaches to cognitive modelling. This powerful trend comes, however, at a cost: The complexity of models and modelling techniques render it increasingly difficult for non-experts to acquire the necessary skills and then keep pace with developments.
This summer school is dedicated to introducing researchers to the basic techniques of computational and mathematical modelling from the ground up and in a hands-on manner. The instructors represent a broad range of expertise and are all research leaders in their field with extensive experience in teaching of modelling.
Applicants from anywhere in the world are welcome. Visit http://ss.cidlab.com/ for further details and to submit an application. Application deadline is 15 April 2012.
The EPS has kindly agreed to set aside six special Grindley grants specifically for the summer school. The School organizers will rank eligible attendees based on merit and the top six will be forwarded to EPS, who will reimburse the named attendees directly.
To recognize and promote outstanding work by young researchers in the field of cognitive neuropsychology, the journal Cognitive Neuropsychology will award six travel prizes annually to graduate students or post-doctoral students. The prizes will consist of awards of up to $750 (US) that can be applied for costs of travel, lodging and registration fees for students presenting a poster or a talk reporting on original cognitive neuropsychological research at a conference.
For more information and details of how to apply see:
www.psypress.com/common/news-items/PCGN-Student-Travel-Prize.pdf
The Second Social Learning Strategies Tournament
The tournament organized by Prof Kevin Laland and Dr Luke Rendell is a competition designed to establish the most effective means to learn in a complex, variable environment and has a total of 25,000 euro available as prize money, funded by the European Research Council.
In recent years, there has been a lot of interest (spanning several research fields, but especially economics, anthropology, and biology) in the problem of how best to acquire valuable information from others. The first Social Learning Strategies Tournament, inspired by Robert Axelrod's famous Prisoner's Dilemma tournaments on the evolution of cooperation, attracted over 100 entries from all around the world, and a paper detailing the results was published in Science. Entrants will be required to submit behavioural strategies detailing how to respond to the problem of resource gain in a complex, variable environment through combinations of individual and social learning.
The competition is now open for entries, with a closing date of February 28 2012. More information can be found at:
http://lalandlab.st-andrews.ac.uk/tournament2/
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