Conference Program for the
J. S. McDonnell Foundation Sponsored Conference on

The Cognitive Neuroscience of Category Learning


Date: Friday Sept 20 - Saturday Sept 21, 2002

Location:
Williams Club
24 East 39th Street
New York, NY 10016
Tel: 212-697-5300

Program Committee:
Russ Poldrack, Paul Reber, Robert Nosofsky, Mark Gluck

Local Contact:
Mark Gluck (gluck@pavlov.rutgers.edu)

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DAY 1: FRIDAY, SEPT. 20 PERCEPTION, RECOGNITION, & CATEGORIZATION
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SESSION 1a. FRIDAY. (Williams Room - 6th Floor)

9:00am - 10:00 am Break

10:00am - 11:15am.

Paul Reber. "Retinotopic specificity in visual category learning: Implications for computational modeling"

Szabolcs Keri. "Retinal contribution to category learning."

SESSION 1b. FRIDAY. 11:15am-12:15 pm. Graduate Student Blitz:

Elizabeth Tricomi (Pitt), PhD 2005. w/Julie Fez
"Effects of training conditions on performance and strategy in the weather prediction task"

Toshi M. (Columbia), PhD 2002. w/James Corter
"Attention processes in computational models of category learning"

Yasu Sakamoto (U Texas), PhD 2004. w/Love
"Classification learning errors and recognition memory"

Todd M. Gureckis (U Texas), PhD 2005. w/Love
"Unsupervised category learning"

Daphna Shohamy (Rutgers), PhD 2003. w/Gluck
"The role of the basal ganglia in learning and memory: Evidence from Parkinson's Disease"

Marci Flanery (Vanderbilt), PhD 2003. w/Palmeri
"Exploring the neural basis of categorization with fMRI"

Joan Fisher (Northwestern), PhD 2004. w/Reber
"Implicit Category Learning of Complex 3D Objects"

Gye-Young Kim (Nothwestern), PhD 2005. w/Reber
"Retinotopic specificity for Dot Pattern Categorization"

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LUNCH: 12:15pm - 1:30pm. On own..
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SESSION 2a. FRIDAY. 1:30pm - 3pm

Robert Nosofsky & Safa Zaki. "Exemplar model accounts of dissociations between categorization and memory."

David Shanks, Shelley Channon, & Annette Kinder. "Is implicit classification selectively spared in amnesia?"

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Break: 3:00pm - 3:30pm
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SESSION 2b. FRIDAY. 3:30pm - 5:45pm

Bradley C. Love. "Two systems or just one?"

D. Smith. "Exemplar theory's predicted typicality gradient can be tested and disconfirmed."

Richard Granger & Anthony Rodriguez. "Categorization and recognition from a single thalamocortical mechanism."

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DRINKS & DINNER AT HARVARD CLUB: 6:30pm+
27 West 44th Street.
New York, NY 10036

** Dress up for this: Tie & Jacket required for men. **

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DAY 2: SATURDAY, SEPT. 21 BRAIN SYSTEMS FOR CATEGORY LEARNING
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SESSION 3a. SATURDAY. 9:00am - 10:30am (Baxter/Brooks Room 2nd Floor)


F. Gregory Ashby, Shawn W. Ell, Vivian V. Valentin, & Michael B. Casale. "Evidence of functionally separate explicit and implicit category learning systems."

Todd Maddox & Vincent Filoteo. "Category learning in patients with basal ganglia dysfunction and bilateral hippocampal damage on the perceptual categorization task."

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Break: 10:30am - 11am
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SESSION 3b. SATURDAY. 11am - 12:30pm

Mark Gluck, Catherine Myers, & Daphna Shohamy. "Basal ganglia and medial temporal lobe contributions to category learning: Insights from Parkinson's disease and amnesia."

Russ Poldrack, Jill Clark, Daphna Shohamy, Catherine Myers, & Mark Gluck. "Multiple aspects of striatal function in category learning."

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LUNCH: 12:30pm - 2:30pm. On own. Suggest Bryant Park if sunny or...
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SESSION 3c. SATURDAY. 2:30pm - 4.45pm.

Trevor Robbins & Roshan Cools.
"Dopamine and the neural bases of reversal learning"

Alan Pickering.
"Category learning and "dopaminergic" personality traits: Evidence for hippocampal system involment in specific task variants?"

T. Weickert, F. Fera, T. Goldberg, S. Lee, A. Tessitore, A. Hariri, D. Weinberger, V. Mattay. "Striatal and prefrontal contributions to cognitive skill learning during normal aging."

APPETIZERS & SCHMOOZING & INFORMAL DISCUSSION: 5-6pm

 


Supported by a Collaborative Activity Grant from the James S.McDonnell Foundation