Schedule of Events for the SQAB 2001 Conference

 

Thursday, May 24

5:00-8:00 pm Registration/Cash Bar

Friday, May 25
Regency G and H

07:00-07:30 Registration, Coffee and Pastries
08:15-08:30 Peter Killeen, President's Introduction
 

TIMING AND COUNTING

08:30-08:50 J. Staddon, I. Chelaru, & J. Higa, The dynamics of interval timing
09:00-09:20 Amy Odum, Behavioral pharmacology and timing
09:30-09:50 Geoffrey White, Temporal generalization and diffusion in forgetting
10:00-10:20 Kim Kirkpatrick, Packet theory of conditioning and timing
10:40-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:20 William Roberts, Timing and counting by pigeons: Do they require similar or different mechanisms?
11:30-11:50 Richard Keen & Armando Machado, Relative numerosity discrimination and short-term memory
 
12:00-12:20 Allen Neuringer, Operant variability and a theory of operant behavior.
12:40-02:00 Lunch Break
 

SELF-CONTROL AND CHOICE

02:00-02:20 A. Logue & Y. Anderson, Self-control, impulsiveness, and higher education administration
02:30-02:50 H. Rachlin & F. Baker, Teaching and learning in the prisoner's dilemma
03:00-03:20 John Kraft, Quantifying human social behavior with the Ideal Free Distribution model
03:40-04:00 Coffee break
04:00-04:20 Anthony McLean, Extraneous reinforcement, response rate and resistance to change
04:30-04:50 Randolph Grace, Acquisition of preference: comparing representational and linear operator models
05:00-05:20 William Baum, Analysis of visits in the dynamics of choice
 

SPECIAL EVENT

05:30-06:00 Russell Church, Tribute to John Gibbon
 
07:00-09:00 Poster session/Cash Bar

Saturday, May 26
Regency G and H

07:00-08:15 Registration, Coffee and Pastries
08:15-08:30 Peter Killeen, President's Introduction
 

PAVLOVIAN CONDITIONING AND BEYOND

08:30-08:50 R. Miller & M. Escobar, Interference between cues and between outcomes presented together and presented apart
09:00-09:20 Douglas Williams, Input coding in animal and human associative learning
09:30-09:50 Tony Nevin, Behavioral Momentum: measurement properties of force and mass
 
10:00-10:20 John Donahoe, On neuroscience and behavioral analysis
 

INVITED PREEMINENT TUTORIALS

1:00-1:50 pm Michael Davison, What do reinforcers do to behaviour?
2:00-2:50 pm Randolph Grace, Quantification
3:00-3:50 pm William Timberlake, Behavior Systems
4:00-4:50 pm Leonard Green, Self control, choice, and the (non-rational) form of the discounting function

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Date Updated : March 15, 2001