Schedule of Events for the SQAB 2002 Conference

 

Friday, May 24
Grand Ballroom East/East Exp.

08:00-08:15 Peter Killeen, President's Introduction
 

RATE CONDITIONING THEORY

08:15-09:00 Randy Gallistel, The information processing approach to conditioning
09:00-09:30 Melissa Burns & Michael Domjan, Stepping outside the box in considering the C/T ratio
09:30-10:00 Ben Williams, Important distinctions between different roles of time in learning
10:00-10:30 Discussion
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

GENERAL TALKS

11:00-11:25 Alex Kacelnik & Martin Shapiro, Preference as a function of amount and delay to reward: the cross-censorship model of choice
11:30-11:55 Armando Machado & Richard Keen & Armando Machado, The acquisition of a temporal discrimination
12:00-12:25 John Staddon & D. T. Cerutti, Timing and Choice: Preference may be more about waiting than choosing
12:30-02:00 Lunch Break
 

SOP

02:00-02:45 Susan E. Brandon, Edgar H. Vogel, & Allan R. Wagner, Stimulus Representation in SOP: I. Theoretical Rationalization and Some Implications
02:45-03:15 Edgar H. Vogel, Susan E. Brandon & Allan R. Wagner, Stimulus Representation in SOP: II. An application to inhibition of delay
03:15-03:45 Discussion
03:45-04:00 Coffee break

GENERAL TALKS

04:00-04:25 Michael Young & Edward Wasserman, A computational model of variability discrimination: Finding differences
04:30-04:55 Robert Cook, New developments in understanding concept learning by pigeons
05:00-05:25 Sara Shettleworth & Brett Gibson, Associations, maps, and modules in spatial learning: new experiments with rats
 

BOARD MEETING

05:45-06:30 Board Meeting
 
06:30-08:30 Poster session/Cash Bar

Saturday, May 25
Grand Ballroom East/East Exp.

08:00-08:15 Armando Machado, Program Director's introduction
 

MATHEMATICAL PRINCIPLES OF REINFORCEMENT

08:15-09:00 Peter Killeen, Mathematical principles of reinforcement
09:00-09:30 Mark Reilly, Revving up the RPMs of MPR: A data-driven evaluation of a theoretical model
09:30-10:00 Tony Nevin, Mathematical Principles of Reinforcement: implications for Behavioral Momentum (and vice versa)
 
10:00-10:30 Discussion
 

REMEMBERING MARIAN BRELAND-BAILEY

10:30-10:45 William Timberlake, Marian Breland Bailey: Many Lives
 

Saturday, May 25
Grand Ballroom West

INVITED PREEMINENT TUTORIALS

1:00-1:50 pm Allen Neuringer, Variability of the Operant
2:00-2:50 pm Randolph Grace, Quantification, Part 2
3:00-3:50 pm K. Geoffrey White, Memory as Discrimination
4:00-4:50 pm Geoffrey R. Loftus, Hypothesis Testing: Curse or Abomination?

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Date Updated : May 21, 2002