International Conference on Comparative Cognition

Conference on Comparative Cognition

March 17 to March 20, 1994

Program

All meetings and receptions held at the Melbourne Oceanfront Holiday Inn.

Thursday. March 17, 1994

  • 5-6pm, Welcome after check-in

8-9 pm, 5-min talks , Data Blitz, Chair: Ed Wasserman

  • Mark Bouton & James Nelson. Effect of Context on Inhibition Arising From Serial and Simultaneous Feature-Negative Discriminations.
  • Robert G. Cook. Dynamic form perception.
  • Suzanne MacDonald. Do marmoset monkeys minimize time or distance travelled while foraging?
  • Mark Rilling & Mark Warner. Directing the pigeon's spatial attention across contours.
  • Janice N. Steirn & Janice E. Weaver. Common coding through nonhedonic differential outcomes.
  • Jerry Cohen & Janet Murray. Can rats chunk in the radial arm maze?
  • Robert Batsell. US Preexposure and retention of taste aversions.
  • Robert C. Bolles & Michael E. Wilson. Discrimination learning with delayed reinforcement.
  • Chana Akins & Michael Domjan. Topographical changes in sexually conditioned behavior as a function of the CS-US interval.

9:00-10:00 pm, 30-min talks, Theory of Instrumental Learning, Chair: Ron Weisman

  • A. Dickinson. Actions and habits: variations in the motivational control of instrumental performance with extended training.
  • B. Balleine. Mechanisms of incentive learning in instrumental outcome devaluation.

Friday. March 18, 1994

4:00-6:00 pm, 30-min talks, Temporal and Spatial Cognition, Chair: Ron Weisman

  • Paula Durlach. How do rats tell time?
  • Gregor Fetterman, Leon Dreyfus. The perception of temporal relations by pigeons and people
  • Marcia L. Spetch. Characteristics of spatial landmark learning
  • Bill Roberts, Todd Macuda. Hierarchical organization and chunking in rat spatial memory.

8:00-10:00 pm, 30-min talks, Associative learning I, Chair: Mark Bouton

  • John Pearce, A. Aydin. Similarity and discrimination learning
  • Andy Baker. Superconditioning, or perhaps it's contrast, in contingency judgements.
  • Charles Flaherty, Cynthia Coppotelli & Colin Mitchell. Selective Associations in Anticipatory Contrast?
  • R.A. Boakes. Contextual factors in food aversion learning

Saturday, March 20, 1994

4:30-6:00 pm, 30-min talks, Associative learning II, Chair: Mark Bouton

  • Ralph R. Miller, R. Cole & R. Barnet. Conditioned inhibition revisited
  • Geoffrey Hall. Mechanisms of perceptual learning.
  • Wayne Ludvigson. Now that S-R psychology is back, what have we learned?

7:30-9:30 pm, 30-min talks, Classification of exemplars, Chair: Ed Wasserman

  • N.J. Mackintosh, C.H. Bennet, M.R.F. Aitken, S. Wills, & A. Maldonado. Peak shift and prototypes in categorization.
  • Ron Weisman, M. Negovan, S. Ito, & D. Mewhort. Neural network models for the categorization of pitches.
  • Shelia Chase & Eric G. Heinemann. An exemplar theory of pattern recognition.

9:30-10:00 pm, 30-min talk, Survival of the discipline, Chair: Ron Weisman

  • Edward Wasserman. Strategies for re-vitalizing the field of comparative cognition

10:00 pm - 1:00 am. Party time

Sunday. March 21, 1994

9:00-10:00 am, 30-min talks, Comparative Cognition, Chair: Marcia Spetch

  • Sarah T. Boysen. Porkbelly cognition: New investments toward a comparative perspective.

10:10-12:10 noon. Coding Processes, Chair: Marcia Spetch

  • Thomas R. Zentall, Lou M. Sherburne & Karen L. Roper. The problem of 'instructions' in animal memory research.
  • Stephen B. Fountain & James D. Rowan. Coding of hierarchical organization in rat and human serial-pattern learning.
  • Karyl B. Swartz, Sharon A. Himmanen & H.S. Terrace. Strategies for learning and executing lists by list-sophisticated monkeys.
  • David MacEwen. Coding strategy depends on retention interval: Utilization of dual coding strategies with compound stimuli.