International
Conference on Comparative Cognition
March 18 to March 20, 1999
THURSDAY, March 18, 1999
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Welcome Reception
THURSDAY, March 18, 1999 Edward Wasserman, Chair
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Communication and perception
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Bruce Moore, Dalhousie University, The evolution of dance language,
10 min. |
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Sally Boysen, Karen Hallberg, Ohio State University, Representational
status of chimpanzee food bark vocalizations: Evidence for semantic
content, 10 min. |
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Chris Sturdy, Leslie Phillmore, Ron Weisman, Queen's University, The
development of songbird perception, 10 min.< |
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Leslie Phillmore, Chris Sturdy, Ron Weisman, Queen's University,
Individual recognition in songbirds, 10 min. |
Learning and behavior processes
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Charles Flaherty, Mary Leszczuk, Deborah Duychinck, Rutgers
University, Separating cognitive from emotional processes in negative
contrast, 10 min. |
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Bob Batsell, Southern Methodist University, John Batson, Furman
University, Taste preconditioning augments odor aversion conditioning
in an A+/AX+ design, 10 min. |
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Brian L. Thomas, Mauricio R. Papini, Texas Christian University,
Context manipulations influence the size of the trial spacing effect in
autoshaping with rats, 10 min. |
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Manish Vaidya, Margaret Wilhelm, Marc Branch, University of
Florida, Identity matching in pigeons?, 10 min. |
Break,10 min.
Drug effects
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Lorraine Weise-Kelly, Shepard Siegel, McMaster University, The
effects of drugs are different if they are administered by the subject or
by the experimenter, 10 min. |
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Marco Baptista, Glenda MacQueen, Shepard Siegel, Trevor Young,
McMaster University, Drug anticipation alters brain chemistry, 10 min. |
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Joseph Kim, Shepard Siegel, McMaster University, The role of internal
pharmacological cues in associative mechanisms of opiate tolerance, 10
min. |
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Bob McDonald, Shepard Siegel, McMaster University, Morphine-precipitated morphine withdrawal, 10 min. |
Response sequences and serial patterns
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Alliston Reid, Heather Bratt, Louise Buchholz, Wolford College,
Source of response strength in response sequences, 10 min. |
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James Rowan, Litza Banon, Wesleyan College, Haliperidol impairs
serial-pattern learning in rats, 10 min. |
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Doug Wallace, Steve Fountain, Kent State University, Behavioral tests
of a computational model of rat serial-pattern learning, 10 min. |
A look to the future
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Bob Cook, Tufts University, Hits, bits, and bites: Animal cognition in
the next century, 30 min. |
FRIDAY, March 19, 1999 Mark Bouton, Chair
3:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Categorization and associative learning
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Sheila Chase, Martin Chodorow, Eric G. Heinemann, Hunter College
SUNY, A Hebbian model for the presolution period in discrimination
learning, 10 min. |
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Edward Wasserman, Jessie J. Peissig, University of Iowa, Suzette L.
Astley, Cornell College, Reinforcement mechanisms of superordinate
category formation by pigeons, 30 min. |
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Ludwig Huber, University of Vienna, Concept discrimination without
concept formation in pigeons, 30 min. |
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Stanley Weiss, American University, Leigh V. Panlilio, Charles W.
Schindler, NIDA - Baltimore, MD, The comparative psychology of
selective associations: Rats and pigeons, 30 min. |
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Andy Baker, McGill University, Cognitive determinants of learned
irrelevance: A case study in reification, 30 min. |
Break,15 min.
Space and foraging
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Michael F. Brown, Villanova University, Spatial pattern learning II, 10
min. |
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Stephanie Gibeault, Suzanne MacDonald, York University, Social
foraging behavior in marmosets, 10 min. |
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Deb Kelly, University of Alberta, Karl Grantmyre, Strathcona Raptor
Shelter, Marcia L. Spetch, University of Alberta, Prey capture behavior
in owls, 10 min. |
Attention and memory
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Don Blough, Brown University, Attention as biased retrieval, 30 min. |
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Thomas R. Zentall, Janice Weaver, Bridgette Dorrance, Tricia Clement,
Daren Kaiser, University of Kentucky, The single-code/default strategy
in pigeon delayed matching, 30 min. |
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Eduardo Mercado, Center for Molecular & Behavioral Neuroscience,
Rutgers University, Scott O. Murray, University of California, Davis,
Mammalian memories of deeds last done, 30 min. |
SATURDAY, March 20, 1999 Marcia Spetch, Chair
3:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Timing and events that unfold in time
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Niko Troje, Barrie Frost, Queen's University, Analysis of biological
motion in the pigeon's courtship display, 30 min. |
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Ron Weisman, Queen's University, The secret lives of songbirds, 30
min. |
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Lorraine Allan, McMaster University, What I have learned in two
decades about time perception, 30 min. |
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Kimberly Kirkpatrick, Brown University, Stimulus and temporal
content in classical conditioning, 30 min. |
Break, 15 min.
Timing
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Bridgette R. Dorance, Thomas R. Zentall, University of Kentucky,
Pigeons do not "choose short" when training includes delays, 10 min. |
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William A. Roberts, Ryan Coughlin, Laura A. Hogarth, Shelley
Roberts, University of Western Ontario, Cued timing and counting by
pigeons, 10 min. |
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Donald Wilkie, Jason Carr, A. R. Tan, O. Adrienne, University of
British Columbia, More evidence of ordinal timing in a daily time place
learning task, 10 min. |
Perspectives
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Sara Shettleworth, University of Toronto, Modularity and the animal
mind, 30 min. |
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Donald Dewsbury, University of Florida, Comparative cognition in the
1930s, 30 min. |
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Fred Stollnitz, National Science Foundation, NSF funding opportunities
(US), 10 min. |
Business Meeting: Blueprint for a new society 30 min.
Evening Party 10 PM - 1:30 AM
Observers
Mark Bouton, University of Vermont
Marc Branch, University of Florida
Heather Bratt, Wofford College
Louise Buchholz, Wofford College
Jack P. Hailman, University of Wisconsin
Eric G. Heinemann, Brooklyn College
Jonathan Crystal, College of William & Mary
Steve Fountain, Kent State University
Suzanne MacDonald, York University
Shepard Siegel, McMaster University
Marcia Spetch, University of Alberta
Bill Whitlow, Rutgers University-Camden
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