Rutgers Symposium on Learning I
Learning:
Association or computation?Wednesday, November 4th, 1998
Fiber Optics Auditorium, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ 08854The concept of association plays a fundamental role in behavioral neuroscience, while in cognitive science a correspondingly fundamental role is played by the concept of computation.
Does neural tissue associate stimuli or compute over representations? How do these contrasting frameworks account for basic learning phenomena? These fundamental empirical and theoretical issues were examined by leading researchers in a one day symposium.
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Papers based on this workshop have been published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, Vol 10, 2001.
Papers based on this workshop have been published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, Vol 10, 2001.
Welcoming remarks8:45 Robert Rescorla (U Penn)
The survival of the association9:30 Charles R. Gallistel (UCLA and Rutgers)
Contrasting conceptual frameworks for the understanding of conditioning: Neurobiological Implications10:15 Francis Lawrence (President, Rutgers U)
Remarks on policy10:20 Discussion
10:30 Break for refreshments
10:45 Peter R. Killeen (Arizona State U)
Metonymic Psychology. Why Johnny can't add, brains can't think, and computers can't compute11:30 Russell M. Church (Brown U)
A Turing test of computational and association theories12:15 Discussion
12:30 General Discussion
01:00 Break for Lunch
Time and Memory: Towards a Pacemaker-Free Theory of Interval Timing2:45 John Gibbon and C. Malapani (Columbia U)
Separable storage and retrieval distortions in memory for time in Parkinson's disease3:30 Discussion
3:45 Break for refreshments
4:00 Anthony Dickinson (Univ. Cambridge, England)
Causal learning: association or computation?4:45 Ralph Miller (SUNY Binghamton)
Associations and hat racks: Sometimes useful, but not essential5:30 Discussion
5:45 General Discussion
6:15 Reception
7:15 Close
