FIFTEENTH ANNUAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE
Teton Village, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
January 7 - January 12, 1990

Organizer: George Sperling, New York University

Proceedings



Sunday, January 7: 4:00 - 5:30 pm *** Reception *** Registration, Snacks and Drinks.

5:30 - 7:30 pm Plenary Talks

Richard Shiffrin, Indiana U. Composition, Distribution, Storage and Retrieval.
Peter Killeen, Arizona State U. Maximum Entropy in Psychophysics.
Andrew Watson, NASA-Ames. Mathematica.


Monday, January 8: 4:00 - 8:00 pm Visual System

Gary Blasdel, Harvard Medical School. Topography of Visual Function as Shown with Voltage-Sensitive Dyes.
Bernd Girod, MIT. Image Coding and Human Vision.
Jeffrey Mulligan, NASA-Ames. Further Observations Concerning Transparency.
Barton Anderson, Vanderbilt U. and Tennessee Tech. U. Space-Scale Models of Stereopsis: Is Cooperativity a Myth?
Tim McNamara, Vanderbilt U. Spatial Representations.


Tuesday, January 9: 4:00 - 8:00 pm Information Processing

Geoff Loftus, U. Washington. What the Iconic Decay Function Looks Like.
George Sperling, NYU. Vision During Saccadic Eye Movements.
Brian McElree, NYU, and Barbara Dosher, Columbia U. Processing is Parallel Not Serial in Short-Term Memory Retrieval.
David Martin, New Mexico State U. Benefit Without Cost of Irrelevant Color in Visual Search.
Misha Pavel, Stanford U., and Helen Cunningham, NASA-Ames. Determinants of Search Strategy.


Wednesday, January 10: 4:00 - 8:00 pm Text and Language Processing

Alex Pentland, MIT. Information and Processing for Lip Reading.
Richard Olson, U. Colorado. Eye Movements in Reading and Search: Genetic Analysis.
Bruce Britton and Sami Gulgoz, U. Georgia. Principled and Expert Revisions of Text to Improve Retention.
Keith Kluender, U. Wisconsin. General Mechanisms of Audition and Categorization in Speech Perception.
Ken Paap, New Mexico State U. Attentional Effects in the Translation of Print to Sound.


Thursday, January 11: 4:00 - 8:00 pm Metacognition (Organizer: Thomas Nelson)

Thomas Nelson, U. Washington. Memory and Metamemory at Mount Everest.
Douglas Hintzman, U. Oregon. Metamemorial Influences in Judgement of Frequency.
Michael Masson, U. Victoria. Attribution of Fluency to Prior Occurrence.
Lynne Reder, Carnegie Mellon U. The Role of Feeling of Knowing In Selection of Question-Answering Strategies.
Janet Metcalfe, USCD. Simulation Model of Aspects of Metacognition.

** Brief Business Meeting **


Friday, January 12: 4:00 - 8:00 pm Models and Mathematics

Darryl Bruce, Mount Allison U. On Estimating Event Frequency.
William Uttal, Arizona State U. A Computational Model of an Entire Organism.
James Townsend, Indiana U. Chaos Theory: Can It Bring Order to the Behavioral Sciences?
Lisa Townsend, Indiana U. The Responsibility of the University to Secondary Science Education.
Louis Narens, UCI. Meaningfulness and Interpretability of Quantitative Concepts.


Attendees

Harry Bahrick, Ohio Wesleyan U.
Mark Berkley, Florida State U.
Richard Block, Montana State U.
Jeff Cornelius, New Mexico State U.
Susan Cowdery, Harvard U.
Barbara Dosher, Columbia U.
Jim Enns, U. British Columbia
Mark Gluck, Stanford U.
Howard Hughes, Dartmouth College
Kimberly Jameson, UCI
Holly Jimison, Stanford U.
Richard Krinsky, U. Southern Colorado
Gail McKoon, Northwestern U.
Ann Murdock, U. Toronto
Bennet Murdock, U. Toronto
Robert Patterson, Montana State U.
Roger Ratcliff, Northwestern U.
Roger Schvaneveldt, New Mexico State U.
Brenda Wenzel, New Mexico State U.
George Wolford, Dartmouth College