Teton Village, Jackson Hole,
Wyoming
January 22 - January 26, 1979
Organizer: George Sperling
Proceedings
Monday and Tuesday, January 22-23: 4:00 - 8:00 pm Vision,
Development and Plasticity (T. Movshon and M. Cynader, Chairmen)
Tony Movshon, NYU. Processing of Spatial Information by
the Visual System.
Peter Schiller, MIT. Parallel Function Pathways in the
Primate Visual System.
Michael Friedlander, U. VA Medical School. Morphology
of Physiologically Identified Neurons in Central Visual System.
Vivien Casagrande, Vanderbilt U. Binocular Interactions
in the Developing Primate Visual System.
Peter Spear, U. Wisconsin. Plasticity in the Cat's Lateral
Suprasylvian Cortex Following Visual Deprivation or Neonatal
Brain Damage.
Nigel Daw, Washington U. Interactions Between Directional
Movement Deprivation and Monocular Movement Deprivation.
Kate Kalil, U. Wisconsin. Regrowth of Severed Axons in
the Mammalian CNS.
Geoffrey Melvill Jones, McGill U. Adaptive Visual-Vestibular
Interactions.
Rob Douglas, Dalhousie U. Mechanisms of Neural Plasticity
in the Hippocampus.
Jack Pettigrew, Caltech. Serotonin, Norepinephrine, and
Plasticity.
Wednesday, January 24: 4:00 - 8:00 pm Oculomotor Control
(Eileen Kowler, Chairman)
David Lee Robinson and Michael Goldberg, NEI. Neurophysiological
Studies of Visual Inputs to the Oculomotor System.
Alexander Skavensky, Northeastern U. Quality of Visual
Localization Based on Nonvisual Cues to Eye Position.
Wayne Shebilske, U. Virginia. Minor Anomalies in Oculomotor
Control: Implications for Visuomotor Control.
George McKonkie, U. Illinois. Perceptual Processing During
Fixation in Reading.
Jordan Pola and Harry Wyatt, SUNY Optometry. Smooth Pursuit
Eye Movements: Stimuli and Mechanisms.
Eileen Kowler, NYU. Prophecies and Oculomotor Performance:
The Effect of Expectations on Slow Eye Movements.
Thursday, January 25: 4:00 - 8:00 pm Information Processing
Models (George Sperling, Chairman)
Jay McLelland, UCSD. Does Additive Factors Logic Apply
to Systems in Cascade?
Jim Townsend, Purdue U. Mathematical Models of Visual
Character Recognition.
Rich Shiffrin, Indiana U. A Theory of Long-Term Memory
Retrieval.
** Brief Business Meeting **
George Sperling, NYU/Bell Labs. Apparent Motion in Ambiguous
Multiflash Sequences: Experiments and a General Theory of Motion
Perception (with Peter Burt).
Kent Stevens, MIT. Visual Analysis of Surface Texture
and Contour.
Ed Riseman, U. Mass. Computer Models of Vision.
Friday, January 26: 4:00 - 8:00 pm Complex Cognitive Processes(Barbara
Hayes-Roth, Chairman)
Mike Williams, Navy Personnel R&D Center, San Diego.
Memory Retrieval as a Problem Solving Process.
Allan Collins, Bolt, Beranek, and Newman. Human Plausible
Reasoning.
Perry Thorndyke, Rand Corp. Spatial Reasoning.
Barbara Hayes-Roth, Rand Corp. Cognitive Processes in
Planning.
Rick Hayes-Roth, Rand Corp. Knowledge Acquisition.
Roger Schank, Yale U. Computer Understanding of Natural
Language.
Attendees
Harry Bahrick, Ohio Wesleyan U.
Mark Berkley, Florida State U.
Darryl Bruce, Florida State U.
Robert Chapman, U. Rochester
Al Dick, Behavioral Res. Applications Grp., Rochester
Allan Hanson, U. Mass.
Randall Harris, NASA Langley Res. Ctr., Hampton, VA
Eric Holman, UCLA
Janice Keenan, U. Denver
Stanley Klein, Claremont
Stephen Link, McMaster U.
Geoff Loftus, U. Washington
Jim McKenna, Vanderbilt U.
Gail McKoon, Dartmouth College.
Shannon Moeser, Memorial U., N.F.
Ben Murdock, U. Toronto
Louis Narens, UCI
Bob Ollman, Bell Labs
Richard Olson, U. Colorado
Misha Pavel, NYU
David Presti, Caltech
Roger Ratcliff, Dartmouth College.
David A. Robinson, Wilmer Institute, Baltimore
Amos Spady, Jr., NASA Langley Res. Ctr., Hampton, VA
John Theios, U. Wisconsin
Ulker Tulunay-Keesey, U. Wisconsin
Keith Wescourt, Office of Naval Research, Arlington