NINTH ANNUAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE

Teton Village, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
January 22 - January 27, 1984
Organizers: George Sperling and Richard Shiffrin


Proceedings



Sunday, January 22: 7:00 - 9:00 pm Motor Control (Virginia Diggles, Chair)

George Stelmach, U. Wisconsin. Spatial Orientation in Movement Control..
Peter Hancock, USC. Speed-Accuracy Trade-Off in Human Movement Control.
Virginia Diggles, USC. Rapid Error Corrections: Contradictions to the Speed-Accuracy Trade-Off.
Karl Newell, U. Illinois. Coordination, Control and Skill.

** Reception: 9:15 pm - 11:15 pm


Monday, January 23: 4:00 - 8:00 pm Visual Anatomy and Physiology: Data and Theory I (Peter Schiller, Chair)

Douglas Bowling, U. Calgary. Evidence for Functional Differentiation Within Single Layers of the Lateral Geniculate Nucleus.
Jennifer Lund, Pittsburgh Medical Center. Intrinsic Connections of Monkey Striate Cortex.
Margaret Livingstone, Harvard Medical School. Blobs and Color Vision II.
David Hubel, Harvard Medical School. Blobs and Color Vision I.
Max Cynader, Dalhousie U. Functional Topography in Cat Visual Cortex.


Tuesday, January 24: 4:00 - 8:00 pm Visual Anatomy and Physiology: Data and Theory II (Max Cynader, Chair)

Eric Schwartz, NYU. Visual Cortex as a Novel Architecture for Image Processing.
Ralph Freeman, UC Berkeley. Binocular Interaction in the Visual Cortex.
Peter Schiller, MIT. Neural Control of Visually Guided Eye Movements.
George Sperling, NYU. Elementary Motion-Detecting Units.


Wednesday, January 25: 4:00 - 8:00 pm Decision Processes (Nancy Pennington, Chair)

Edward Russo, U. Chicago. Cognitive Effort.
Nancy Pennington, U. Chicago. Conditions for Inferring Cause.
Frank Yates, U. Michigan. Representations in Decision Making.
William Goldstein, U. Chicago. A Theory of Preference Reversals.
Lola Lopes, U. Wisconsin. Risk and Distributional Inequality.
Duncan Luce, Harvard U. Bounded Rationality in Utility Theory.


Thursday, January 26: 4:00 - 8:00 pm Visual Models (George Sperling, Chair)

Ellen Hildreth, MIT. Computation of the Visual Velocity Field.
Ken Nakayama, Smith-Kettlewell. Visual Image Motion Processing.
Alex Pentland, Stanford U./SRI Internat'l. Perception of Three-Dimensional Textures.
Bernice Rogowitz, IBM Research. Visual Distortion Products and the Perception of Complex Spatial Patterns.
Stephen Grossberg, Boston U. Dynamics of Depth, Lightness, and Form Perception.

** Brief Business Meeting **


Friday, January 27: 4:00 - 8:00 pm Higher Level Processes (Geoff Loftus, Chair)

Steven Sherman, Indiana U. Judgements of Characteristics of Individuals and Populations.
Geoffrey Loftus, U. Washington. Time/Luminance Trade-Off in Picture Perception.
Clark Presson, U. Missouri. Spatial Representations Obtained Through Primary and Secondary Learning.
Timothy McNamara, Vanderbilt U. The Mental Representation of Knowledge Acquired from Maps.
Sheila Chase, Hunter College, and Eric Heinemann, Brooklyn College. Identification and Classification of Multidimensional Stimuli.
Adam Drewnowski, Rockefeller U. It's Good for You: Food Preferences and Nutritional Beliefs.


Attendees

Harry Bahrick, Ohio Wesleyan U.
Gary Blasdel, U. Pittsburgh
Bruce Britton, U. Georgia
M. Cheesman, U. Calgary
James Cutting, Cornell U./Atari
Barbara Dosher, Columbia U.
Sharon Greene, Bell Operating Co.
Reid Hastie, Northwestern U.
Don Jamieson, U. Calgary
Leon Kamin, Princeton U.
Jan Keenan, U. Denver
John Krauskopf, Bell Labs
Carol Krumhansl, Cornell U.
Stephen Link, McMaster U.
Gail McKoon, Northwestern U.
Jeff Mulligan, UC San Diego
Bennet Murdock, U. Toronto
Tom Nelson, U. Washington
Richard Olson, U. Colorado
Louis Narens, UC Irvine
Roger Ratcliff, Northwestern U.
Douglas Williams, U. British Columbia
Tannis MacBeth, Williams, U. British Columbia
George Wolford, Dartmouth College