Schedule of Events for the SQAB 2005 Conference

 

Thursday, May 26
International Ballroom South

05:00-08:00 pm Cash Bar & Registration for SQAB attendees
 

Friday, May 27
International Ballroom South

07:00-08:30 am Registration, coffee, & pastries
 
08:30-08:45 am William Baum, President's Introduction
08:45-09:20 am Armando Machado & Joana Arantes, Critical Tests of Timing Models Using a Double Bisection Procedure
09:20-09:55 am William A. Roberts, Number and Time Representation in Pigeons: Studies of Scale Bisection
09:55-10:30 am Seth Roberts, Where Do New Responses Come From?
10:30-10:50 am Coffee Break
10:50-12:00 am Michael Kubovy, Phenomenological Psychophysics and Mathematical Models of Gestalt Phenomena
 
12:00-01:30 pm Lunch Break
 
01:30-02:05 pm Donald Blough, Random-Walk Simulations of Discriminative Reaction Times
02:05-02:40 pm John Pearce, The Discrimination of Structure: Spatial Relations
02:40-03:15 pm Nestor Schmajuk & Jose Larrauri, Experimental Challenges to Theories of Classical Conditioning: Application of a Computational Model of Storage and Retrieval
03:15-03:45 pm Coffee break
03:45-04:20 pm Ronald Weisman, Andrea Friedrich & Thomas Zentall, Using Behavior Analysis to Study the Evolution of Pitch Perception
04:20-04:55 pm Robert Cook, Structure of Avian Memory Systems
04:55-05:30 pm Olga F. Lazareva, Kate L. Freiburger, & Edward A. Wasserman, Effects of Stimulus Manipulations on Basic-level and Superordinate-level Categorization
 

Friday Evening, May 27
International Ballroom South

06:30-09:30 pm Poster session/Cash Bar
 

Saturday, May 28
International Ballroom South

07:00-08:15 am Registration, coffee, and pastries
08:15-08:50 am Cynthia Pietras, Energy-Budget Models and Human Risky Choice
08:50-09:25 am Melissa Bateson, Effects of Energetic State on Risk-Sensitive Decision Making
 
09:25-09:40 am Coffee break
 
09:40-10:15 am Gene Heyman, Some Implications of Preference Dependent Changes in Reward Value: Matching, Maximizing, Addiction
10:15-10:50 am James S. MacDonall, Is There a Variable Missing from the Concatenated Generalized Matching Law?
 

Saturday Afternoon, May 28
International Ballroom South

INVITED PREEMINENT TUTORIALS

1:00-1:50 pm Russell Church, Simulation of Quantitative Models of Behavior
2:00-2:50 pm Gregory Galbicka, Response Shaping and Percentile Schedules -- or "How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Rank Orders"
3:00-3:50 pm Randolph Grace, Choice and Value
4:00-4:50 pm Daniel Cerutti, Temporal Regulation of Choice

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Date Updated : January 31, 2005