Connectionist and Dynamic Systems Approaches to Development: On the Cusp of a New Grand Theory or Still Too Distributed?

Sunday, June 19 through Wednesday, June 22, 2005
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This conference will bring the top researchers from each theoretical perspective from around the world to the University of Iowa. Nine of the researchers below are noted authorities on dynamic systems theory and development (Spencer, Corbetta, Fischer, van Geert, van der Maas, Newell, Schöner, Smith, Vereijken), nine are noted authorities on connectionist approaches to development (McClelland, Gasser, Mareschal, McMurray, Munakata, Parisi, Plunkett, Tabor, Thomas), four are experts in developmental systems theory (Blumberg, Johnston, Lickliter, Robinson), and six are experts in the fields of cognitive development and cognitive psychology (Love, Newcombe, Oakes, Van Orden, Plumert, Vecera).
John P. Spencer (University of Iowa; organizer)
Jay McClelland (Carnegie Mellon University; co-organizer)
Mark Blumberg (University of Iowa)
Daniela Corbetta (Purdue University)
Kurt Fischer (Harvard University)
Michael Gasser (Indiana University)
Paul van Geert (The Heymans Institute, The Netherlands)
Tim Johnston (University of North Carolina Greensboro)
Robert Lickliter (Florida International University)
Brad Love (University of Texas)
Han van der Maas (University of Amsterdam)
Denis Mareschal (Center for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck College, London)
Bob McMurray (University of Iowa)
Yuko Munakata (University of Colorado)
Nora Newcombe (Temple University)
Karl Newell (Penn State University)
Lisa Oakes (University of Iowa)
Guy Van Orden (Arizona State University)
Jodie Plumert (University of Iowa)
Kim Plunkett (Oxford University)
Scott Robinson (University of Iowa)
Matthew Schlesinger (Southern Illinois University)
Gregor Schöner (Institute for Neuroinformatics, Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany)
Linda Smith (Indiana University)
Whit Tabor (University of Connecticut)
Michael Thomas (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Beatrix Vereijken (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Shaun Vecera (University of Iowa)
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