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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Daniela Corbetta, Purdue University, "The Brain has a Body: Lessons from Infant Motor Development (PDF)
Kurt Fischer, Harvard University, "Dynamic Systems Analysis of Development and Learning" (PDF)
Timothy D. Johnston, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, "Including the genes in developmental theory" (PowerPoint)
Robert Lickliter, Florida International University, "Developmental Systems Theory: Accounting for Stability and Variability at Different Time Scales" (PowerPoint)
Bradley Love, University of Texas at Austin, "Differing theories or differing frameworks?" (PowerPoint)
James L. McClelland, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition & Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, "Connectionist Models of Development: It's (Mostly) About Change Over Developmental Time" (PowerPoint)
Yuko Munakata, University of Colorado, Boulder and J. Bruce Morton, University of Western Ontario, "Neural network approaches to cognitive flexibility; A-not-B and other cases of perseveration" (PDF)
Nora S. Newcombe, Temple University, "Back to Basics: What's Actually Wrong with Good Old-Fashioned Cognitive Development?" (PowerPoint)
Gregor Schoner, INI-RUB Germany, "Development as change of system dynamics: stability, instability, fields, and preshape dynamics" (PDF)
John Spencer, University of Iowa, "Every second counts: Real-time dynamics constrain what is learned and what develops" (PowerPoint)
Whitney Tabor, University of Connecticut, "Dynamical Insights into Structure in Connectionist Models" (PowerPoint)
Michael Thomas, Birkbeck College, University of London, "What is 'normal' development? Parameterised models and the study of cognitive variability" (PDF)
Han van der Maas, University of Amsterdam, "On balance, onnectionist networks do not work" (PowerPoint)

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