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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
Conference Schedule
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June 19, 7:00 pm - Kick-off reception and graduate student poster session |
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June 20: Defining the approaches
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Morning Session: Defining the approaches (plenary talks)
- 8:00 am: Breakfast
- 8:30 am: Welcome and introductory remarks: John Spencer
- 9:00-9:45 am: Plenary talk I: Gregor Schöner
"Development as Change of System Dynamics: Stability, Instability, and Emergence"
- 9:45-10:30 am: Plenary talk II: Jay McClelland
"Connectionist Models of Development: It's about Change over Developmental Time"
- 10:30-10:45 am: break
- 10:45-11:45 am: Data Blitz I
Lunch: 11:45-1:00 pm
Afternoon Session I: Defining the approaches (elaboration)
- 1:00-1:30 pm: Elaboration I: Paul van Geert
"Later is a function of earlier: Dynamic systems thinking in the study of development"
- 1:30-2:00 pm: Elaboration II: Michael Thomas
"What is 'normal' development?: Parameterized models and the study of cognitive variability"
- 2:00-2:30 pm: Elaboration from the outside I: Tim Johnston
"Including the genes in gevelopmental theory"
- 2:30-3:00 pm: Elaboration from the outside II: Robert Lickliter
"Developmental Systems Theory: Accounting for Stability and Variability at Different Time Scales"
- 3:00-3:15 pm: break
Afternoon Session II: Work groups
- 3:15-4:15 pm: 3 parallel work groups
- Connectionist group led by Bob McMurray
- DST group led by Beatrix Vereijken
- Bridge group led by Mark Blumberg
- 4:15-4:30 pm: break
- 4:30-5:30 pm: Presentation of summary statements and discussion
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June 21: Contrasting the approaches
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Morning Session: The case of A-not-B
- 8:00 am: Breakfast
- 8:30-9:15 am: A-not-B I: Yuko Munakata and Bruce Morton
"Neural network approaches to cognitive flexibility: A-not-B and other cases of perseveration"
- 9:15-10:00 am: A-not-B II: Linda Smith
"Piaget was right: objects exist in the here-and-now of sensory-motor experience"
- 10:00-10:15 am: break
- 10:15-10:45 am: discussant presentation: Lisa Oakes
- 10:45-11:15 am: roundtable discussion led by Brad Love
- 11:15-12:00 pm: Data Blitz II
Lunch: 12:00-1:15 pm
Afternoon Session I: The balance scale problem
- 1:15-2:00 pm: Balance I: Han van der Maas
"On balance, connectionist networks do not work"
- 2:00-2:45 pm: Balance II: Denis Mareschal
"From balance scales to analogy: reuniting connectionist and dynamic modelling of cognitive development"
- 2:45-3:00 pm: break
- 3:00-3:30 pm: discussant presentation: Nora Newcombe
- 3:30-4:00 pm: roundtable discussion led by Guy Van Orden
- 4:00-4:15 pm: break
Afternoon Session II: Work groups
- 4:15-5:00 pm: 3 parallel work groups:
- Group 1 led by Jodie Plumert
- Group 2 led by Scott Robinson
- Group 3 led by Shaun Vecera
- 5:00-5:15 pm: break
- 5:15-6:00 pm: Presentations of work group results
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June 22: Toward one grand theory?
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Morning Session I: Real-time processes and attractors
- 8:00 am: Breakfast
- 8:30-9:15 am: Real-time processes I: Whit Tabor
"Dynamical insights into structure in connectionist models"
- 9:15-10:00 am: Real-time processes II: John Spencer
"Every second counts: Real-time dynamics constrain what is learned and what develops"
- 10:00-10:15 am: break
Morning Session II: Learning/Developmental dynamics
- 10:15-11:00 am: Learning/development I: Karl Newell
"Time Scales in Learning and Development"
- 11:00-11:45 am: Learning/development II: Matthew Schlesinger
"From milliseconds and minutes to days and years: Time for a developmental theory of everything?"
Lunch: 11:45-1:15 pm
Afternoon Session I: Perception, action, and embodiment
- 1:15-2:00 pm: Embodiment I: Daniela Corbetta
"The brain has a body: Lessons from infant motor development"
- 2:00-2:45 pm: Embodiment II: Michael Gasser
"Developing language perception and production: Some connectionist perspectives"
- 2:45-3:00 pm: break
Afternoon Session II: Cognition, critical periods, qualitative transitions, and development
- 3:00-3:45 pm: Cognitive development I: Kim Plunkett
"Connectionist Approaches to Development"
- 3:45-4:30 pm: Cognitive development II: Kurt Fischer
"A Dynamic Systems Framework for Analyzing Processes of Development and Learning"
- 4:30-5:00 pm: Concluding remarks (McClelland & Spencer)
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