Programme

TUESDAY 7^th SEPTEMBER

18:00 – 20:00

Wine Welcome Reception and Registration (Babbage Building, Refectory, 4^th Floor)

WEDNESDAY 8^th SEPTEMBER

8:30 – 9:00

REGISTRATION AND COFFEE BREAK (Sherwell Centre, Foyer)

Session 1: Language and Action (Session Chair: Angelo Cangelosi)

9:00 – 9:05	Welcome address (Sherwell Centre, Top Floor Lecture Theatre)
9:05 – 10:00	Keynote Speaker: Deb Roy (MIT) Grounding Language in the World: A Framework for Signs and Actions
10:00 – 10:30	Nancy Chang, Jerome Feldman & Srini Narayanan Structured Connectionist Models of Language, Cognition and Action
10:30 – 11:00	Davide Marocco & Stefano Nolfi Evolution of Communication in a Team of Autonomous Robots

11:00 – 11:30

COFFEE BREAK

Session 2: Attention and Perception I (Session Chair: Bradley Wyble)

11:30 – 12:00	Eddy J. Davelaar A Neurocognitive Theory of Attentional Modulation of Semantic Spread of Activation
12:00 – 12:30	Robert Ward & Ronnie Ward Selective Attention and Action in an Artificial, Evolved Agent: Dynamic Integration of Perception and Action
12:30 – 13:00	Linda Lanyon & Susan Denham A Model of Spatial & Object-Based Attention for Active Visual Search

13:00 – 14:15

LUNCH (in Babbage Building, 4^th Floor)

Session 3: Language Processing I (Session Chair: John Bullinaria)

14:15 – 15:15	Keynote Speaker: Nick Chater (Warwick University) Statistical Language Learning: Analysis of an ‘Ideal’ Language Learner
15:15 – 15:45	Colm G. Connolly & Ronan G. Reilly A Neurobiologically Inspired Model of Repetition Blindness
15:45 – 16:15	Jennifer Hayes & Peter Howell A Connectionist Evaluation of Schemes to Measure the Phonological Structure of Words

16:15 – 17:15

POSTER SESSION A + COFFEE BREAK

Session 4: Categorization and Language (Session Chair: Art Glenberg)

17:15 – 17:45	Marco Mirolli & Domenico Parisi How Language Can Help Categorization: a Neural Network Model of Lexical Acquisition
17:45 – 18:15	Gary Lupyan How Labels Augment Category Representations: A Connectionist Model

THURSDAY 9^th SEPTEMBER

8:30 – 9:00

REGISTRATION AND COFFEE BREAK

Session 5: Grounding (Session Chair: Joanna Bryson)

9:00 – 10:00	Keynote Speaker: Art Glenberg (University of Wisconsin – Madison) The Body’s Contribution to Language: Why Language Comprehension Cannot Be Modeled
10:00 – 10:30	Angelo Cangelosi, Kenny R. Coventry, Rohana Rajapakse, Alison Bacon & Steve N. Newstead Grounding Language into Perception: A Connectionist Model of Spatial Terms and Vague Quantifiers
10:30 – 11:00	Timo Honkela, Aapo Hyvärinen & Jaakko Väyrynen Emergence of Linguistic Features: Independent Component Analysis of Contexts

11:00 – 11:30

COFFEE BREAK

Session 6: Cognitive Processing and Control (Session Chair: Peter Hancock)

11:30 – 12:00	Gaye D. Banfield & Chris Christodoulou Can Self-Control Be Explained through Games?
12:00 – 12:30	L. Andrew Coward Semantic, Episodic and Procedural Memory in the Recommendation Architecture Cognitive Model
12:30 – 13:00	Bradley P Wyble, Howard Bowman & Dinkar Sharma Modelling the Slow Emotional Stroop Effect: Suppression of Cognitive Control

13:00 – 14:15

LUNCH (in Babbage Building, 4^th Floor)

Session 7: Neural Architectures and Learning (Session Chair: Richard M. Young)

14:15 – 15:15	Keynote Speaker: Robert M. French (University of Liege) Why You’ll Remember this Talk and Most Networks Wouldn’t, or The Problem (and a Solution to) Catastrophic Forgetting in Neural Networks
15:15 – 15:45	Chris P. Bowers & John A. Bullinaria Embryological Modelling of the Evolution of Neural Architecture
15:45 – 16:15	Joanna J. Bryson Evidence of Modularity from Primate Errors during Task Learning

16:15 – 17:15

POSTER SESSION B + COFFEE BREAK

Session 8: Future Challenges: Thinking and Reasoning (Session Chair: R. Borisyuk)

17:15 – 18:00	Keynote Speaker: Jonathan Evans (University of Plymouth) Modelling Thinking and Reasoning: The Challenge Ahead
19:00	CONFERENCE DINNER Royal Plymouth Corinthian Yacht Club (Meet at Sherwell at 18:45)

FRIDAY 10^th SEPTEMBER

8:30 – 9:00

REGISTRATION AND COFFEE BREAK

Session 9: Language Processing II (Session Chair: Guido Bugmann)

9:00 – 10:00	Keynote Speaker: Stefan Wermter (University of Sunderland) Biomimetic Multimodal Integration in a Mirror Neuron-Based Robot
10:00 – 10:30	Stefan L. Frank Modelling Language Comprehension Without Propositions
10:30 – 11:00	Michael Klein & Kenji Doya Learning to Predict the Effects of Complex Utterances

11:00 – 11:30

COFFEE BREAK

Session 10: Attention and Perception II (Session Chair: Guenther Palm)

11:30 – 12:00	Andrea Di Ferdinando, Giuseppe Vallar & Marco Zorzi Hemispheric Asymmetries in the Neglect Syndrome: A Computational Study
12:00 – 12:30	Yakov Kazanovich & Roman Borisyuk An Oscillatory Neural Model of Multiple Object Tracking
12:30 – 13:00	Howard Bowman & Brad Wyble Computational Modelling of the Attentional Blink

13:00 – 14:00

BUFFET LUNCH (in Sherwell Centre, Foyer)

Session 11: Motor Representation and Cognition (Session Chair: Chris Harris)

14:00 – 15:00	Keynote Speaker: Daniel Wolpert (University College London) Probabilistic Mechanisms in Sensorimotor Control
15:00 – 15:30	Simone Kuehn & Holk Cruse Mental Representation and Cognitive Behaviour – A Recurrent Neural Network Approach
15:30 – 16:00	Marilyn Panayi Spatial Cognition in Action - SCA Model: Children's Gestural Imagery in Action

16:00 – 16:30

COFFEE BREAK

Session 12: Face Processing and Classification (Session Chair: Bob French)

16:30 – 17:00	Samarasena Buchala, Neil Davey, Tim M.Gale & Ray J.Frank Global and Feature Based Gender Classification of Faces: A Comparison of Human Performance and Computational Models
17:00 – 17:30	Peter J.B. Hancock & Charlie D. Frowd Recognition of Pain Expressions
17:30 – 17:35	CLOSING REMARKS

POSTER SESSION A (September 8^th, 16:15 - 17:15)

A1 Roland J. Baddeley & Ben W. Tatler

What Are the Visual Characteristics of the World that Determine Where we Look?

A2 Barbara Giolito

The Active Role of Proper Names Supported by Neural Network Experiments

A3 Christian Huyck & Hina Galib

Improving Cell Assembly Categories by Fatigue

A4 Yasunobu Igarashi, Yuichi Sakumura, Shin Ishii

Dopamine-Induced Depressing Synapses Facilitate Sustained Neural Activities in Prefrontal Cortex: A Simulation Study

A5 Kiran Kalidindi, Howard Bowman & Brad Wyble

An Investigation of Damasio’s Somatic Marker Theory Using a Neural Network Model of the Iowa Gambling Task

A6 Krista Lagus, Mathias Creutz, Sami Virpioja & Teemu Varis

Latent Linguistic Codes for Morphemes Using ICA

A7 Martial Mermillod, Robert M. French, Hugues Smeets & Janine Spencer

A Neural Network Investigation of the Head Preference: The Difficulty to Explain Behavioral Results by Means of Pure Bottom-Up Processes.

A8 Anthony F. Morse

Psychological ALife: Two Theories Bridging the Gap Between Mind And Brain; Enactive Distributed Associationism & Transient Localism

A9 Serban C. Musca

Children's Causal Inferences as Revealed by Backwards Blocking Tasks: A Memory Self-Refreshing Neural Networks Account

A10 Tebogo Seipone & John A. Bullinaria

Evolving Neural Networks that Suffer Minimal Catastrophic Forgetting

A11 Nicola deSouza & Chris Harris

Pro-Antisaccades

A12 Norikazu Sugimoto, Kenji Doya & Mitsuo Kawato

Cooperation by Estimating Other’s Internal State

A13 Dionyssios Theofilou, Andrew Bremner & Axel Cleeremans

A Connectionist Model of Meta-Representation

Back to Programme – Session 4

POSTER SESSION B (September 9^th, h. 16:15 - 17:15)

B1 Mikhail Burtsev

Evolution of Agents' Behavior in the Simple ALife Model

B2 Andrew Carnell & Daniel Richardson

Elements of Arithmetic in Spiking Neural Nets

B3 Tom Cooke

Evolution of Neural Network Structures for Adaptive Mating Call Generation and Mate Location in a Population of Breeding Agents

B4 Tim M. Gale, Yi Sun, Rod Adams & Neil Davey

Comparing Computational and Human Measures of Visual Similarity

B5 Andre Gruening

Dynamic Representations of Stack- and Queue-Like Syntactic Structures

B6 Kevin I. Hynnä, Mathias Creutz & Timo Honkela

Actions in Real World Situations: Review of Approaches based on Dynamical Systems Theory and Neural Networks

B7 Eleni Koutsomitopoulou

A Neural Network Model for the Representation of Natural Language

B8 Andreas Knoblauch, Heiner Markert & Gunther Palm

An Associative Model of Cortical Language and Action Processing

B9 Gianluca Massera

Exploiting the Physical Agent/Environment Interactions to Evolve Neural Controllers for Autonomous Robots

B10 Michela Ponticorvo & Orazio Miglino

Is Language Necessary to Merge Geometric and Non-Geometric Spatial Cues? The Case of “Blue-Wall Task”

B11 Kenjii Suzuki, Hiroshi Yamada & Shuji Hashimoto

Facial Expression Analysis by Similarity-Based Neural Networks

B12 N. Thompson & Joe P. Levy

Bridging the Gap between Low-Level Processing and High Level Behaviour: The Case of Autism

Back to Programme – Session 8

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