Mathematical Psychology Meetings

Stern Sail - Stanford

Wednesday, August 23;

10-12 aojis, - BfoHadsy Lounges Session la - .'Neural nets

Burbank Seminar Room:: Session lb - Verbal learning

1-3 pt-m. - Holiaday Lounge: Session 2s - Measurement and Sealing X

Burbank Seminar Rooms Session 2b - Mathematical Analysis ofLearning Data

3530-5 P«m. - gfolladay Lounges Session 3: Symposium on Geometric Representationof Psychological Data

p«*nu - Reception at the Stanford Faculty Club

Sburaday., August 29s

10-12 a^nu - felladay Lounge; Session 4a - Paychophyiiiesi

Burbaok Seminar Ro®,n Sesuion Ub - Concept learning and SocialPsychology

Burbank Seminar Room Kb* 2'. Session Ue "" Choice Behavior

1-3 P»m*» - $3urbank Seminar Rooms Session _?a - Measurement and Scaling XI

1-5 P-n« - Holiaday Lounges Session Sb - Symposium on Models of Memory

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Mathematical Psychology Meetings

Stanford University

August 23 and 29, 1968

PROGRAM

Wednesday, August 28

10-12 a.m. Session la : Neural Nets

Earl Hunt, University of Washington, A performance model for memory tasksbased on a physiological model of retrieval.

Robert J. Baron, Clarkson College of Technology, An associative memorysystem.

Floyd Ratliff, Bruce Knight, and Norma Graham, The Rockefeller University,On tuning and amplification by lateral inhibition in a neural network.

Naomi Weisstein, Loyola University, A Rashevsky-Landahl neural net forsimulation of metacontrast.

George Sperling, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., Energy models ofbinocular vision.

10-12 a.m. Session lb : Verbal Learning

John Brelsford, Yale University, A finite Integer analysis of recall andrecognition performance.

William H. Batchelder, University of Illinois, A mathematical frameworkfor item interrelationships during learning.

Robert C. Calfee, University of Wisconsin, Relative efficiency of optimalpresentation procedures.

Chizuko Izawa, State University of New York, Buffalo, The test trialpotentiating model in paired-associate learning.

Douglas L. Hintzman, Peter G. Poison and William F. Lowe, The Universityof Texas, Quantitative application of a discrimination net model.

Hugh B. G. Thomas, Illinois State Psychiatric Institute, Some applicationsof a model for the serial position effect.

1-3 p.m. Session 2a : Measurement and Scaling I

Frederic M, Lord, Educational Testing Service, Item characteristic curvesestimated without knowing their mathematical form.

Julian C. Stanley and Marilyn D. Wang, The Johns Hopkins University,Weighting test items and test-item options.

Walter Kristof, Educational. Testing Service, Estimation of true score anderror variances for tests under various parallelity assumptions.

Michael Levine, Educational Testing Service, An analogue of Holder'stheorem for measuring brightness contrast and mental test items.

D. B. Yntema, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Choosing an inversepolynomial transformation to achieve additivity.

Stephen C. Johnson, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Clustering tasks andindividual differences.

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1-3 p-m. Session 2b : Mathematical Analysis of Learning DataM. Frank Norman, University of Pennsylvania, Slow learning.Hans Wolff, Technische Hochschule, Braunschweig, Germany, Convergence of

learning processes.Eduardo N. Siguel, University of Michigan, A method of fitting a Markov

chain to behavioral data.John Theios, University of Wisconsin, Evaluation of chi square approximation

of likelihood ratio transformation.Don H. McLaughlin, University of California, Eerkeley, Comparison of several

short-term recall models.Eric W. Holman, University of California, Los Angeles, General constraints

of sequential properties of learning.

3:30-5 p.m. Session 3 ■! Symposium

R. N. Shepard, Chairman. Comparison and tests of some alternative modelsfor the geometric representation of psychological data.

Speakers :J. Douglas Carroll, Bell Telephone Labs., in collaboration with Mrs. J. ChangDavid Krantz, University of MichiganRoger N. Shepard, Harvard University, in collaboration with Mrs. J. ChangAmos Tversky, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Discussant :Robert P. Abelson, Yale University

10-12 a.m. Session ka : Psychophysics

Donald D. Dorfman and Edward Alf , Jr. ,likelihood estimation of parametersrating scale data,

San Diego State College, Maximumof signal detection theory --

Irwin Pollack and Robert Hsieh, University of Michigan, Sampling variabilityof the area under the ROC-curve and of d' .

Wayne C. Lee, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Information theory analysis ofconfidence ratings.

Tino Mazzaroli, Stanford Electronics Laboratories, Double scale systemtheory and applications to detection problems.

R. A. Kinchla, McMaster University, A model relating absolute and relativevisual motion discrimination.

James T. Townsend, University of Hawaii, Spatio-temporal characteristicsof multisymbol visual perception.

10-12 a.m. Session *-+b : Concept Learning - Social Psychology

Peter G. Poison and William H. Batchelder, Universities of Texas and Illinois,A cue selection theory of a multilevel learning process.

Irwin D. Nahinsky, University of Missouri, A hypothesis -- selection modelfor conjunctive concept identification.

John W. Cotton, University of California, Santa Barbara, A sequence-specificconcept identification model.

Otomar J. Bartos, University of Pittsburgh, Negotiation processes.Robert B. Smith, Ohio State University, Survey research and computer

simulations.Richard J. Harris, Veterans Administration, Palo Alto, A geometric classifi-

cations system for 2x2 interval- symmetric games.

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10-12 a.m. Session 4c : Choice Behavior

John I. Yellott, University of Minnesota, Invariance of choice reactiontimes corrected for fast guessing.

Roy Freedle, Educational Testing Service, A modified k-span learningmodel based on a new short-term memory method.

Paul C. Vitz and Thomas C. Todd, New York University, An informationmodel of the perceptual processing of sequential stimuli.

David J. Getty, University of Pennsylvania, The partial reinforcementeffect and its implications for learning models.

Robert Shaw and Peter Pufall, University of Minnesota, A push-down storemodel for patterned sequence learning.

1-3 p.m. Session 5a : Measurement and Scaling II

William P. Harris, Lincoln Laboratory, Mathematical aspects of a Thurs-tonian analysis of S/R matrices.

Amos Tversky, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Advantage theory: Amodel of value and choice.

Joseph L. Zinnes, Ronald Wolff and Joseph Hettich, Indiana University,Multidimensional analyses of same -different judgments.

J. Edward Russo, The University of Michigan, Thurstone's L. C. J.(Case III) and strong stochastic transitivity.

J. 0. Ramsay, McGill University, Numerical optimizing: A technique andsome psychological applications.

Clyde H. Coombs and L. C. Huant, University of Michigan, A conjointmeasurement test of a polynomial theory of risk.

1-5 p.m. Session 5b : Symposium

Donald A. Norman, Chairman. Models of MemorySpeakers and Discussants :

Richard C. Atkinson, Stanford UniversityRobert A. Bjork, University of MichiganGordon H. Bower, Stanford UniversityEdward Feigenbaum, Stanford UniversityWalter Kintsch, Stanford UniversityJohn Morton, Yale UniversityBennet B. Murdock, University of TorontoJudith Reitman, University of MichiganDavid E. Rumelhart, University of California, San DiegoRichard M. Shiffrin, Stanford UniversityGeorge Sperling, Bell Telephone LaboratoriesWayne A. Wickelgren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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