NCPW14

NCPW14 will run from 1pm on Thursday, 21st August, to noontime on Saturday, 23rd August.

Thursday 21 August

SESSION 1: 1.30pm – 3.10pm	Roland Baddeley	How to recognize objects
	Victoria Leong	The child as a naïve engineer
	Chris Kello	Learning and variability in spiking neural networks
	Stefan Frank	Modelling reading times in bilingual sentence comprehension
3.10pm – 3.30pm tea break
SESSION 2: 3.30pm – 5.10pm	Padraic Monaghan	Implementing the simple model of reading deficits: A connectionist investigation of interactivity
	Alastair Smith	Examining the effects of orthographic transparency on phonological and semantic processing within a connectionist implementation of the triangle model of reading
	Jiri Cevora	Transposition and replacement effects in a deep belief model of reading
	Pieter de Vries	Neural binding in letter and word recognition
5.30: Presentation of Rumelhart Memorial Travel Awards
KEYNOTE 1: 5.40pm	Jay McClelland
6.40pm – 8.40pm Poster session and wine reception

Friday 22 August

KEYNOTE 2: 9am	Bob McMurray
SESSION 3: 10am – 10.50am	Richard Shillcock	Directions for cognitive modelling
	Serge Thill	The relevance of emergent models in application-driven research
10.50 – 11.20am tea break
SESSION 4: 11.20 – 1pm	Gert Westermann	Synthetic brain imaging of past tense processing
	Raquel Garrido Alhama	Rule learning in humans and animals
	Daniel Freudenthal	Testing the psychological plausibility of mechanisms for the construction of syntactic categories
	Milena Rabovsky	The N400 ERP component might reflect implicit prediction error in the semantic system: Further support from a connectionist model of word meaning
1pm – 2pm lunch (on your own)
SESSION 5: 2pm – 3.15pm	Clare Sims	Interactions in attention and vocabulary growth in toddler word learning: a neural network model
	Katherine Twomey	Competition affects word learning in a developmental robotic system
	Anthony Morse	The development of language in children and robots
3.15pm – 3.45pm tea break
SESSION 6: 3.45pm – 5.00pm	Alex Doumas	Learning universally generalizable functions from finite data in a neural network
	Kevin Mickey	The conceptual development of mathematical equivalence in a neural network
	Steven Hansen	Two Plus Three Is Five: Discovering Efficient Addition Strategies without Metacognition
7.30pm Dinner at The Borough, 3 Dalton Square, Lancaster

Saturday 23rd August

KEYNOTE 3: 9am – 10am	Michael Thomas
SESSION 7: 10am – 10.50am	Eddy Davelaar	Semantic memory - a lifespan view
	Michael Klein	A cortical model of symbol grounding involving STPD
10.50 – 11.20am tea break
SESSION 8: 11.20am – 1pm	Ben Cipollini	A developmental approach to long-distance connectivity
	Britta Sauereisen	A Neurocognitive Model of Adjective-Noun-Composition
	Maxim Carrere	A model of amygdalar modulations and interactions in Pavolvian conditioning
	Alberto Testolin	Learning Orthographic Structure with Sequential Generative Neural Networks

Posters

Presenter	Title
Alberto Testolin	Deep neural networks for Farsi character recognition and transfer learning
Yaning Chang	Modelling Phonetic Combinability Effects in Chinese Character Naming
Melissa Sherman	A phonological network based computational framework for word learning
Shin Asakawa	Representation and Architecture to Account for Conceptual Development and Degeneration in Semantic Dementia
Peter Hancock	Face recognition
Zahra Sadeghi	Cross-cutting structure for semantic category representation
Youzhi Zou & J McClelland	Time-course of development and factors affecting sensitivity to visual numbers through unsupervised learning