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27 - 28 June 2006
By invitation only
Venue: B10 Seminar Room, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR
Please see map at: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/images/map_arounducl_l.jpg
Supported by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation
PROGRAMME
| Tuesday 27 June | |
| 0900 - 0920 | Tea / Coffee and Welcome (Nick Chater and Mike Oaksford) |
| Paper Session 1 | Inference and Argument |
0920 - 0955 |
Craig McKenzie - A Rational Account of (Some) Framing Effects |
| 0955 - 1030 | Mike Oaksford & Nick Chater - Bayesian Reasoning, Conditional Asymmetries and Mental Mechanisms |
| 1030 - 1105 | Jonathan Nelson - Towards a rational theory of human information acquisition |
| 1105 – 1135 | Tea / Coffee (Room B.04) |
| 1135 – 1210 | Ulrike Hahn - The Rationality of Informal Argumentation: A Bayesian Approach to the Fallacies |
| 1210 - 1310 | Conference Address: John Anderson - The role of rational analysis in the ACT-R theory of memory |
| 1310 - 1410 | Lunch (Room B.04) |
| Paper Session 2 | Decision Making |
| 1410 - 1445 | Ralph Hertwig - The Game of Life: Frugal Sampling Makes It Simpler |
| 1445 - 1520 | Peter Juslin - Man as a Naïve Intuitive Statistician |
| 1520 - 1555 | Neil Stewart - A decision by sampling account of trade-off effects |
| 1555 - 1625 | Tea / Coffee (Room B.04) |
| 1625 - 1700 | Marius Usher - Dynamics and optimality of choice and decision-making |
| 1700 - 1800 | Conference Address: Gerd Gigerenzer - Fast and Frugal Heuristics |
| 19.30 – finish | Conference Dinner: Trattoria Verdi Restaurant, 110 Southampton Row, WC1 4BL |
| Wednesday 28 June | |
| Paper Session 3 | Causality and Categorization |
| 0915 - 0950 | Steven Sloman - Causal Models: Right about Reasoning, Wrong about Learning (and More) |
| 0950 - 1025 | Michael Waldmann - Causal Learning in Rats |
| 1025 - 1100 | David Danks - Rational Models and Heuristic Approximations |
| 1100 - 1130 | Tea / Coffee (Room B.04) |
| 1130 – 1205 | Tom Griffiths - Blicket detectors and theory-based Bayesian inference |
| 1205 - 1305 | Conference Address: Klaus Fielder – Pseudocontingencies - A key paradigm for understanding adaptive cognition |
1305 - 1405 |
Lunch (Room B.04) |
| Paper Session 4 | Learning and Memory |
| 1405 - 1440 | Nathaniel Daw & Peter Dayan - Rational and irrational models in classical and instrumental conditioning |
| 1440 - 1515 | David Huber - A factorial hidden markov model of perception and working memory |
| 1515 - 1550 | Maarten Speekenbrink & David Shanks - Through the Looking Glass: A Dynamic Lens Model Approach to Learning in MCPL |
| 1550 - 1620 | Tea / Coffee (Room B.04) |
| 1620 - 1655 | Mark Steyvers - Probabilistic Topic Models for Semantic Memory and Information Retrieval |
| 1655 - 1755 | Conference Address: Joshua Tenenbuam -Where do the priors come from? The role of structured representations in Bayesian models of learning and reasoning |
Conference ends
