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 of - Learning Data

3530-5 P«m. gfolladay Lounges Session 3: Symposium on Geometric Representation - of 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 Social - Psychology

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 >

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 tasks based on a physiological model of retrieval. Robert J. Baron, Clarkson College of Technology, An associative memory system. 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 for simulation of metacontrast. George Sperling, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., Energy models of binocular vision.

10-12 a.m. Session lb : Verbal Learning John Brelsford, Yale University, A finite Integer analysis of and recognition performance. William H. Batchelder, University of Illinois, A mathematical framework for item interrelationships during learning. Robert C. Calfee, University of Wisconsin, Relative efficiency of optimal presentation procedures. Chizuko Izawa, State University of New York, Buffalo, The test trial potentiating model in paired-associate learning. Douglas L. Hintzman, Peter G. Poison and William F. Lowe, The University of Texas, Quantitative application of a discrimination net model. Hugh B. G. Thomas, Illinois State Psychiatric Institute, Some applications of 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 curves estimated 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 and error variances for tests under various parallelity assumptions. Michael Levine, Educational Testing Service, An analogue of Holder's theorem for measuring brightness contrast and mental test items. D. B. Yntema, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Choosing an inverse polynomial transformation to achieve additivity. Stephen C. Johnson, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Clustering tasks and individual differences. I

1-3 p-m. Session 2b : Mathematical Analysis of Learning Data M. Frank Norman, University of Pennsylvania, Slow learning. Hans Wolff, Technische Hochschule, Braunschweig, Germany, Convergence of learning processes. Eduardo N. Siguel, , 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 models for the geometric representation of psychological data. Speakers : J. Douglas Carroll, Bell Telephone Labs., in collaboration with Mrs. J. Chang David Krantz, University of Michigan Roger N. Shepard, Harvard University, in collaboration with Mrs. J. Chang Amos Tversky, Hebrew University, Jerusalem Discussant : Robert P. Abelson, Yale University Thursday, August 29 10-12 a.m. Session ka : Psychophysics Donald D. Dorfman and Edward Alf , Jr. , San Diego State College, Maximum likelihood estimation of parameters of signal detection theory -- rating scale data, Irwin Pollack and Robert Hsieh, University of Michigan, Sampling variability of the area under the ROC-curve and of d' . Wayne C. Lee, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Information theory analysis of confidence ratings. Tino Mazzaroli, Stanford Electronics Laboratories, Double scale system theory and applications to detection problems. R. A. Kinchla, McMaster University, A model relating absolute and relative visual motion discrimination. James T. Townsend, University of Hawaii, Spatio-temporal characteristics of 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 model for conjunctive concept identification. John W. Cotton, University of California, Santa Barbara, A sequence-specific concept 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 reaction times corrected for fast guessing. Roy Freedle, Educational Testing Service, A modified k-span learning model based on a new short-term memory method. Paul C. Vitz and Thomas C. Todd, New York University, An information model of the perceptual processing of sequential stimuli. David J. Getty, University of Pennsylvania, The partial reinforcement effect and its implications for learning models. Robert Shaw and Peter Pufall, University of Minnesota, A push-down store model 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: A model 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 and some psychological applications. Clyde H. Coombs and L. C. Huant, University of Michigan, A conjoint measurement test of a polynomial theory of risk.

1-5 p.m. Session 5b : Symposium Donald A. Norman, Chairman. Models of Memory Speakers and Discussants : Richard C. Atkinson, Stanford University Robert A. Bjork, University of Michigan Gordon H. Bower, Stanford University Edward Feigenbaum, Stanford University Walter Kintsch, Stanford University John Morton, Yale University Bennet B. Murdock, University of Toronto Judith Reitman, University of Michigan David E. Rumelhart, University of California, San Diego Richard M. Shiffrin, Stanford University George Sperling, Bell Telephone Laboratories Wayne A. Wickelgren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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