WELCOME TO THE CNS NEWSLETTER COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE SOCIETY NEWSLETTER December 2001 Table of Contents: I Welcome to the Newsletter II Society News III Annual Meeting IV Announcements V Positions Available VI Conferences VII CNS Registration/Membership Form *************************************************************** I WELCOME TO THE COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE SOCIETY NEWSLETTER *************************************************************** This newsletter is intended for CNS members only. It is a monthly newsletter designed to update CNS members on events, job opportunities, and related information in the field of Cognitive Neuroscience. The Newsletter is emailed monthly to all current members (receipt of this Newsletter does not confirm membership status, contact cnsinfo@cogneurosociety.org for membership status), and sections are posted on the Society's Web site. To become a member or to renew your membership use the membership application form at the end of the newsletter. For guidelines on submitting an announcement to the newsletter, email cnsnewsletter@cogneurosociety.org. ************************************************************** II SOCIETY NEWS ************************************************************** Duke University to host CNS Business Offices Duke University to host CNS Business Offices The Governing Board of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society is pleased to announce that beginning in August 2001, the Business Office of the society will be hosted by the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University. The Board wishes to thank Dartmouth College for hosting the business office over the past few years. ************************************************************** III ANNUAL MEETING ************************************************************** The 2002 meeting will be in San Francisco at the Hyatt Regency Embarcadero, April 14-16. Call the Hyatt at 415-788-1234 for reservations. Be sure to ask for the CNS discounted rate. The official airline of the CNS meeting is United. call 1-800-521-4041 and refer to CNS meeting ID code 552WI for discounted flights. The Call for Abstracts deadline has passed. The poster committee is reviewing all submitted abstracts. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be emailed in December. Note: Only the submitting author will receive email acknowledgments from CNS. A Pre-registration form for registering for the meeting and which can also be used to apply for or renew membership is located at the end of the Newsletter. Please note to receive your printed program will all abstracts presented at the meeting by mail you must pre-register no later than January 8, 2002. George A. Miller Distinguished Lecture The Cognitive Neuroscience Society is pleased to announce that Professor Daniel Kahneman of Princeton University is the 2002 George A. Miller Distinguished Lecturer. This lectureship has been established by the Foundation to honor George Miller for his unrelenting efforts to establish the field of cognitive neuroscience. The lecture is to be presented at the ninth Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting at the Hyatt Regency Embarcadero in San Francisco on April 14, 2002. Symposia 2002 Brain Systems Underlying Language Processing: The Continuing Past Tense Debate Chair: James L. McClelland?, Carnegie Mellon UniversitY? Speakers: Steven Pinker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Michael Ullman, Georgetown University Karalyn Patterson, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit Moderator: Helen Neveille, University of Oregon Neural and Cognitive Bases of Recognition Memory Chair: Michael D. Rugg, University College London Speakers: Malcolm W. Brown, University of Bristol Larry R. Squire, University of California, San Diego Andrew P. Yonelinas, University of California, Davis Developmental Brain Plasticity: A Search for Boundary Conditions Chair: Daphne Bavelier, University of Rochester Speakers: Daphne Maurer, McMaster? University Anthony J. Movshon, New York University Michael P. Stryker, University of California, San Francisco News for Neurons: Neural Mechanisms for the Processing of Novelty Chair: Charan Ranganath, University Of California, Berkeley Speakers: Robert T. Knight, University of California, Berkeley Thomas Grunwald, University of Bonn Amanda Parker, University of Nottingham Gregor Rainer, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics The Cognitive Neuroscience of Synesthesia Chairs: Noam Sagiv, University Of California, Berkeley and Edward Hubbard, University of California, San Diego Speakers: V. S. Ramachandran, University of California, San Diego Anina N. Rich, University of Melbourne Philip M. Merikle, University of Waterloo Lynn C. Robertson, University of California, Berkeley The Role of V1 in Human Visual Awareness Chair: Frank Tong, Princeton University Speakers: David J. Heeger, Stanford University Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Harvard Medical School or Vincent Walsh, University of Oxford ******************************************************* IV ANNOUNCEMENTS ******************************************************* Call for Nominations to Young Investigator Award Committee 2002 The Governing Board of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society is soliciting nominations, including self nominations, for the 2002 Young Investigator Award Committee. The committee will be charged with selecting the awardees for the 2002 Young Investigator Award of the society. The committee will review nominations packages submitted by December 1, 2001, and select the awardees by January 15, 2002. The Governing Board will select the committee from among the nominations received from the membership, and will oversee the activities of the committee. It is anticipated that the selected Award Committee members will be members of the society, and will be distinguished senior scientists representing a range of areas of scientific interest. Please email nominations to: awardcommittee2002@cogneurosociety.org no later than December 1, 2001. Please indicate AWARD COMMITTEE NOMINATION in the email subject header. ************************************************************ Call for Nominations YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD IN COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE The Cognitive Neuroscience Society is pleased to announce the establishment of the Young Investigator Award in Cognitive Neuroscience to recognize outstanding contributions by scientists early in their careers. Two such awardees will be named each year by the Award Committee, and will be honored at the annual meeting of the society. Each award includes $500 US to be used by the awardee toward travel costs to the meeting, or for any other purpose. Eligibility: For the 2002 awards, the nominee MUST be: working in any area of cognitive neuroscience (broadly defined). no more than 10 years from the receipt of their doctoral degree as of July 1, 2002 (i.e., doctoral degree awarded on or after July 1, 1992). less than 40 years of age as of July 1, 2002. nominated by another individual (no self nominations will be accepted). a member of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society by December 1, 2001 (the deadline for receipt of nominations). in attendance at the 2002 meeting to accept the award in person. Nomination Materials MUST Include: ALL NOMINATION MATERIALS MUST BE SUBMITTED ELECTRONICALLY TO award2002@cogneurosociety.org Nomination statement of no more than three single spaced pages describing the accomplishments of the nominee and how these merit consideration for the Young Investigator Award. The statement should indicate the name, current position and contact information of the person making the nomination. Name, current position and contact information for the nominee. Curriculum vitae of the nominee including name, date of birth, education (including day, month and year doctoral degree was awarded), training, positions, awards, and publications. One page statement of the nominees' research program (in addition to the nomination letter). A list containing the five most important peer-reviewed publications of the nominee. One peer-reviewed publication from the list of five (also submitted as electronically, as a pdf file: Note, for reprint not available to the nominator as pdf from the journal, the article should be carefully scanned and converted to pdf format readable by Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 or higher). One letter of recommendation in addition to the letter of nomination (also submitted electronically and submitted directly by the reference). If possible, all the foregoing materials (except the letter of recommendation) should be included in a single email. Use the nominee's last name in the SUBJECT HEADER of the email in the following format: Nomination for (nominee's last name). If multiple emails are required, then indicate the related series of messages in the email SUBJECT HEADER using incrementing headers that include the nominee's last name (i.e., Nomination for (nominee's last name) 1/4, Nomination for (nominee's last name) 2/4, Nomination for (nominee's last name) 3/4, ... etc.) Nominations will be evaluated by the Awards Committee, consisting of eminent cognitive neuroscientists selected from nominations solicited of the membership and appointed by the Governing Board of the society. The committee will make the selection and the awardees will be notified by January 31th, 2002. The awards will be presented prior to the George A. Miller Lecture at the April 2002 meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society to be held in San Francisco, California. Please forward all materials electronically via email to award2002@cogneurosociety.org prior to December 1, 2001. No late nominations can be accepted. ****************************************************** FUNDING OPPORTUNITY James S. McDonnell? Foundation 21st Century Science Initiative - 2002 Application Deadline: March 15 The James S. McDonnell? Foundation announces new program descriptions and application guidelines for the 21st Century Science Initiative. Grants available for research in three topic areas - Brain Cancer; Bridging Brain, Mind, and Behavior; and Studying Complex Systems. The Foundation supports investigator-initiated research and collaborative projects likely to advance the current state of knowledge. Program information, application guidelines, and proposal preparation instructions are available at: www.jsmf.org. No geographic restrictions; international applications are encouraged. Susan M. Fitzpatrick, Ph.D.; Vice President; James S. McDonnell? Foundation; www.jsmf.org; tel: 314-721-1532 ****************************************************** European Journal of Cognitive Psychology Announcement of a Special Issue on Neuroimaging Investigations of Mental Imagery The European Journal of Cognitive Psychology will be publishing a Special Issue on Neuroimaging Investigations of Mental Imagery. The Guest Editors for this issue will be: Michel Denis, LIMSI-CNRS, Univ. de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France Emmanuel Mellet, GIN-CNRS/CEA, Univ. de Caen/Univ. Rene-Descartes, France Stephen M. Kosslyn, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA Papers should address any issue in which neuroimaging techniques (such as PET, fMRI, or MEG) were used to advance our knowledge of mental imagery. Reports of original data are welcome, as well as integrative reviews of sets of data. Papers should not be more than 8000 words and should be submitted to Claus Bundesen, the journal editor, in the normal way, with a cover letter indicating that they are to be considered for the Special Issue. Deadline for receipt of papers for the Special Issue is March 31, 2002. ************************************************************ VI CONFERENCES ************************************************************ Ethics and the Cognitive Neuroscience Revolution. A one-day symposium at the University of Pennsylvania, sponsored by the Center for Bioethics in cooperation with the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, on February 7, 2002. Speakers will include Steven Hyman, NIMH, and Steven Pinker, MIT. For information please contact Paul Root Wolpe at wolpe@ssc.upenn.edu. **************************************************************** 13-14th May, 2002 The fMRI Experience IV Natcher Conference Centre, National Institute of Health Bethesda, MD, USA A free conference aimed at the further understanding of fMRI methods and applications. Registration and Absract Submission deadline: February 1st, 2002 Contact: Dr. Carl Senior (carl@codon.nih.gov) See website for further details: http://intramural.nimh.nih.gov/fmriconf/index.htm ************************************************************ CALL FOR ABSTRACTS SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS May 29 - June 1, 2002 Boston University Center for Adaptive Systems and Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems 677 Beacon Street Boston, Massachusetts 02215 This conference includes oral and poster presentations of experiments and models about how the brain controls behavior. Abstract deadline: January 31, 2002. Graduate student and postdoctoral travel fellowships available. Contact: Cynthia Bradford, cindy@cns.bu.edu, 617-353-7755 (fax), http://www.cns.bu.edu/meetings/. ************************************************************ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ** The 24th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci2002?), August 8-10, 2002, at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, (http://www.hfac.gmu.edu/~cogsci/). Plenary addresses will be given by Prof. Shiffrin (Indiana University); Dr. Stuart Card (Xerox PARC), and Prof. David Woods (The Ohio State University). DEADLINES: See website for submission details Feb 6 2002: Six-page papers. Refereed papers for publication in Proceedings. Feb 6 2002: Packaged-Symposium. Proposals for complete 90-min symposium April 30 2002: Member Poster Abstracts. One-page to appear in Proceedings, with Poster presented at the conference. Feb 11 2002: Publication-Based Submission. Traditional talk by researchers with a track record of publishing on their topic. TARGETED SYMPOSIUM TOPICS: Augmented Cognition, Natural Language and Statistics, Cognitive Science Applied to Early Education (See website for more details) ***We are encouraging submissions for one-day tutorials to be given August 7th. See: http://acs.ist.psu.edu/cogsci2002/tutorials.html for more information. ***We are seeking support for students from outside of GMU to work as student volunteers. Interested students go to: http://hfac.gmu.edu/~cogsci/studentvolunteers.html. Co-Chairs Wayne D. Gray & Chris Schunn cogsci@gmu.edu, http://hfac.gmu.edu/~cogsci/ ************************************************************ CALL FOR ABSTRACTS VSS 02 Abstract Submission for the second annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society will be available December 1 through December 12th. The meeting will be May 10-15, at the Hyatt Regency in Sarasota, Florida, USA. Abstracts should be submitted at the new VSS Web site, http://www.vision-sciences.org, where detailed information about the meeting is also available. Registration for the meeting will be possible soon; the deadline for Registration is February 15. ************************************************************ VII CNS REGISTRATION/MEMBERSHIP FORM (copy and email to cnsinfo@cogneurosociety.org or print and fax to 978-749-0025) ************************************************************* CNS Annual Meeting APRIL 14-16, 2002 Register Early: Discounts on all Pre-Registration All meeting events are open to those wearing a meeting badge. All badges will be issues at the meeting. Pre-registrants will receive their badge at the pre-registration check-in table at the meeting. Programs will be mailed to all pre-registrants who register before January 8, 2002. 1. 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Regular Membership and Pre-registration $155 Postdoc Membership and Pre-registration $120 Student Membership and Pre-registration $60 On-Site Registration Discounts on Pre-registrations apply only until March 15, 2002 and do not apply to On-site Registrations. After March 15, we can no longer accept registration at our office. After this date, you may register on-site at the meeting. Member On-site Registration $130 Non Member On-site Registration $180 Post Doc Member On-site Registration $95 Post Doc Non Member On-site Registration $150 Student Member On-site Registration $55 Student Non Member On-site Registration $95 3. Choose method of payment Visa/MasterCard? credit card account number with authorization to charge the amount of _______ for _______ people. Name on Credit Card Account Account # Exp. Date Check or money order in the amount of _______ for _______ people. Check MUST accompany registration. All Check or money order funds must be in US dollars and drawn on a US bank. 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