Newsletter
Volume 29 | 2006 | Number 1
SQAB
Society for the Quantitative Analyses of Behavior 29th Annual Meeting, May 25 – 27, 2006; International Ballroom South, Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Warren K. Bickel, Richard Yi, Kirsten Gatchalian, Diana Lindquist, and Ben Kowal, University of Arkansas.
Discounting of Past Rewards: Comparison of Cigarette Smokers and Controls
Adam H. Doughty and Kennon A. Lattal, College of Charleston and West Virginia University.
Studying Applied Compliance Procedures in Pigeons
Douglas Elliffe, University of Auckland.
Variability and Constraint in Quantitative Models of Behavior
Edmund Fantino, Santino Gaitan, Art Kennelly, and Stephanie Stolarz-Fantino, University of California, San Diego.
How Reinforcer Type Affects Choice in Economic Games
Gordon R. Foxall, Cardiff University.
Explaining Consumer Choice: Coming to Terms with Intentionality
Paul Glimcher, New York University.
Neuroeconomic Studies of Choice and the Matching Law
Steven R. Hursh and Alan Silberberg, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and American University.
The Essential Value of Reinforcers
Jeremie Jozefowiez, D.T. Cerutti and J.E.R. Staddon, Duke University.
Choice, Timing and the Modularity of Behavior
Alex Kacelnik, Oxford University.
Tool Oriented Behaviour in New Caledonian Crows: A Behavioural Analysis Challenge
Kimberly Kirkpatrick and Matthew Pizzo, University of York.
Characteristics of Response Bouts in Interval Timing Tasks
Stephen E. G. Lea, University of Exeter
Antelopes, Berries and Cousins: The ABCs of Behaving in a Consumer Culture with a Stone Age Brain
J. J. McDowell, Emory University.
Undermatching is an Emergent Property of Selection by Consequences
Allen Neuringer, Greg Jensen, and Paul Piff, Reed College.
Matching and the Perception of Voluntary Behavior
John A. Nevin and Anthony P. McLean, University of New Hampshire and University of Canterbury.
A Model of Response Rates and Their Resistance to Change in Concurrent Schedules
Michael L. Platt, Duke University.
Economics in the Primate Brain
Thomas R. Zentall, Andrea M. Friedrich, Emily D. Klein, & Rebecca A. Singer, University of Kentucky.
Wrinkles in Time Assessment in Animals: Production, Discrimination, Detection, and Subjectivity>
SQAB is sponsoring the following Invited Preeminent Tutorials during the ABA program. These tutorials will also be available as inexpensive videotapes for classroom use.
Invited Preeminent Tutorials: From Basics to Contemporary Paradigms
Charles Shimp, University of Utah,
Explicit Methods and Implicit Human Values in Quantitative Behavioral Modules
Chair: Randolph Grace, University of Canterbury
José E. Burgos, CEIC – University of Guadalajara,
Neural-Network Modeling in Conditioning Research
Chair: Jeffrey L. Elman, University of California, San Diego
M. Christopher Newland, Auburn University,
Applied Modeling and the Identification of Behavioral Mechanisms of Action
Chair: Mark Reilly, Central Michigan University.
A. Charles Catania, University of Maryland, Baltimore County,
Creating Artificial Behavior: A Tutorial on Modeling
Chair: John Staddon, Duke University
For further information, visit the SQAB Web site at: http://sqab.psychology.org or contact Randolph Grace, SQAB Program Chair, at randolph.grace@canterbury.ac.nz