Newsletter
Volume 32 | 2009 | Number 1
SQAB: Society for the Quantitative Analyses of Behavior 32nd Annual Meeting; Sheraton Phoenix
Thursday, May 21:
5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Registration, 1st Poster Session, Cash bar
Friday, May 22:
Randolph Grace, University of Canterbury. President’s introduction.
Mark E. Bouton, University of Vermont. Toward an associative analysis of temporal learning.
Mika L. M. MacInnis, Brown University. A 100-year-old confound: A reexamination of classical and instrumental conditioning.
Douglas Ellife & Michael Davison, The University of Auckland. Four-alternative choice.
Greg Jensen & Allen Neuringer, Reed College. Extending generalized matching.
J. Mark Cleaveland, Vassar College. The Active Time model concurrent choice.
J. Moore, University of Wisconson-Milwaukee. Some effects of procedural variables on the dynamics of operant choice.
Chris Newland, Auburn University. Bouts, drugs, and poisons: Applications of log-survivor analyses in behavioral toxicology and pharmacology.
Bruce Curry, Gordon Foxall, & Valdimar Sigurdsson, Cardiff University & Reykjavik University. The tautology of the matching law in consumer behavior analysis.
Steven R. Hursh & Ralph Spiga, Institutes for Behavior Resources & Johns Hopkins University. Exponential demand and cross-price demand interactions: Extentions for multiple reinforcers.
Ido Erev, Technion. Learning and the economics of small decisions.
Christopher A. Podlesnik & Timothy A. Shahan, University of Michigan & Utah State University. Extinction, relapse, and behavioral momentum.
Friday evening, May 22:
6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. 2nd Poster Session, Cash bar
Saturday morning, May 23:
Ron Weisman, Queen's University. A quantitative analysis of absolute pitch in birds.
K. Geoffrey White & Glenn Brown, University of Otago. A reinforcement-context model for remembering.
SQAB Keynote Speaker:
Gerald M. Edelman, M.D., Ph.D., The Neurosciences Institution.
Noble Laureate in Physiology or Medicine,
From Brain Dynamics to Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination.
Saturday afternoon, May 23:
SQAB Invited Preeminent Tutorials: From Basics to Contemporary Paradigms
| Author | Affiliation | Title | Chair |
|---|---|---|---|
| Timothy A. Shahan | Utah State University | Conditioned Reinforcement | Marc Branch, University of Florida |
| Steven Stout | Jacksonville State University | Cue Competition in Pavlovian Conditioning | Peter Killeen, Arizona State University |
| William M. Baum | University of California, Davis | Dynamics of Choice | Michael Davison, University of Auckland |
| Joel Myerson | Washington University, St. Louis | Cognitive Aging: A Behavior Theoretic Approach | Celia Gershenson, University of Minnesota |