Attention and Performance Meeting to be held July 1-7, 2002 in Erice, Sicily

注意力和绩效会议将于 2002 年 7 月 1 日至 7 日在西西里岛埃里切举行

• 批准号: 0201898
• 负责人: Nancy Kanwisher
• 金额: $ 1.8万
• 依托单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-07-01 至 2003-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0201898&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Attention; Performance; Meeting; held; July

Attention and Performance MeetingABSTRACTWith National Science Foundation support, junior researchers will be provided the funds to participate in the XXth meeting of the International Association for the Study of Attention and Performance (IASAP). This meeting will be held from July 1-7 in Erice, Sicily, and will address the topic of Functional Brain Imaging of Visual Cognition. Functional brain imaging may have by now surpassed all other techniques in cognitive science in terms of expense, growth rate, and public visibility. But how much has this new set of techniques actually contributed to the study of human cognition? When if ever has a finding from brain imaging constrained a cognitive theory? We are sympathetic to those who have watched from the sidelines and felt underwhelmed by the contributions of brain imaging to cognitive science. Many of the early imaging studies in fact had little to offer researchers interested in cognition. However, we are encouraged by more recent results and hopeful that a new era is beginning in which functional brain imaging may realize its potential as a powerful tool for the study of cognition. It is the goal of this meeting to tackle all of these issues by addressing whether, when, and how functional brain imaging can constrain theories of human cognition. We have chosen to focus our discussions around the specific topic of visual cognition, where much of the best recent imaging work has been carried out. We have selected 65 of the top researchers in the world who either do imaging work on visual cognition, or who have expertise in a closely related field the understanding of which is critical for our advancement of brain imaging research (e.g., cognitive psychology, single-unit recording, computational modeling). At the meeting, these researchers will present the latest results from their labs and discuss the ways in which imaging can and cannot provide answers to cognitive questions. The meeting will include sessions on modularity, visual object representation, development and plasticity, visual attention, and sensorimotor integration. Every effort was made to include minorities, women, and researchers at early stages of their careers. We anticipate that several factors will guarantee that this meeting will have a broad impact not only on those attending it, but also on the field as a whole. These factors include the prestige of the IASAP, the high visibility of many of the meeting participants, and the long tradition of publishing from each Attention & Performance meeting an excellent and widely-cited volume of articles.

注意力与表现会议摘要在国家科学基金会的支持下，将为初级研究人员提供参加国际注意力与表现研究协会（IASAP）第XX届会议的资金。 本次会议将于 7 月 1 日至 7 日在西西里岛埃里切举行，主题是视觉认知的功能性脑成像。到目前为止，功能性脑成像在费用、增长率和公众知名度方面可能已经超越了认知科学中的所有其他技术。但这套新技术实际上对人类认知研究做出了多大贡献？大脑成像的发现何时会限制认知理论？我们对那些旁观者表示同情，他们对脑成像对认知科学的贡献感到不知所措。事实上，许多早期的成像研究对认知感兴趣的研究人员几乎没有什么帮助。然而，我们对最近的结果感到鼓舞，并希望一个新时代即将开始，功能性脑成像可能会发挥其作为认知研究强大工具的潜力。本次会议的目标是通过解决功能性脑成像是否、何时以及如何限制人类认知理论来解决所有这些问题。我们选择将讨论集中在视觉认知的特定主题上，最近许多最好的成像工作都是在这个主题上进行的。我们挑选了 65 名世界顶尖研究人员，他们要么从事视觉认知成像工作，要么在密切相关的领域拥有专业知识，这些领域的理解对于我们脑成像研究的进步至关重要（例如认知心理学、单一认知心理学）。单元记录、计算建模）。在会议上，这些研究人员将展示他们实验室的最新结果，并讨论成像可以或不能提供认知问题答案的方式。会议将包括关于模块化、视觉对象表示、发展和可塑性、视觉注意力和感觉运动整合的会议。我们尽一切努力将少数族裔、女性和处于职业生涯早期阶段的研究人员纳入其中。 我们预计，有几个因素将保证这次会议不仅对与会者，而且对整个领域产生广泛的影响。 这些因素包括 IASAP 的声望、许多会议参与者的高知名度，以及每次注意力与绩效会议发表大量被广泛引用的优秀文章的悠久传统。