Host Institution:  The University of North Carolina at Greensboro {directions are below}

Date and Time:  9:00 AM - 5:30 PM, Saturday February 11, 2006

Room:  New Science Building, Room 201

Parking:  At McIver Garage, corner of McIver and Carr on UNCG campus

Contact:  nccc@uncg.edu {email / all co-organizers}; 336-256-0010 {phone / Peter Delaney, co-organizer}

Keynote Speaker

Dr. Michael C. Anderson of the University of Oregon will present some of his recent research. Professor Anderson is an internationally-known cognitive psychologist whose past work has combined cognitive psychology and neuroscience to explore inhibition in memory.  He is best recognized for his work on retrieval-induced forgetting, which is thought to show that memory retrieval involves active suppression of competing memories.  More recently, he has developed the "think/no-think" paradigm in which people deliberately try to inhibit a memory.  More details can be found on his web site.

Tentative Schedule of Talks

9:00-9:30 ~ Coffee and muffins

9:30-9:35 ~ Opening remarks by Ed Wisniewski, UNCG Cognitive Area Chair

9:35-9:40  ~ Remarks by Rosemary Wander, Associate Provost for Research

9:40-10:00  ~ The impact of specific study strategies on spacing effects
                      Peter Delaney, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

10:00-10:20  ~ The role of working memory in judgment and choice
                        Douglas Wendell and Mark Ferris, University of South Carolina

10:20 -10:40  ~ An item-level analysis of age differences in strategic skill acquisition
                         D. R. Touron, Appalachian State University

10:40-11:00  ~ Protection from forgetting: The benefits of episodic and semantic integration on retrieval induced forgetting
                         Leilani Goodman, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and Michael Anderson, University of Oregon

11:00-11:20  ~ Working together: The type of interaction influences collaborative inhibition
                        Marty Bink and Michael Beyerlein University of North Texas

11:20-11:40  ~ Break

11:40 -12:00  ~ The search for the isolation effect in children
                         Stuart Marcovitch, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

12:00 -12:20  ~ Insights into the basis of gains associated with repetition lag memory training in older adults
                         Dale Dagenbach, Heather Roth, and Janine Jennings Wake Forest University

12:20 -12:40  ~ Visual perception without awareness: Evidence from motion-induced blindness
                         Stephen Mitroff, Duke University

12:40-2:40  ~ Lunch and posters

2:40-3:40  ~ Keynote Talk: Michael C. Anderson, University of Oregon “Individual differences in the ability to suppress unwanted memories”

3:40-4:00  ~ Eliminating presentation format effects by forcing attention to printed words
                     Paula Goolkasian, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

4:00-4:20  ~ Modeling spatial memory for location in static and dynamic environments
                     Sylvia Fitting, Gary Allen, and Douglas Wedell, University of South Carolina

4:20-4:40  ~ Cognitive control and prior-task interference
                     Mark Faust, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

4:40-5:00  ~ Pre-existing semantic associations and directed forgetting
                     Lili Sahakyan and Leilani Goodman, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

5:00-5:05  ~ Closing Remarks

Call for Posters

To submit a poster, please email nccc@uncg.edu with the following information:

1. Title
2. Approximately 150-word abstract
3. Your status:  Ph.D or equivalent; current graduate student; undergraduate student; or other
4. Your university (or other institution) and department, if applicable
5. Whether you prefer a spoken presentation (20 minutes including questions) or a poster (up to 4' x 5' in size)

Submissions will be reviewed on a rolling basis. 

As of this update, we are now accepting only posters. 

The purpose of the North Carolina Cognition Conference is to foster collaboration and cooperation amongst different research groups throughout North Carolina and its neighboring states.  Attending researchers are involved in research on human cognition and allied disciplines.  The conference provides an ideal opportunity to learn what research is ongoing in North Carolina, to share ideas, to promote and recruit students.

Pre-registration

To pre-register, please send email to nccc@uncg.edu indicating that you wish to attend.  If you would like a pre-printed name badge, include your full name and institutional affiliation (if any).  There is a $10 conference fee that covers lunch, parking, coffee, and costs associated with the conference and which is collected on the day of the conference.

Directions

From the East:  From I-40/85 West, take the NC-6 / East Lee Street exit.  Turn right on Tate Street.  Turn left on Carr Street.  At the stop sign, turn right on McIver.  The McIver garage will be on your left.

From the West:  From I-40 East, take the Wendover Ave East exit. Follow Wendover to the exit for Market St. (3.5 miles). Turn right on Market St. and follow for less than 1 mile. Turn right on McIver Street. The McIver parking deck will be on your right.

Equipment for Speakers

We will have a PC available for speakers to load their talks on to, along with a projector for the screen.  We can make an overhead projector available upon request.  If you will be using a Macintosh computer, please bring your laptop so that we can attach it to the projector.