30th European Mathematical Psychology Group Meeting
Mannheim, August 30 - September 2, 1999

Final Program

 
Monday, August 30
 Room O 163
 Symposium in Honor of Prof. Jan Drösler
Chairs: H. Irtel & J. Lukas
9:30Hans Irtel (Mannheim): The Regensburg Mathematical Psychology Group
10:00Franz Schmalhofer (Heidelberg): Where Process and Measurement Models Meet, Revisited
10:30Josef Lukas (Halle-Wittenberg): Order Structure of Order Relations
11:00Coffee Break
11:30Cornelia E. Dowling (Braunschweig): Systems for Adaptive, Computerbased Learning
12:00Ronald Hübner & Peter Malinowski (Konstanz): How to Produce Fast Absent-Responses in Visual Search
12:30Karl R. Gegenfurtner (Tübingen): Temporal Dynamics of Adaptation in Color Appearance and Discrimination
13:00Lunch Break
14:30Jean-Claude Falmagne (Irvine): Media Theory
15:00William Batchelder (Irvine): On the Apparent Failure of the Strategy of Model Competition to Achieve "Final Theory" in Cognitive Psychology
15:30George Sperling (Irvine), Luis A. Lesmes & Zhong-Lin Lu (Los Angeles): A Theory of Isoluminant Chromatic Motion Perception
16:00Coffee Break
16:30Tarow Indow (Irvine): Visual Space under Non-Egocentric Localization
17:00R. Duncan Luce (Irvine): Levels of Measurement Laws
17:30Closing Session
 
Tuesday, August 31
 Room O 163Room O 169
 Perception Algebraic and Probabilistic Measurement Models
9:00Kimberly A. Jameson (San Diego), Valerie Bonnardel (Cambridge, UK), Susan M. Highnote & Linda Wasserman (San Diego): Photopigment Opsin Variation and Color Sensation Thierry Marchant (Bruxelles): An Alternative Framework for Decision Theory in the Context of Multicriteria Decision Aiding
9:30Chingis Izmailov, Evgenii Sokolov & Svetlana Korshunova (Moscow): The Spherical Model of Color Discrimination Based on Human VEP Data Reinhard Suck (Osnarbrück): When Automorphisms are Rare
10:00Toshio Watanabe (Fujisawa): Non-Euclidean Property of Blind Walking Louis Narens (Irvine): A Mathematical Theory of Belief
10:30Coffee Break
11:00Martin Lages & Michel Treisman (Berlin): Discrimination of Depth and Criterion-Setting Ranald R. Macdonald (Stirling): Incompleteness and Probability Modelling
11:30Mario Zanforlin, Luigi Beghi & Elisabetta Xausa (Padua): Twelve Years of Modelling of Stereokinetic Phenomena Alexei Pestov (Moscow): The Development of Mathematical Psychlogy in the Future
 
 Invited Lecture
12:00Claus Bundesen (Copenhagen): Models of Visual Attention: A Selective Review
13:00Lunch Break
 
 Symposium: 30 Years of EMPG
Organizer and Chair: J.-C. Falmagne
14:30Josef Lukas (Halle): Knowledge Representation and Cognitive Processes
15:00Patrick Suppes (Stanford): Learning
15:30R. Duncan Luce (Irvine): Measurement and Utility
16:00Coffee Break
16:30Jan Drösler (Regensburg): Visual Space
17:00Jean-Claude Falmagne (Irvine): Mathematical Psychology and Psychophysics
 
19:00Conference Dinner at Seerestaurant in the Luisenpark
 
Wednesday, September 1
 Room O 163Room O 169
 Psychophysics Response Time Distributions
9:00Wolfgang Ellermeier & Günther Faulhammer (Regensburg): Empirical Evaluation of Axioms Fundamental to Stevens' Ratio-Scaling Approach
9:30Jürgen Heller (Regensburg): On the Illumination-Invariance of Plateau's Midgrey
10:00Akos Munnich & Janos Math (Debrecen): A Preference Response Continous Scale Model
10:30Coffee Break
11:00Francois Bavaud (Lausanne): Heuristic of Relevant Features and Perception of Randomness Diana Eugenie Kornbrot (Hatfield): Nail that Distribution: Linear Weighted Moments for Identifying the Form of Reaction Time Distributions Generated by Perceptual, Cognitive and Decision Tasks
11:30Jerry Balakrishnan (West Lafayette): Signal Detection Theory: Fundamental Misrepresentations of Human Performance Douglas Vickers & Anthony Pietsch (Adelaide): Accuracy, Response Time, Confidence and Short-Term Memory in Simple Decisions
 
 Invited Lecture
12:00Adele Diederich (Oldenburg): Switching Attention: Diffusion Models of Response Time and Choice Probability for Multiattribute Stimuli
13:00Lunch Break
 
 Symposium: Psychometric Functions and Adaptive Procedures
Chair: W. Ellermeier
Models for Complex Tasks
14:30Christian Kaernbach (Leipzig): Using Unforced-Choice Tasks in Adaptive Psychophysical Procedures Tom Verguts & Paul De Boeck (Leuven): A Model for Speed and Accuracy Data on Complex Mental Tasks
15:00Andreas Möltner (Mannheim): Adaptive Methods for Estimating Multivariate Psychophysical Thresholds Peter Theuns (Ghent): A Boolean Approach to Hierarchical Data Analysis, an Overview
15:30Miguel A. Garcia-Perez (Madrid): Simulation and Empirical Studies of Forced-Choice Staircases with Fixed Step Sizes Stefan Klein & Bodo Krause (Berlin): Item Selection in IRT Models for Measuring Change
16:00Coffee Break
16:30Marco J.H. Puts & Peter R. Snoeren (Nijmegen): MUEST: an Adaptive Psychometric Method
17:00Bernhard Treutwein & Hans Strasburger (München): Assessing the Variability of Psychometric Functions
17:30Victor E. Doubrovski & Olga V. Lovi (Moscow): The Nonparametric Procedure for Comparison of Psychometric Functions
 
Thursday, September 2
 Room O 163Room O 169
 Perceptual Processes Knowledge and Activity
9:00Martin Schrepp (Hockenheim): A Method to Compare Knowledge Structures Concerning their Adequacy
9:30Karl Erich Wolff (Darmstadt) & Norbert Spangenberg (Frankfurt): Conceptual Knowledge Representation in Psychoanalytic Process Research
10:00Günter Lehmann (Wuppertal): A Method for Approximating the Shape of Latent Fields of Single Visual Points for Predicting Geometric Optical Illusions. Cord Hockemeyer (Graz): Probabilistic Assessment of Knowledge
10:30Coffee Break
11:00Jun Zhang (Ann Arbor): Riemannian Geometric Framework for Perceptual Binding and Object "Oneness" T. N. Savchenko & G. M. Golovina (Moscow): Quantitative Methods of Psychological Activity Theory
11:30Closing Session: Where Do We Meet Next Year? In Graz!