Recent Meetings:

Argentinean Scientific Society
Av. Santa Fe 1145
October 9 to 11, 2008
Buenos Aires, Argentina

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• Edgar T. Walters (University of Texas Medical School at Houston, USA): Injury, memory, and pain: evolutionary connections suggested by snail and rat neurobiology
• Daniel A. Wiegmann (Bowling Green State University, USA): Incentive relativity and the specificity of reward expectations in honeybees.
• Gavan P. McNally (University of New South Wales, Australia): Opioids and fear: Multiple roles for multiple peptides.
• Mauricio R. Papini (Texas Christian University, USA): Emotion and cognition in incentive contrast.

• Aaron Blaisdell (UCLA, USA): The special status of actions in causal reasoning in rats.
• Michael Waldmann (University of Göttingen, Germany): Reasoning about hidden events in rats.
• Javier Vila (UNAM, Mexico): Spontaneous recovery in causal learning.
• Francisco J. López (University of Málaga, Spain): Causal learning without causal judgments.
• Juan M. Rosas (University of Jaén, Spain): A comparative perspective of context-switch effects in human causal learning and animal conditioning.

• Cosme Salas (University of Sevilla): Neural mechanisms of learning and memory in teleost fish.
• Rubén N. Muzio (University of Buenos Aires and CONICET, Argentina): Neural basis of instrumental learning in amphibians.
• Masato Ishida (Osaka Kyoiku University): Nonoccurrence of instrumental learning under widely-spaced-trial condition in newts.
• Alice Powers (St. John's University, USA): Attention and the cholinergic system in turtles.
• Lainy Day (University of Mississippi): Ultimate and proximate aspects of cerebellar plasticity in birds.

• Regina Sullivan (University of Oklahoma, USA): Rapid transitions between fear and attachment learning in infant rats mediated by maternal presence.
• Luc Marlier (CNRS, Centre d'Études de Physiologie Appliquée, Strasbourg, Francia): Olfactory learning in the preterm infant.
• Julie Mennella (Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, USA): Fetal and neonatal flavor programming in humans.
• Juan Carlos Molina (Binghamton University, USA e Instituto Ferreyra, Córdoba, Argentina): Emergence and persistence of fetal and infantile alcohol-related memories.
• M. Gabriela Chotro (Universidad del País Vasco, San Sebastián, España): Prenatal and postnatal experiences with ethanol affecting the response to ethanol's taste in rat pups.

• Santiago Pellegrini (Instituto de Investigaciones Médicas Lanari, IDIM-CONICET, Argentina): Extinction and absent stimulus processing.
  
• Steven Stout (Jacksonville State University, USA): The new generation of the comparator hypothesis: The SOCR model.
  
• Silvano Zanutto (Instituto de Ingeniería Biomédica-FIUBA and Instituto de Biología y Medicina Experimental-CONICET, Argentina): Control of feeding behavior.
  
• Edgar Vogel (University of Talca, Chile): US processing.
  
• Federico Sanabria and Peter Killeen (Arizona State University, USA): Continual reconditioning reveals the dynamics of conditioning and extinction: Newton, Pavlov, and Skinner shake hands.
  
• Andrés M. Pérez-Acosta (Universidad del Rosario, Colombia): Computer simulations with the replaced elements model of Pavlovian conditioning.
  

Primate Cognition and Behavior
Chair: Michael J. Beran (Georgia State University, USA)

• Michael J. Beran (Georgia State University, USA): Primate mathematics: Enumeration, estimation, and calculation.
• Josep Call (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany): Causal knowledge and tool-use.
• Roger K. R. Thompson (Franklin and Marshall College, USA): Analogical apes and paleological monkeys revisited: Does the 'Profound Disparity' in analogical reasoning between apes and monkeys still stand?
• Robert Hampton (Emory University, USA): Nonhuman primate memory systems.
• James R. Anderson (University of Stirling, Scotland) and Kazuo Fujita (Kyoto University, Japan): On self-control in South-American monkeys.

• Submissions of abstracts for oral (15 minutes including questions and answers) and poster presentations (80 cm x 120 cm) will continue the following guidelines:The abstracts are to be submitted in English, the official language of ISCP 2008.
• Please use A4 Portrait paper in the style ' Normal ' and the following page setup for margins: Top 2.0 cm, Bottom 2.0 cm, Left 3.0 cm and Right 2.0 cm.
• The abstract title should not exceed two lines and clearly indicates the content of the work. Please avoid abbreviations in the title.
• In the next line, the author's name and place of work (institution, city, country), but omit degrees, titles and awards. The presenter's name should be in bold type.
• Leave two blank lines before commencing the abstract.
• The text of the abstract should briefly state including: Objectives, Methods, Results and Conclusions.
• Abstract must be typed in single spacing using a Times New Roman 10 point font and should be fully justified.
• Text should not exceed 200 words in length.
• Ordinarily references are not cited in abstracts.
• Tables may be included - each counts as 75 words.
• Graphics/photos are permitted - each counts as 75 words.
• Submitted abstracts will not be edited in any way. Thus, typographic and grammatical errors that appear in a submitted abstract will still appear in the printed abstract.
• The Scientific Committee, which will evaluate all submitted Abstracts, reserves the right to accept or reject any paper and make a final decision on the form of presentation. In addition, the Scientific Committee reserves the right to relocate submitted Abstracts to a different stream and/or session if deemed appropriate.
  

Past Meetings:

2006: Christchurch, New Zealand
Click here for meeting minutes.

2004: Oviedo, Spain
In conjunction with the Spanish Society for Comparative Psychology (SEPC)

2002: Chicago, US

2000: Warsaw, Poland

1998: Capetown, South Africa

1996: Montreal, Canada

1994: Sao Paulo, Brazil

1992: Brussels, Belgium

1990: Bridgetown, Barbados

1988: Sydney, Australia

1986: San Jose, Costa Rica

1984: Acapulco, Mexico

1983: Toronto, Canada