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Armadillo XX: The Southwest Cognition Conference

Welcome to the ARMADILLO (Southwest Cognition) Conference at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas on Friday, October 22 and Saturday, October 23, 2010. We welcome you to ARMADILLO XX*.

Conference Location

Texas A&M University (see campus maps here http://aggiemap.tamu.edu/)

Talks Friday & Saturday: Student Recreation Center – Garden Room (main floor)

Poster Session & Conference Dinner Friday Evening: Rudder Tower, University Club

Research Talks

Research presentations will be 20-minutes. Please try to keep your presentation to 15-minutes so that you will have 5-minutes for questions and discussion. A PC type of laptop will be available; if you use this option please upload your presentations in advance. Alternatively, you can connect your own computer to our projector and sound system.

Posters

Posters must fit within a 4’ X 4’ space. Poster presenters should put their posters up at the University Club (top two floors of Rudder Tower) between 5:00 and 6:00 Friday. The poster session (with a cash bar for beer & wine) will be held from 6:00 until 7:30 Friday in the University Club.

Parking

Attendees will need a parking tag at the Student Recreation Center on Friday, but not on Saturday. When you arrive, please come inside to get your parking tag from us.

Registration Fees

ARMADILLO XX is financially supported by Texas A&M University’s College of Liberal Arts, the Department of Psychology, and registration fees.

Registration (must be paid by check)

If you have a Ph.D. $50

If you do not have a Ph.D. $25

Dinner Friday at University Club $30 (in addition to registration)

Checks should be made payable to TAMU Psychology Department, and mailed to:

ARMADILLO Conference

c/o Dr. Rachel Hull

Department of Psychology

Mail Stop 4235

Texas A&M University

College Station, Texas 77843-4235

******************************************************

ARMADILLO XX Program

Friday

8:30-onwards Registration at Student Recreation Sports Center, Garden Room

9:00 Opening Remarks: Steve Smith & Ludy Benjamin

9:20 James Pomerantz Rice University

The Theory of Basic Gestalts and the Measurement of Perceptual Organization

9:40 Yoonsuck Choe TAMU

Motor Exploration Is Key to Decoding Perceptual Primitives

10:00 Benton Pierce & Amanda Stevens TAMU-Commerce

False Recall from Emotional DRM Lists:  Testing the Item-Specific Processing Account

10:20 break

10:40 Gabriela Dur‡n, W. Francis & B. Lara U Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez

Effects of Concurrent Task Performance on Visual Object Identification

11:00 Chandramallika Basak Rice University

Attentional (Dis)engagement and Multiple Indices in Working Memory

11:20 Scott Gronlund University of Oklahoma

Sequential Lineups Protect the Innocent: Can We Do Better?

11:40-1:00 Lunch Break

1:00-4:00 Language Symposium

1:00 Opening Remarks: Jyotsna Vaid

1:20 Wendy Francis, A. LuŽvano, C. Acosta, & L. Zambrano-V‡zquez UTEP

Auditory and Visual Stroop Tasks Interfere with Different Stages of Word Production: Evidence from Bilinguals

1:40 Ludmila Isurin Ohio State University

Lexical Retrieval in Bilinguals: Insight into L1 Forgetting

2:00 Anna Cieslicka & Roberto Heredia TAMIU

Cerebral Asymmetries in Bilingual Figurative Language Processing

2:20 break

2:40 Jeanette Altarriba State University of New York

Automaticity in the Acquisition of a Second Language

3:00 Viorica Marion Northwestern University

Language Learning and Inhibition in Bilinguals and Monolinguals

3:20 Renata Meuter & John Ehrich Queensland University

Do L1 Orthographic Processing Skills Transfer only to Orthographically Similar Languages? The Effect of Bilinguality & Language-Specific Background on Learning a Novel Orthography

3:40 break

4:00 Extra-DILLO Guest Speaker: Art Glenberg Arizona State University

Premotor Cortex, Action Control, & Language

5:00-6:00 Poster Presenters set up at University Club - Rudder

6:00-7:00 Posters, University Club - Rudder (beer & wine cash bar)

7:00-8:30 ARMADILLO Dinner University Club - Rudder

Saturday

8:20 Darrell Worthy TAMU

Subjective Experiences of Implicit and Explicit Learning

8:40 Lou Tassinary TAMU

The Time Course of Natural Scene Processing Revisited: A Conceptual Replication and Extension of Green & Oliva (2009).

9:00 David Gorfein Adelphi

On the Consequences of Multiple Priming Effects for Homograph Processing

9:20 Tyler Davis UT

Model-based fMRI Reveals Role of MTL in Category Learning

9:40 break

10:00 - 11:00 Intra-DILLO Guest Speaker: Denise Park UT-Dallas

The Adaptive Brain: Aging and Neural Scaffolding

11:00 break

11:20 Heekyeong Park & Michael Rugg UT-Arlington

Neural Correlates of Across- Versus Within-Domain Associative Encoding

11:40 Julie Linsey TAMU

Physical Models Supporting Design Cognition

12:00 Curt Carlson TAMU-Commerce

Searching for the Sequential Lineup Advantage: A Distinctiveness Explanation

12:20 Lisa Geraci TAMU

Improving Memory Performance in Older Adults

12:40 - 12:30 Passing of the 'DILLO

Friday Poster Presentations

Amy L Boggan UT-Dallas

Ana Schwartz UTEP

Andrew Webb et al. TAMU

Anna I. Stupina Rice University

Audrey Nath & Michael S. Beauchamp UTHSC-H Medical School

Aurora Isabel Ramos Nu–ez University of Houston

Belem G. L—pez TAMU

Casady Bowman TAMU

D. Tran, M. Arredondo, V. Yu Liu, & H. Yoshida University of Houston

Dawn Weatherford TAMU - Commerce

Duc N. Tran & Hanako Yoshida University of Houston

Elizabeth Woods University of Houston

Eswen Fava TAMU

Genna Angello TAMU

Gunes Avci Rice University

Heredia, Cieslicka & Garc’a TAMIU

Irene Moyna TAMU

Jane Jacob University of Houston

Jeremy Nichols TAMU

Jimmeka Guillory TAMU

Jonathan Banks University of North Texas

Joseph Burling and Hanako Yoshida University of Houston

Joseph Burling, Kevin Darby, and Hanako Yoshida University of Houston

Julie Linsey TAMU

Justin Handy TAMU

Jyotsna Vaid, Anna B. Cieslicka & Roberto Heredia TAMIU & TAMU

Kailyn Lipowski University of Houston

Kevin Darby, Joseph Burling, & Hanako Yoshida University of Houston

Lacy Krueger TAMU - Commerce

Li-Hao Yeh UTEP

Na-Yung Yu TAMU

Nicholas W. Gaspelin, Eric Ruthruff & Hal Pashler U New Mexico & UCSD

Nick Altieri University of Oklahoma

Pilar Archila-Suerte University of Houston

Sara Haber Rice University

Stephanie Babb & Ruth Johnson U of Houston-Downtown

Sumeyra Tosun TAMU

Tyler Miller TAMU

Victoria Walker Wagner University of Houston

Vimal Viswanathan TAMU

Viorica Marion Northwestern University

Wendy S. Francis, Betsabee Lara, & Gabriela Dur‡n UTEP

******************************************************

This is the 21st anniversary of the conference, but only our 20th meeting (ARMADILLOs sometimes do not go on the road).

Conference Location

Texas A&M University (see campus maps here http://aggiemap.tamu.edu/)

Talks Friday & Saturday: Student Recreation Center – Garden Room (main floor)

Poster Session & Conference Dinner Friday Evening: Rudder Tower, University Club

Research Talks

Research presentations will be 20-minutes. Please try to keep your presentation to 15-minutes so that you will have 5-minutes for questions and discussion. A PC type of laptop will be available; if you use this option please upload your presentations in advance. Alternatively, you can connect your own computer to our projector and sound system.

Posters

Posters must fit within a 4’ X 4’ space. Poster presenters should put their posters up at the University Club (top two floors of Rudder Tower) between 5:00 and 6:00 Friday. The poster session (with a cash bar for beer & wine) will be held from 6:00 until 7:30 Friday in the University Club.

Parking

Attendees will need a parking tag at the Student Recreation Center on Friday, but not on Saturday. When you arrive, please come inside to get your parking tag from us.

Registration Fees

ARMADILLO XX is financially supported by Texas A&M University’s College of Liberal Arts, the Department of Psychology, and registration fees.

Registration (must be paid by check)

If you have a Ph.D. $50

If you do not have a Ph.D. $25

Dinner Friday at University Club $30 (in addition to registration)

Checks should be made payable to TAMU Psychology Department, and mailed to:

ARMADILLO Conference

c/o Dr. Rachel Hull

Department of Psychology

Mail Stop 4235

Texas A&M University

College Station, Texas 77843-4235

******************************************************

ARMADILLO XX Program

Friday October 22, 2010

8:30-onwards Registration at Student Recreation Sports Center, Garden Room

9:00 Opening Remarks: Steve Smith & Ludy Benjamin

9:20 James Pomerantz Rice University

The Theory of Basic Gestalts and the Measurement of Perceptual Organization

9:40 Yoonsuck Choe TAMU

Motor Exploration Is Key to Decoding Perceptual Primitives

10:00 Benton Pierce & Amanda Stevens TAMU-Commerce

False Recall from Emotional DRM Lists:  Testing the Item-Specific Processing Account

10:20 break

10:40 Gabriela Dur‡n, W. Francis & B. Lara U Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez

Effects of Concurrent Task Performance on Visual Object Identification

11:00 Chandramallika Basak Rice University

Attentional (Dis)engagement and Multiple Indices in Working Memory

11:20 Scott Gronlund University of Oklahoma

Sequential Lineups Protect the Innocent: Can We Do Better?

11:40-1:00 Lunch Break

1:00-4:00 Language Symposium

1:00 Opening Remarks: Jyotsna Vaid

1:20 Wendy Francis, A. LuŽvano, C. Acosta, & L. Zambrano-V‡zquez UTEP

Auditory and Visual Stroop Tasks Interfere with Different Stages of Word Production: Evidence from Bilinguals

1:40 Ludmila Isurin Ohio State University

Lexical Retrieval in Bilinguals: Insight into L1 Forgetting

2:00 Anna Cieslicka & Roberto Heredia TAMIU

Cerebral Asymmetries in Bilingual Figurative Language Processing

2:20 break

2:40 Jeanette Altarriba State University of New York

Automaticity in the Acquisition of a Second Language

3:00 Viorica Marion Northwestern University

Language Learning and Inhibition in Bilinguals and Monolinguals

3:20 Renata Meuter & John Ehrich Queensland University

Do L1 Orthographic Processing Skills Transfer only to Orthographically Similar Languages? The Effect of Bilinguality & Language-Specific Background on Learning a Novel Orthography

3:40 break

4:00 Extra-DILLO Guest Speaker: Art Glenberg Arizona State University

Premotor Cortex, Action Control, & Language

5:00-6:00 Poster Presenters set up at University Club - Rudder

6:00-7:00 Posters, University Club - Rudder (beer & wine cash bar)

7:00-8:30 ARMADILLO Dinner University Club - Rudder

Saturday

8:20 Darrell Worthy TAMU

Subjective Experiences of Implicit and Explicit Learning

8:40 Lou Tassinary TAMU

The Time Course of Natural Scene Processing Revisited: A Conceptual Replication and Extension of Green & Oliva (2009).

9:00 David Gorfein Adelphi

On the Consequences of Multiple Priming Effects for Homograph Processing

9:20 Tyler Davis UT

Model-based fMRI Reveals Role of MTL in Category Learning

9:40 break

10:00 - 11:00 Intra-DILLO Guest Speaker: Denise Park UT-Dallas

The Adaptive Brain: Aging and Neural Scaffolding

11:00 break

11:20 Heekyeong Park & Michael Rugg UT-Arlington

Neural Correlates of Across- Versus Within-Domain Associative Encoding

11:40 Julie Linsey TAMU

Physical Models Supporting Design Cognition

12:00 Curt Carlson TAMU-Commerce

Searching for the Sequential Lineup Advantage: A Distinctiveness Explanation

12:20 Lisa Geraci TAMU

Improving Memory Performance in Older Adults

12:40 - 12:30 Passing of the 'DILLO

Friday Poster Presentations

Amy L Boggan UT-Dallas

Ana Schwartz UTEP

Andrew Webb et al. TAMU

Anna I. Stupina Rice University

Audrey Nath & Michael S. Beauchamp UTHSC-H Medical School

Aurora Isabel Ramos Nu–ez University of Houston

Belem G. L—pez TAMU

Casady Bowman TAMU

D. Tran, M. Arredondo, V. Yu Liu, & H. Yoshida University of Houston

Dawn Weatherford TAMU - Commerce

Duc N. Tran & Hanako Yoshida University of Houston

Elizabeth Woods University of Houston

Eswen Fava TAMU

Genna Angello TAMU

Gunes Avci Rice University

Heredia, Cieslicka & Garc’a TAMIU

Irene Moyna TAMU

Jane Jacob University of Houston

Jeremy Nichols TAMU

Jimmeka Guillory TAMU

Jonathan Banks University of North Texas

Joseph Burling and Hanako Yoshida University of Houston

Joseph Burling, Kevin Darby, and Hanako Yoshida University of Houston

Julie Linsey TAMU

Justin Handy TAMU

Jyotsna Vaid, Anna B. Cieslicka & Roberto Heredia TAMIU & TAMU

Kailyn Lipowski University of Houston

Kevin Darby, Joseph Burling, & Hanako Yoshida University of Houston

Lacy Krueger TAMU - Commerce

Li-Hao Yeh UTEP

Na-Yung Yu TAMU

Nicholas W. Gaspelin, Eric Ruthruff & Hal Pashler U New Mexico & UCSD

Nick Altieri University of Oklahoma

Pilar Archila-Suerte University of Houston

Sara Haber Rice University

Stephanie Babb & Ruth Johnson U of Houston-Downtown

Sumeyra Tosun TAMU

Tyler Miller TAMU

Victoria Walker Wagner University of Houston

Vimal Viswanathan TAMU

Viorica Marion Northwestern University

Wendy S. Francis, Betsabee Lara, & Gabriela Dur‡n UTEP

******************************************************

This is the 21st anniversary of the conference, but only our 20th meeting (ARMADILLOs sometimes do not go on the road).

 

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