EPC 2002

The 29th Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference will be held in Adelaide, South Australia, from the 5th to the 7th of April 2002, hosted by Adelaide University. As in previous years, this conference provides a forum for researchers to present work across the broad spectrum of experimental psychology. The conference will commence after lunch on the 5th, and finish mid-afternoon on the 7th, allowing some delegates to fly in on the first morning, and fly out on the last afternoon. Please note that the 6th Conference of the Australasian Cognitive Science Society is being held in Western Australia from Wednesday 3rd April to Friday 5th April 2002. Every effort will be during scheduling presentations to accommodate delegates wishing to attend both conferences.

Registration

The deadline for registration is March 1st, 2002, with registrations withdrawn after March 15th, 2002 being subject to a $50 processing fee.

The registration fee for the conference is A$150, with a discount fee of A$100 for students enrolled half-time or greater (proof of eligibility is required). This fee includes catered lunches and morning and afternoon teas during the conference (with vegetarian options), the welcoming reception, and the conference materials. Additional tickets for the welcoming reception, to be held on the evening of Friday the 5th, are available at a cost of $20.

Please register by printing and completing this form (MSWord), or this form (PDF), and sending it to the address specified. Please let us know if you encounter any difficulties.

Abstract Submission - CLOSED

The deadline for submitting abstracts is February 1st, 2002. Please note that it is important that this deadline is met since, in a departure from previous years, the Australian Journal of Psychology will publish the conference abstracts in a regular volume of the journal near the time of the conference itself.

The organising committee has also decided that there will be no poster session this year. If you wish to submit an abstract for oral presentation, please complete this abstract submission form, and SEND IT ELECTRONICALLY to Michael Lee. The form is an MSWord document. If completing this electronically presents difficulties, please make contact so that alternative arrangements can be made.

Conference Dinner

The conference dinner will be held on Saturday the 6th April at the historic Earl of Aberdeen Hotel on Hurtle Square in the heart of Adelaide within walking distance of the conference venue at Adelaide University. The cost for the dinner will be an additional $50 which includes a three-course meal (vegetarian options available) and drinks consisting of Cooper's beers, Hardy's fine wines, soft drinks and coffee. John Taplin has volunteered to provide vitamin supplements as required.

Conference Venue

The conference will be held at the North Terrace campus of the University of Adelaide, on Level 5 of the Union building (reference E6 on the campus map shown below).

Accommodation

The organising committee is conscious of the need to minimise the accommodation costs of delegates, and particularly those of postgraduate students. Unfortunately, residential college accommodation is unavailable during the period of the conference. In response, rather than providing delegates with a single accommodation option, we are providing a list of alternatives.

Each of the following accommodation options is in the city of Adelaide, within a short walk (max 15 minutes) of the conference location. Prices range from more than $150 per night down to $35 per night, with the style and quality of the accommodation varying accordingly. We hope, by providing these options, delegates will find accommodation that suits their preferences and budget. In addition, by providing information at this time, we hope delegates are able to make early reservations to secure their preferred option.

The details for each of the accommodation options are taken from the current RAA tourist guide (2001-2002 edition, pp. 105-107), and the web sites of the hotels and motels. Please contact us if you encounter any discrepancy or difficulty, and we will update the information.

A map of the city of Adelaide is available here in pdf format. The North Terrace campus of the University of Adelaide is (essentially) bounded by North Terrace, Kintore Avenue, Frome Road, and Victoria Drive.

Hotel Richmond: 4½ star

128 Rundle Mall: ( (08) 8223 4044, fax (08) 8232 2290
Single and double rooms: $165-210

Grosvenor Vista Hotel: 3½ star

125 North Terrace; ( (08) 8407 8888, fax (08) 8407 8866
Single and double rooms: $105-135

Adelaide Paringa Motel: 3 star

15 Hindley Street (access through Gilbert Place); ( (08) 8231 1000, fax (08) 8231 6807
Single $88-150, double $107-150

Festival Lodge Motel: 3 star

140 North Terrace (entrance from Bank Street); ( (08) 8212 7877, fax (08) 8211 8137
Bed and light breakfast, single $75, double $85

City Central Motel: 2½ star

23 Hindley Street; ((08) 8231 4049, fax (08) 8231 4804
Single $59, double $65

Motel Adjacent Casino: 2½ star

25 Bank Street; ( (08) 8231 8881, fax (08) 8231 1021
Single $64, double $97

Ambassadors Hotel: 2 star

107 King William Street; ( (08) 8231 4331, fax (08) 8231 5521
Single $55, double $72

Austral Hotel:

205 Rundle Street; ( (08) 8223 4660, fax (08) 8223 4175
Single $35, double $55

Program

The conference program, with links to the abstracts, is provided in the table below. It is also provided here as a pdf file. The presentations have been organised into three streams. Broadly speaking, Stream A is language and psychometrics, Stream B is vision and biology, and Stream C is cognition.

Each presentation has been allocated a half-hour time slot, consisting of a 20 minute presentation, 5 minutes for questions, and 5 minutes to allow the next presenter to set-up and delegates to move between streams.

We have tried to meet a range of constraints and preferences in scheduling the presentations. There is limited flexibility for change, but if you have a good reason for making a request, please contact me, and I will forward them to our complaints department.

A registration desk will be open before the conference starts Friday afternoon, and also Saturday morning.

Friday April 5th

	Stream A Language and Psychometrics	Stream B Vision and Biology	Stream C Cognition
Chair	Jenny Burt	Philip Smith	Cyril Latimer
13:00	Kinoshita, S. Estimating the baseline in the semantic priming effect.	Day, R.H. Depth processing in 2D representations of 3D objects: Is there any?	Lipp, O. V. Context change affects US miscuing.
13:30	Johnston, M., & McAnally, K. The influence of syntax and semantics on the intelligibility of competing speech signals.	Grove, P. M., Gillam, B. J., & Ono, H. New considerations about depth recovery involving stereoscopic occlusion.	Karazinov, D., & Boakes B. Overshadowing inhibitory learning in human predictive judgements.
14:00	McKay, A. J. D., Davis, C., Castles, A. E., Johnston, M. B., & Savage, G. Reading aloud: A role for semantics?	Sachtler, B. W. L., & Gillam B. J. Adapting unmatched stereoscopic depth with matched stereo patterns.	Welsh, M. B. Forced-Choice Versus Food-Reinforced Learning by Mice in the T-Maze.
14:30	Woollams, A., & Kinoshita, S. Interactions between semantics and phonology in the lexical decision task.	Tucker, A., & Stuart, G. Covert orienting of visual attention in a real 3-dimensional environment.	Hughson, A. L., & Boakes, R. A. The role of knowledge in the descriptive expertise of wine experts.
15:00-15.30	Afternoon Tea
Chair	Sachiko Kinoshita	Mark Chappell	TBA
15:30	Burnham, D., Tam, H., Ciocca, V., & Luksaneeyanawin, S. Perception of Lexical Tone in Cantonese from Acoustic and Optical Information.	Hayward, C., Best, C., & Crassini, B. The role of familiar size knowledge in time-to-contact judgment.	Kemps, E., Andrade, J., May, J., & Szmalec, A. Functional dissociation between visual imagery and visual short-term memory.
16:00	Mattock, K., & Burnham, D. Discrimination of Lexical Tone by Six and Nine Month-Old English Language Environment (ELE) Infants.	Butavicius, M. The recognition of rotated and scaled objects: The normalization versus invariant features debate.	Dux, P., & Murphy, K. Short-Term Consolidation: An Evaluation of its Processing Limitations.
16:30	Perry, C., & Ziegler,J. Sublexical Processing in Spelling : Still Small Relationships.	Edwards, M., & Nishida, S. Opponency Between First- and Second-Order Local-Motion Units.	Lees, N., & Stevens, K. Recognising Emotion in Voice and Face: Do Audio-Visual Features Integrate?
17:00	Tyler, M. D., Erdener, V. D., Tyler, L., & Burnham, D. K. Is the delayed trigger voice-key more accurate than standard voice-keys under normal experimental conditions?	Badcock, D. R., Mckendrick, A. M., & Wyatt, A. M. How do we know where things are going?	Stevens, C., Walker, G., & Gallagher, M. The effect of tinnitus on spatial attention and implicit memory.
17:30-19:00	Conference Reception

Saturday April 6th

	Stream A Language and Psychometrics	Stream B Vision and Biology	Stream C Cognition
Chair	Michael Johnston	Branka Spehar	Michael Lee
08:30	Andrews, S. Perceptual units in lexical access?: The role of subsyllabic segments in lexical retrieval.	McKone, E., & Aitkin, A. The effect of "categorical" and "coordinate" spatial deviations on face perception.	Smith, P. L., & Ratcliff, R. An Evaluation of Sequential-Sampling Models of Response Time.
09:00	Chekaluk, E., & Crowe, C. The interaction of spatial and temporal tasks: implications for reading.	Hogben, J. H., & Roach, N. W. A transient visual attention deficit in dyslexia.	Tomiczek, C., & Burke, D. Transfer of Implicit Learning in a Simple Cued Reaction-Time Task.
09:30	Heathcote, A., & Ditton, E. Proactive Interference from the Lexicon: Neighbourhood Density Effects in Recognition Memory.	Surowiecki, V., Grayden, D., & Dowell, R. The influence of visual cues on the perception of synthetic voiced stop consonants by children using cochlear implants.	Navarro, D.J. Spatial representations of categories.
10:00		Wilson, P. Perception in autism and the launching effect.	O’Doherty, K.C., & Lee, M.D. The Featural Representation of Animals Based on Similarity.
10:30-11:00	Morning Tea
Chair	Sally Andrews	Nick Burns	John Taplin
11:00	Burt, J. S. Reading and spelling words: Item-specific and task contributions.	Bryan, J., Calvaresi, E., & Hughes, D. The effects of short-term Folate, B-12 and B-6 supplementation on cognition and mood in women.	Tlauka, M. Stimulus-response sets with multiple dimensional overlap: Asymmetric effects are influenced by the degree of overlap.
11:30	Chalmers, K. A. Word Frequency Effects in Episodic Judgments of Recency and Frequency.	Foster, J. K., & Sünram-Lea, S. I. Glucose and memory: reliable and specific long-term facilitation?	Chan, A. Y. C. Inferences about factual and counterfactual conditional possibilities.
12:00	Kim, J., & Davis, C. Bimodal masked speech detection.	Martin, F. The effect of long-term cannabis and alcohol use on event-related potentials.	Lee, M. D., & Cummins,T. D. R. Comparing the “Take the Best” and “Rational” Decision Models.
12:30	Tolan, A., Tehan, G., & Hendry, L. The Trade-off between Item and Order Information in Relation to the Word Length Effect.	Argent, W. T., & Burns,N. R. EEG Biofeedback for the Enhancement of Cognitive Abilities in Normal Individuals.	Woodruff, C., & Wilson, D. An Analytic Model of the “Satisficing” Decision Model.
13:00-14:00	Lunch
Chair	Paul Delfabbro	Nick Burns	Kerry Chalmers
14:00	Nettelbeck, T., & Wilson, C. The Flynn Effect: Smarter but not faster.	Arnold, D. H., & Clifford, C.W.G. Perceptual asynchrony is partially due to inhibitory interactions.	Davis, C. When knowing what is not the same as knowing where: boundary conditions on letter and word migration.
14:30	Dun, K., Amin, J., & Stankov, L. An investigation into the possible role of binaural and stereoscopic processing in cognitive ability.	Clifford, C. W. G., Arnold, D. H., & Pearson, J. Dynamics of binding colour and orientation.	Sartore, G. & Latimer, C. Precuing and inhibition of return effects on the recognition of letters.
15:00	Pallier, G., & Rouse, J. Executive functions, intelligence and personality.	Spehar, B., & Parry, L. The Role of Modal and Amodal Completion in Object Perception.	Latimer, C., Palethorpe, J., Mezey, L., Ellwood S., Raju, S., & Hicks, S. Forget the highlighter: The role of colour in recognition memory for images and text.
15:30			Newson, R., Kemps, E., & Luszcz, M. Cognitive Mechanisms Underlying Mental Synthesis in Young and Older Adults.
16:00-16.30	Afternoon Tea
Chair	Ted Nettelbeck	Mike Nicholls	Eva Kemps
16:30	Burns, N. R. Inspection time and speed of processing: sex differences in IT?	O’Shea, R. P., & Corballis, P. M. Visual consciousness in a split-brain observer: Grouping and rivalry within and between hemispheres.	Maxwell, J., & Taplin, J. E. Two factors affecting the credibility of eyewitness testimony: trivial persuasion and weapon focus.
17:00	Danthiir, V., Stankov, L., Williams, L., Roberts, R. D., Gordon, E., & Pallier, G. Synchronous Gamma (40Hz) activity, cognitive ability, and speed of processing.	Corballis,M. C., Hamm, J., Barnett, K. J., & Corballis, P. M. Paradoxical interhemispheric summation in the split brain.	Marks, A. D. G., & Stevenson, B. J. Two paths to memory distortion: Semantic and episodic contributions to the misinformation effect?
17:30	O’Connor, T., & Burns, N.R. Locating IT within a hierarchical model of speed of processing abilities.	Cherbuin, N., & Brinkman, C. Does the efficiency of hemispheric interactions depend on inter-hemispheric transfer time?	Bertoia, T., & Markham, R. Stereotypes and Source Monitoring.
18:00	Neilson, J., Burke, D., & Cornford D. Sex differences in spatial cognition: An evolutionary approach.	Neumann, D. L., & Lipp, O. V. Indexing attention with the eyeblink reflex: Effect of sensory modality and task difficulty.	Glonek,J. A. Individual Time and Space Organisation: Implication in Facets of Cognition.
19:00-??:??	Conference Dinner

Sunday April 7th

	Stream A Language and Psychometrics	Stream B Vision and Biology	Stream C Cognition
Chair	TBA	Colin Clifford	Andrew Heathcote
10:00	Meuter, R., & Leisser, R. Language switching in bilinguals: Effects of context in cueing speech.	Hine, T. J., Chappell, M., & Renneflott, A. The Jitter Aftereffect using Vibrational Noise during Adaptation.	Keane, S., Burke, D., & Hayward, W. G. Using Part Configuration and Identity Information Across Object Rotation.
10:30	Arciuli, J., & Cupples, L. Orthographic correlates of lexical stress.	Palmisano, S., Burke, D., & Hennessy, D. G. Only coherent global perspective jitter improves visually induced illusions of self-motion.	Burke, D., & Fulham, B. J. An evolved spatial memory bias in a nectar feeding bird.
11:00	Lindell, A. K., Nicholls M. E. R., & Castles, A. E. Left parallel, Right sequential? Inferring hemispheric language processing strategy from an analysis of errors.	Chappell, M., Hine, T. J., Hardwick, D., & Monahan, S. Distance from fixation and the flash-lag illusion.	Mondy, S., & Coltheart,V. Phonological similarity effects in a change detection task.
11:30		Nicholls, M. E. R., Smith, A., & Mattingley, J. B. Free-viewing perceptual asymmetries for horizontally and vertically aligned stimuli.	James, S., Braithwaite, H., & D’Arcy, I. Examining the Principles of Feedback in Simulation-Based Training.
12:00-13:00	Lunch and Business Meeting
Chair	TBA	Darren Burke	TBA
13:00	Croot, K., Palethorpe, S., & Crofts, B. Effects of speech elicitation task on phonological and phonetic processing in three people with impaired speech sound production.	Lyon, S., & Burke, D. The McCullough effect is not classical conditioning.	Lacherez, P., Mora, D., & Broerse J. The Role of Temporal Context in the Tritone Paradox.
13:30	Greenwood, T. E., Burns, N. R., & Ward, L. Speed of processing on an auditory comprehension task is impaired after sustained computer game play.	Murphy, K., & Andalis, J. Unconscious priming in visual change detection.	Wang, M. – F., Irwin, R. J., & Hautus, M. J. Decision Processes Used By Human Observers In An Auditory Same-Different Task.
14:00		Langdon, R. Orienting to social and asocial cues of direction: the eyes may have it!	Mitchell, D. A., & Schuts, T. Characteristics of the visuospatial sketchpad: Capacity and duration of information retention.
14:30
15:00	Conference Close

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