MathPsych call for paper

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE41st Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical PsychologyatThe Fairmont Washington DC HotelSaturday Evening July 26, 2008 – Tuesday Noon July 29, 2008immediately following the 30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
Featuring Symposia Covering the Topics of:Cognitive Decision Theory Causal ModelingComputational Linguistics Psychometric Assessment
Submission Deadlines: April 1, 2008 (papers) - April 20, 2008 (posters)
The 41st Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology will begin the Evening of July 26, 2008 (Saturday) and end the Afternoon of July 29 (Tuesday). The conference will be located in Washington, D.C. at The Fairmont Washington DC hotel (www.fairmont/washington). See www.mathpsych.org for additional details regarding this year’s Mathematical Psychology conference as they develop as well as information regarding how to register for the conference.
The 41st Annual Meeting of the Mathematical Psychology Society will immediately follow the 30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (which will takes place July 23-July 26 about 2 miles away at the Omni Shoreham Hotel (www.cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci.html).
Please support the 41st Annual Meeting by taking advantage of the special conference discount rates offered by the Fairmont exclusively to SMP participants and please register early for the conference. Make sure to mention that you are with the Society for Mathematical Psychology to obtain your discount rates!!
Papers for the meetings may be submitted by regular members, student members, and non-members. Any o¬ne person may present only one paper, but may be a co-author of other papers, or may be an invited speaker or symposium participant. Papers will be limited to those in which mathematical, statistical, or simulation methods play a significant role in the development of psychological hypotheses or the interpretation of results. Purely theoretical developments should clearly relate to substantive issues or contribute to methodologies of obvious use in psychology, cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience, and related areas. Experimental results should bear directly on some mathematical or simulation model.
Programs of past meetings appear in the Journal of Mathematical Psychology and are available at the official conference website: www.mathpsych.org. All members of the society are welcome to make suggestions for symposia and invited speakers. Contact Dr. Michael Dougherty (mdougherty@psyc.umd.edu) for further information and to make suggestions. Papers will be accepted o¬n the basis of their quality and suitability and not according to the author's affiliation with the Society. Presentations that bridge disciplines and treat issues of mathematical interest in the behavioral and social sciences, cognitive science, and cognitive neuroscience are highly encouraged. For oral papers, presentation time will be limited to a maximum of 25 minutes including five minutes for discussion. Sessions will be strictly timed. Poster presentations have the advantage of longer discussion time, less formality, and closer audience contact. The "status" associated with poster presentations will be equal to that associated with oral presentations. Poster “spotlight” sessions are planned to allow poster presenters to give brief 2-3 minute overview of their posters.