July 2nd, 2003 marks the end of Lee Brooks' 65th year. As a result of the fortuitous alignment of this event and McMaster hosting the annual meeting of the Canadian Society of Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, we will hold a Brooksian Festschrift in Hamilton preceding CSBBCS.

The festivities will include a full-day research symposium during which Brooksian alumni, McMaster colleagues and special guests will present. A wine and cheese reception will follow.

Presenters:

Lorraine Allan, McMaster University

Judging Relationships between Events: How do we do it?

Vicki LeBlanc, University of Toronto

Investigating the mechanisms underlying hypothesis-driven feature identification

Larry Jacoby, Washington University

Aging and Cognitive Control: Questions of Constraint

Bruce Whittlesea, Simon Fraser University

Selective Construction and Preservation of Experience in Remembering and Non-Remenbering Tasks

Sam Hannah, McMaster University

Remembrance of features past: The role of familiar feature manifestations in mediating the susceptibility to biasing suggestions in categorization decisions

Arthur Reber, Brooklyn College, City University of New York

What's it really look like in there? Some musings on representational form

John Vokey, University of Lethbridge

Structural and Contextual Components of the Act of Recall

Douglas Medin, Northwestern University

A Relevance Theory of Induction

David Smith, University of Buffalo, State University of New York

Wanted: A New Psychology of Exemplars

Phil Higham, University of Southampton

Metacognition in Education

Geoffrey Norman, McMaster University

Exemplar Models and Clinical Expertise

Lee Brooks, McMaster University

The Blossoms and the Weeds

The event is free, but we ask that you indicate your intention to attend by checking the appropriate box on the CSBBCS registration form or by writing to Kevin Eva at evakw@mcmaster.ca.