new policies for next year:

1. Undergraduate students are encouraged to attend CO3 and to be junior authors on presentations.  Undergraduate students are not permitted to present talks but may present posters if space on the program permits.  Following the submission deadline, the conference committee will assess whether undergraduate posters can be accommodated and undergraduate students will be informed as soon as possible after the deadline about the decision regarding their submission.

 

2. Each person is limited to one first-authored presentation, with the exception of those travelling from overseas (who should contact the conference organizers if they have an interest in giving multiple presentations).

 

 

CO3 2009 Conference Submission Form

Presenter's Name (First, MI, Last)
Presenter's Institutional Affiliation    
Presenter's Email Address            

Type of Presentation Requested
  Standard 10 Minute Talk (Faculty & Post-docs Only)
5 Minute Talk (Graduate Students, Faculty, or Post-docs)
Poster (Graduate Students, Faculty, or Post-docs)
Extended 20 Minute Talk -  Faculty may request an extended presentation (20 min, with 5 min discussion). These presentations are expected to integrate several years of research, much of it published. To be considered for an extended talk, a detailed (300-400 word abstract) must be submitted as well as the standard short abstract. The same researcher may not give an extended talk more often than once every three years. There will be a limit of approximately six 20-min talks. If more acceptable extended presentation submissions are received than can be accommodated, they will be selected based on number of years since the presenter’s last 20 minute talk and order of submission. Those whose extended talk submission cannot be accommodated will be assigned a 10 minute talk.

If your preference is to present a talk but you are willing to present a poster if there is not enough room in the program to accommodate all talks submitted, please check this box.

Title of Presentation

Authors, Title and Abstract (Maximum of 1024 characters in the box below - about 150 words) in the exact format to appear in program.  PLEASE follow the format shown in the following examples: Line 1 - Author and Affiliation; Line 2 - Title; Line 3 and following - Abstract.  Abstract will be truncated by the software we use to prepare program if too long - submission limited to 1024 characters, including spaces, returns, symbols, etc (MS-Word "word count" will provide a count of number of characters).  Please carefully check punctuation, spacing, and capitalization so that they conform to the examples.

Example Submissions-

Melissa Bateson (University of Newcastle)
Temporal Averaging in Foraging Starlings
Animals are universally risk-prone for variance in delay to reward, preferring an option offering a variable delay over one offering a fixed delay equal to the arithmetic mean of the delays in the variable option. A number of different functional and mechanistic models have been proposed to explain this preference. These models differ in the predictions they make regarding the value of the fixed delay at which a subject should become indifferent between a fixed and variable-delay option. I present an experiment on European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) designed to separate these models by identifying this indifference point. The data show that indifference occurs when the fixed delay is close to the harmonic mean of the delays in the variable option. This result rejects the scalar timing theory-based account of choice between delayed rewards.

Matthew J. Pizzo & Jonathon D. Crystal (University of Georgia)
Evidence for an Alternation Strategy in a Daily Time-Place Task
There has been some controversy over what type of mechanism rats use to solve a daily time-place task.  Rats (n=10) were tested twice daily in a T-maze.  Food was available at one location in the morning and at the opposite location in the afternoon.  After the rats learned to visit each location at the appropriate time, omission tests were conducted to evaluate whether the rats were utilizing time of day or an alternation strategy.  Performance on this test was significantly lower than chance.  A second manipulation involving a phase advance of the light cycle was conducted to test the alternation strategy and timing with respect to the light cycle.  There was no difference between probe and baseline performance.  These results suggest that the rats used an alternation strategy in a daily time-place task.

Ronald Weisman (Queen's University), Andrea Friedrich, Dennis Morrell, & Thomas Zentall (University of Kentucky)
Absolute Pitch: Forget About Whether Music Training Matters: What Matters is Whether You are a Mammal or a Bird
Absolute pitch perception (AP) refers to the ability to identify, classify, and memorize pitches without use of an external reference pitch. In previously published tests of AP, several species of birds and mammals were trained to sort contiguous tones into 8, 5-tone frequency ranges, based on correlations between responding to tones in each frequency range and reinforcement. Species from two avian orders (songbirds and parrots that learn complex songs and calls) had highly accurate AP in 8-range discriminations. Two mammalian species (humans and rats) had poor AP; they acquired only a crude discrimination of the lowest and highest of 8 frequency ranges. In the present experiments, pigeons (an avian species with relatively simple unlearned calls) were more similar in their frequency-range discriminations to other avian species than to mammals.

 

Please Place Your Submission in the Box Below, in the Format Indicated by the Examples

For 20 minute talk requests only: In addition to the short abstract above, the detailed (300-400 word abstract) must be submitted under separate cover.  Please include authors' names and title of presentation at the top of this document and send as an email attachment to jcrystal@uga.edu

If Presenter is not First Author, Please enter name of presenter here

If there is a lab web site providing information related to this presentation and you would like the web address to be provided in the conference program and Proceedings, please enter the URL below:

Faculty Presenter: Please check box if you are willing to chair a session:

Please check the audiovisual equipment that you expect to use:
Data projector for computer presentation:
Overhead transparency projector:
Other Audio-Visual Needs (Please contact conference organizers as early as possible about any other AV equipment):

 

Publication of Powerpoint Presentations on the CCS Web Site

At the option of the authors, we will post talks or posters prepared using PowerPoint on the CCS web site following the conference.  Please select
one of the following options:

I do not plan to use PowerPoint to prepare this presentation
I do not want my Power Point presentation to be posted on the CCS web site
I want my Power Point presentation to be posted on the CCS web site and hereby give CCS permission to post it.  I understand that all other authors of
the presentation must agree to this arrangement.  Copyright of the presentation is retained by the author(s).  I will provide a copy of the ppt file for posting.
I am not sure if I want my Power Point presentation posted on the CCS web site. (You will be able to make this choice at the conference if you choose
this option)

  

You must click the submit button below to submit your presentation.  A confirmation, showing the fields entered in this form, will appear after your information is submitted.  Please print the confirmation page for your records - it serves as the acknowledgement that we have received your submission.   Then return to the conference information page and REGISTER for the conference.   All presenters must register for the conference and pay the conference registration fee by December 15th.