Winter Conference on Animal Learning and Behavior

PAST PROGRAMS Winter Conference on Animal Learning and Behavior Winter Park, Colorado January 31-February 4, 2009 Saturday, January 31, 2009 7:30pm -- Buffet Reception Snowblaze Building B - Unit 34 Sunday, February 1, 2009* 4:30pm -- KEYNOTE ADDRESS Jim MacDonall, Chair Economic Demand, Reinforcer Essential Value and Drug Addiction Steven R. Hursh Institutes for Behavior Resources, Inc. and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine A fundamental tenant of behavior analysis is that operant behavior is strengthened by its consequences and that the strength of a reinforcer determines the strength of the behavior it supports. Behavioral economics provides a framework for understanding and measuring reinforcer strength. Reinforcer consumption is measured as a function of the requirements to obtain the reinforcer (price), a relationship called the demand curve. An exponential equation models demand curves and the rate constant of the exponential scales the strength or essential value of a reinforcer. Essential value can be used to assess abuse liability of drugs and progressive changes in essential value with increasing reinforcer experience may be the defining property of drug addiction. Ten-Minute Break Sunday, February 1, 2009* (Continued) 6pm-- Does Behavioral Economics have Relevance to Public Policy? Steve Hursh, Discussion Leader and Facilitator President Obama again asserted in his inaugural the importance of science for the future of the nation, unfettered by political dogma. Steve believes the time is right to offer ourselves as behavioral scientists to assist with the formation of new public policy in the areas of energy conservation, health, drug abuse, education, crime, and national security. He will share his thoughts on the relevance of behavioral economics to public policy, describe his initiative in organizing a working group to take the most productive advantage this opportunity and plans to offer IBR as a host for relevant meetings. In the resulting discussion of this initiative, we will be his first "working group". Monday, February 2, 2009* 4:30pm--Focus Session Patrick Beardsley, Chair Behavioral Pharmacology, Behavioral Economics and Reinforcement Value When and Why Are Choices Emitted Stochastically? Alan Neuringer, Reed College (15 min) The Behavioral Economics of Animal "Gambling". Greg Madden, University of Kansas (25-min) Rats are less sensitive to price differences when responding for wheel running. Terry Belke, Mt. Allison University (20 min) The Stay/Switch Model: Choice Among Topographically Different Responses. James S. MacDonall & Jacqueline McMahon, Fordham University (20-min) Ten-Minute Break 6:20 pm--Reinforcing Effects of Drugs Reinforcing effects of directly- and indirectly-acting cannabinoid drugs in squirrel monkeys. Steve Goldberg, National Institute of Drug Abuse (30 min) 8:15pm--Conference Dinner at Fontanot's TUESDAY, February 3, 2009 5pm--Animal Learning: General Mark Reilly, Chair -Learning flavor-nutrient associations with multiple flavors in a meal. Kevin Myers, Bucknell University (15 min) Food Reinforcement and Extinction of Spatial Target Location by Betta splendens. Joseph J. Pear, Thais Sales, & Wayne S. Chan, University of Manitoba (15 min) Conditioning Context and Resurgence. David N. Kearns & Stanley J. Weiss, American University (15 min) Going Green: An Environmentally Conscious Animal Research Facility. Scott Cohn, Western Colorado College (15 min)   Wednesday, February 4, 2009 -- Check out time is 10am WCALB 2009 Organizing Committee Stan Weiss, Convener & Program Rick Bevins Cody Brooks, Program Mark Reilly Bill Timberlake, Focus Session *Five minutes will be added to the presentation times indicated for questions and discussion WCALB 2009 Participants (over) WCALB 2009 Participants Patrick Beardsley <pbeardsl@vcu edu> Terry Belke <tbelke@mta.ca> Scott Cohn <scohn@western.edu> Steve Goldberg <SGOLDBER@intra.nida.nih.gov> Steve Hursh <srhursh@ibrinc.org> Greg Madden <gmadden@ku.edu> Jim MacDonall <jmacdonall@fordham.edu> Kevin Myers <kmyers@bucknell.edu> Alan Neuringer <allen.neuringer@directory.reed.edu> Martha Neuringer <neuringe@ohsu.edu> Joe Pear <pear@cc.umanitoba.ca> Mark P. Reilly <reill1mp@cmich.edu> Trish Reilly <pareilly@charter.net> Stan Weiss <sweiss@american.edu>     Winter Conference on Animal Learning and Behavior Winter Park, Colorado February 2 - 6, 2008 Saturday, February 2, 2008 7:30pm -- Buffet Reception Snowblaze Building B - Unit 34 Sunday, February 3, 2008 4:30pm -- KEYNOTE ADDRESS Stan Weiss, Chair Can Animals Cognitively Time Travel to the Past and Future? William A. Roberts University of Western Ontario An interesting issue in comparative cognition is whether animals, like people, can cognitively time travel or think about their past and anticipate their future. Earlier reviews of what evidence was available suggested animals could not cognitively time travel and that they were stuck in time or largely limited to awareness of only the present moment. Their memory was held to be semantic but not episodic. More recent studies from my laboratory and others with birds, nonhuman primates, and rats now suggest that these animals may have episodic-like memory and be able to plan for the future. The comparative implications and possible limitations of these new findings will be discussed. Ten-Minute Break 6pm--Focus Session Bill Timberlake, Chair Remembering and Anticipating Events in Time Can Rats Engage in Cognitive Time Travel? Jonathon Crystal (University of Georgia) (15 min) Rats Anticipate Injections of Addictive Drugs on a Circadian Schedule. Andrea Gillman (University of Indiana) (15 min) If Nonhuman Animals Anticipate the Future, How Do They Do It? Robert Hampton (Emory University) (15 min) Focus Session Continued on Monday at 4:30pm Monday, February 4, 2008 4:30pm--Focus Session (continued) Bill Timberlake, Chair Remembering and Anticipating Events in Time The What, When, and Where of Episodic-like Memory in Pigeons: Is it Enough? Rebecca Singer (Georgetown College) (15 min) The Encoding of Spatiotemporal Information in Time-Place Learning. Christina Thorpe (Memorial University of Newfoundland) (15 Min) Time Horizons Revealed by Contrast Procedures. Bill Timberlake (University of Indiana) (15 min) Focus Session and Keynote Discussion Bill Roberts, Jonathon Crystal, Andrea Gillman, Robert Hampton, Rebecca Singer, Christina Thorpe, Bill Timberlake & audience Ten-Minute Break 6pm—Eric Heinemann Memorial Lecture Carl Danson, Chair A Memory Model for Decision Processes in Pigeons. Sheila Chase (Hunter College of the City University of New York) 7pm—Memory and Stimulus Control Carl Danson, Chair Invisible displacement as a pre-requisite for episodic memory? Holly C. Miller & Thomas R. Zentall (University of Kentucky) (15 min) Reversibility of Composite-Stimulus Control. Stanley J. Weiss, David N. Kearns & Maria Antoshina (American University) (15 min) 8pm--Conference Dinner at Fontanot's TUESDAY, February 5, 2008 5pm--Stress, Punishment, Time Discrimination & Drug Treatment Cody Brooks, Chair Cold Stress as a Potential Confound in Sleep Deprivation Procedures Using Water. Scott Cohn (Western State College) and Joseph Long (Walter Reed Army Institute of Research) (15 min) An Analysis of the Peak Interval Procedure in Rats: A Mathematical/Physical Approach to Time Discrimination in the Early Learning Process. Takayuki Hasegawa & Shogo Sakata (Hiroshima University) (15 min) A Punishing Effect of Light in Betta Splendens. Joe J. Pear, T. L. Martin, T. Sales, H. C. Hurtado, & D. Fazzio. (University of Manitoba) (15 min) How "The Ghost in the Addict" Can Disrupt Treatment. Stanley J. Weiss, David N. Kearns, Chesley J. Christiansen (American University) (15 min) Extinction Across Multiple Contexts: Effects on Renewal and Resurgence. Jennifer Scobie (ASPCA Animal Behavior Center) (15 min) Wednesday, February 6, 2008 -- Check out time is 10am   WCALB 2008 Organizing Committee Stan Weiss, Convener & Program Rick Bevins Cody Brooks, Program Mark Reilly Bill Timberlake, Focus Session WCALB 2008 Participants Brent Bolyard <Bolyard23@sbcglobal.net> Susan Bolyard <random28@sbcglobal.net> Sheila Chase <schase@hunter.cuny.edu> Cody Brooks <brooksc@denison.edu> Scott Cohn <scohn@western.edu> Jonathon D. Crystal <jcrystal@uga.edu> Carl Danson <cedanson2@mac.com> Andrea Gillman <aggillma@indiana.edu Robert Hampton <rhampt2@emory.edu> Takayuki Hasegawa <hhasseggawwa@hiroshima-u.ac.jp> Holly Miller <mill1661@umn.edu> Kevin Myers < kmyers@bucknell.edu> Joe Pear <pear@cc.umanitoba.ca> Bill Roberts <roberts@uwo.ca> Rebecca Singer <rasing2@uky.edu> Jennifer Scobie < JenniferSobie@aspca.org> Christina Thorpe < cthorpe@mun.ca> Bill Timberlake <timberla@indiana.edu> Stan Weiss <sweiss@american.edu> Winter Conference on Animal Learning and Behavior Winter Park , Colorado February 3 - 7, 2007   Saturday, February 3, 2007 7:00pm -- Buffet Reception and Social Hour 8:15pm -- Welcome and Introduction to the Conference Stan Weiss, Convener   Workshop I— Programming Med-PC® (60 min) Presented by Steven I. Dworkin ( University of North Carolina-Wilmington ) Assisted by Karl R. Zurn & Bridget McM Zurn (MED Associates) Sunday, February 4, 2007 4:30pm -- KEYNOTE ADDRESS Federico Sanabria, Chair The 3Ms of Analysis: Minding, Mining and Modeling our Data Peter Killeen Arizona State University At least 3 x 1 0 8 key-pecks and orders more lever-presses were recorded last year, most of which played no role in guiding scientific inferences. Minding : We can maximize benefit/cost of experiments only by understanding their purpose, beyond satisfaction of vagrant curiosity; if we don't mind experimenting, our results won't matter. I propose a goal: Maximizing the mutual information between a model and a data set; between the things we record and what we say about them. I briefly describe indices of GoF. Mining : Thar's gold in them thar hills. But thar's more dirt. I describe 3 approaches to extracting more of the gold, each attending to more molecular measures: Delta Plots, Survivor plots, and Real-Time analyses. Each technique brings sequentially more of the data to bear on what we might want to say about it.   6pm -- Elimination, Recovery, Patterning & Distribution of Behavior Carl Danson, Chair Acute Stress & Spontaneous Recovery after Extinction of Conditioned Responses. Cody Brooks & Alana Rojewski ( Denison University ) (10 min) Stimulus-Reinforcer Relations and Recovery of Instrumental Responding After Extinction. Chris. Podlesnik & Tim Shahan ( Utah State University ) (10 min) Recovery of Sign-Tracking in Rats After Response Elimination Through Negative Contingency Training. Dave Kearns & Stan Weiss ( American University ) (10 min) Positive and Negative Outcomes and Positive and Negative Patterning. Bill Whitlow ( Rutgers University ) (10 min) Some Thoughts and Some Data on Delay Discounting and Gambling." Greg Madden, Adam Brewer, Patrick Johnson, & Nathaniel Smith ( University of Kansas ) (10 min) Operant Behavioral Model for Studying Persistent Orofacial Nociception. Gerald Hill, Larry Bellinger, Robert Spears, Bob Hutchins, Carolyn Kerins & Phillip Kramer ( Baylor College of Dentistry ) (Poster) Monday, February 5, 2007 4:30pm -- Focus Session Cody Brooks & Mark Reilly, Chairs Modeling Data: From Description & Significance to Behavior & Theories Superstitious Behavior in Pigeons: The Relation of Concepts and Assumptions on Taking and Analyzing Data. Bill Timberlake ( Indiana University ) (15 min) Making Every Response Count. Jonathon Crystal ( University of Georgia ) (15 min) The Choose-Short Effect: Changes in Memory for Sample Duration or Disruption of Attention to Samples? Ryan D. Ward & Amy L. Odum ( Utah State University ) (15 min) A Three-Component Model of Relational Learning in the Transposition Paradigm. Olga F. Lazareva ( University of Iowa ), Michael E. Young (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale ), & E. A. Wasserman ( University of Iowa ) (15 min) An Induced Two-Factor Model of Stimulus Control. Stan Weiss ( American University ) (25 min) Conditioned Reinforcement and Quantitative Models of Behavior Allocation and Persistence. Tim Shahan & Chris Podlesnik ( Utah State University ) (15 min) A Reinforcement Learning Model of Response Timing in Classical Conditioning. Elliot A. Ludvig (University of Alberta), James Neufeld (University of Alberta), E. James Kehoe (University of New South Wales) & Rich Sutton (University of Alberta) (15 min). Beyond Efficiency: A Model of DRL with Attention, Activity, Timing, and Impulsivity Modules. Federico Sanabria ( Arizona State University ) (15 min) 8:15pm -- Conference Dinner at Fontanot's TUESDAY, February 6, 2007 4:30pm -- Drugs & Behavior Amy Odum, Chair Unresolved Sodium Appetite Enhances Cocaine-Induced Psychomotor Response. Martin Acerbo ( University of Iowa ) (15 min) Does Methylphenidate Alter Environmental Familiarization? Amanda Struthers & Rick Bevins (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) (10 min) Where Oh Where Can the Nicotine Place Preference Be. Jamie Wilkinson & Rick Bevins (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) (10 min) Relative Resistance to Change of Alcohol-maintained Responding of Rats Depends on Disruptor Type. Corina Jimenez-Gomez & Tim Shahan ( Utah State University ) (10 min) Extinction/Reinstatement Paradigms as Models of Cocaine-Seeking. Tim Koeltzow ( Bradley University ) (10 min) Bupropion as a Smoking Cessation Aid: A Novel Account for the Clinical Success and Pre-clinical Confusion. Matt Palmatier, Kara Mays, Kasia Bak, Xiu Liu, Tony Caggiula, Eric Donny, & Alan Sved ( University of Pittsburgh ) (10 min) 6pm --Carry in Dinner Compliments of Karl Zern (Med Associates) 6:45pm -- Workshop 2 —Drug Self-Administration (90 min) Presented by Steven I. Dworkin ( University of North Carolina-Wilmington ) Assisted by Karl R. Zurn & Bridget McM Zurn (MED Associates) End 8:15pm Wednesday, February 7, 2007 -- Check out time is 10am 2007 WCALB Organizing Committee Stan Weiss, Convener & Program Rick Bevins, Program Cody Brooks, Focus Session Mark Reilly, Focus Session Bill Timberlake, Program Five minutes will be added to the presentation times indicated for questions and discussion WCALB 2007 Participants Martin Acerbo <martin-acerbo@uiowa.edu> Rick Bevins <rbevins1@unl.edu> Cody Brooks <brooksc@denison.edu> Jonathon D. Crystal <jcrystal@uga.edu> Carl Danson <cedanson2@mac.com> Steve Dworkin <dworkins@uncw.edu> Gerald Hill < ghill@bcd.tamhsc.edu > Corina Jimenez-Gomez <corinaj@cc.usu.edu> Eric Jacobs < eajacobs@siu.edu> Peter Killeen <killeen@asu.edu> Tim Koeltzow <tkoeltzow@bumail.bradley.edu> Philip Kramer <PKramer@bcd.tamhsc.edu> Elliot Ludvig <elliot@cs.ualberta.ca> Olga Lazareva <olga-lazareva@uiowa.edu> Greg Madden <gmadden@ku.edu> Amy Odum <amy.odum@usu.edu> Carol Parsonis <cparonis@hms.harvard.edu> Matt Palmatier <mip16+@pitt.edu> Chris Podlesnik < capodlesnik@cc.usu.edu > Mark P. Reilly <reill1mp@cmich.edu> Federico Sanabria <Federico.Sanabria@asu.edu> Tim Shahan <Tim.Shahan@usu.edu> Amanda Struthers <ams8681@hotmail.com> Bill Timberlake <timberla@indiana.edu> Ryan Ward <ryanward@cc.usu.edu> Stan Weiss <sweiss@american.edu> Bill Whitlow <bwhitlow@camden.rutgers.edu> Jamie Wilkinson <wilkinsonjamie@hotmail.com> Karl Zern <karl@med-associates.com> Winter Conference on Animal Learning and Behavior Winter Park, Colorado February 4 - 8, 2006 Saturday, February 4, 2006 7:00pm -- Buffet and Social Hour 8:15pm -- Opening Presentations, Ideas and Discussion Welcome and introduction to the conference. Stan Weiss Learning within the spinal cord: Cognition without a brain. Jim Grau, Texas A&M (15 min) Schedule-induced polydipsia under explicit positive reinforcement. Ricardo Pellón, Luciana Bayeh & Ángeles Pérez-Padilla, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid (15 min) The Eastern Psychological Association: A contingency-related history. Stan Weiss, American University (10 min) Sunday, February 5, 2006 4:30pm -- Drugs, Learning & Behavior Cody Brooks, Chair A commonly self-administered IV nicotine dose serves as a CS for sucrose. Jennifer E. Murray & Rick A. Bevins, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (10 min) A contingency-based intervention that reduces contextual renewal of cocaine seeking. David N. Kearns & Stanley J. Weiss, American University (10 min) Cocaine and bupropion generalize to a methamphetamine occasion setter. Carmela M. Reichel, Vanessa L. Barra, Sarah A. Berg, Jamie L. Wilkinson, & Rick A. Bevins, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (10 min) The temporal dynamics of bupropion substitution for a nicotine CS. Jamie L. Wilkinson & Rick A. Bevins, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (10 min) Comparable effects of cocaine- and food-based inhibitors on cocaine- or food-seeking: A confirmation of the Appetitive-Aversive Interaction Theory of Motivation. Stanley J. Weiss, David N. Kearns, Chesley J. Christensen & Mary E. Huntsberry, American University (15 min) Extinction and reinstatement of lever pressing in enriched and isolated rats: Differential effects of amphetamine and sucrose. Emily D. Klein, Dustin J. Stairs, & Michael T. Bardo, University of Kentucky (10 min) Reinforcing and aversive affects of caffeine measured by preference for caffeine-paired flavors before or after habitual caffeine consumption. Kevin P. Myers & Emily Izbicki, Bucknell University (15 min) Monday, February 6, 2006 4pm -- KEYNOTE ADDRESS Are Animals Conscious? Turing's Test for Nonhumans. Clive Wynne University of Florida 5:15pm -- Focus Session: Approaches to Animal Consciousness and Cognition Bill Timberlake, Chair & Organizer Animal consciousness: What's the problem? Colin Allen, Indiana University (20 min) On obtaining objective data on consciousness in other animals: Frontal assault or pincer movement? Gordon Burghardt, University of Tennessee (20 min) What functional systems underlie consciousness in vertebrates? William Timberlake and Gary Lucas, Indiana University (20 min) Divided attention and the matching law. Timothy A. Shahan & Christopher A. Podlesnik, Utah State University (15 min) Acquisition of an olfactory learning set for sequences of constantly changing odors in mice. Cindy Cai, Emily Katz, Oliver Rothschild, Karina Illescas, Andriana Herrera, Sofia Huang, Anna Wong, Yvette Wojciechowski, Aida Gil, QiJiang Yan & Robert P. Bauchwitz, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Institute for Health Sciences, Columbia University (15 min) Discussion of Focus Session on Approaches to Consciousness and Cognition Colin Allen, Moderator The session participants plus Clive will have an opportunity to comment, with Clive leading off, followed by contributions and questions from the audience. (to end by 7:45pm). 8:30pm -- Dinner at Fontenot's Tuesday, February 7, 2006 4:30pm -Animal Cognition and Learning Rick Bevins, Chair Influence of apparatus design on conclusions about learning and memory. Robert. P. Bauchwitz, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Institute for Health Sciences, Columbia University (10 min) Rapid solving of a simple problem apparatus by black throated monitor lizards. Gordon Burghardt (University of Tennessee), Jennifer Manrod (Knoxville Zoo), and Ruston Hartdegen (Dallas Zoo) (10 min) Relative numerousness judgment and summation in young, middle-aged, and older adult orangutans. Ursula S. Anderson, Tara S. Stoinski, Mollie A. Bloomsmith, & Terry L. Maple, Atlanta Zoo & Georgia Inst. of Technology (10 min) Renewal of conditioned sexual responses in domesticated quail (Coturnix japonica). Mark A. Krause, University of Portland (10 min) Hedonic versus anticipatory explanations of flavor preference produced by flavor-nutrient conditioning: insights from second-order pairings. Kevin P. Myers & Sean Bradley, Bucknell University (15 min) Extinction and stress. Cody Brooks, Denison University (15 min) Wednesday, February 8, 2006 -- Check out time is 10am ----- 2006 WCALB Organizing Committee Stan Weiss, Convener & Program Rick Bevins Cody Brooks Mark Reilly, Program Bill Timberlake, Focus Session Five minutes will be added to the presentation times indicated for questions and discussion Winter Conference on Animal Learning and Behavior 2005 Winter Park, CO February 5-9, 2005 Saturday, February 5, 2005 6:30pm -- Buffet and Social Hour 8pm -- Opening Presentations, Ideas and Discussion Methodological and practical aspects of zoological research with mega-herbivores: Tactile same-different discrimination in African elephants. Ursula Anderson, M. Jackson Marr, & Terry Maple (Georgia Institute of Technology) Negative automaintenance does not maintain. Federico Sanabria (Arizona State University) Sunday, February 6, 2005 4pm -- Drugs and Behavior: Cocaine & Nicotine Kevin Myers, Chair Repeated cocaine exposure does not increase sucrose "liking". Emily D. Klein & Michael T. Bardo, (University of Kentucky) (10 min) Cocaine and sex: Mechanistic and neural overlap. Chana K. Akins & E. Harris (University of Kentucky) (15 min) Self-administration of nicotine and environmental cues under concurrent schedules of reinforcement. Matt Palmatier, F. Fay Evans-Martin, Alycia Hoffman, Anthony R. Caggiula, Nadia Chaudhri, & Alan F. Sved (University of Pittsburgh) (10 min) Applying the appetitive-aversive interaction theory of motivation to reduce cocaine self- administration with a non-drug inhibitor. Stanley J. Weiss & Dave N. Kearns (American University) (15 min) Effects of US density in an appetitive Pavlovian discrimination task with nicotine as the CS. Jamie L. Wilkinson & Rick A. Bevins (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) (10 min) Nicotine as a conditional stimulus: Role of stimulus salience. Jennifer E. Murray & Rick A. Bevins (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) (10 min) Monday, February 7, 2005 4pm -- KEYNOTE ADDRESS Rational and Irrational Choice: Discounting of Delayed and Probabilistic Outcomes in Rats, Pigeons, and People. Len Green Washington University 5:15pm -- Focus Session: Choice in Humans and Other Animals James S. MacDonall, Chair An attempt to study delay discounting in humans: Strange doings on an adjusting amount procedure. Eric A. Jacobs & Brian Kangas (Southern Illinois University-Carbondale) (15 min) Discounting probabilistic rewards: Is there a magnitude effect? Joel Myerson (Washington University) (15 min) An assessment of the substitutability of wheel-running and sucrose reinforcement. Terry Belke, (Mount Allison University) (10 min) Earning reinforcers and preference. James S. MacDonall (Fordham University) (15 min) Milk vs. milk choice in female rats: A prelude to milk vs. drug choice studies. Carol A. Paronis (McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School) (10 min) Pavlovian influences on preference in an intertemporal choice procedure: Just how impulsive are pigeons? Mark Reilly (Central Michigan University) (10 min) The relationship between component choice and response rate on a multiple schedule. Stan Weiss & David Thomas (American University & NIDA) (10 min) 8:00pm - Conference Dinner at Fontenot's Tuesday, February 10, 2004 5pm - Learning & Motivation Chana K. Akins, Chair Environmental enrichment decreases responding for visual novelty. Mary E. Cain (Kansas State University), Thomas A Green, & Michael T. Bardo (University of Kentucky) (10 min) Contextual cues associated with satiety can influence meal size in rats. Kevin Myers, (Bucknell University) (10 min) Formation and use of cognitive maps in rats. Rebecca A. Singer & Thomas R. Zentall (University of Kentucky) (10 min) Beacon training can both block and facilitate landmark learning in the water maze. Bill Timberlake, S. A. Sinning, and J. Leffel (Indiana University) (15 min) Wednesday, February 9, 2005 -- Check out time is 10am ----- 2005 WCALB Organizing Committee Stan Weiss, Convener & Program Rick Bevins Cody Brooks James S. MacDonall, Focus Session Mark Reilly Bill Timberlake Five minutes will be added to the presentation times indicated for questions and discussion Winter Conference on Animal Learning and Behavior Winter Park, Colorado February 7 - 11, 2004 Saturday, February 7, 2004 6:30pm -- Buffet and Social Hour 8pm -- Opening Short Presentations, Ideas and Discussion (5-15 min. each) Impulsivity in Rats Predicts Subsequent Cocaine Self-Administration. Gregory J. Madden, Marilyn Carroll, Jennifer Perry, Erin Larson and Jon German (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire) What do YOU Mean by "Voluntary"? Alan Neuringer (Reed College) Pavlov and St. Petersburg. Stan Weiss (American University) Discussion of the "Interdependence" problem posed by Frank Logan. (Moderated by Stan Weiss) Sunday, February 8, 2004 4pm -- Learning, Choice and Context Effects Cody Brooks, Chair Temporal Contiguity and Contingency. Lorraine Allan, & J. Tangen (McMaster University) (20 min.) An Evaluation of the Rapid Demand Curve Assay Procedure Commonly Used in the Behavioral Economics Literature. Gregory J. Madden & Ryan Rowe (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire) (15 min) The Current Status of the "Hedonic-Shift" Hypothesis of Nutrient-Conditioned Flavor Preferences. Kevin Myers (Bucknell University) (20 min.) Learning and Memory in Aged Rhesus Monkeys: Patterns of Impairment and Correlations with Brain Volume. Martha Neuringer, Steven Kohama, Noelle Landauer and Josephine Gold (Oregon Health & Science University) (20 min.) 10 Minute Break Learning, Choice and Context Effects (continued) Context Effects on Latent Inhibition and Renewal in a Human Conditioning Task. James Byron Nelson and Maria del Carmen Sanjuan (Central Arkansas University) (20 min.) Perceptual learning, Flattening Generalization Gradients, and Contextual Change. Maria del Carmen Sanjuan and James Byron Nelson (Central Arkansas University) (20 min) More on Partial Reinforcement in Pavlovian Conditioning. Bill Timberlake (Indiana University) (15 min.) Monday, February 9, 20004 4pm -- KEYNOTE ADDRESS The Ghost in the Addict: Drug Anticipation and Drug Addiction Shep Siegel McMaster University 5:15pm -- Focus Session I: Associative Mechanisms and Drug-Related Behavior Mark Reilly, Chair Place Conditioning: An unexploited Model of Associatively-Motivated Choice Behavior. Rick A. Bevins (University of Nebraska) (15 min.) Investigations of Intraincentive Selective Associations When Behavior is Maintained by Food, Shock-Avoidance or Cocaine Self-Administration. Stanley Weiss, David Kearns, Scott Cohn, Charles Schindler and Leigh Panlilio (American University and NIDA Preclinical Research Laboratory) (20 min) Strength of drug seeking is determined by drug dose and associated stimuli in cocaine self-administering rhesus monkeys. Patrick Beardsley and J. Newman (Virginia Commonwealth University) (15 min.) Tuesday, February 10, 2004 4pm -- Focus Session II: Associative Mechanisms and Drug-Related Behavior (continued) Stan Weiss, Chair Ethanol Ataxia Tolerance. Cody Brooks (Denison University) (15 min.) Preference for an Alcohol-Paired Flavor in Selectively Bred Rats. Nancy Dess (Occidental College) (15 min.) Drug Contexts as Occasion Setters: Conditional Stimulus Modality and Drug Feature Pharmacology Affect Goal Tracking Topography in Rats. Matt Palmatier and Rick Bevins (University of Nebraska) (15 min.) Sign Tracking of Drug-Paired Stimuli in the Rhesus Monkey. Mark P. Reilly, Sonja I. Berndt, James H. Woods and Gail Winger (Central Michigan University and University of Michigan) (20 min.) Chronic Cocaine Pretreatment Facilitates Future Sexual Conditioning. Chana Akins and Neil Levens (University of Kentucky and Indiana University of Pennsylvania) (20 min.) Cocaine-Induced Reinstatement Following Extinction With & Without Cocaine-Associated Stimuli. Patrick. M. Beardsley & K. L. Shelton, (Virginia Commonwealth University) (10 min.) 7:30pm -- Dinner at Fontenot's Wednesday, February 11, 2004 -- Check out time is 10am ----- 2004 WCALB Organizing Committee Stan Weiss, Convener & Program Rick Bevins Cody Brooks Mark Reilly, Focus Group Bill Timberlake Winter Conference on Animal Learning and Behavior Winter Park, Colorado February 8- 12, 2003 SATURDAY, February 8th 6:30-6:45 Welcome to WCALB The Conference Committee: Stan Weiss, Rick Bevins, Melissa Burns, & Bill Timberlake 6:45-8:30 Dinner and 4 minute introductions, insights, ideas, inquiries, and inspirations, including but not limited to: Can mice learn a win-stay contingency under aversive motivation?" Charles Locurto College of the Holy Cross Sasquatch, innovation, and other mysteries Rick Bevins University of Nebraska, Lincoln SUNDAY, February 9th CONTEXT & CONNECTIONS Chair: Rick Bevins 4:00-4:05 Setting the context: Find your slippers and grab some food and drink Rick Bevins University of Nebraska, Lincoln Invited Talk 4:05 -5:05 Context, ambiguity, and unlearning: Sources of relapse after behavior extinction Mark Bouton University of Vermont Presentations 5:05-5:30 Spontaneous recovery of ethanol tolerance Cody Brooks & Joanne Vaughn Denison University 5:30-5:55 Feature positive modulation of goal tracking by nicotine: Associative and stimulus properties of the nicotine feature. Matthew I. Palmatier & Rick Bevins University of Nebraska, Lincoln 5:55-6:20 The discriminative stimulus effects of cocaine in Japanese Quail: Evidence for occasion-setting in a sexual reinforcement paradigm. Chana Akins, J. Triosi, & C. Steger University of Kentucky 6:20-6:45 The role of context in goal tracking Melissa Burns & Michael Domjan Texas Christian University and University of Texas 6:45-7:10 The context problem in studies of acquisition Matt Lattal & Dan Gottlieb University of Pennsylvania 7:10-7:30 Further discussion. Finding connections with the rest of psychology MONDAY, February 10th ANIMAL LEARNING: GENERAL Chair: Mark Reilly Presentations 4:00-4:30 The structure of individual differences in mouse problem-solving Charles Locurto College of the Holy Cross 4:30-5:00 Preparedness Revisited: Seligman and his critics were both right Michael Domjan University of Texas at Austin 5:00-5:30 Preconditioning, timing, and motivational modes William Timberlake & Joseph Leffel University of Indiana 5:30-6:00 Associative versus temporal interpretations of the immediate shock deficit in contextual fear conditioning Deborah L. Stote UCLA 6:00-6:30 Impulsive behavior: Evolutionary adaptation to aversive stimulation Stephen Flora Youngstown State University 6:30-7:00 Increased preference for later-larger reinforcers with bundled trials: A partial animal model of human self-control John Monterosso and George Ainslie UCLA 7:00-7:30 Tests of unit price in a closed economy: Fixed-ratio and Random-ratio schedules Gregory J. Madden University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire     TUESDAY, February 11th SEX, DRUGS, & BEHAVIOR Chair: Chana Akins Presentations 4:00-4:30 Implications of noradrenergic system in a novel-object recognition task Kartpagam K. Karthigeyan & Rick Bevins University of Nebraska, Lincoln 4:30-5:00 Sign-tracking (autoshaping) in rats: A comparison of cocaine and food as USs David N. Kearns & Stanley J. Weiss American University 5:00-5:30 The effects of naloxone on conditioned sexual behavior: Exploring state dependency Kevin Holloway Vassar College 5:30-6:00 Conditioned inhibition generated by food, shock-avoidance and cocaine self-administration contingencies Stanley J. Weiss, David N. Kearns, Richard D. Weissman, Charles W. Schindler & Leigh V. Panlilio American University and NIDA Preclinical Pharmacology Section 6:00-6:30 Hey, it's time for my nicotine… Rick Bevins University of Nebraska, Lincoln 6:30-7:00 The role of temporal contiguity in drug self-administration Mark P. Reilly Arizona State University 7:00-7:30 WCALB: 2004 Stan Weiss American University 2003 WCALB Organizing Committee Stan Weiss, Convener Rick Bevins, Focus Group Melissa Burns, Program Bill Timberlake

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