Program for The Sixth Annual
International
Conference of theSCTPLS

June 25-28, 1996. University of California, Berkeley


Tuesday, June 25 Workshops
Wednesday, June 26 Available Abstracts
Thursday, June 27 Alphabetical Listing of First Authors
Friday, June 28 Links to Berkeley
SCTPLS registration Suggestions/Change Request


Tuesday, June 25

Time Venue A Venue B
9 am - 4 pm Full Day Workshop
The Complex Dynamics of Organizational Change
Kevin Dooley
University of Minnesota
Full Day Workshop
Clinical and Psychotherapy Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics
Alan Stein, Westchester Institute; William Sulis, McMaster University; and Franco Orsucci, Institute for Complexity Studies, Rome, Italy
12 - 1 pm Lunch
4 - 6 pm Free time
6 - 6:30 pm Opening Reception

Introductory Remarks

Stephen Guastello, President, SCTPLS
William Sulis, President-Elect, SCTPLS
6:30-7:30 pm Special Invited Lecture

A Biological View of Consciousness and Intentionality

Walter Freeman, UC Berkeley
7:30 - 8:30 pm Plenary Talk

Speculations on Nonlinear Speculative Bubbles

J. Barkley Rosser, James Madison University
8:30 pm Social Time
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Wednesday, June 26

Time Venue A Venue B
8 - 9 am SCTPLS Business Meeting
9 - 10 am Plenary Talk

Death of a Paradigm Crisis

Jeff Pressing, University of Melbourne
10 - 10:20 pm Cognitive Science 1
Session Chair: Jeff Pressing, University of Melbourne
The Dynamics of Learning to Automaticity
Kevin Dooley, University of Minnesota & Richard F. Flor, University of Wyoming
Break
10:20 - 10:40 am A New Tool in Probabilistic Analysis Yields Inter- and Intrastructural EEG Association
L. Lancaster, L. Kay, & W.J. Freeman, U.C. Berkeley
Foundations and Philosophy 1
Session Chair: Robin Robertson, Alhambra, CA
Attitudes as Attractors: Measuring Perceived Self-Efficacy in a Second Language
Robert Kahn, University of Missouri
10:40 - 11 am Break Creativity and Information
Lee McGavin, Institute for Communications Research, University of Alabama
11 - 11:20 am Characterization of Spatial Phase Gradients in Neocortical EEG's Yields Segmentation of Perceptual Events and Neural Binding Domains
John Barrie & W.J. Freeman, UC Berkeley
Chaos as a New Paradigm: Explorations for the `Learning Society'
Andrea Bugari, George Washington University
11:20 - 11:40 am Application of Probability Automaton Nets and Representation Theory to Modeling of Human Groups
Vladislav Kovchegov, CUNY, New York
Fractal Functionality and Differential Psychology
Irina Trofimova, Moscow, Russia
11:40 am - 12 pm Handwritten Character Recognition using Multiple Chaotic Chua Attractors in a Neural Associative Memory
Bill Baird, Morris Hirsch, UC Berkeley, & Frank Eeckman, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Chaos Theory as Buddhadharma
Stephen Proskauer, University of Utah
12 - 1 pm Lunch
1 - 1:20 pm Cognitive Science 2
Session Chair: Keith Clayton, Vanderbilt University
Fractal Memory for Visual Form
Keith Clayton & Barbara Frey, Vanderbilt University
Foundations and Philosophy 2
Session Chair: William Sulis, McMaster University
Minisymposium -- A Sense of Wonder: Philosophical Issues of Chaos/Complexity in the Study of Mind
Robin Robertson, William Sulis, Michael Butz, & Frederick Abraham
1:20 - 1:40 pm Chaos in the Time Course of Cognitive Processing
William Lapp, Research Institute on Addictions
Minisymposium -- Continued
1:40 - 2 pm The Cusp Catastrophe Applied to Cognitive Performance
Guy van Orden & Anna Bosman, Arizona State University
Minisymposium -- Continued
2 - 2:20 pm Examining Sequence Effects using Nonlinear Dynamics
Barbara Frey & Keith Clayton, Vanderbilt University
Minisymposium -- Continued
2:20 - 2:40 pm Is the Neuron a Phase Portrait?
William Hoffman, Tuscon, Arizona
Minisymposium -- Continued
2:40 - 3 pm Break Minisymposium -- Continued
3 - 3:20 pm Nonlinear Coherence in Multivariate Time Series
Fred Abraham, Blueberry Brain Institute
Break
3:20 - 3:40 pm The strange attraction of reaction times
Douglas Vickers, University of Adelaide
Explanation, Dynamics and Causes: The Case of the Dungeness Crabs
Ruth Berger, Indiana University
3:40 - 4 pm Clinical and theoretical implications of nonlinear dynamics in speech
Franco Orsucci, Institute for Complexity Studies, Rome, Italy
Number as Physical Dimension and as Psychological Archetype: the Measurement of Complexity and Form
Hector Sabelli & Linnea Carlson-Sabelli, Rush University
4 - 4:20 pm The application of a systems dynamic model for borderline personality disorder: towards the implementation of effective acute and long term clinical interventions
Tom Meacham, Community Mental Health Center Inc Lawrenceburg, Indiana
Exploring the Dynamical System of an Archetype in the Creation Myth of Valentinian Gnosticism
Marianne Johnson, University of Manitoba
4:20 - 4:40 pm Shannon Entropy as a Measure of Chaos and Constraint in Family Communication
Stephen Proskauer, University of Utah
The Lack of Linearity in Nonlinearity
Alexandra Post, The Alexis Group
4:40 - 5 pm Dynamical modeling: A new paradigm in couple and family research
Stephen Proskauer, University of Utah
Artificial Life 1/2
Session Chair: Dianne Miller, McMaster University
Mobility versus Stasis: Implications for Adaptive Behaviour
Dianne Miller & William Sulis, McMaster University
5 - 5:20 pm Chaos and New Concepts of Psychics
Yershova-Babenko, Odessa, Ukraine
Dynamics of an Animal Model of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
David Eilam, Tel-Aviv University, Henry Szechtman, & William Sulis, McMaster University
5:20 - 5:40 pm TBA
Avidan Neumann, LANL
Artificial Life and Depression
Jeff Pressing, University of Melbourne
7 - 8 pm Keynote Speaker

Is anything ever new? Discovering the hidden order in chaos

James Crutchfield, UC Berkeley
8 pm Social Time
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Thursday, June 27

Time Venue A Venue B
9 - 10 am Special Invited Lecture

The long line of chaos

Ralph Abraham, UC Santa Cruz
10 - 10:20 am Discussion with Ralph Abraham -- Phone Link to Italy/Break
10:20 - 10:40 am Organizations, Economics, Society 1
Session Chair: Steve Guastello, Marquette University
Organizational Symbols and Underlying Attractors in Dynamical Social Systems
Thomas Dandridge, SUNY Albany
Clinical 1
Session Chair: Linda Chamberlain, Colorado Family Center
Paradox and Psychological Health: Four easy Steps Beyond Homeostasis
David Schuldberg, University of Montana
10:40 - 11 am Using Models of Dynamic Chaos in Political Psychology
Mitina Olga & Victor Petrenko, Moscow State University, Russia
An Empirical Test of a Cusp Catastrophe Model for Adolescent Alcohol Use
Scott Clair, University of Huston
11 - 11:20 am Complexity and Images of Global Society
Zachary Moore, Syracuse University
A Nonlinear Dynamical Conception of Change and Turbulence in Family Systems
Matthijs Koopmans, CUNY Staten Island
11:20 - 11:40 am Nonlinearity and Public Institutions: The Co-Creation of a Violent Culture
Linda Dennard, California State University
Feedback, Chaos and Family Regulation
Stephen Proskauer, University of Utah
11:40 am - 12 pm The Limits to Change
Alexandra Post, The Alexis Group
Nonlinear Counselling: A Chaos Theory Perspective in Minority Belief System
Edil Torres-Rivera, University of Nevada
12 - 1 pm Lunch
1 - 1:20 pm Organizations, Economics, Society 2
Session Chair: Jeff Goldstein, Adelphi University

Dynamics of Group Productivity and Coordination Games

Stephen Guastello & Denise Guastello, Marquette University
Clinical 2
Session Chair: Zeno Kupper, University of Bern

Minisymposium -- Clinical Chaos: Nonlinear Models in Mental Health Research and Practice

Linda Chamberlain, Michael Butz, William McCown, & Stephen Proskauer
1:20 - 1:40 pm Detecting Chaos: Empirical Techniques
John Patty, UNC Chapel Hill
Minisymposium -- Continued
1:40 - 2 pm Implications of Feigenbaum Diagram
Gus Koehler & Victoria Koehler-Jones, University of Nevada
Minisymposium -- Continued
2 - 2:20 pm The Decline in World Wide Oceanic Fishing Harvests: Lotka-Volterra and Related Dynamics
Stephen Guastello, Marquette University
Minisymposium -- Continued
2:20 - 2:40 pm Simulating Chaotic Behaviour in Population Ecology Model
Choi, Chang-Hyeon, Kwandong University, Korea
Minisymposium -- Continued
2:40 - 3 pm Break Minisymposium -- Continued
3 - 3:20 pm Chaos and Methodology
Debra Kosemetzky, OISE, Toronto, Canada
Break
3:20 - 3:40 pm Dynamics of Structural Transformation in Entrepreneurial Firms: Using Catastrophe Theory to Model Self Organizing Processes of Organizational Emergence
Benyamin Lichtenstein, Boston College
Group Dynamics: Notation and Simulation
Franco Orsucci, Institute for Complexity Studies, Rome, Italy
3:40 - 4 pm Chaotic Dynamics in a Dynamic Game Theoretical Model of a Closed Economy
John Patty, UNC Chapel Hill
Advances in Game Theory and Their Application to Psychotherapy
Tom Meacham, Community Mental Health Center Inc. Lawrenceburg, Indiana
4 - 4:20 pm Adaptation Level and ``Animal Spirits"
Elliott Middleton, MSU, Minneapolis, MN
The Psychoanalytic Flirtation with Chaos: A Potentially Dangerous Liaison
Alan Stein, Wetschester Institute
4:20 - 4:40 pm Organizing Principles as Attractors: Decoding Different Patterns of Organizational Dynamics Between the U.S. and Japan
Dengjian Jin, George Mason University
Is Psychoanalysis ``The Chaos Game?" Patient Transference Development as an Iterated Function: An Analogy to Barnsley's Affine Transformation Geometry
Tom Meacham, Community Mental Health Center Inc. Lawrenceburg, Indiana
4:40 - 5 pm Chaos theory and community development
Debra Kosemetzky, OISE, Toronto, Canada
Cardiac Dimensions of Psychosis. Embedding the Electrocardiogram to Reveal Psychological Processes and Dysfunctions
L Carlson-Sabelli, H. Sabelli, M. Patel, A. Sugerman, & R. Luecht, Rush University
5 - 5:20 pm A cusp catastrophe model analysis of anxiety levels in pre-university students
Tim Haslett
Schizophrenia, Dynamics and Self-Organization
Z. Kupper, W. Tschacher, & H. Hoffmann University of Bern
5:20 - 6:30 pm Dinner
6:30 - 7:30 pm Plenary Talk

Multifarious Concepts of Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium in the New Dynamical Sciences

Jeffrey Goldstein, Adelphi University
7:30 pm Social Time
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Friday, June 28

Time Venue A Venue B
Friday, June 28
8 - 9 am SCTPLS Business Meeting
9 am - 12 pm Half Day Workshop
Basic Nonlinear Dynamics
Keith Clayton, Vanderbilt University
Self Organized Discussion Groups
MiniSymposia
Panel Discussions
Self Organized Workshops
12 - 1 pm Lunch
1 - 4 pm Half Day Workshop
Advanced Concepts in Complex Dynamical Systems
William Sulis, McMaster University
Self Organized Discussion Groups MiniSymposia
Panel Discussions
Self Organized Workshops
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