Workshop on Mathematical Psychology, Irvine, California, July 6-25, 1997

小行星9631931吕斯 自从数学心理学最初的研究路线被绘制出来，第一代科学家被训练出来，几十年过去了。 这个为期三周的平行轨道研讨会将汇集10 - 12名高级数学行为科学家和20名初级科学家（高级研究生和年轻的博士后科学家），以反思和综合这些发展，并为未来的研究奠定基础。 研讨会将侧重于六个领域，每个领域涉及两名高级人员和所有初级人员。 建模领域将包括（1）感知和心理物理学， (2)学习和记忆，（3）信息处理， (4)测量，（5）判断和决策，以及（6）一般建模和测试问题。 该行业将在两个主要方面受益。 首先，由于现有的大部分工作分散在许多期刊和书籍中，而且许多年轻学者主要在一个领域接受培训，他们或多或少处于孤立的环境中，没有资深同事，因此他们很难完全了解其他领域出现的最先进的数学建模方法，但这些方法可能对他们的研究有用。 从广义上讲，讲习班旨在巩固该领域过去的研究，并培养下一代科学家。 第二，通过系统地进行这项工作，并提供充足的时间进行互动，有可能启动新的研究领域。 在研讨会之前，期间和之后准备的材料将被制作 在万维网上提供给更广泛的受众。 根据几个部分的结果，可能会出现编辑的卷。 虽然这项工作的目标是对人类行为的各个方面有更深入的科学了解，但对社会直接有益的潜力很大。 在过去，这些发展，除其他外，导致更好的方法来衡量学生的成就（首先，智商测试发展成为一个大产业，现在，更新，更多方面的方法正在进入学校），模型，以描述在不确定的情况下，这导致了决策分析师的职业，并极大地改善了对视觉和听觉系统的研究，这些研究已被用于改善人们在各种人机界面中的表现。 新的建模工作有望大大改善这些现有的应用程序，以及提供额外的应用程序的可能性。 ***

9631931 LUCE A number of decades have passed since the initial lines of research in mathematical psychology were charted out and the first generation of scientists were trained. This three-week, parallel track workshop will bring together 10-12 senior mathematical behavioral scientists and 20 junior ones (advanced graduate students and young postdoctoral scientists) to reflect on and synthesize these developments, and to lay out the ground work for future research. The workshop will focus on six areas, each involving two senior people and all of the junior ones. The modeling areas will include (1) perception and psychophysics, (2) learning and memory, (3) information processing, (4) measurement, (5) judgment and decision making, and (6) general modeling and testing issues. The profession will benefit in two major ways. First, because much of the existing work is scattered throughout many journals and books and because many of the younger scholars, who are trained primarily in one area, are located in more-or-less isolated settings without senior colleagues, it is difficult for them to become fully aware of state-of-the-art mathematical modeling approaches arising in other areas but potentially useful in their research. In a broad sense, then, the workshop is designed to consolidate past research of the field and to nurture the next generation of scientists. Second, by doing this systematically and providing ample time for interactions, it is possible that new lines of research will be initiated. Materials prepared in advance, during, and after the workshop will be made available to a much wider audience on the World Wide Web. Depending upon the outcome of the several sections, edited volumes may appear. Though the goal of such work is deeper scientific understanding of various aspects of human behavior, there is great potential for direct benefit to society. In the past, such developments have, among other things, led to better ways t o measure student's accomplishments (first, IQ testing which evolved into a large industry and now, newer, more multi-faceted approaches that are reaching schools), models to describe quite accurately decision making in situations of uncertainty, which has led to the profession of decision analysts, and vastly improved research on visual and auditory systems, which has been used to improve the performance of people in various human-machine interfaces. New modeling work can be expected to greatly improve these existing applications, as well as to provide the possibility for additional applications. ***