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

自从数学心理学研究的最初路线被绘制出来，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研讨会将汇集10-12名高级数学行为科学家和20名初级数学行为科学家（高级研究生和年轻博士后科学家）来反思和综合这些发展，并为未来的研究奠定基础。研讨会将集中在六个领域，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，由于现有的许多工作分散在许多期刊和书籍中，而且由于许多主要在一个领域接受训练的年轻学者，在没有资深同事的情况下，或多或少处于孤立的环境中，因此他们很难完全意识到其他领域出现的最先进的数学建模方法，但这些方法对他们的研究可能有用。因此，从广义上讲，该研讨会旨在巩固该领域过去的研究，并培养下一代科学家。其次，通过系统地这样做，并为相互作用提供充足的时间，有可能启动新的研究路线。在研讨会之前、期间和之后准备的材料将在万维网上提供给更广泛的受众。根据几个部分的结果，可能会出现编辑过的卷。虽然这类工作的目标是对人类行为的各个方面有更深入的科学理解，但它对社会有直接利益的巨大潜力。在过去，这样的发展，除其他外，导致了更好的方法来衡量学生的成就（首先，智商测试，它发展成为一个大行业，现在，更新的，更多方面的方法正在进入学校），模型来相当准确地描述在不确定的情况下的决策，这导致了决策分析师的职业，并大大提高了视觉和听觉系统的研究，它已被用于提高人们在各种人机界面中的表现。新的建模工作有望极大地改进这些现有的应用程序，并为其他应用程序提供可能性。＊＊＊

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. ***