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Decision Making: Bridging Psychophysics and Neurophysiology

Conference Location(c) University of North Texas
Courtyard by Marriott
2800 Colorado Blvd.
Denton, TX 76210
(940) 382-4600
Time
March 18-20, 2011
Organizers
Paolo Grigolini - University of North Texas and
Bruce J. West - Army Research Office/Duke University

Workshop Secretary: Holly Decker - University of North Texas

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Aim of the Workshop
The purpose of the upcoming Workshop Bridging Psychophysics and Neurophysiology is to establish closer interaction between psychophysicists and neurophysiologists. Moreover, the Workshop will devote attention to many applications of the theoretical results obtained during the third year of the ARO project Network Theory of Human Decision. The decision making model (DMM) developed under this program allows us to quantify the communication between units acting at very large distances from one another. It is anticipated that the technical discussions will confirm the earlier finding that the global intelligence of complex networks emerge from the local cooperation of units, transitioning the network to a critical state. The phase-transition condition is also the ingredient necessary to realize the transmission of information from one complex network to another through the principle of complexity matching (PCM). PCM is a recent discovery of this ARO project that was selected by the American Physical Society as an example of research of exceptional interest. Attention will be devoted to the social and psychological applications of these theoretical predictions. Of particular interest to the military may be the discovery that dynamically generated leadership is more robust against external attacks than is topologically leadership, implying that robust leadership is a consequence of what one does and not where one resides within the hierarchical structure.