Plenary Presentation

Dr. Philip L. Smith

(University of Melbourne, Australia)

Stochastic, Neurally Plausible Models of Decision-Making

Prof. Smith received his Ph. D. from the University of Adelaide in 1985 and has been with the University of Melbourne since. His current research seeks to model how visual information is represented in the central nervous system and the way in which such representations are modified by attention. Prof. Smith’s approach to these problems is a stochastic modeling one, in which hypotheses about the processes that underlie behavior are translated into explicit mathematical models of response time and accuracy that are tested experimentally. His paper “Stochastic dynamic models of response time: A foundational primer” published in the Journal of the Mathematical Psychology received the Best Article Award for an article that appeared in the Journal in a designated period of time.