{"id":8138,"date":"2019-05-22T16:04:26","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/hixon_symposium\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:04:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:04:26","slug":"hixon_symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/hixon_symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Hixon symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A meeting on brain-behavior relationships held at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caltech.edu\/\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.caltech.edu\/&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Caltech<\/a> in September 1948 and attended by psychologists and what we now know as computer scientists, network modellers and neuroscientists (see photograph below). &nbsp;At the meeting, for example, <a href=\"http:\/\/scidiv.bellevuecollege.edu\/math\/vonneumann.html\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/scidiv.bellevuecollege.edu\/math\/vonneumann.html&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John von Neumann<\/a> (1903-1957), circled in red, presented his theory of automata and <a href=\"http:\/\/wexler.free.fr\/library\/files\/lashley%20(1930)%20basic%20neural%20mechanisms%20in%20behavior.pdf\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/wexler.free.fr\/library\/files\/lashley%20(1930)%20basic%20neural%20mechanisms%20in%20behavior.pdf&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Karl S. Lashley<\/a> (1890-1958), circled in blue, his famous paper on the serial ordering of behavior, which effectively dealt a body blow to behaviorism and stimulus-response theory more generally. &nbsp;The symposium, together with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livinginternet.com\/i\/ii_ai.htm\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.livinginternet.com\/i\/ii_ai.htm&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dartmouth conference<\/a> (1956) on artificial intelligence and the <a href=\"http:\/\/mechanism.ucsd.edu\/teaching\/w07\/philpsych\/bechtel.cogscihistory.pdf\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/mechanism.ucsd.edu\/teaching\/w07\/philpsych\/bechtel.cogscihistory.pdf&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MIT symposium<\/a> (1956) on information processing, can be seen as the inspiration essential building blocks for the so-called cognitive revolution and subsequent information-processing theories of human behavior&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Hixon-symposium.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>See <a href=\"analogy_-as_a_trope-\">Analogy (as a trope)<\/a>, Artificial intelligence, <a href=\"behaviorism\">Behaviorism<\/a>, <a href=\"cognitive_psychology\">Cognitive psychology<\/a>, <a href=\"cognitive_science\">Cognitive science<\/a>, <a href=\"information-processing_theories\">Information-processing theories<\/a>, <a href=\"paradigm_shift\">Paradigm shift<\/a>, <a href=\"psychology\">Psychology<\/a>, Serial ordering   <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A meeting on brain-behavior relationships held at Caltech in September 1948 and attended by psychologists and what we now know as computer scientists, network modellers and neuroscientists (see photograph below). &nbsp;At the meeting, for example, John von Neumann (1903-1957), circled in red, presented his theory of automata and Karl S. Lashley (1890-1958), circled in blue, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/hixon_symposium\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hixon symposium&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}