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The Pavlovian Society is dedicated to the scientific study of behavior and
promotion of interdisciplinary scientific communication. It recognizes the value
of research at the molecular level but encourages members to stress the
significance of their scientific observations to the whole functioning organism.
Thus, the Society fosters an integrative scientific approach and encourages scientists to adopt it in publications and in presentations. The Society's interest range from basic to clinical science activities. Its annual scientific meeting allows open and sometimes heated discussion of current issues in behavioral neuroscience and learning, at both basic and applied levels.
The Society also operates within a confederation of similar organizations, with a Pavlovian tradition, in Europe and the Orient.
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The Society was established in 1955 by W. Horsley Gantt at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Early meetings were held in the Baltimore-New York area, but as the membership started to assume an international character, annual meetings were held abroad as well as through the United States. Membership includes physicians, PhDs, clinicians and scientists. Past presidents include Howard Liddell, Harold Wolff, B. F. Skinner, Stewart Wolf, Jr., Wagner Bridger, William Schoenfeld, Carmine Clemente, William Reese, Orville Smith, Gyorgy Adam, Herbert Kimmel, K. V. Sudakov, David Randall, Joseph Brady, Roscoe Dykman, Shoji Kakigi, John Furedy, Jaylan Turkhan, J. Bruce Overmier, Benjamin Natelson, Paul McHugh, Byron Campbell, Paul Rosch, Wolfram Boucsein, Tracey Shors, Michael Fanselow, Joe Steinmetz, Lou Matzel, Richard Thompson, Ralph Miller, and Michael Domjan.
A particularly forthright examination of the Society's history is presented by
The Society has two membership categories: full members and student members. Now that the Society's involvement with the journal has been discontinued (see below for details) the dues structure has changed. Dues for 2007 are $30 for full members and post-docs. Student members pay $20. In both cases payment of dues results in a reduction in the registration fee that you pay for the meeting if you choose to attend.
Join by completing one of the forms below and mailing, faxing, or emailing it to Jeff Wilson.
Application for membership (html
format) Application for membership (Word
format)
Pay dues (& meeting registration) at the bottom of the page.
In 2005 the Pavlovian Society made the difficult decision to end its affiliation with Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Science at the conclusion of the 2004 volume (vol. 39). Transaction Periodicals Consortium, which owns the journal, has indicated that they intend to continue its publication. We are investigating other publication options for the Society, including the possibility of an online journal, and welcome comments from the members regarding this issue.
A brief history of the Society's journal offerings to date (from www.indiana.edu/~ipbs - the web site for the journal established by its most recent editor, Joe Steinmetz):
Early in its history, the Pavlovian Society began publishing
Conditional Reflex as an outlet for papers related to various aspects of
Pavlovian conditioning. W. Horsley Gantt, the founder and first president of
the Pavlovian Society was the editor of the journal. F. J. McGuigan took over
as the editor of the journal in 1974 and changed its title to The Pavlovian
Journal of Biological Science in an attempt to broaden the scope of the
journal. The name of the journal was changed again to Integrative
Physiological and Behavioral Science when Stewart Wolf became editor of
the journal.
Dear friends and members of the Pavlovian Society:
The 2009 meeting of the Society will be held in beautiful Burlington, Vermont on October 29-31, 2009. The Burlington airport is served by a number of different airlines, and is located within a few minutes of the hotel, the Hilton Burlington, which is situated on Lake Champlain in downtown Burlington. Burlington is a lovely town and there are many restaurants and places for members to congregate after hours that are close to the hotel.
We have negotiated good room rates at the Hilton of $159 for city view and $179 for lake view. These rates will only be available through October 8. Please make your reservations directly at http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/groups/personalized/BTTVTHF-PSA-20091029/index.jhtml This is a special web page set up specifically for our meeting.
As usual, the meeting will begin with a reception on Thursday evening (beginning at 6:00 pm) and will end with a banquet on Saturday evening. This year’s banquet speaker is Dr. Bernd Heinrich, the eminent behavioral ecologist, who will tell us about cognition in ravens. Notice that we will be hearing about raven cognition on Halloween night—how can you possibly resist?
The program will feature symposia on conditioning processes in feeding and appetite (organized by Terry Davidson), habit learning (organized by Barbara Knowlton), reconsolidation (organized by Karim Nader), and habituation and latent inhibition (organized by Catharine Rankin). Invited talks will tentatively be given by Anthony Dickinson, John Disterhoft, Jeansok Kim, Matthew Lattal, Bruce McNaughton, Ralph Miller, John Pearce, Glenn Schafe, and Allan Wagner.
If you, your postdocs, and/or students would like to present a poster at the meeting, please e-mail authors, title, and an abstract (250 words maximum) of your presentation to PavlovianSociety09@uvm.edu no later than August 21, 2009 (use this address ONLY for submissions - not for meeting registration). We do not expect to have room for additional oral presentations, but let us know if you would prefer that just in case.
Early registration will be $170 for members, $100 for postdocs, and $70 for students. Registration fees can be paid online via PayPal. Late registration will be $190, 120, and 75. So get busy and register early!
We look forward to seeing you in Burlington.
Best regards, Mark Bouton
Two awards are presented by the Society:
Stewart G Wolf, once a president of the Society, passed away in September 2005.
Phil Bersh, student of Pavlovian-operant interactions, passed away in the spring of 2004.
George Windholz, a longtime member of the Society, passed away in the fall of 2002.
The By-Laws of the society can be seen by clicking here.
You may mail checks payable to "Pavlovian Society" to
W.
Jeffrey Wilson
Secretary/Treasurer Pavlovian Society
Department of Psychology
Albion
College
611 E. Porter St.
Albion,
MI 49224
or make an online payment here. Please make your selection carefully!
Dues alone [Meeting reg fees include dues - see above]:
graciously provides the web server for the Pavlovian Society.
Page maintained by W. Jeffrey Wilson (wjwilson@pavlovian.org) to whom all web-related correspondence should be sent.
