The aim of NOWCAM is to support Pacific Northwest faculty and student researchers working in the general area of memory and cognition by creating an annual venue in which they can share their current research activities with an informed, sympathetic, and good-humoured audience. With the exception of keynote addresses, NOWCAM favours papers and posters presented by students (usually with faculty as co-authors). This gives students an opportunity to develop their chops, and faculty a chance to sit back and relax.

The Pacific Northwest is home to numerous wide-flung Psychology departments with strengths in cognition and memory. NOWCAM provides a forum for faculty and students from these departments to get together and discuss their latest research. Interactions with other researchers can spark innovations and cross-fertilizations that move the research forward in new and exciting ways. In any case, it's good fun to get together with friends and colleagues who share similar interests, chew the cognitive rag a bit, and quaff a beer or two over a good meal.

NOWCAM 2010 will continue the third iteration of our five-university cycle, returning to Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA, where NOWCAM co-founder Ira Hyman will host an awesome conference. The meeting will start late in the afternoon or early evening of Friday 14 May, and run through to noon or a bit later on Sunday 16 May.  Please reserve those dates now.  Join the listserve if you would like to receive notices about NOWCAM 2010 next spring.

To subscribe to the NOWCAM mailing list (which will bring you periodic updates regarding NOWCAM meetings), please visit/subscribe at https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/nowcam-list. You can also unsubscribe at that site at any time. Messages are few and far between.

Steve Lindsay is Grand Poo-bah Mother Hen of NOWCAM, and the Exalted Order of the Group of 7 +/-2 consists of Eric Eich (UBC), Ira Hyman (WWU), Alan Kingstone (UBC), Mariam Bassok (UW), Mike Masson (UVic), and Don Read (SFU).

NOWCAM gratefully acknowledges financial support from Simon Fraser University, the University of British Columbia, the University of Victoria, the University of Washington, and Western Washington University, and from generous anonymous donations by a number of individuals attending past NOWCAM conferences.

NOWCAM 2009

Univ. of Victoria

14-16 May 2009

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