Program Committee

• Prof. Dr. Alexander Cools, Department of Psychoneuropharmacology, University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (program chair and conference host). Alexander Cools is program chair and conference host of Measuring Behavior 2000. His research group works on psychopharmacology of anti-Parkinson agents, antidepressants and antipsychotic drugs; animal models of addiction, Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia and psychomotor diseases in man, using laboratory rats, cats and monkeys. Prof. Cools is also involved in clinical research on pharmacotherapeutic effects of drugs on cognitive and motor disorders. His technical expertise includes image processing, video tracking, and automatic classification of body postures using neural networks.

• Dr. Wim Crusio, Laboratoire de Génétique, Neurogénétique et Comportement, Institut de Transgenose, CNRS, Orleans, France. Wim Crusio works on mouse behavior, especially exploration, learning, early development of reflexes, and aggression, using detailed ethograms and direct and continuous observation methods. In addition, he studies neuroanatomical variation in a brain structure, the hippocampus, quantified using image-analysis techniques. His main interests are covariations of this neuroanatomical variation with behavior, employing genetical methods to dissect brain-behavior relationships.

• Prof. Dr. Peter Hagoort, F.C. Donders Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging, University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Prof. Hagoort is the director of the integrated center for cognitive neuroimaging research, established in 1999. His own research area is on the human language system and its neurobiological basis. He has expertise in using brain imaging techniques in cognitive neuroscience research.

• Dr. Vicenc Quera, Departamento de Metodologia de las Ciencias del Comportamiento, Facultad de Psicologia, Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. Dr. Quera works on the analysis of behavioral observation data. He has recently developed techniques and software for analyzing interaction sequences, and has published several books and papers together with Roger Bakeman and other colleagues on that subject. Other interests include the agent-based simulation of adaptive behavior.

• Prof. dr. Berry Spruijt, Animal Welfare Center, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands. Besides heading the interfaculty center for animal welfare research, Berry Spruijt holds a professorship in ethology at Wageningen University. He has over 15 years of experience in the design and use of automated observation systems, based on digital image processing and pattern recognition techniques. He has also developed techniques for automatic monitoring of ultrasonic vocalizations and thermograhic measurement of physiological variables.

• Dr. Kim Wallen, Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A. Dr. Wallen studies primate behavior at Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center. Besides this, he is director of the Behavioral Technology Core of the newly established Center for Behavioral Neuroscience in Atlanta.

• Ir. Peter Wittenburg, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Peter Wittenburg is technical director at the MPI. He has a background in electrical engineering and computer science. He has designed a wide variety of experimental setups for behavioral and physiological data acquisition and analysis, including measurement of gestures and eye movements, speech analysis and recognition, artificial neural networks to model human speech behavior, and linguistic software for speech and video annotation.

• Dr. Lucas Noldus, Noldus Information Technology b.v., Wageningen, The Netherlands. Lucas Noldus is the founder and managing director of Noldus Information Technology, developers of software and instrumentation for research on human or animal behavior. His own research background is in insect behavior, in particular the behavioral ecology of host-parasitoid interactions. His technical expertise includes observational data collection and analysis, video coding and annotation, video tracking and path analysis, and measurement of human-computer interaction.

Local Organizing Committee

• Marco van der Veer (chair)
• Wineke Schoo
• Mechteld Ballintijn
• Cécile Bruisten-Jeannot
• Tineke Piersma
• Marlou Majoor (conference booking agency)

Advisory Board

• Dr. Roger Bakeman, Department of Psychology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
• Ir. Chris Baten, Roessingh Research & Development, Enschede, The Netherlands
• Prof. Dr. Patrick Bateson, Sub-department of Animal Behaviour, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
• Dr. Steven Bird, Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
• Dr. Maria Boccia, Observational Methods Core, Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A.
• Prof. Dr. Louis Boves, Department of Language and Speech, Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
• Prof. Dr. Stan Gielen, Department of Medical Physics and Biophysics, University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
• Prof. Dr. Rainer Goebel, Department of Neurocognition, Faculty of Psychology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
• Prof. Dr. Ilan Golani, Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
• Dr. Ir. Jaap Harlaar, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Academic Hospital "Vrije Universiteit", Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Prof. Dr. John Hildebrand, ARL Division of Neurobiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
• Dr. Sandra Hogg, Department of Psychopharmacology, H. Lundbeck A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Prof. Peter Jorna, Flight Division, National Aerospace Laboratory, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• Prof. Dr. Jaap Koolhaas, Department of Animal Physiology, University of Groningen, Haren, The Netherlands
• Mr. Klaas Kramer, Department of Safety and Environmental Affairs, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Dr. Menno Kruk, Leiden/Amsterdam Center for Drug Research, Department of Medical Pharmacology, University of Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands
• Dr. Steve Levinson, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
• Prof. Dr. Gitte Lindgaard, Department of Psychology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
• Dr. Brian MacWhinney, Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.
• Dr. Robert McArthur, Behavioural Pharmacology Lab, Pharmacia & Upjohn Inc., Kalamazoo, MI, U.S.A.
• Dr. David McNeill, Departments of Psychology and Linguistics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
• Dr. Klaus Miczek, Department of Psychopharmacology, Tufts University, Medford, MA, U.S.A.
• Prof. Dr. Clive Nancarrow, Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom
• Dr. Martin Paulus, Laboratory of Biological Dynamics and Theoretical Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, University of California - San Diego, La Jolla, CA, U.S.A.
• Dr. Jan-Peter de Ruiter, Department of Communication Psychology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
• Dr. Gene Sackett, Regional Primate Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
• Mr. Siamack Salari, Culture Lab, Twickenham, United Kingdom
• Dr. Frank Sams-Dodd, Sams-Dodd s.l., Barcelona, Spain
• Dr. Franz-Josef van der Staay, CNS Research, Bayer AG, Wupertal, Germany
• Dr. Roderick Suthers, Department of Medical Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.
• Dr. Jonathan Vaughan, Department of Psychology, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, U.S.A.
• Dr. Gerrit van der Veer, Department of Information Management and Software Engineering, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Prof. Dr. Louise Vet, Netherlands Institute for Ecological Research, Nieuwersluis, The Netherlands
• Prof. Dr. Ir. Max Viergever, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands