SYMPOSIUM 10

Quantitative Analysis of Behavioral Observation Data

Oral presentations
Friday, August 18, 13:30-16:30, Small Auditorium
Chair: V. Quera (Barcelona, Spain)

13:30

Y. Benjamini (Tel Aviv, Israel). Robustness issues in automated statistical analysis of behavior.

13:50

M.S. Magnusson (Reykjavik, Iceland). Modeling complex real-time behavioral streams as optimized sub-sets of mutually exclusive and nested t-patterns.

14:10

S.H.N. Willemsen-Swinkels, M.J. Bakermans-Kranenburg, J.K. Buitelaar, M.H. Van IJzendoorn and H. Van Engeland (Utrecht, The Netherlands). Temporal patterns in children with a disorganized/disoriented attachment.

14:30

G.K. Jonsson (Reykjavik, Iceland). Detection of real-time interaction patterns in football.

14:50

Coffee break

15:20

D.K. Oller and S.Nathani (Orono, ME, U.S.A.). Hierarchical coding of vocalization: computer-based training and reliability.

15:50

B. Thomann (Zürich, Switzerland). Assessing agreement among markings of behavioral events.

16:10

J.P. Yoder, P. Bruce and J. Tapp (Nashville, TN, U.S.A.). Comparing sequential associations within a single case.

Poster presentations and demonstrations
Thursday, August 17, 14:00-17:30

J. Novakova, J. Vinklerova, A. Sulcova, P. Panek, J. Gajdosik (Brno, Czech Republic). Mouse agonistic behavior data collected with The Observer statistically analyzed with a subsidiary program differentiating three mouse categories: aggressive, timid and sociable individuals.

A.V. Kalueff (Kiev, Ukraine). Measuring grooming in stress and comfort.

C. Bizeray, C. Leterrier and J.M. Faure (Nouzilly, France). Using a classification of activity bouts to simplify observation in meat-type chickens.

J.E. Kent, V. Molony and I. McKendrick (Roslin, Scotland). Use of principal component analysis and discriminant analysis to simplify the assessment of pain.

G.K. Jonsson (Reykjavik, Iceland). Relation between self-esteem, personality dimensions of extraversion and emotionality and real-time patterning of social interaction.

M.S. Magnusson (Reykjavik, Iceland). Diagnostic possibilities of behavioral time structure analysis: discovering group differences through statistical analysis of detected t-patterns.

V. Quera and R. Bakeman (Barcelona, Spain). GSEQ for Windows: New software for the sequential analysis of behavioral data, with an interface to The Observer.