Meeting 1

Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences-February 1998
February 5, 1998 - February 6, 1998
National Academy of Sciences Building
2100 C St. NW
Washington D.C.

PRELIMINARY AGENDA

FEBRUARY 5, 1998 NAS BOARD ROOM

8:30 Continental Breakfast

9:00 Opening Remarks

Announcements
National Science Foundation - Steven Breckler
National Institutes of Health, Coordinating Committee - Jaylan Turkkan
American Psychological Society - Alan Kraut

10:00 Alan Leshner, Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse

11:00 Discussion

11:30 Presentation

Decade of Behavior
Richard McCarty, Science Directorate
American Psychological Association

12:15 Lunch

1:15 Discussion of Decade of Behavior

2:00 Board Projects

Human Capital Initiative - Marcia Linn
Memory Proposal - Stephen Ceci
Beyond Discovery Series - Julian Hochberg, Peter Lennie

3:30 Work Groups

5:00 Adjourn

7:00 Working Dinner, by invitation only
Location TBA

FEBRUARY 6, 1998, NAS BOARD ROOM

All Day – Closed Session

Closed Session Summary Posted After the Meeting

The following committee members were present at the closed sessions of the meeting:

Anne Petersen
Linda Burton
Stephen Ceci
Eugene Emory
Julian Hochberg
Peter Lennie
Marcia Linn
Elissa Newport
Michael Rutter
Arnold Sameroff
Edward Smith
James Stigler
Robert Sternberg
William Yost

The following topics were discussed in the closed sessions:
February 6, 1998

The second day of the Board meeting was devoted to planning and
discussing proposed projects, possible sponsors, and teams of Board members to
provide briefings to the Board on selected topics.

Among the topics discussed were: interdisciplinary training in the
behavioral and neurosciences and a briefing from Institute of Medicine
personnel on preliminary discussions with interested sponsors.

The remainder of the day was spent discussing projects on topics,
ranging from disability research and implication for policy, to memory, virtual
reality, attention in complex environments, fetal research, behavioral
consequences of incarceration, assessment of accident factors and coping with
declining sensory and cognitive abilities associated with aging, recovery of
function from illness and accidents, and new research on violence and conflict
resolution.

Work groups were formed and worked until mid-afternoon, when they
reported back to a plenary session on the development of plans. These groups
will continue to work toward proposals that will be presented at the next
meeting.

The following materials (written documents) were made available to the committee in the closed sessions:

None.