CogSci97 - Schedule for Talks
Thursday, August 7
9:00 AM
Symposium on Semantics (Track 1)
- Organizer's Introduction
Keith Stenning
- Studying Semantics to Understand Cognition
Keith Stenning
- Polysemy and Lexical Representation
Ann Copestake
Architectural Issues (Track 2)
- Control in Act-R and Soar
Todd R. Johnson
- Incremental Sequence Learning
Axel Cleeremans and Arnaud Destrebecqz
- Deductive Reasoning Competence: Are Rule-Based and Model-Based
Methods Distinguishable in Principle?
Peter Yule
- Systematicity: Psychological Evidence with Connectionist Implications
Steven Phillips and Graeme S. Halford
Short-Term Processing (Track 3)
- Identifying Dual-Task Executive Process Knowledge using EPIC-Soar
Ronald S. Chong and John E. Laird
- A Cortical Model of Cognitive 40Hz Attentional Streams, Rhythmic
Expectation, and Auditory Stream Segregation
Bill Baird
- Modeling Individual Differences in a Digit Working Memory Task
Marsha C. Lovett, Lynne M. Reder, and Christian Lebiere
- The Dynamics of Prefrontal Cortico-Thalamo-Basal Ganglionic Loops and
Short-Term Memory Interference Phenomena
Jack Gelfand, Vijay Gullapalli, Marcia Johnson, Carol Raye, and
Jeffrey Henderson
10:30 AM Break
11:00 AM
Symposium on Semantics (Track 1)
- In Support of the Equal Rights Movement for Literal
and Figurative Language
Udo Hahn and Katja Markert
- Logical and Diagrammatic Reasoning: The Complexity of
Conceptual Space
Oliver Lemon and Ian Pratt
- Modeling Embodied Lexical Development
David Bailey, Jerome Feldman, Srini Narayanan, and George Lakoff
- A Computational Theory of Vocabulary Expansion
Karen Ehrlich and William Rapaport
Complex Control Processes (Track 2)
- How Currency Traders Think About the Spot Market's Thinking
Kip C. S. Smith
- A Cognitive Model of Learning to Navigate
Diana Gordon and Devika Subramanian
- Strategy Use While Learning to Perform the
Kanfer-Ackerman Air Traffic Controller Task
Bonnie E. John and Yannick Lallement
- The Precis of Project Nemo, Phase 1: Subgoaling and
Subschemas for Submariners
Wayne D. Gray, Susan S. Kirschenbaum, and Brian D. Ehret
Interference Effects (Track 3)
- A Sublexical Locus for Repetition Blindness:
Evidence from Illusory Words
Alison L. Morris and Catherine L. Harris
- Reaction Time Analyses of Repetition Blindness
Hsuan-Chih Chen and Kin Fai Ellick Wong
- Simulations with a Connectionist Model for
Implicit and Explicit Memory Tasks
R. Hans Phaf and Michiel S. A. van Immerzeel
- Dual-task Interference When a Response is Not Required
Mark Van Selst and James C. Johnston
12:30 PM Lunch
2:00 PM
Semantic Structure (Track 1)
- The Structure of the Verb Lexicon: Evidence from a Structural
Alignment Approach to Similarity
Tomislav Pavlicic and Arthur B. Markman
- Representing Abstract Words and Emotional Connotation in
High-dimensional Memory Space
Curt Burgess and Kevin Lund
- Modality Specificities in Lexical Architecture?
William D. Marslen-Wilson, Mike Ford, and Xiaolin Zhou
- Talking the Talk is Like Walking the Walk: A Computational Model of
Verbal Aspect
Srini Narayanan
Symposium on Motor Behavior (Track 2)
- Organizer's Introduction
David Rosenbaum
- Motor Control: Issues For Cognitive Science
David Rosenbaum
- The Dynamics of Action
William Warren
Methodological Issues (Track 3)
- Simulation Models and the Power Law of Learning
Stellan Ohlsson and James J. Jewett
- Constraints on the Design of a High-Level Model of Cognition
Randolph M. Jones and John E. Laird
- The Functions of Finite Support: A Canonical Learning Problem
Rusins Freivalds, Efin Kinber, and Carl H. Smith
- An Objective Approach to Trajectory Mapping through Simulated
Annealing
Stephen Gilbert
3:30 PM Break
4:00 PM
Semantic Memory Processes (Track 1)
- How Well Can Passage Meaning be Derived without Using Word Order?
Thomas K. Landauer, Darrell Laham, Bob Rehder, and M. E.
Schreiner
- Mediated Priming in High-dimensional Meaning Space: What is Mediated
in Mediated Priming?
Kay Livesay and Curt Burgess
- Homographic Self-Inhibition and the Disappearance of Priming in Bilingual Memory
Robert M. French and Clark Ohnesorge
- Spread of Activation in the Mental Lexicon
Xiaolin Zhou and William Marslen-Wilson
Symposium on Motor Behavior (Track 2)
- Doing Two Things at Once: A Dynamical Systems Model of the Interaction
between Gait and Posture
Bruce Kay
- Modeling Planning and Reaching
Jonathan Vaughan, David A. Rosenbaum, and Carolyn J. Harp
- Modelling the Selection of Routine Action: Exploring the Criticality
of Parameter Values
Richard Cooper and Tim Shallice
- A Least-Action Model for Dyskinesias in Parkinson's Disease
J. Brian Burns, Christopher I. Connolly, Roderic A. Grupen, and
Mandar S. Jog
Functional Accounts of Behavior (Track 3)
- Modeling a Functional Explanation of the Subitizing Limit
Scott Peterson, Kimberly Morton, and Tony J. Simon
- [ieau] and Sometimes [o]: Perceptual and Computational Constraints
on Vowel Inventories
Marc F. Joanisse and Mark S. Seidenberg
- Populations of Learners: The Case of Portuguese
Partha Niyogi and Robert C. Berwick
- Does Complex Behavior Require Complex Representations?
James S. Magnuson
7:00 PM Poster Reception - Governor's Corner
Friday, August 8
9:00 AM
Symposium: From Spatial to Abstract Cognition (Track 1)
- Organizer's Introduction
Merideth Gattis
- Cognitive Principles of the Use of Space to Convey Meaning
Barbara Tversky
- The Evolutionary Linkage Between Spatial Cognition and Intentional Communication
Merlin Donald
Long-Term Memory (Track 2)
- Modeling the Mirror Effect in a Continuous Remember/Know Paradigm
L. M. Reder, A. Nhouyvansivong, C. D. Schunn, M. S. Ayers, P.
Angstadt, and K. Hiraki
- Improving Associative Memory Capacity: One-Shot Learning in
Multilayer Hopfield Networks
Arnold Liwanag and Suzanna Becker
- The Influence of Semantic Magnitude Representations on Arithmetic:
Theory, Data, and Simulation
John Whalen
- Neuronal Mechanisms of Memory Maintenance
David Horn, Nir Levy, and Eytan Ruppin
Speech and Acoustic Processing (Track 3)
- Discriminating Local and Distributed Models of Competition in Spoken
Word Recognition
M. Gareth Gaskell and William D. Marslen-Wilson
- Tracking the Time Course of Lexical Activation in Continuous Speech
Paul D. Allopenna, James S. Magnuson, and Michael K.
Tanenhaus
- Evolution of a Rapidly Learned Representation for Speech
Ramin Charles Nakisa and Kim Plunkett
- Ambiguity and Competition in Lexical Segmentation
Matt H. Davis, William D. Marslen-Wilson, and M. Gareth
Gaskell
10:30 AM Break
11:00 AM
Symposium: From Spatial to Abstract Cognition (Track 1)
- The Neural Substrate for Spatial Cognition and Language:
Insights from Sign Language
Karen Emmorey
- Space-Time Metaphors in Comprehension
Dedre Gentner
- A Model Theory of Modal Reasoning
Philip N. Johnson-Laird and Victoria Bell
- Symmetries of Model Construction in Spatial Relational Inference
Reinhold Rauh and Christoph Schlieder
Analogical Processing and Memory (Track 2)
- Reinvestigating the Effects of Surface and Structural Features on
Analogical Access
Richard Catrambone
- A Model of Rapid Memory Formation in the Hippocampal System
Lokendra Shastri
- What It Means to Be the Same: The Impact of Relational Complexity on
Processing Efficiency
James K. Kroger and Keith J. Holyoak
- Towards a Computational Model of Evaluating and Using Analogical
Inferences
Kenneth D. Forbus, John O. Everett, Dedre Gentner, and Melissa
Wu
Reading and Lexical Processing (Track 3)
- From Image to Word: A Computational Model of Word Recognition in
Reading
Gale Martin
- Adding Spaces to Thai and English: Effects on Reading
Chananda Kohsom and Fernand Gobet
- Sublexical Processing in Reading Chinese
Xiaolin Zhou and William Marslen-Wilson
- Building Lexical Representations Dynamically Using Artificial Neural
Networks
Stefan Wermter and Manuela Meurer
12:30 PM Lunch
2:00 PM
Spatial Representation (Track 1)
- Instructional Effects on Spatial and Temporal Memory for Videotaped
Events in a Large-Scale Environment
Alex Cuthbert, Christopher Stecker, Inna Aleksandrovsky, Sheryl
Ehrlich, Nikunj Oza, and Paula Rogers
- Ways of Locating Events
Seungho Nam
- Body Schemas
Julie Bauer Morrison and Barbara Tversky
- On the Trail of Information Searchers
Paul P. Maglio and Rob Barrett
Symposium on Brain Imaging: Measurement, Modeling, and High-Level
Cognition (Track 2)
- Organizer's Introduction
Steven J. Hanson
- Functional Imaging: A Bridge Between the Cognitive and Neurosciences?
Tomas Paus
- Methods and Models in Interpreting fMRI: The Case of Independent
Components Analysis
Martin Mckeown
Knowledge and Comprehension (Track 3)
- Polysemy in Conceptual Combination: Testing the Constraint Theory of
Combination
Fintan Costello and Mark T. Keane
- The Composition Effect in Symbolizing: The Role of Symbol Production
vs. Text Comprehension
Neil T. Heffernan and Kenneth R. Koedinger
- Comprehension Skill: A Knowledge-Based Account
Danielle S. McNamara
- Comprehensible Knowledge Discovery in Databases
Michael J. Pazzani, Subramani Mani, and W. Rodman Shankle
3:30 PM Break
4:00 PM
Funding in Cognitive Science (Track 1)
- The (US) Office of Naval Research
Susan Chipman
- The (US) National Science Foundation
Michael McCloskey
- The European Science Foundation
Hans Spada
- The (US) National Institutes of Health
Howard Kurtzman
Symposium on Brain Imaging: Measurement, Modeling, and High-Level
Cognition (Track 2)
- Sometimes Weak is Strong: Functional Imaging Analysis with Minimal
Assumptions
Benjamin Martin Bly and Mark Griswold
- Brain-Imaging Studies of Categorization by Rule or Family Membership
Andrea Patalano and Edward Smith
- A PET Study of Deductive Versus Probabilistic Reasoning
Stefano F. Cappa, Daniela Perani, Daniel Osherson, Tatiana Schnur, and Ferruccio Fazio
- Neural Correlates of Mathematical Reasoning: An fMRI Study of
Word-Problem Solving
Bart Rypma, Vivek Prabhakaran, Jennifer A. L. Smith, John E.
Desmond, Gary H. Glover, and John D. E. Gabrieli
Cognition and Instruction (Track 3)
- Designing for Understanding: Children's Lung Models
Cindy E. Hmelo, Douglas L. Holton, Janet K. Allen, and Janet L.
Kolodner
- How Motivation Affects Learning
Regina Vollmeyer, Wolfram Rollett, and Falko Rheinberg
- Teachers' and Researchers' Beliefs of Early Algebra Development
Mitchell J. Nathan, Kenneth R. Koedinger, and Hermina
Tabachneck
- On Using Theory and Data in Misconception Discovery
Raymund Sison, Masayuki Numao, and Masamichi Shimura
7:00 PM Poster Reception - Governor's Corner
Saturday, August 9
9:00 AM
Symposium on Scientific Discovery (Track 1)
- Organizer's Introduction
Nancy Nersessian
- Cognition, History, and Science: Phenomena for the Cognitive Science
of Science
Ryan D. Tweney
- Recent Work in Computational Scientific Discovery
Lindley Darden
Discourse Practice and Argumentation (Track 2)
- Generating Coherent Messages in Real-time Decision Support:
Exploiting Discourse Theory for Discourse Practice
Sandra Carberry and Terrence Harvey
- Expertise or Expert-ese? The Emergence of Task-Oriented
Sub-Languages
Patrick G. T. Healey
- A Cognitive Model of Argumentation
Kevin B. Korb, Richard McConachy, and Ingrid Zukerman
- Claim Strength and Burden of Proof in Interactive Arguments
Jeremy N. Bailenson
Categories and Memory (Track 3)
- Debunking the Basic Level
Frederic Gosselin and Philippe G. Schyns
- When Children Fail to Learn New Categories: The Role of Irrelevant
Features
Jean-Pierre Thibaut
- A Connectionist Account of Interference Effects in Early Infant
Memory and Categorization
Denis Mareschal and Robert M. French
- Learning and Awareness in the Serial Reaction Time Task
Yuh-shiow Lee
10:30 AM Break
11:00 AM
Symposium on Scientific Discovery (Track 1)
- Visual Models in Scientific Reasoning
Ronald Giere
- On-Line Inductive Reasoning in Scientific Laboratories
Kevin Dunbar
- An Integrated View of Structural Model-Driven Scientific Discovery
Adrian Gordon
- Exploratory Problem Solving in Scientific Reasoning
Todd W. Griffith, Nancy J. Nersessian, Ashok K. Goel, and John Clement
Discourse Structure and Comprehension (Track 2)
- Nonverbal Factors in Understanding and Remembering Indirect Requests
Dale Barr and Spencer Kelly
- Informational Potentials of Dynamic Speech Rate in Dialogue
Hanae Koiso, Atsushi Shimojima, and Yasuhiro Katagiri
- Centered Segmentation: Scaling up the Centering Model to Global
Referential Discourse Structure
Michael Strube and Udo Hahn
- The Processing of Negatives During Discourse Comprehension
Barbara Kaup
Categorization Processes (Track 3)
- Classification and Prior Assumptions about Category Shape
Emmanuel M. Pothos and Nick Chater
- The Distinctiveness of Form and Function in Category Structure: A
Connectionist Model
M. R. Durrant-Peatfield, L. K. Tyler, H. E. Moss, and J. P.
Levy
- The Source and Character of Graded Performance in a Symbolic,
Rule-based Model
Craig S. Miller
- Categorization by Elimination: A Fast and Frugal Approach to
Categorization
Patricia M. Berretty, Peter M. Todd, and Philip W. Blythe
12:30 PM Lunch
2:00 PM
Scientific Reasoning and Discovery (Track 1)
- Medical Analogies: Why and How
Paul Thagard
- Actual Use of Analogies in Remarkable Scientific Discoveries
Kazuhiro Ueda
- Effects of Goal Specificity and Explanations on Instance Learning
and Rule Learning
Rosemary J. Stevenson and Bruce W. Geddes
- General and Specific Expertise in Scientific Reasoning
Christian D. Schunn and John R. Anderson
Symposium: Distributed Cognition and Organizational Behavior (Track 2)
- Organizers' Introduction
James Greeno and Pat Langley
- Organizational Adaptation and Cognition
Kathleen M. Carley
- The Scope of Distributed Cognition
Edwin Hutchins
Words and Categories (Track 3)
- Distinguishing Name Centrality from Conceptual Centrality
Woo-kyong Ahn and Steven Sloman
- When a Word is Worth a Thousand Pictures
Jonathan Loose and Denis Mareschal
- When Pseudowords Become Words: Effects of Learning of Orthographic
Similarity Priming
Georg Dorffner and Catherine L. Harris
- Dissociation between Categorization and Similarity Judgments
Jean-Pierre Thibaut and Myriam Dupont
3:30 PM Break
4:00 PM
Decision Making and Diagnosis (Track 1)
- Learning to Make Decisions Under Uncertainty: The Contribution of
Qualitative Reasoning
Richard Cooper and John Fox
- How Do They Do It? Delving Into The World Of An Aging Medical Expert
Leanna Zozula and Vimla Patel
- Rationality the Fast and Frugal Way
Nick Chater, Martin Redington, Ramin Nakisa, and Mike
Oaksford
- Probabilities, Utilities, and Hypothesis Testing
Aidan Feeney, Jonathan St. B. T. Evans, and John Clibbens
Symposium: Distributed Cognition and Organizational Behavior (Track 2)
- Color Categories as Situated Practice
Charles Goodwin
- Task Environment Centered Design of Organizations
Keith Decker
- A Cognitive Model of Agents in a Commons Dilemma
Josef Nerb, Hans Spada, and Andreas M. Ernst
- Communication in a Collaborative Health Care Team: Coordinating
Tasks and Attaining Goals
Kayla N. Cytryn, Vimla Patel, Peter C. Jones, and Charles
Safran
Perceptual and Semantic Similarity (Track 3)
- The Relation of Similarity to Naming: Chinese versus American
Conceptions of Bottles and Jars
Steven A. Sloman, Barbara C. Malt, and Meiyi Shi
- Connectionism and Psychological Notions of Similarity
Michael S. C. Thomas and Denis Mareschal
- Is there a Place for Semantic Similarity in the Analogical Mapping
Process?
Michael Ramscar, Helen Pain, and Richard Cooper
- The Role of Semantic Similarity in the Comprehension of Metaphor
Matthias Nueckles and Dietmar Janetzko
5:40 PM Business Meeting for Society Members
7:00 PM Poster Reception - Governor's Corner
Sunday, August 10
9:00 AM
Symposium: Syntactic Aspects of Language Acquisition (Track 1)
- Organizers' Introduction
Pat Langley and Lila Gleitman
- We Do Have It in Us: Empirical Studies of Language Acquisition
Helen Goodluck
- Can We Beat the Gold Standard? What We Have Learned About How to
Learn Syntax
Robert C. Berwick
Visual Recognition (Track 2)
- A Recognition Model with Narrow and Broad Extension Fields
Peter Kalocsai and Irving Biederman
- Systematicity and Specialization in Semantics: A Computational
Account of Optic Aphasia
Sean McGuire and David C. Plaut
- A Mixture of Experts Model Exhibiting Prosopagnosia
Matthew N. Dailey, Garrison W. Cottrell, and Curtis Padgett
- Learning as Formation of Low-dimensional Representation Spaces
Shimon Edelman and Nathan Intrator
Probabilistic and Causal Reasoning (Track 3)
- The Roles of Causes and Effects in Categorization
Bob Rehder and Reid Hastie
- Causal Judgments That Violate the Predictions of the Power PC Theory
of Causal Induction
Frederic Vallee-Tourangeau, Robin A. Murphy, and Susan Drew
- Causal Induction: The Power PC Theory versus the Rescorla-Wagner
Model
Marc J. Buehner and Patricia W. Cheng
- Beyond Representativeness: Productive Intuitions About Probability
Phil Vahey, Noel Enyedy, and Bernard Gifford
10:30 AM Break
11:00 AM
Symposium: Syntactic Aspects of Language Acquisition (Track 1)
- Attention and U-Shaped Learning in the Acquisition of the Past Tense
Dan Jackson and Garrison W. Cottrell
- Modelling the Acquisition of Syntactic Categories
Fernand Gobet and Julian Pine
- Cue-based Learners in Parametric Language Systems
Stefano Bertolo, Kevin Broihier, Edward Gibson, and Kenneth
Wexler
- To Be Announced
Visual Perception and Imagery (Track 2)
- Combining Visual Cues to Depth and Shape: A Comparison of Three
Models
Ione Fine and Robert A. Jacobs
- Context-dependent Recognition in a Self-organizing Recurrent Network
In J. Myung, Cheongtag Kim, and William B. Levy
- A Neural Network Model of Visual Tilt Aftereffects
James A. Bednar and Risto Miikkulainen
- Is Mental Rotation a Motor Act?
Mark Wexler and Joseph A. McIntyre
Counterfactual and Syllogistic Reasoning (Track 3)
- How to Make the Impossible Seem Possible
Philip N. Johnson-Laird and Yevgeniya Goldvarg
- What to Believe When Inferences Are Contradicted: The Impact of
Knowledge Type and Inference Rule
Renee Elio
- Cognitive Processes in Regret for Actions and Inactions
Ruth M. J. Byrne and Alice McEleney
- Subjective Confidence and the Belief Bias Effect in Syllogistic
Reasoning
Jeremy D. Quayle and Linden J. Ball
12:30 PM Lunch
2:00 PM
Syntactic Acquisition (Track 1)
- Selecting Past-Tense Forms for New Words: What's Meaning Got to Do
With It?
Catherine L. Harris and Yasuhiro Shirai
- Recursive Inconsistencies are Hard to Learn: A Connectionist
Perspective on Universal Word Order Correlations
Morten H. Christiansen and Joseph T. Devlin
- An Architectural Account of Errors in Foreign Language Learning
Julie VanDyke and Jill Fain Lehman
- Simple Recurrent Networks and Natural Language: How Important is
Starting Small?
Douglas L. T. Rohde and David C. Plaut
Symposium on Social Cognition (Track 2)
- Organizer's Introduction
Ziva Kunda
- Before You Know It: The Automaticity of Everyday Life
John Bargh
- Events that Never Were and their Psychological Impact
Tom Gilovich
Problem Solving and Reasoning (Track 3)
- Reasoning with Multiple Diagrams: Focusing on the Cognitive
Integration Process
Jinwoo Kim and Jungpil Hahn
- Learning to Act: Acquisition and Optimization of Procedural Skill
Frank J. Lee and John R. Anderson
- A Rational Analysis of Alternating Search and Reflection Strategies
in Problem Solving
Niels Taatgen
- Negative Effects of Domain Knowledge on Creative Problem Solving
Jennifer Wiley
3:30 PM Break
4:00 PM
Sentence Processing (Track 1)
- Architecture and Experience in Sentence Processing
Suzanne Stevenson and Paola Merlo
- Disambiguation with Verb-predictability: Evidence from Japanese
Garden-path Phenomena
Yasuhuru Den and Masakatsu Inoue
- Incremental Processing and Infinite Local Ambiguity
Vincenzo Lombardo and Patrick Sturt
- The Many Functions of Discourse Particles: A Computational Model of
Pragmatic Interpretation
Gabriele Scheler and Kerstin Fischer
Symposium on Social Cognition (Track 2)
- Motivated Application and Inhibition of Stereotypes
Ziva Kunda
- Desperately Seeking Consistency: Computational Approaches to Cognitive
Consistency
Mark Lepper
- People's Folk Theory of Behavior
Bertram F. Malle
- The Effect of Power on Social Reasoning
Melissa D. Rutherford, John Tooby, and Leda Cosmides
Reasoning in Mathematics and Physics (Track 3)
- Implicit Strategies and Errors in an Improved Model of Early Algebra
Problem Solving
Kenneth R. Koedinger and Benjamin A. MacLaren
- Solution Compression in Mathematical Problem Solving: Acquiring
Abstract Knowledge That Promotes Transfer
Atsushi Terao, Takashi Kusumi, and Shin'ichi Ichikawa
- The Language of Physics Equations
Bruce L. Sherin
- Modelling Physics Knowledge Acquisition in Children with Machine
Learning
Filippo Neri, Lorenza Saitta, and Andree Tiberghien
5:30 PM (Conference Ends)