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)