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CogSci 2008
30th Annual Meeting of
the Cognitive Science Society
July 23-26, 2008
Washington, DC, USA |
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Friday, July 25, 2008
Plenary
Talk
Regency Ballroom (Friday,
July 25, 2008, 8:15 am)
Face
and Word Processing: Two Sides of the Same Brain (Page
379)
David C. Plaut (Carnegie Mellon University)
Rumelhart
Symposium
Session Chair: Michael Tarr Regency
Ballroom (Friday, July 25, 2008, 9:30 am)
Rumelhart
Symposium: Integrating Human and Machine Vision: In Honor of Shimon Ullman (Page
381)
Michael J. Tarr (Brown University)
Marlene Behrmann (Carnegie Mellon University)
Christof Koch (California Institute of Technology)
Nikos Logothetis (Max Planck Institute for Biological
Cybernetics)
Rafi Malach (Weizmann Institute of Science)
The
Nature of Learning and Representation
Session Chair: Bob Berwick Ambassador
Ballroom (Friday, July 25, 2008, 9:30 am)
Poverty
of the Stimulus' Revisited: Recent Challenges Reconsidered (Page
383)
Robert C. Berwick (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology)
Noam Chomsky (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Modeling
The Fan Effect Using Dynamically Structured Holographic Memory (Page
385)
Matthew F. Rutledge-Taylor (Carleton University)
Robert L. West (Carleton University)
Trade-off
Between Capacity and Generalization in a Model of Memory (Page
391)
Guy Tannenbaum (Tel Aviv University)
Yehezkel Yeshurun (Tel Aviv University)
Shimon Edelman (Cornell University)
The
Impact of Labels on Visual Categorisation: a Neural Network Model (Page
397)
Valentina Gliozzi (Universitá di Torino)
Julien Mayor (University of Oxford)
Jon-Fan Hu (University of Oxford)
Kim Plunkett (University of Oxford)
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Concepts
and Categories
Session Chair: Brian Murphy Empire
Room (Friday, July 25, 2008, 9:30 am)
Distinguishing
Concept Categories from Single-Trial Electrophysiological Activity (Page
403)
Brian Murphy (University of Trento)
Michele Dalponte (University of Trento)
Massimo Poesio (University of Trento)
Lorenzo Bruzzone (University of Trento)
Categorizing
Fragments of Exemplars: Experimental and Computational Results (Page
409)
Harlan D. Harris (New York University)
Modeling
Category Intuitiveness (Page
415)
Emmanuel M. Pothos (Swansea University)
Amotz Perlman (Swansea University)
Darren J. Edwards (Swansea University)
Todd M. Gureckis (New York University)
Peter M. Hines (University of York)
Nick Chater (UCL)
Illusory
Correlation as the Outcome of Experience Sampling (Page
421)
Jerker Denrell (Stanford University)
Gaël Le Mens (Stanford University)
Language
and Cognition
Session Chair: Lera Boroditsky Regency
Ballroom (Friday, July 25, 2008 11:15 am)
Do
English and Mandarin Speakers Think Differently About Time? (Page
427)
Lera Boroditsky (Stanford University)
Using
the Distributional Statistics of Speech Sounds for Weighting and
Integrating Acoustic Cues (Page
433)
Joseph C. Toscano (University of Iowa)
Bob McMurray (University of Iowa)
Language
as a Cognitive Technology: English-Speakers Match Like Pirahã When
You Don't Let Them Count (Page
439)
Michael C. Frank (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology)
Evelina Fedorenko (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology)
Edward Gibson (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology)
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Visual
Word Recognition at Multiple Grain Sizes
Session Chair: Jason Zevin Ambassador
Ballroom (Friday, July 25, 2008 11:15 am)
Division
of Labor between Semantics and Phonology in Normal and Disordered
Reading Development Across Languages (Page
445)
Jianfeng Yang (Weill Cornell Medical College)
Bruce D. Mccandliss (Weill Cornell Medical College)
Hua Shu (Beijing Normal University)
Jason D. Zevin (Weill Cornell Medical College)
Variable
Vulnerability of Words to Visual Impairment: Exploring grain-size
Effects in Reading (Page
451)
Giovanni Pagliuca (University of York)
Padraic Monaghan (Lancaster University)
Robert McIntosh (University of Edinburgh)
Constraints
for Computational Models of Reading: Evidence from learning lexical
stress (Page 457)
Padraic Monaghan (Lancaster University)
Joanne Arciuli (Sydney University)
Nada Seva (University of York)
Cognitive
Development
Session Chair: Aaron Buss Empire
Room (Friday, July 25, 2008 11:15 am)
The
Emergence of Rule Use: A dynamic neural field model of the DCCS (Page
463)
Aaron Buss (University of Iowa)
John P. Spencer (University of Iowa)
Automatic
and Voluntary Shifts of Attention in the Dimensional Change Card
Sorting Task (Page 469)
Anna V. Fisher (Carnegie Mellon University)
Analogy-Making
in Children: The importance of processing constraints (Page
475)
Jean-Pierre Thibaut (University of Poitiers)
Robert French (University of Burgundy)
Milena Vezneva (University of Burgundy and
University of Poitiers)
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Evaluating
Judgments and Meaning
Session Chair: Robert Lindsey Diplomat
Room (Friday, July 25, 2008 11:15 am)
BLOSSOM:
Best Path Length on a Semantic Self-Organizing Map (Page
481)
Robert V. Lindsey (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Michael J. Stipicevic (Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute)
Vladislav D. Veksler (Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute)
Wayne D. Gray (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Experience
with a Computer Word-Entry Method in Processing Chinese Characters by
Fluent Typists (Page
487)
Jenn-Yeu Chen (National Cheng Kung University)
Chun-Yu Chuang (National Cheng Kung University)
More-Or-Less
Elicitation (MOLE): Testing a Heuristic Elicitation Method (Page
493)
Matthew B. Welsh (University of Adelaide)
Michael D. Lee (University of California at Irvine)
Steve H. Begg (University of Adelaide)
Overcoming
Misconceptions During Learning
Session Chair: David Trumpower Palladian
Room (Friday, July 25, 2008 11:15 am)
Naïve
Statistics: Intuitive Analysis of Variance (Page
499)
David L. Trumpower (University of Ottawa)
Olga Fellus (University of Ottawa)
An
Empirical Study of Errors in Translating Natural Language into Logic (Page
505)
Dave Barker-Plummer (Stanford University)
Richard Cox (University of Sussex)
Robert Dale (Macquarie University)
John Etchemendy (Stanford University)
Learning
Associations That Run Counter to Biases in Learning: Overcoming
Overshadowing and Learned Inattention (Page
511)
Andrew F. Heckler (Ohio State University)
Jennifer A. Kaminski (Ohio State University)
Vladimir M. Sloutsky (Ohio State University)
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Discussion
Blue Room (Friday, July 25, 2008 11:15 am)
Human
Dimension & Cognitive Performance (Page
517)
Brigadier General Peter Palmer (US Army Training and
Doctrine Command)
Higher-Order
Cognition
Session Chair: Andres Guiral Executive Room
(Friday,
July 25, 2008 11:15 am)
A
Cognitive Model Testing Moral Seduction Theory: Unconscious Bias and
the Role Played by Expertise (Page
519)
Andrés Guiral (University of Alcalá, Madrid)
Emiliano Ruiz (University of Cádiz)
Waymond Rodgers (University of California,
Riverside)
José A Gonzalo (University of Alcalá, Madrid)
The
'Hard' Problem and Neural Correlates of Consciousness (Page
525)
Peter Slezak (University of New South Wales)
Processes
and Constraints in Explanatory Scientific Discovery (Page
527)
Pat Langley (Stanford University)
Will Bridewell (Stanford University)
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Symposium
Regency Ballroom (Friday, July 25, 2008, 1:45 pm)
Cognitive
Science and Education Research: Engaging Issues of Social Context (Page
529)
Gregg Solomon (National Science Foundation)
Rochel Gelman (Rutgers University)
Doug Medin (Northwestern University)
Nancy Nersessian (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Laura Schulz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Megan Bang (TERC)
Christine Massey (University of Pennsylvania)
Kimberly Brenneman (Rutgers University)
Wendy Newstetter (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Language
and Concepts
Session Chair: Thomas Shultz Ambassador Ballroom
(Friday,
July 25, 2008, 1:45 pm)
Acquisition
of Concepts with Characteristic and Defining Features (Page
531)
Thomas Shultz (McGill University)
Jean-Philippe Thivierge (Indiana University)
Kristin Laurin (University of Waterloo)
Two
Eras in Learning Theory: Implications for Cognitively Faithful Models
of Language Acquisition and Change (Page
537)
Partha Niyogi (University of Chicago)
Robert C. Berwick (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology)
Treebank
Parsing and Knowledge of Language: A Cognitive Perspective (Page
539)
Sandiway Fong (University of Arizona)
Robert C. Berwick (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology)
Advances
in Modeling Human Category Learning with DIVA (Page
545)
Kenneth J. Kurtz (Binghamton University)
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Decision
Making
Session Chair: Daniel Navarro Empire Room
(Friday,
July 25, 2008, 1:45 pm)
A
Test of the Decision-Time Predictions of the `Take the Best' Model (Page
547)
Benjamin Schultz (University of Adelaide)
Daniel J. Navarro (University of Adelaide)
A
Bayesian Model of How People Search Online Consumer Reviews (Page
553)
Stelios Lelis (Manchester Business School)
Andrew Howes (Manchester Business School)
From
Reduction Back to Higher Levels (Page
559)
William Bechtel (University of California at San
Diego)
Adele Abrahamsen (University of California at San
Diego)
Stopping
Rules and Memory Search Termination Decisions (Page
565)
J. Isaiah Harbison (University of Maryland)
Eddy J. Davelaar (University of London)
Michael R. Dougherty (University of Maryland)
Problem
Solving
Session Chair: Julie Booth Diplomat Room
(Friday,
July 25, 2008, 1:45 pm)
Key
Misconceptions in Algebraic Problem Solving (Page
571)
Julie L. Booth (Carnegie Mellon University)
Kenneth R. Koedinger (Carnegie Mellon University)
The
Effects of Disease Category on Diagnostic Problem Solving in
Mammography (Page 577)
Roger Azevedo (University of Memphis)
Gwyneth Lewis (University of Memphis)
Roberta Klatzky (Carnegie Mellon University)
Emily Siler (University of Memphis)
The
Effects of Peer Information on Problem-Solving in a Networked Group (Page
583)
Thomas N. Wisdom (Indiana University)
Xianfeng Song (Indiana University)
Robert L. Goldstone (Indiana University)
Worked
Examples and Tutored Problem Solving: Redundant or Synergistic Forms
of Support? (Page 589)
Ron J. C. M. Salden (Carnegie Mellon University)
Vincent A. W. M. M. Aleven (Carnegie Mellon
University)
Alexander Renkl (University of Freiburg)
Rolf Schwonke (University of Freiburg)
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Language
I
Session Chair: Nathaniel Smith Palladian Room
(Friday,
July 25, 2008, 1:45 pm)
Optimal
Processing Times in Reading: A Formal Model and Empirical
Investigation (Page
595)
Nathaniel J. Smith (University of California at San
Diego)
Roger Levy (University of California at San Diego)
The
Advantage of the Ungrammatical (Page
601)
Laura Staum Casasanto (Stanford University)
Ivan A. Sag (Stanford University)
Assessing
the Structure of Verbal Protocols (Page
607)
Stacey A. Todaro (Northern Illinois University)
Joseph P. Magliano (Northern Illinois University)
Keith K. Millis (Northern Illinois University)
Danielle S. McNamara (University of Memphis)
Christopher A. Kurby (Washington University, St.
Louis)
Are
Three Words All We Need? Recognizing Genre at the Sub-Sentential Level (Page
613)
Philip M. McCarthy (The University of Memphis)
Stephen W. W. Briner (DePaul University)
John C. Myers (The University of Memphis)
Arthur C. Graesser (The University of Memphis)
Danielle S. McNamara (The University of Memphis)
Processes
of Attention and Control
Session Chair: Sunny Khemlani Blue Room
(Friday,
July 25, 2008, 1:45 pm)
Syllogistic
Reasoning with Generic Premises: The Generic Overgeneralization Effect (Page
619)
Sangeet Khemlani (Princeton University)
Sarah-Jane Leslie (Princeton University)
Sam Glucksberg (Princeton University)
Opponent
Process Control in Linked, Dynamical Agents (Page
625)
Ronnie G. Ward (Texas A&M University)
Robert Ward (Bangor University)
A
Computational Model of the Visual Oddity Task (Page
631)
Andrew Lovett (Northwestern University)
Kate Lockwood (Northwestern University)
Kenneth Forbus (Northwestern University)
Counting
Sheep Is a Good Way to Get to Sleep, but the Occasional Aardvark Will
Wake You Up: How a Salient Event Improves Performance (Page
637)
Bella Z. Veksler (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Wayne D. Gray (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
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30th
Anniversary Symposium I: Trajectories of Cognitive Science
Perspectives
Session Chair: Lawrence Barsalou
Regency Ballroom (Friday, July 25,
2008, 3:30 pm)
CogSci
2008 30th Anniversary Symposia (Page
643)
John R. Anderson (Carnegie Mellon University)
James L. McClelland (Stanford University)
Linda B. Smith (Indiana University)
Edwin Hutchins (University of California at San
Diego)
Lawrence W. Barsalou (Emory University)
Dedre Gentner (Northwestern University)
Kenneth D. Forbus (Northwestern University)
William Bechtel (University of California at San
Diego)
Elissa L. Newport (University of Rochester)
Douglas L. Medin (Northwestern University)
Semantic
Interference
Session Chair: Leendert van Maanen
Ambassador Ballroom (Friday, July 25,
2008, 3:30 pm)
The
Picture-Word Interference Effect is a Stroop Effect After All (Page
645)
Leendert van Maanen (University of Groningen)
Hedderik van Rijn (University of Groningen)
Priming
and Lexical Interference in Infancy (Page
651)
Suzy J. Styles (University of Oxford)
Natalia Arias-Trejo (University of Oxford)
Kim Plunkett (University of Oxford)
On
the Persistence of Structural Priming: Mechanisms of Decay and
Influence of Word-Forms (Page
657)
Gaurav Malhotra (University of Edinburgh)
Martin Pickering (University of Edinburgh)
Holly Branigan (University of Edinburgh)
James A. Bednar (University of Edinburgh)
Effect
of Global Context on Homophone Ambiguity Resolution (Page
663)
Daniel Mirman (University of Connecticut)
James S. Magnuson (University of Connecticut)
Ted J. Strauss (University of Connecticut)
James A. Dixon (University of Connecticut)
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Children's
Understanding of Conceptual Primitives
Session Chair: John Opfer Empire
Room (Friday, July 25, 2008, 3:30 pm)
Representational
Change and Numerical Estimation: Effect of Progressive Alignment on
the Breadth of Transfer (Page
669)
Clarissa A. Thompson (The Ohio State University)
John E. Opfer (The Ohio State University)
Timing
of Adults' Utterances and Interpretation of Word Meanings in a
Discrepant Labeling Situation (Page
675)
Tetsuya Yasuda (Tokyo Denki University)
Harumi Kobayashi (Tokyo Denki University)
The
Structural Alignment and Comparison of Events in Verb Acquisition (Page
681)
Jane B. Childers (Trinity University)
Will
It Float? How Invariance Affects Children's Understanding of Object
Density (Page 687)
Heidi Kloos (University of Cincinnati)
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