• Invited Talk (9:00)
  • Back to the Future: Is Mental Time Travel Unique to Humans?
    • Nicola Clayton
• Symposia (10:10)
  • Rumelhart Symposium
    • Fei Xu, Frank Keil, Dedre Gentner, Elizabeth Spelke
  • Memory in Language: Language in Memory
    • Peter Culicover, Simon Dennis, Marc Howard, Richard Lewis, Brian McElree
  • The Emergence of Collective Structures Through Individual Interactions
    • Robert Goldstone, Thomas Griffiths, Todd Gureckis, Dirk Helbing, Luc Steels
• Emotion & Motivation (11:40)
  • An Adaptive Emotion Reading Model
    • Tibor Bosse, Zulfiqar A. Memon, Jan Treur
  • Towards a Computational Account of Context Mediated Affective Stimulus-Response Translation
    • Pascal Haazebroek, Saskia Van Dantzig, Bernhard Hommel
  • Frequency and Motivational State: Evolutionary Simulations Suggest an Adaptive Function for Network Oscillations
    • Bram Heerebout, Hans Phaf
• Word Reading (11:40)
  • The dorsal stream in speech processing: Model and theory
    • James L. Keidel, Stephen Welbourne, Matthew A. Lambon Ralph
  • Rules vs. lexical statistics in Greek nonword reading
    • Athanassios Protopapas, Elina Nomikou
  • Error, Error Everywhere: A Look at Megastudies of Word Reading
    • Daragh Sibley, Christopher Kello, Mark Seidenberg
• Analogy (11:40)
  • Probabilistic relational categories are learnable as long as you don’t know you’re learning probabilistic relational categories
    • Wookyoung Jung, John E. Hummel
  • Cognitive Load and Analogy-making in Children: Explaining an Unexpected Interaction
    • Jean-Pierre Thibaut, Robert French, Milena Vezneva
  • Relational Language Helps Children Reason Analogically
    • Dedre Gentner, Nina Simms, Stephen Flusberg
• Problem Solving (11:40)
  • Evidence for a Verbally-Based Analytic Component to Insight Problem Solving
    • Linden Ball, Alexandra Stevens
  • Search Strategies and their Success in a Virtual Maze
    • Simon J. Buechner, Christoph Hölscher, Jan Wiener
  • How much of symbolic manipulation is just symbol pushing?
    • David Landy, Robert Goldstone
• Concepts & Categories (11:40)
  • As time goes by: The role of variability in category belief revision
    • Lauren Kearney, Brett Hayes
  • Perceptual Unitization in Part-Whole Judgments
    • Andrew Hendrickson, Robert Goldstone
  • Space and Time in the Child’s Mind: Evidence for a Cross-Dimensional Asymmetry.
    • Daniel Casasanto, Olga Fotakopoulou, Lera Boroditsky
• Situated Philosophy (12:50)
  • Moral norms inform mental state ascriptions
    • Kevin Uttich, Tania Lombrozo
  • Multimodal Abduction. External Semiotic Anchors and Hybrid Representations
    • Lorenzo Magnani
  • Interaction, External Representation and Sense Making
    • David Kirsh
• Quantifyers & Abstractness (12:50)
  • Understanding Quantifiers in Language
    • Jakub Szymanik, Marcin Zajenkowski
  • Happiness is… an abstract word: The role of affect in abstract knowledge representation
    • Stavroula-Thaleia Kousta, Gabriella Vigliocco, David Vinson, Mark Andrews
  • A comparison of children and adults’ judgements and decisions based on verbal uncertainty statements
    • Amélie Gourdon, Gaëlle Villejoubert
• Sentence Processing (12:50)
  • Is incremental semantic interpretation related to end-of-sentence verification?: Evidence from correlation analyses
    • Pia Knoeferle, Thomas P. Urbach, Marta Kutas
  • Local syntactic coherence interpretation. Evidence from a visual world study.
    • Lars Konieczny, Daniel Müller, Wibke Hachmann, Sarah Schwarzkopf, Sascha Wolfer
  • Surprisal-based comparison between a symbolic and a connectionist model of sentence processing
    • Stefan Frank
• Bayes (12:50)
  • A Bayesian Framework for Modeling Intuitive Dynamics
    • Adam Sanborn, Vikash Mansinghka, Thomas Griffiths
  • The Perceptual Organization of Point Constellations
    • Matthew J. Dry, Daniel Navarro, Kym Preiss, Michael Lee
  • Simplicity Bias in the Estimation of Causal Functions
    • Daniel R. Little, Richard Shiffrin
• Education, Problem Solving & Power Laws (12:50)
  • Motivation and Transfer: The Role of Achievement Goals in Preparation for Future Learning
    • Daniel Belenky, Timothy Nokes
  • Helping Students Know ‘Further’ – Increasing the Flexibility of Students’ Knowledge Using Symbolic Invention Tasks
    • Ido Roll, Vincent Aleven, Kenneth Koedinger
  • Spurious Power Laws of Learning and Forgetting: Mathematical and Computational Analyses of Averaging Artifacts
    • Jaap Murre, Antonio Chessa
• Concepts & Categories (12:50)
  • A Reinforcement-and-Generalization Model of Sequential Effects in Identification Learning
    • Matt Jones
  • Explaining Promotes Discovery: Evidence from Category Learning
    • Joseph Jay Williams, Tania Lombrozo
  • Less is More: Stimulus Feedback Co-Occurence in Perceptual Category Learning
    • Darrell A. Worthy, W. Todd Maddox, Arthur Markman
• Philosophy of AI (14:00)
  • Why Dreyfus’ Frame Problem Argument Cannot Justify Anti-Representational AI
    • Nancy Salay
  • The Essential Role of Consciousness in Mathematical Cognition
    • Robert Hadley
  • What Cognitive Scientists Need to Know about Virtual Machines
    • Aaron Sloman
• Integrating cues in language processing (14:00)
  • Dynamic Integration of Pragmatic Expectations and Real-World Event Knowledge in Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution
    • Klinton Bicknell, Hannah Rohde
  • Acquiring Multiword Verbs: The Role of Statistical Evidence
    • Afsaneh Fazly, Aida Nematzadeh, Suzanne Stevenson
  • Informative Communication in Word Production and Word Learning
    • Michael Frank, Noah Goodman, Peter Lai, Joshua Tenenbaum
• Aspects of Dialogue (14:00)
  • Talking it up: How the function of rising declaratives depends on prolongations and listeners' expectations
    • John Tomlinson, Jr., Jean Fox Tree
  • What is Conversation? Distinguishing Dialogue Contexts
    • Arash Eshghi, Patrick G.T. Healey
  • Referring and Gaze Alignment: Accessibility is Alive and Well in Situated Dialogue
    • Ellen Gurman Bard, Robin Hill , Manabu Arai
• Decision Making (14:00)
  • When Things Get Worse before they Get Better: Regulatory Fit and Average-Reward Learning in a Dynamic Decision-Making Environment
    • A. Ross Otto, Arthur Markman, Bradley Love, Todd Gureckis
  • When to walk away: The effect of variability on keeping options viable
    • Anastasia Ejova, Daniel Navarro, Amy Perfors
  • Goal-Proximity Decision Making: Who needs reward anyway?
    • Vladislav D. Veksler, Wayne D. Gray, Michael J. Schoelles
• Bayes (14:00)
  • Scale-Invariance of Human Latencies
    • Fermin Moscoso del Prado Martin
  • Long term implicit and explicit memory for briefly studied words
    • Lee Averell, Andrew Heathcote
  • What are you trying to tell me? A Bayesian model of how toddlers can simultaneously infer property extension and sampling processes
    • Hyowon Gweon, Joshua Tenenbaum, Laura E. Schulz
• Skill Acquisition & Education (14:00)
  • A Computational Model of How Learner Errors Arise from Weak Prior Knowledge
    • Noboru Matsuda, Andrew Lee , William W. Cohen , Kenneth Koedinger
  • Comparing Pedagogical Approaches for Teaching the Control of Variables Strategy
    • Michael Sao Pedro, Janice Gobert, Neil Heffernan, Joseph Beck
  • Is Self-Explanation Always Better? The Effects of Adding Self-Explanation Prompts to an English Grammar Tutor
    • Ruth Wylie, Kenneth Koedinger, Teruko Mitamura
• Attention (14:00)
  • Why are some People Inattentionally Blind and can Training reduce
    • Anne Richards, Emily M. Hannon, Nazanin Derakshan
  • Using Eye Movements to Study Working Memory Rehearsal
    • Gregory Zelinsky, Lester Loschky
  • Mind the gap: the cost of looking at nothing, or the performance implications of memory-induced attention shifts
    • Ivan Vankov
• Development & Categories (14:00)
  • When Sample Size Matters: The Influence of Sample Size and Category Variability on Children’s and Adults Inductive Reasoning
    • Chris Lawson, Anna Fisher
  • Does Conceptual Information Take Precedence Over Perceptual Information Early in Development? Evidence From Perseveration Errors
    • Anna Fisher
  • Number and Size Matter: Discrete versus continuous entities
    • Lisa Cantrell, Linda Smith
• Philosophy (15:10)
  • Causal Exclusion and Consciousness
    • George Seli
  • Recursion and Cognitive Science: Data Structures and Mechanisms
    • David James Lobina, José Eugenio García-Albea
  • Phenomenal Worlds and Nervous System Activity
    • Fred Cummins
• Morphology (15:10)
  • Word Order and Case Inflection in Czech: On-line Sentence Comprehension in Children and Adults
    • Jiří Lukavský, Filip Smolík
  • Synthetic Brain Imaging of English Past Tense Inflection
    • Gert Westermann, Nicolas Ruh
  • Aspectual Morphology of Russian Verbs in Fluid Construction Grammar
    • Kateryna Gerasymova, Luc Steels, Remi van Trijp
• Interactions between speaker and listerner (15:10)
  • Support Structures for Linguistic Creativity: A Computational Analysis of Creative Irony in Similes
    • Tony Veale, Yanfen Hao
  • Situated Communicative Acts: A Deontic Approach
    • Antonella Carassa, Marco Colombetti
  • An Experimental Investigation of the Role of Collaboration in the Evolution of Communication Systems
    • Bradley Walker, Nicolas Fay, Shane Rogers, Nik Swoboda
• Analogy (15:10)
  • Concrete and Imagined Simulation of Situation Models Enhances Transfer of Solutions to Structurally Different Algebra Word Problems
    • Ricardo Adrian Minervino, Máximo Trench, Nicolás Oberholzer
  • The role of transformations and structure in the same-different paradigm
    • Carl J. Hodgetts, Ulrike Hahn, Nick Chater
  • Analogical Transfer from Interaction with a Simulated Physical System
    • Samuel Day, Robert Goldstone
• Bayes (15:10)
  • Bayesian Nonparametric Modeling of Individual Differences: A Case Study Using Decision-Making on Bandit Problems
    • Mathew Zeigenfuse, Michael Lee
  • Continuity of Discourse Provides Information for Word Learning
    • Michael Frank, Noah Goodman, Joshua Tenenbaum, Anne Fernald
  • Using sequential structure to improve visuomotor control
    • Anna Ma-Wyatt, Daniel Navarro
• Education (15:10)
  • Towards explaining effective tutorial dialogues
    • Barbara Di Eugenio, Davide Fossati, Stellan Ohlsson, David Cosejo
  • Interactive Word Production in Dyslexic Children
    • Susan Webb, Frederic Vallee-Tourangeau
• Attention (15:10)
  • Endogenous orienting attention without consciousness
    • Maria Casagrande, Stefania Mereu, Diana Martella, Andrea Marotta, Barbara Marino
  • A coincidence detector neural network model of selective attention
    • Kleanthis Neokleous, Maria Koushiou, Marios Avraamides, Christos Schizas
  • The Limits and Possibilities of Unconscious Processing
    • Eva Van den Bussche, Bert Reynvoet
• Embodied Representations (15:10)
  • Motor Affordances in Mental Rotation: When minds reflect the world and when they go beyond
    • Stephen Flusberg, Gavin Jenkins, Lera Boroditsky
  • The Multimodal Nature of Embodied Conversational Agents
    • Max Louwerse, Nick Benesh, Shinobu Watanabe, Bin Zhang, Patrick Jeuniaux, Divya Vargheese
  • What's big and fluffy but can't be seen? Selective unimodal processing of bimodal property words
    • Louise Connell, Dermot Lynott
• Heineken Lecture (16:20)
  • Masking, Conscious Access, and the Blind Spot of Introspection
    • Stanislas Dehaene

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