1996 Cognitive Science Conference
Schedule Of Events

Friday Evening, July 12, 2:00 P.M. - 9:00 P.M.

Friday Evening, July 12, 7:00 P.M. - 8:30 P.M.

Controversies In Cognitive Science: The Case Of Language

Stephen Crain (UMD College Park) & Mark Seidenberg (USC)
Moderated by Paul Smolensky (Johns Hopkins University)

Friday Evening, July 12, 8:30 P.M.

Saturday Morning, July 13, 8:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M.

Saturday Morning, July 13, 8:30 A.M. - 10:00 A.M.

Building A Theory Of Problem Solving And Scientific Discovery:
How Big Is N In N-Space Search?

• Bruce Burns (Organizer)
• Chris Schunn & David Klahr
• Lisa Baker & Kevin Dunbar
• David F. Wolf II & Jonathan R. Beskin
• Bruce Burns & Regina Vollmeyer

SUBMITTED SYMPOSIUM

The Role Of Rhythm In Cognition

• Devin McAuley (Organizer)
• Mari Jones
• Bill Baird
• Robert Port
• Elliot Saltzman

PAPER PRESENTATIONS - PHILOSOPHY

• Beyond Computationalism
  Giunti, Marco

• Qualia: The Hard Problem
  Griffith, Todd W. ; Byrne, Michael

• Connectionism, Systematicity, And Nomic Necessity
  Hadley, Robert F.

• Fodor On Information And Computation
  Brook, Andrew ; Stainton, Robert

Saturday Morning, July 13, 10:30 A.M. - 12:20 P.M.

The Future Of Modularity

• Michael Spivey-Knowlton (Organizer)
• Kathleen Eberhard (Organizer)
• Michael Tanenhaus (Organizer)
• James McClelland
• Peter Lennie
• Robert Jacobs
• Kenneth Forster
• Dominic Massaro
• Gary Dell

PAPER PRESENTATIONS - TEXT COMPREHENSION

• Integrating World Knowledge With Cognitive Parsing
  Paredes-Frigolett, Harold ; Strube, Gerhard

• The Role Of Ontology In Creative Understanding
  Moorman, Kenneth ; Ram, Ashwin

• Working Memory In Text Comprehension: Interrupting Difficult Text
  McNamara, Danielle ; Kintsch, Walter

• Reasoning From Multiple Texts: An Automatic Analysis Of Readers' Situation Models
  Foltz, Peter ; Britt, M. Anne ; Perfetti, Charles

• Lexical Limits On The Influence Of Context
  Verspoor, Cornelia

PAPER PRESENTATIONS - REASONING

• Dynamics Of Rule Induction By Making Queries: Transition Between Strategies
  Ginzburg, Iris ; Sejnowksi, Terry
  (CANCELED! This talk was presented as a poster, instead. The first paper in this session is listed below.)

• The Impact Of Information Representation On Bayesian Reasoning
  Hoffrage, Ulrich ; Gigerenzer, Gerd

• On Reasoning With Default Rules And Exceptions
  Elio, Renée ; Pelletier, Francis

• Satisficing Inference And The Perks Of Ignorance
  Goldstein, Daniel G. ; Gigerenzer, Gerd

• A Connectionist Treatment Of Negation And Inconsistency
  Shastri, Lokendra ; Grannes, Dean

Saturday, July 13, 12:20 P.M. - 2:00 P.M.

Saturday, July 13, 2:00 P.M. - 3:30 P.M.

Update On The Plumbing Of Cognition:
Imaging Studies Of Vision, Attention, And Language

• Helen Neville (Organizer)
• Marty Sereno
• Steven Hillyard

PAPER PRESENTATIONS - DISTRIBUTED COGNITION AND EDUCATION

• Hearing With Eyes: A Distributed Cognition Perspective On Guitar Song Imitation
  Flor, Nick V. ; Holder, Barbara

• Constraints On The Experimental Design Process In Real-World Science
  Baker, Lisa M. ; Dunbar, Kevin

• Teaching/Learning Events In The Workplace: A Comparative Analysis Of Their Organizational And Interactional Structure
  Hall, Rogers ; Stevens, Reed

• Distributed Reasoning: An Analysis Of Where Social And Cognitive Worlds Fuse
  Dama, Mike ; Dunbar, Kevin

PAPER PRESENTATIONS - DEVELOPMENT I

• Reading And Learning To Classify Letters
  Martin, Gale

• Where Defaults Don't Help: The Case Of The German Plural System
  Nakisa, Ramin Charles ; Hahn, Ulrike

• Selective Attention In The Acquisition Of The Past Tense
  Jackson, Dan ; Constandse, Rodger ; Cottrell, Garrison

• Word Learning And Verbal Short-Term Memory: A Computational Account
  Gupta, Prahlad

Saturday, July 13, 4:00 P.M. - 5:30 P.M.

Tenth Anniversary Of The PDP Books

• Parallel-Distributed Processing Models Of Normal And Disordered Cognition
  Jay McClelland (CMU)

• Why Neural Networks Need Generative Models
  Geoff Hinton (Toronto)

• On The Nature Of Cognitive Theories
  Paul Smolensky (Johns Hopkins)

Saturday, July 13, 5:30 P.M. - 7:30 P.M.

Saturday, July 13, 9:00 P.M. - 1:00 A.M.

Sunday, July 14, 8:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M.

Sunday, July 14, 8:30 A.M. - 10:00 A.M.

Evolution Of Mind

• Denise Dellarosa Cummins (Organizer)
• John Tooby
• Colin Allen

PAPER PRESENTATIONS - VISUAL/SPATIAL REASONING

• Spatial Cognition In The Mind And In The World - The Case Of Hypermedia Navigation
  Dahlbäck, Nils ; Höök, Kristina ; Sjölinder, Marie

• Individual Differences In Proof Structures Following Multimodal Logic Teaching
  Oberlander, Jon ; Cox, Richard ; Monaghan, Padraic ; Stenning, Keith ; Tobin, Richard

• Functional Roles For The Cognitive Analysis Of Diagrams In Problem Solving
  Cheng, Peter C-H.

• A Study Of Visual Reasoning In Medical Diagnosis
  Rogers, E.

PAPER PRESENTATIONS - SEMANTICS, PHONOLOGY, AND THE LEXICON

• The Interaction Of Semantic And Phonological Processing
  Tyler, Lorraine K. ; Voice, J. Kate ; Moss, Helen E.

• The Combinatorial Lexicon: Affixes As Processing Structures
  Marslen-Wilson, William ; Ford, Mike ; Older, Lianne ; Zhou, Xiaolin

• Lexical Ambiguity And Context Effects In Spoken Word Recognition: Evidence From Chinese
  Li, Ping ; Yip, C. W.

• Phonological Reduction, Assimilation, Intra-Word Information Structure, And The Evolution Of The Lexicon Of English
  Shillcock, Richard ; Hicks, John ; Cairns, Paul ; Chater, Nick ; Levy, Joseph

Sunday, July 14, 10:30 A.M. - 12:20 P.M.

Adaptive Behavior and Learning in Complex Environments

• Maja Mataric (Organizer)
• Simon Giszter
• Andrew Moore
• Sebastian Thrun

PAPER PRESENTATIONS - PERCEPTION

• Color Influences Fast Scene Categorization
  Oliva, Aude ; Schyns, Philippe

• Categorical Perception Of Novel Dimensions
  Goldstone, Robert L. ; Steyvers, Mark ; Larimer, Ken

• Categorical Perception In Facial Emotion Classification
  Padgett, Curtis ; Cottrell, Garrison

• MetriCat: A Representation For Basic And Subordinate-Level Classification
  Stankiewicz, Brian J. ; Hummel, John E.

• Similarity To Reference Shapes As A Basis For Shape Representation
  Edelman, Shimon ; Cutzu, Florin ; Duvdevani-Bar, Sharon

PAPER PRESENTATIONS - LEXICAL AMBIGUITY AND SEMANTIC REPRESENTATION

• Integrating Discourse And Local Constraints In Resolving Lexical Thematic Ambiguities
  Hanna, Joy E. ; Spivey-Knowlton, Michael ; Tanenhaus, Michael

• Evidence For A Tagging Model Of Human Lexical Category Disambiguation
  Corley, Steffan ; Crocker, Matt

• The Importance Of Automatic Semantic Relatedness Priming For Distributed Models Of Word Meaning
  McRae, Ken ; Boisvert, Stephen

• Parallel Activation Of Distributed Concepts: Who Put The P In The PDP?
  Gaskell, M. Gareth

• Discrete Multi-Dimensional Scaling
  Clouse, Daniel ; Cottrell, Garrison

Sunday, July 14, 12:20 P.M. - 2:00 P.M.

Sunday, July 14, 2:00 P.M. - 3:30 P.M.

Cognitive Linguistics:
Mappings in Conceptual Systems, Grammar, and Meaning Construction

• Gilles Fauconnier (Organizer)
• George Lakoff
• Ron Langacker

PAPER PRESENTATIONS - PROBLEM-SOLVING AND EDUCATION

• Collaboration In Primary Science Classroom: Learning About Evaporation
  Scanlon, Eileen ; Murphy, Patricia ; Issroff, Kim ; Hodgson, Barbara ; Whitelegg, Elizabeth

• Transferring And Modifying Terms In Equations
  Catrambone, Richard

• Understanding Constraint-Based Processes: A Precursor To Conceptual Change In Physics
  Slotta, James ; Chi, T. H. Michelene

• The Role Of Generic Modeling In Conceptual Change
  Griffith, Todd W. ; Nersessian, Nancy ; Goel, Ashok

PAPER PRESENTATIONS - RECURRENT NETWORK MODELS

• Using Orthographic Neighborhoods Of Interlexical Nonwords To Support An Interactive-Activation Model Of Bilingual Memory
  French, Robert M. ; Ohnesorge, Clark

• Conscious And Unconscious Perception: A Computational Theory
  Mathis, Donald ; Mozer, Michael

• In Search of Articulated Attractors
  Noelle, David ; Cottrell, Garrison

• A Recurrent Network That Performs A Context-Sensitive Prediction Task
  Steijvers, Mark ; Grünwald, Peter

Sunday, July 14, 4:00 P.M. - 5:30 P.M.

Frontal Lobe Development And Dysfunction In Children: Dissociations Between Intention And Action

Adele Diamond (MIT)

Sunday, July 14, 6:00 P.M. - 9:00 P.M.

Monday, July 15, 8:30 A.M. - 10:00 A.M.

Eye Movements In Cognitive Science

• Patrick Suppes (Organizer)
• Julie Epelboim (Organizer)
• Eileen Kowler
• Mary Hayhoe
• Greg Zelinsky

PAPER PRESENTATIONS - ANALOGY

• Competition In Analogical Transfer: When Does A Lightbulb Outshine An Army?
  Francis, Wendy ; Wickens, Thomas

• Can A Real Distinction Be Made Between Cognitive Theories Of Analogy And Categorisation
  Ramscar, Michael ; Paint, Helen

• LISA: A Computational Model Of Analogical Inference And Schema Induction
  Hummel, John E. ; Holyoak, Keith J.

• Alignability And Attribute Important In Choice
  Lindermann, Patricia ; Markman, Arthur

PAPER PRESENTATIONS - DEVELOPMENT II

• A Computational Model Of Two Types Of Developmental Dyslexia
  Harm, Michael ; Seidenberg, Mark

• Integrating Multiple Cues In Word Segmentation: A Connectionist Model Using Hints
  Allen, Joe ; Christiansen, Morten

• Statistical Cues In Language Acquisition: Word Segmentation By Infants
  Saffran, Jenny R. ; Aslin, Richard N. ; Newport, Elissa

• Perceptual Laws And The Statistics Of Natural Signals
  Movellan, Javier ; Chadderdon, George

Monday, July 15, 10:30 A.M. - 12:20 P.M.

Computational Models Of Development

• Kim Plunkett (Organizer)
• Tom Shultz (Organizer)
• Jeff Elman
• Charles Ling
• Denis Mareschal
• Liz Bates (Discussant)
• Jeff Shrager (Discussant)

PAPER PRESENTATIONS - SKILL LEARNING AND SOAR

• An Abstract Computational Model Of Learning Selective Sensing Skills
  Langley, Pat

• Epistemic Action Increases With Skill
  Maglio, Paul ; Kirsh, David

• Perseverative Subgoaling And Production System Models Of Problem Solving
  Cooper, Richard

• Probabilistic Plan Recognition For Cognitive Apprenticeship
  Conati, Cristina ; VanLehn, Kurt

• Do Users Interact With Computers The Way Our Models Say They Should?
  Vera, Alonso H. ; Lewis, Richard

PAPER PRESENTATIONS - RHYTHM IN COGNITION

• Rhythmic Commonalities Between Hand Gestures And Speech
  Cummins, Fred ; Port, Robert

• Modeling Beat Perception With A Nonlinear Oscillator
  Large, Edward W.

PAPER PRESENTATIONS - COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

• Emotional Decisions
  Barnes, Allison ; Thagard, Paul

• Self-Organization And Functional Role Of Lateral Connections And Multisize Receptive Fields In The Primary Visual Cortex
  Sirosh, Joseph, Miikkulainen, Risto

• Synaptic Maintenance Through Neuronal Homeostasis: A Function Of Dream Sleep
  Horn, David ; Levy, Nir ; Ruppin, Eytan

Monday, July 15, 12:20 P.M. - 2:00 P.M.

Monday, July 15, 2:00 P.M. - 3:30 P.M.

Modeling The Evolution Of Language

• John Batali (Organizer)
• David Ackley (Organizer)
• Domenico Parisi

PAPER PRESENTATIONS - PERCEPTIONS OF CAUSALITY

• The Perception Of Causality: Feature Binding In Interacting Objects
  Kruschke, John K. ; Fragasi, Michael

• Judging The Contingency Of A Constant Cue: Contrasting Predictions From An Associative And A Statistical Model
  Vallée-Tourangeau, F. ; Murphy, Robin ; Baker, A. G.

• What Language Might Tell Us About The Perception Of Cause
  Wolff, Phillip ; Gentner, Dedre

PAPER PRESENTATIONS - CATEGORIES, CONCEPTS, AND MUTABILITY

• Mutability, Conceptual Tranformation, And Context
  Love, Bradley C.

• On Putting Milk In Coffee: The Effect Of Thematic Relations On Similarity Judgments
  Wisniewski, Edward ; Bassok, Mariam

• THe Role Of Situations In Concept Learning
  Yeh, Wenchi ; Barsalou, Lawrence

• Modeling Interference Effects In Instructed Category Learning
  Noelle, David ; Cottrell, Garrison

Monday, July 15, 4:00 P.M. - 5:30 P.M.

Reconstructing Consciousness

Paul Churchland (UCSD)

Schedule Summary Table (Netscape Browsers Only)

Invited & Accepted Symposia (with abstracts)

Accepted Papers & Posters (with abstracts)