Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

Cover Page......Page 1
Front Matter......Page 2
Dedication......Page 4
Foreword......Page 6
Conference Committee......Page 7
The Cognitive Science Society......Page 8
Reviewers......Page 9
Tutorial Program......Page 11
Speakers and Symposia......Page 12
Herb Simon Memorial Symposium......Page 13
Papers and Posters......Page 14
Member Abstracts......Page 27
Symposium Abstracts......Page 31
Computational Models of Historical Scientific Discoveries......Page 32
When Cognition Shapes its Own Environment......Page 33
The Cognitive Basis of Science......Page 34
The Interaction of Explicit and Implicit Learning......Page 35
Papers and Posters......Page 36
The Roles of Thought and Experience in the Understanding of Spatio-Temporal Metaphors......Page 37
Coordinating Representations in Computer-Mediated Joint Activities......Page 43
An Integrative Approach to Stroop......Page 49
Age of Acquisition in Connectionist Networks......Page 55
The Processing and Recognition of Symbol Seqeunces......Page 61
Comprehension of Action Sequences......Page 67
Toward a Model of Learning Data Representations......Page 73
Referential Form, Word Duration, and Modelling the Listener in Spoken Dialogue......Page 79
The Utility of Reversed Transfers in Metaphor......Page 85
A Model Theory of Deontic Reasoning About Social Norms......Page 91
Cue Preference in a Multidimensional Categorization Task......Page 97
A Perceptually Driven Dynamical Model of Rhythmic Limb Movement and Bimanual Coordination......Page 103
Inferences About Personal Identity......Page 108
Graded lexical activation by pseudowords in cross-modal semantic priming......Page 114
Understanding Visual Categorization from the Use of Information......Page 120
Taxonomic relations and cognitive economy in conceptual organization......Page 126
The Roles of Body and Mind in Abstract Thought......Page 132
The time-course of morphological, phonological and semantic processes in reading Modern Standard Arabic......Page 138
Reference-point Reasoning and Comparison Asymmetries......Page 144
Deference in Categorisation: Evidence for Essentialism?......Page 150
Meaning, Communication, and Theory of Mind......Page 156
The Effects of Reducing Information on a Modified Prisoner's Dilemma Game......Page 162
Mice Trap: A New Explanation for Irregular Plurals in Noun-Noun Compounds......Page 168
Simulating the Evolution of Modular Neural Systems......Page 174
The Hot Hand in Basketball: Fallacy or Adaptive Thinking?......Page 180
Modelling Policies for Collaboration......Page 186
Evaluating the Effects of Natural Language Generation Techniques on Reader Satisfaction......Page 192
How Nouns and Verbs Differentially Affect the Behaviour of Artificial Organisms......Page 198
Learning Grammatical Constructions......Page 204
A Model of Infant Causal Perception and its Development......Page 210
The Effect of Practice on Strategy Change......Page 216
A Potential Limitation of Embedded Teaching for Formal Learning......Page 222
Drawing out the Temporal Signature of Induced Perceptual Chunks......Page 228
Modeling Tonality: Application to Music Cognition......Page 234
Causal Information as a Constraint on Similarity......Page 240
Hemispheric lateralisation of the word length effect in Chinese character recognition......Page 244
Integrating Distributional, Prosodic and Phonological Information in a Connectionist Model of Language Acquisition......Page 248
Using Distributional Measures to Model Typicality in Categorization......Page 254
Young Children's Construction of Operational Definitions in Magnetism......Page 260
Testing a computational model of categorisation and category combination......Page 266
Exploring Neuronal Plasticity: Language Development in Pediatric Hemispherectomies......Page 272
'Does pure water boil, when it's heated to 100C?': The Associative Strength of Disabling Conditions in Conditional Reasoning......Page 277
When knowledge is unconscious because of conscious knowledge and vice versa......Page 283
What Can Homophone Effects Tell Us About the Nature of Orthographic Representation in Visual Word Recognition?......Page 289
Memory Representations of Source Information......Page 295
Testing Hypotheses about Mechanical Devices......Page 301
An Influence of Spatial Language on Recognition Memory for Spatial Scenes......Page 307
The Origin of Somatic Markers: A Suggestion to Damasia's Theory Inspired by Dewey's Ethics......Page 313
Investigating Dissociations Between Perceptual Categorization and Explicit Memory......Page 319
Development of Physics Text Corpora for Latent Semantic Analysis......Page 325
Modelling Cognition with Software Agents......Page 329
Reversing Category Exclusivities in Infant Perceptual Categorization......Page 335
Adapting Selection of Problem Solving Strategies......Page 341
Self-Organising Networks for Classification Learning from Normal and Aphasic Speech......Page 347
Rational imitation of goal-directed actions in 14-month-olds......Page 353
The Right Tool for the Job: Information-Processing Analysis in Categorization......Page 358
Is Experts' Knowledge Modular?......Page 364
Strategies in Analogous Planning Cases......Page 370
Superstitious Perception......Page 376
Word and Shape Similarity Guides 13-month-olds' Inferences about Nonobvious Object Properties......Page 380
The Emergence of Semantic Categories from Distributed Featural Representations......Page 386
Beliefs Versus Knowledge: A Necessary Distinction for Explaining, Predicting, and Assessing Conceptual Change......Page 392
Randomness and Coincidences: Reconciling Intuition and Probability Theory......Page 398
Judging the Probability of Representative and Unrepresentative Unpackings......Page 404
On the Evaluation of If p then q Conditionals......Page 409
Very Rapid Induction of General Patterns......Page 415
Similarity: A Transformational Approach......Page 421
A Parser for Harmonic Context-Free Grammars......Page 427
Models of Ontogenetic Development for Autonomous Adaptive Systems......Page 433
Representational Form and Communicative Use......Page 439
Pragmatics at Work: Formulation and Interpretation of Conditional Instructions......Page 445
The Influence of Recall Feedback in User Information Retrieval on User Satisfaction and User Behavior......Page 451
Modelling Language Acquisition: Grammar from the Lexicon?......Page 457
The Strategic Use of Memory for Frequency and Recency in Search Control......Page 463
Conceptual Combination as Theory Formation......Page 469
Combining Integral and Separable Subspaces......Page 475
Distributed Cognition in Apes......Page 481
Cascade Explains and Informs the Utility of Fading Examples to Problems......Page 487
Modelling the Detailed Pattern of SRT Sequence Learning......Page 493
Where Do Probability Judgments Come From? Evidence for Similarity-Graded Probability......Page 499
Similarity Processing Depends on the Similarities Present......Page 505
Constraints on Linguistic Coreference: Structural vs. Pragmatic Factors......Page 511
Training for Insight: The Case of the Nine-Dot Problem......Page 517
Theory-Based Reasoning in Clinical Psychologists......Page 522
Introduction......Page 528
Design......Page 529
Participant 1 Following five baseline sessions, treatment was initiated on typical items on the category birds. While naming of typical items improved to criterion (7/8 for two consecutive sessions), generalization to naming of intermediate or atypical e......Page 530
Discussion......Page 531
References......Page 533
Visual Statistical Learning in Infants......Page 534
Episode Blending as Result of Analogical Problem Solving......Page 538
Dissecting Common Ground: Examining an Instance of Reference Repair......Page 544
Kinds of Kinds: Sources of Category Coherence......Page 550
Learning Perceptual Chunks for Problem Decomposition......Page 556
The Mechanics of Associative Change......Page 562
Representation and Generalisation in Associative Systems......Page 568
Costs of Switching Perspectives in Route and Survey Descriptions......Page 574
A Connectionist Investigation of Linguistic Arguments from the Poverty of the Stimulus: Learning the Unlearnable......Page 580
Ties That Bind: Reconciling Discrepancies Between Categorization and Naming......Page 586
Introduction......Page 592
Procedure......Page 593
Method......Page 594
Results and Discussion......Page 595
General Discussion......Page 596
References......Page 597
Activating Verb Semantics from the Regular and Irregular Past Tense......Page 598
Towards a Theory of Semantic Space......Page 604
Individual Differences in Reasoning about Broken Devices: An Eye Tracking Study......Page 610
Overview of the Agent’s Architecture......Page 616
Our Computational Model of Surprise......Page 618
Experimental Tests......Page 620
References......Page 621
Modeling the Interplay of Emotions and Plans in Multi-Agent Simulations......Page 622
Elementary School Children's Understanding of Experimental Error......Page 628
Interactive Models of Collaborative Communication......Page 634
Testing the Distributional Hypothesis: The Influence of Context on Judgements of Semantic Similarity......Page 639
Activating Verbs from Typical Agents, Patients, Instruments, and Locations via Event Schemas......Page 645
Spatial Experience, Sensory Qualities, and the Visual Field......Page 651
How Primitive is Self-Consciousness?......Page 656
Automated Proof Planning for Instructional Design......Page 661
Modeling an Opportunistic Strategy for Information Navigation......Page 667
Emergence of Effects of Collaboration in a Simple Discovery Task......Page 673
Effects of Competing Speech on Sentence-Word Priming: Semantic, Perceptual, and Attentional Factors......Page 679
The consistency of children's responses to logical statements......Page 685
Working-memory modularity in analogical reasoning......Page 691
Emotional Impact on Logic Deficits May Underlie Psychotic Delusions in Schizophrenia......Page 697
Interactions between Frequency Effects and Age of Acquisition Effects in a Connectionist Network......Page 703
Introduction......Page 709
Design and Procedure......Page 710
Results and Discussion......Page 711
References......Page 713
Clustering Using the Contrast Model......Page 714
Active inference in concept learning......Page 720
Addition as Interactive Problem Solving......Page 726
On the Normativity of Failing to Recall Valid Advice......Page 732
How is Abstract, Generative Knowledge Acquired? A Comparison of Three Learning Scenarios......Page 738
The Age-Complicity Hypothesis: A Cognitive Account of Some Historical Linguistic Data......Page 744
Singular and General Causal Arguments......Page 748
Roles of Shared Relations in Induction......Page 754
A Model of Embodied Communication with Gestures between Humans and Robots......Page 760
Remembering to forget: Modeling inhibitory and competitive mechanisms in human memory......Page 766
The Origins of Syllable Systems: An Operational Model......Page 772
Evidence for Prototype Abstraction......Page 778
A Simple Categorization Strategy......Page 779
Does the Simple Strategy Work?......Page 780
Which Model Fits Better?......Page 781
Summary and Conclusions......Page 782
References......Page 783
The Role of Velocity in Affect Discrimination......Page 784
Graph-based Reasoning: From Task Analysis to Cognitive Explanation......Page 790
The Impact of Feedback Semantics in Visual Word Recognition......Page 796
Category learning without labels -- A simplicity approach......Page 802
Neural Synchrony Through Controlled Tracking......Page 808
The Conscious-Subconscious Interface: An Emerging Metaphor in HCI......Page 814
Introduction......Page 820
The Representation of Quantifiers......Page 821
Certainty and Uncertainty within Models......Page 822
Categorising Syllogisms......Page 823
Predicting performance......Page 824
References......Page 825
Using a Triad Judgment Task to Examine the Effect of Experience on Problem Representation in Statistics......Page 826
Perceptual Learning Meets Philosophy: Cognitive Penetrability of Perception and its Philosophical Implications......Page 831
The influence of semantics on past-tense inflection......Page 837
The Emergence of Words......Page 843
A Knowledge-Resonance (KRES) Model of Category Learning......Page 849
Regularity and Irregularity in an Inflectionally Complex Language: Evidence from Polish......Page 855
Cats could be dogs, but dogs could not be cats: what if they bark and mew?......Page 861
Motor Representations in Memory and Mental Models: Embodiment in Cognition......Page 867
"Language is Spatial":Experimental Evidence for Image Schemas of Concrete and Abstract Verbs......Page 873
Efficacious Logic Instruction: People Are Not Irremediably Poor Deductive Reasoners......Page 879
Background......Page 885
Cognitive Models......Page 886
Predictions from the models......Page 888
Implications for Instructional Design......Page 889
References......Page 890
For Better or Worse: Modelling Effects of Semantic Ambiguity......Page 891
A Comparative Evaluation of Socratic versus Didactic Teaching......Page 897
Mental Models and the Meaning of Connectives: A Study on Children, Adolescents and Adults......Page 903
A Selective Attention Based Model for Visual Pattern Recognition......Page 909
Solving arithmetic operations: a semantic approach......Page 915
Do Perceptual Complexity and Object Familiarity Matter for Novel Word Extraction?......Page 921
Decomposing Interactive Behavior......Page 926
Experiment......Page 932
ACT-R Model......Page 934
General Discussion......Page 935
References......Page 936
Metarepresentation in Philosophy and Psychology......Page 938
Connectionist modelling of surface dyslexia based on foveal splitting......Page 944
Assessing Generalization in Connectionist and Rule-based Models Under the Learning Constraint......Page 950
Clinging to Beliefs: A Constraint-satisfaction Model......Page 956
Semantic Effect on Episodic Associations......Page 962
Representation: Where Philosophy Goes When It Dies......Page 968
Introduction......Page 974
Materials and Design......Page 976
Figure 2. Example of an experimental triad......Page 977
Results and Discussion......Page 978
References......Page 979
The Interaction of Explicit and Implicit Learning: An Integrated Model......Page 980
Preserved Implicit Learning on both the Serial Reaction Time Task and Artificial Grammar in Patients with Parkinson's Disease......Page 986
Participants......Page 987
Results......Page 988
Discussion......Page 989
References......Page 991
On choosing the parse with the scene: The role of visual context and verb bias in ambiguity resolution......Page 992
Synfire Chains and Catastrophic Interference......Page 998
Human Sequence Learning: Can Associations Explain Everything?......Page 1004
Effect of Choice Set on Valuation of Risky Prospects......Page 1010
The Fate of Irrelevant Information in Analogical Mapping......Page 1016
Visual Expertise is a General Skill......Page 1022
The Role of Feedback in Categorisation......Page 1028
An Analogue of the Phillips Effect......Page 1034
Cue-Readiness in Insight Problem Solving......Page 1040
Extending the Past-Tense Debate: a Model of the German Plural......Page 1046
The modality effect in multimedia instructions......Page 1052
Real World Constraints on the Mental Lexicon......Page 1058
The Rational Basis of Representativeness......Page 1064
A connectionist account of the emergence of the literal-metaphorical-anomalous distinction in young children......Page 1070
A New Model of Graph and Visualization Usage......Page 1076
That's Odd! How Scientists Respond to Anomalous Data......Page 1082
Spoken Language Comprehension Improves the Efficiency of Visual Search......Page 1088
"Two" Many Optimalities......Page 1094
Introduction......Page 1100
Basic structure of Elman’s and our experiments......Page 1101
Results......Page 1102
Experiment 1......Page 1103
Experiment 3......Page 1104
References......Page 1105
A Computational Model of Counterfactual Thinking......Page 1106
The Semantic Modulation of Deductive Premises......Page 1112
The Appearance of Unity: A Higher-Order Interpretation of the Unity of Consciousness......Page 1117
How to Solve the Problem of Compositionality by Oscillatory Networks......Page 1122
A Model of Perceptual Change by Domain Integration......Page 1128
Imagery, Context Availability, Contextual Constraint and Abstractness......Page 1134
Rules for Syntax, Vectors for Semantics......Page 1140
Did Language Give Us Numbers? Symbolic Thinking and the Emergence of Systematic Numerical Computation......Page 1146
Selection Procedures for Module Discovery: Exploring Evolutionary Algorithms for Cognitive Science......Page 1152
How learning can guide evolution in hierarchical modular tasks......Page 1158
Supporting Understanding through Task and Browser Design......Page 1164
Access to Relational Knowledge: a Comparison of Two Models......Page 1170
What does "he" mean?......Page 1176
Structural Determinants of Counterfactual Reasoning......Page 1182
Competition between linguistic cues and perceptual cues in children's categorization: English and Japanese-speaking children......Page 1188
Base-Rate Neglect in Pigeons: Implications for Memory Mechanisms......Page 1194
Member Abstracts......Page 1198
Explanations of words and natural contexts: An experiment with children's limericks......Page 1199
Understanding death as the cessation of intentional action: A cross-cultural developmental study......Page 1200
Working memory processes during abductive reasoning......Page 1201
Organizing Features into Attribute Values......Page 1202
Attention Shift and Verb Labels in Event Memory......Page 1203
The Semantics of temporal prepositions: the case of IN......Page 1204
Thoughts on the Prospective MMP-TP: A Mental MetaLogic-Based Theorem Prover......Page 1205
Hemispheric Effects of Concreteness in Pictures and Words......Page 1206
Learning Statistics: The Use of Conceptual Equations and Overviews to Aid Transfer......Page 1207
Infants' Associations of Words and Sounds to Animals and Vehicles......Page 1208
A Connectionist Model of Semantic Memory: Superordinate structure without hierarchies......Page 1209
Concept Generalization in Separable and Integral Stimulus Spaces......Page 1210
Linguistic Resources and "Ontologies" across Sense Modalities......Page 1211
What was the Cause? Children's Ability to Categorize Inferences......Page 1212
Structural Alignment in Similarity and Difference of Simple Visual Stimuli......Page 1213
Music Evolution: The Memory Modulation Theory......Page 1214
Language affects memory, but does it affect perception?......Page 1215
Pragmatic Knowledge and Bridging Inferences......Page 1216
The AMBR Model Comparison Project: Multi-tasking, the Icarus Federation, and Concept Learning......Page 1217
Does Adult Category Verification Reflect Child-like Concepts?......Page 1218
Imagining the Impossible......Page 1219
Understanding Negation - The Case of Negated Metaphors......Page 1220
Neural Networks as Fitness Evaluators in Genetic Algorithms: Simulating Human Creativity......Page 1221
Modeling the Effect of Category Use on Learning and Representation......Page 1222
Towards a Multiple Components Model of Human Memory......Page 1223
Categorical Perception as Adaptive Processing of Complex Visuo-spatial Configurations in High-level Basket-ball Players......Page 1224
Configural and Elemental Approaches to Causal Learning......Page 1225
Levels of Processing and Picture Memory: An Eye movement Analysis......Page 1226
An Alternative Method of Problem Solving: The Goal-Induced Attractor......Page 1227
Sub Space: Describing Distant Psychological Space......Page 1228
A Criticism of the Conception of Ecological Rationality......Page 1229
Thinking through Doing: Manipulative Abduction?......Page 1230
Spatial Priming of Recognition in Virtual Space......Page 1231
The frequency of connectives in preschool children's language environment......Page 1232
A Soar model of human video-game players......Page 1233
Practical Cognition in the Assessment of Goals......Page 1234
Exceptional and temporal effects in counterfactual thinking......Page 1235
Children's Algorithmic Sense-making through Verbalization......Page 1236
Prosodic Guidance: Evidence for the Early Use of Capricious Parsing Constraint......Page 1237
Learning and Memory: A Cognitive Approach About The Role of Memory in Text Comprehension......Page 1238
SARAH: Modeling the Results of Spiegel and McLaren (2001)......Page 1239
The Relationship between Learned Categories and Structural Alignment......Page 1240
Timing and Rhythm in Multimodal Communication for Conversational Agents......Page 1241
Training Task-Switching Skill in Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder......Page 1242
Advantages of a Visual Representation for Computer Programming......Page 1243
Mass and Count in Language and Cognition: Some Evidence from Language Comprehension......Page 1244
Inhibition Mechanism of Phonological Short-term Memory in Foreign Language Processing......Page 1245
Odd-Even effect in multiplication revisited: The role of equation presentation format......Page 1246