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POSTER SESSION I

Saturday, August 1, 1998 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Located in the Great Hall at Memorial Union

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Posters are listed alphabetically by first author within each category. The number associated with each poster below corresponds to a number on a display board in Great Hall. Authors, please display your poster on the board with a number matching the number assigned to your poster. Please set up your poster before noon on Saturday, August 1, and remove it on Sunday, August 2, after 4 pm.

This page contains a full list of the titles and authors of the posters that will be displayed during Poster Session I. Click on the topics below to jump to the posters of special interest to you, or simply scroll through the list that follows. Enjoy!

Theoretical Foundations in Cognitive Science
Topics and Methods in Psycholinguistics
Language Development
Word Recognition and Meaning
Experimental and Modeling Studies of Memory Processes
Cognitive Neuroscience
Reasoning with Analogy and Metaphor
Expertise
Human-Computer Interaction
Collaborative and Interactive Cognition
Distributed Cognition


Theoretical Foundations in Cognitive Science

  1. Sharedness as an Innate Basis for Communication in the Infant
    Francesca Marina Bosco and Maurizio Tirassa

  2. Why Chomskyan Linguistics Is Antipsychological
    Robert L. Campbell

  3. Representation Revisited: Lessons Learned from Artificial Life
    Monica R. Cowart

  4. Nooplasis: A Theory about the Formation of Mind
    Andreas Demetriou

  5. Simulating Development by Modifying Architectures
    Gary Jones and Frank E. Ritter

  6. A Constraint-Satisfaction Model of Machiavellianism Effects in Cognitive Dissonance
    Thomas R. Shultz and Mark R. Lepper

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Topics and Methods in Psycholinguistics
  1. Determinants of Wordlikeness
    Todd M. Bailey and Ulrike Hahn

  2. A Dynamic Model of Aspectual Composition
    Nancy Chang, Daniel Gildea and Srini Narayanan

  3. On Plates, Bowls and Dishes: Factors in the Use of English IN and ON
    Michele I. Feist and Dedre Gentner

  4. Dimensions of Grammatical Coreference
    Peter C. Gordon and Randall Hendrick

  5. Understanding "Rules": When Is Behaviour Rule-Guided?
    Ulrike Hahn and Nick Chater

  6. Experimental Evidence Against the Dual-Route Account of Inflectional Morphology
    Ulrike Hahn, Ramin C. Nakisa, Todd M. Bailey, Miranda Holmes, Denise Kemp and Laura Palmer

  7. A Model of the Sound-Spelling Mapping in English and Its Role in Word and Nonword Spelling
    George Houghton and Marco Zorzi

  8. Theory-Neutral System Regularity Measurements
    Patrick Juola, Todd M. Bailey and Emmanuel M. Pothos

  9. Issues in Comparing Symbolic and Connectionist Models
    Charles X. Ling

  10. Incremental Interpretation and Lexicalized Grammar
    Vincenzo Lombardo, Leonardo Lesmo, Luca Ferraris and Crispino Seidenari

  11. Generality of the Abstraction Mechanisms in Artificial Grammar Learning
    Emmanuel M. Pothos and Nick Chater

  12. Force Dynamics in Language and Cognition: An Empirical Evaluation
    David A. Robertson and Arthur M. Glenberg

  13. Connectives and Anaphoric Reference Patterns to Negative Quantifiers
    Anthony J. Sanford, Linda M. Moxey and Eugene Dawydiak

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Language Development
  1. Extending Embodied Lexical Development
    David Bailey, Nancy Chang, Jerome Feldman and Srini Narayanan

  2. The English Past Tense and the Child's Conception of Time
    Dale J. Barr and Terry Regier

  3. Can a Computer Really Model Cognition?A Case Study of Six Computational Models of Infant Word Discovery
    Eleanor Olds Batchelder

  4. Acquiring Grammars with Complex Heads: A Model Using Have as a Complex Verb
    Misha Becker

  5. Linguistic Relativity and Word Acquisition: A Computational Approach
    Eliana Colunga and Michael Gasser

  6. Learning Via Compact Data Representation
    Mark W. Davis and Peter W. Foltz

  7. Learning Regular Languages from Positive Evidence
    Laura Firoiu, Tim Oates and Paul R. Cohen

  8. The Rise and Fall of English Inflectional Morphology
    Patrick Juola and Kim Plunkett

  9. Do Diminutives Facilitate the Learning of Russian Gender?
    Vera Kempe and Patricia J. Brooks

  10. Mapping Innate Lexical Features to Grammatical Categories: Acquisition of English -ing and -ed
    Mari Broman Olsen, Amy Weinberg, Jeffrey P. Lilly and John E. Drury

  11. Modeling the Emergence of Syllable Systems
    Melissa Annette Redford, Chun Chi Chen and Risto Miikkulainen

  12. On Learning Allophonic Relations: Phonetic Identity or Functional Similarity?
    Daniel Silverman

  13. Learning of First, Second and Third Personal Pronouns
    Yuriko Oshima-Takane, Marina Takane and Yoshio Takane

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Word Recognition and Meaning
  1. Words and Worlds: The Construction of Context for Definite Reference
    Craig G. Chambers, Michael K. Tanenhaus, Kathleen M. Eberhard, Greg N. Carlson and Hana Filip

  2. Familiarity Assessment in Visual Word Recognition and the Transformation Hypothesis
    Possidonia F. D. Gontijo, Richard Shillcock and M. Louise Kelly

  3. First Letter Dominance in Word Recognition
    Kevin Larson and Philip B. Gough

  4. Using Anatomical Information to Enrich the Connectionist Modelling of Normal and Impaired Visual Word Recognition
    Richard Shillcock and Padraic Monaghan

  5. Time Course Study of Single-Word Context Effects: Evidence from Activation of Homograph Meaning
    Pierre Thérouanne and Guy Denhière

  6. Contextual Representation of Abstract Nouns: A Neural Network Approach
    Katja Wiemer-Hastings and Arthur C. Graesser

  7. Inferring the Meaning of Verbs from Context
    Peter Wiemer-Hastings, Arthur C. Graesser and Katja Wiemer-Hastings

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Experimental and Modeling Studies of Memory Processes
  1. Modeling Dual-Task Performance Improvement with EPIC-Soar
    Ronald S. Chong

  2. Representation Revisited: Lessons Learned from Artificial Life
    Monica R. Cowart

  3. Evidence against the Global Speed of Processing Theory of Working Memory
    Nelson Cowan

  4. Eigenfaces for Familiarity
    Matthew N. Dailey, Garrison W. Cottrell and Thomas A. Busey

  5. The Influence of Repeated Presentations and Intervening Trials on Negative Priming
    Michael A. Erickson and Lynne M. Reder

  6. Effects of Tonality, Contour, Pitch Intervals and Hemisphere on the Representation of Melodic Information
    Eric G. Freedman, Christopher Abeare, Robert G. Kender, Raymond Vernagus and Thomas A. Wrobel

  7. A Simple Recurrent Network Model of Bilingual Memory
    Robert M. French

  8. A Connectionist Explanation of Dreams
    Naomi Goldblum

  9. Statistical Learning of Visuomotor Sequences: Implicit Acquisition of Sub-Patterns
    Ruskin H. Hunt and Richard N. Aslin

  10. Locating the Processing Bottleneck in Dual-Task Interference
    Robert A. Kachelski

  11. Learning to Form Visual Chunks: On the Structure of Visuo-Spatial Working Memory
    James S. Magnuson, David G. Bensinger, Mary Hayhoe and Dana Ballard

  12. Influence of Stimulus Meaning on Recognition Memory
    Julia Beth Proffitt and Linda L. Liu

  13. A Model of the "Guilty Knowledge Effect": Dual Processes in Recognition
    Travis L. Seymour and Colleen M. Seifert

  14. Hints Do Not Evoke Solutions via Passive Spreading Activation
    Steven M. Smith, Cynthia M. Sifonis and Deborah R. Tindell

  15. Detecting an 'Anomolous State of Knowledge' for Proactive Information Filtering
    Eduard Hoenkamp

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Cognitive Neuroscience
  1. Deductive Reasoning in Right-Brain Damaged
    Giuliano C. Geminiani and Monica Bucciarelli

  2. Chiral Cognitive Science
    Gregory V. Jones and Maryanne Martin

  3. Internally Generated Remindings and Hippocampal Recapitulations
    William B. Levy, Steven M. Smith and Cynthia M. Sifonis

  4. A Brain Model of the Relationship between Semantic Memory and Working Memory in Semantic Cognitive Tasks
    Alan Newberger and Jack J. Gelfand

  5. Limitations on a Theory of the Biological Origins of Compositionality
    Christopher G. Prince

  6. The Borderline Between Subsymbolic and Symbolic Processing: A Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Approach
    J. G. Wallace and K. Bluff

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Reasoning with Analogy and Metaphor

  1. Combining Uncertain Belief Reasoning and Uncertain Metaphor-Based Reasoning
    John A. Barnden

  2. Constraints on the Production and Evaluation of Analogies
    Isabelle Blanchette and Kevin Dunbar

  3. Structural Alignment Facilitates Discovering Differences
    Dedre Gentner and Virginia Gunn

  4. Metaphor Processing: Looking for Light in a Dark Room
    James Hambrick

  5. The Effect of Knowledge about Topic on Metaphorical Meaning
    Jean-Denis Legros, Charles Tijus and Béatrice Pudelko

  6. Relational Language Facilitates Analogy in Children
    Jeffrey Loewenstein and Dedre Gentner

  7. Gaps in the Explanation of the Relational Shift in Analogy Development
    Clayton T. Morrison and Changsin Lee

  8. Modeling Invention by Analogy in ACT-R
    J. William Murdock, Marin Simina, Jim Davies and Gordon Shippey

  9. Structure in Category-Based Induction
    Melissa Lin Wu and Dedre Gentner

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Expertise
  1. Expert Problem Solving in a Visual Medical Domain
    Roger Azevedo

  2. Representation, Agency and Disciplinarity: Calculus Experts at Work
    Elke M. Kurz

  3. Role Models in Cognitive Psychology: Jerome Bruner as Exemplar
    Peter M. Meyerson

  4. Understanding Phenomena: Investigating Structure-Function Relationships
    David E. Penner

  5. Steps towards the Acquisition of Expertise: Shifting the Focus from Quantitative to Qualitative Problem Representations during Collaborative Problem Solving
    Rolf Ploetzner and Cornelia Kneser

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Human-Computer Interaction
  1. Applying Cognitive Theories and Methods to the Design of Computerised Medical Decision Support
    Eugenio Alberdi and Robert Logie

  2. Searching the World Wide Web Made Easy? The Cognitive Load Imposed by Query Refinement Mechanisms
    Simon Dennis, Robert McArthur and Peter Bruza

  3. Tracking Cognitive Representations
    Dietmar Janetzko

  4. Evaluating Computational Assistance for Crisis Response
    Wayne Iba, Melinda Gervasio, Pat Langley and Stephanie Sage

  5. Brain Injury and Cognitive Retraining: The Role of Computer Assisted Learning and Virtual Reality
    Donald L. Mickey, Ruth A. Ross, Jennifer L. Stoll, Chuang-chang Chiang, Heidi A. Sindberg and David A. Dunlop

  6. A Computational Model of Recognizing and Revising Inappropriate Advice
    David Pautler and Alex Quilici

  7. Learning Only Good Things from Others
    Muhammad Afzal Upal

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Collaborative and Interactive Cognition
  1. Applied Speech Acts Analysis: Speaker Intentions as Motivational Factors in Substance Abuse Therapy
    Paul C. Amrhein, Laura Fulcher, Michãel Palmer and William R. Miller

  2. Students' Sense of Community in Constructivist/Collaborative Learning Environments
    Helen V. Bateman, Susan R. Goldman, J. R. Newbrough and John D. Bransford

  3. Collaborative Visual Design: Representation and Resources
    Janet Blatter and Alain Breuleux

  4. Assessing the Role of Information Sources in Track Identification Decisions
    Thomas F. Carolan and Debra C. Evans

  5. Analogical Reasoning in a Natural Working Group
    Lori Adams DuRussel and Sharon J. Derry

  6. Improving Evolved Communication with Imitation
    James Newkirk

  7. An Informational Analysis of Echoic Responses in Dialogue
    Atsushi Shimojima, Hanae Koiso, Marc Swerts and Yasuhiro Katagiri

  8. Social Aspects of Dependency in Navigation: Route Guidance Using Mobile Phone with Location Information
    Noriko Shingaki and Hisao Nojima

  9. Two Heads Are Better than One: Causality and Similarity in Misconception Discovery
    Raymond Sison, Masayuki Numao and Masamichi Shimura

  10. The Effects of Population Density and Resource Abundance on the Evolution of Cooperative Strategies
    Kyle Wagner

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Distributed Cognition

  1. Distributed Cognition of a Navigational Instrument Display Task
    Johnny Chuah, Jiajie Zhang and Todd R. Johnson

  2. Zero Sum Games as Distributed Cognitive Systems
    Robert L. West

  3. Heterogeneously Distributed Cognition
    Stanton Wortham

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