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POSTER SESSION II

Monday, August 3, 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 Monday, August 3, and remove it on Tuesday, August 4, after 4 pm.

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

Reading/Discourse Processing
Conceptual and Categorical Cognition: Issues and Methods
Syntax and Semantics
Models and Theories of Learning
Problem Solving, Creativity, and Discovery
Reasoning/Judgment/Decision Making
Spiritual and Moral Cognition
Cognition and Instruction
Cognition in Arts, Graphics, and Design
Spatial Memory and Development


Reading/Discourse Processing

  1. Visual and Auditory Event-Related Potentials in Poor, Good and Dyslexic Spanish Readers
    José A. Adrián, María C. Pérez-Ábolo, Armando Piñeiro and Alfredo Espinet

  2. Sentence Interpretation in Bulgarian: The Contribution of Animacy
    Elena Andonova

  3. A Continuum of Language Comprehension: College Students, Agrammatics and Everyone in Between
    Frederick Dick and Elizabeth Bates

  4. Spatial Situation Models and Story Actions
    Christie Manning

  5. Mapping Time in Narratives
    Peter Meyerson

  6. The Magical Number Seven in Language
    Emmanuel M. Pothos

  7. Anaphora Resolution and Subordination in Discourse Structure
    Frank Schilder

  8. Updating Memory Representations during Reading: The Role of Cohort Competition
    Yuhtsuen Tzeng, Paul van den Broek and Michael E. Young

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Conceptual and Categorical Cognition: Issues and Methods

  1. Learned Categorical Perception Effects in Neural Networks
    Janet K. Andrews, Kenneth R. Livingston and Dalindyebo Shabalala

  2. Perceived Similarity between Paired Items: The Influence of Category Type, Context, Typicality and Self-Report
    Susan H. Anthony, Frédéric Valée-Tourangeau and Neville G. Austin

  3. The Role of Salience in Conceptual Combination
    Jeannine S. Bock and Charles Clifton, Jr.

  4. Comparison in Context
    Lera Boroditsky

  5. Network Analysis Using Visualization and Singular Value Decomposition
    Michael Carbonaro

  6. Contextual Activation of Features of Combined Concepts
    Zachary Estes and Sam Glucksberg

  7. Contingency of Parts in Object Concepts
    Frédéric Gosselin and Philippe G. Schyns

  8. 'Not-' Cracker
    Frédéric Gosselin and Philippe G. Schyns

  9. Category Learning and Comparison in the Evolution of Similarity Structure
    Kenneth J. Kurtz and Dedre Gentner

  10. Inductive Reasoning Tasks Revisited: Object Labels Aren't Always the Basis of Inference Within Taxonomic Domains
    Jonathan Loose and Denis Mareschal

  11. Rational Categories
    Emmanuel M. Pothos and Nick Chater

  12. Examples and Generalisations: Using Surface Versus Structural Recall Biases to Probe Conceptual Storage
    Michael Ramscar, Helen Pain, Sarah Darrington and John Lee

  13. Categorization under the Influence
    Jean-Pierre Thibaut, Fabienne Lemaire and Juliette Quadri

  14. Quasi-Implication in Judgments of Sensory Attribution
    Isabel Urdapilleta, Jean-Marc Bernard and Charles Tijus

  15. The Acquisition of Japanese Numeral Classifiers (Linkage between Grammatical Forms and Conceptual Categories)
    Kasumi Yamamoto and Frank Keil

  16. The Role of Labeling in Acquiring Kind Concepts in Infancy
    Fei Xu

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Syntax and Semantics

  1. Evidence that Syntactic Priming is Long-Lasting
    Joyce Tang Boyland and John R. Anderson

  2. Is Syntactic Priming a Two Way Effect?
    Holly P. Branigan, Andrew J. Stewart and Martin J. Pickering

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

  4. A Cognitive Study of the Semantic Memory Activated by Pictures and by Words
    Martine Cornuéjols and Jean-Pierre Rossi

  5. Learning Syntactic Frames with Simple Recurrent Networks
    Rutvik Desai

  6. Syntactic Systematicity Arising from Semantic Predictions in a Hebbian-Competitive Network
    Robert F. Hadley, Dirk Arnold and Vlad Cardei

  7. Experimental and Connectionist Perspectives on Semantic Memory Development
    Samantha J. Hartley, Tony J. Prescott and Roderick I. Nicolson

  8. The Role of Sentence Priming on the Implicit Memory of Syntactic Structures
    Barbara Luka and Lawrence W. Barsalou

  9. The Relationship Between Lexical and Syntactic Processing
    Billi Randall and William Marslen-Wilson

  10. Grading on the Fly
    Steffen Staab and Udo Hahn

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Models and Theories of Learning

  1. Toward a Unifying Connectionist Model of Attention in Human and Animal Associative Learning
    John K. Kruschke

  2. Retrospective Revaluation in Human Associative Learning: New Data and Implications for Models of Learning
    John K. Kruschke and Nathaniel J. Blair

  3. An Attentionally-Based Connectionist Model of Overshadowing and Cue-Competition in Human Learning
    John K. Kruschke and Mark K. Johansen

  4. Testing a Model of Role Assignment
    Michael P. Matessa and John R. Anderson

  5. Goal Specificity and Learning: Reinterpretation of the Data and Cognitive Theory
    Adisack Nhouyvanisvong and Kenneth R. Koedinger

  6. Using Backward Masking to Study Lexical Competition in the Interactive Activation Model of Word Recognition
    Clark Ohnesorge and Patrick Johnson

  7. A Cognitive Model of the Use of Familiarity in the Acquisition of Interactive Search Skill
    Juliet Richardson, Andrew Howes and Stephen J. Payne

  8. Exploring Gang Effects by Output Node Similarity in Neural Networks
    Paul Rodriguez

  9. Relating Perceptual and Functional Features for Game Learning
    Shira Sand, Jack J. Gelfand and Susan Epstein

  10. Look and Learn: Observational Learning of Rules and Instances
    Rosemary J. Stevenson, Bruce W. Geddes, J. Beth Sumner and Bella M. K. Travis

  11. A Bottom-Up Model of Skill Learning
    Ron Sun, Edward Merrill and Todd Peterson

  12. Modeling Implicit and Explicit Discovery Learning
    Hedderick van Rijn

  13. Self-Initiated Learning through Transformation of Representation
    Charles Woodson

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Problem Solving, Creativity and Discovery

  1. Developmental Differences in Encoding and Completing Patterns
    Martha Wagner Alibali and Dana C. Heath

  2. Tests of Remote Association
    Colin Allen, Cynthia M. Sifonis and Steven M. Smith

  3. Towards Spanning Architecture for Analogical Problem Solving
    Andrew G. Bachmann

  4. Mapping Asymmetries in Analogical Problem Solving
    Tate T. Kubose, Keith J. Holyoak and John E. Hummel

  5. A Computational Model for Creative Problem Solving
    Luís Macedo and Amílcar Cardoso

  6. The Effects of Perceptual Cues and Extrinsic Motivation on Creative Problem Solving
    Alan J. Malter

  7. Toward a General Theory of Scientific Discovery
    Ryan D. Tweney, Sean C. Duncan, Maria F. Ippolito and Elke M. Kurz

  8. Image-Schema Transfer: Towards Computational Facilitation of Analogical Problem Solving Using a Diagrammatic Representation
    Kazuhiro Ueda and Saburo Nagano

  9. A Psychological Process Model of the Solution of Mechanics Problems by Elementary School Students: An Interdisciplinary Project
    Stella Vosniadou, Christos Ioannides, Ageliki Dimitrakopoulou, Marc Champesme and Daniel Kayser

  10. Isomorphic Representations Lead to the Discovery of Different Forms of a Common Strategy with Different Degrees of Generality
    Jiajie Zhang, Todd R. Johnson and Hongbin Wang

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Reasoning/Judgment/Decision Making

  1. Frequency vs. Probability Formats: Framing the Three Doors Problem
    Eric Aaron and Michael Spivey

  2. The Suppression of Card Selections in Wason's Selection Task: Evidence that Inference Plays a Role
    Aidan Feeney and Simon J. Handley

  3. Inhibitory Associations in Causality Judgements
    Steven Graham

  4. The Effect of Covariational Information on Implicit Causality
    Asifa Majid, Martin J. Pickering and Andrew J. Stewart

  5. Reflection Alone Can Increase Consistency of Beliefs
    Amy M. Masnick and Barbara Koslowski

  6. Order Effects and Frequency Learning in Belief Updating
    Josef F. Krems, Martin Baumann and Ching-Fan Sheu

  7. A Constraint Satisfaction Model of the Correspondence Bias: The Role of Accessibility and Applicability of Explanations
    Jorge A. Montoya and Stephen J. Read

  8. Prolegomena to a Task-Method-Knowledge Theory of Cognition
    J. William Murdock

  9. An Associative Analysis of Compound Predictor Processing in Contingency Judgments
    Luigi Pastò and Pierre Mercier

  10. Decision Making Under Time Pressure
    Kiyoko Saito, David E. Rumelhart and Kazuo Shigemasu

  11. Road Climbing: A Route Choice Heuristic
    Michael S. Shum, Jeremy N. Bailenson, Steve I. Hwang, Layla R. Piland and David H. Uttal

  12. Rational Decision Theory: The Relevance of Newcomb's Paradox
    Peter Slezak

  13. Increasing Informativeness and Reducing Ambiguities: Adaptive Strategies in Human Information Processing
    Vladimir M. Sloutsky, Aaron W. Rader and Bradley J. Morris

  14. The Relationship Between Implicit Causality and Implicit Consequentiality
    Andrew J. Stewart, Martin J. Pickering and Anthony J. Sanford

  15. Extreme Beliefs Do Respond to Evidence
    Melanie R. Swiderek and Barbara Koslowski

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Spiritual and Moral Cognition

  1. Matrix Cognition and Spiritual Progress
    John Henry Frenster

  2. Toward a Universal Moral Grammar
    John Mikhail, Christina M. Sorrentino and Elizabeth S. Spelke

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Cognition and Instruction

  1. Recursive Reviews of Math Lessons: A Mechanism for Improving Instruction
    Michele D. Crockett

  2. The Variation of Ideational Productivity over Short Timescales and the Influence of an Instructional Strategy to Defocus Attention
    Paul A. Howard-Jones

  3. Training Self-Explanation Strategies: Effects of Prior Domain Knowledge and Reading Skill
    Danielle S. McNamara

  4. Effects of Representational Modality and Thinking Style on Learning to Solve Reasoning Problems
    Padraic Monaghan and Keith Stenning

  5. Is Formal Training Really Formal?
    Stephanie L. Thompson, Tina Rosenblum and Barbara Koslowski

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Cognition in Arts, Graphics and Design

  1. Extracting Information from Graphics
    Sami Gülgöz and Ömer A. Yedekçioglu

  2. The Roles of Sketches in Early Conceptual Design Processes
    Masaki Suwa, John S. Gero and Terry A. Purcell

  3. Verbalization of Dynamic Sketch Maps: Layers of Representation in the Conceptualization of Drawing Events
    Heike Tappe and Christopher Habel

  4. Patterns at the Edge: Strategies of Looking at Nonrepresentational Art
    Dorothy K. Washburn

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Spatial Memory and Development

  1. Spatial Competence via Self-Organisation: An Intersect of Perception and Development
    Mark W. Peters

  2. Maturational Biases and Encapsulation in Spatial Development
    Kazuo Hiraki, Akio Sashima and Steven Phillips

  3. How Consequences of Physical Principles Influence Mental Representation: The Environmental Invariants Hypothesis
    Timothy L. Hubbard

  4. A Production System Model of Memory for Spatial Descriptions
    Gareth E. Miles, Stephen J. Payne and Thom Baguley

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