COGSCI98 PROGRAM

All presentations will occur in the MEMORIAL UNION on the UW-Madison campus

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Friday
July 31, 199
12:00-9:00pm

MAIN LOUNGE

Exhibitors' Set-Up

Friday
July 31, 1998
2:00 - 9:00pm

MEMORIAL UNION LOBBY

Early On-Site Registration

Saturday
August 1
8:00am - 4:00pm

MEMORIAL UNION LOBBY

On-Site Registration

Saturday
August 1
8:00am - 12:00pm

GREAT HALL

Presenters' Setup: Poster Session I

Saturday
August 1
9:00 - 10:30am

UNION THEATER

Opening Remarks
Sharon Derry & Morton Ann Gernsbacher, Conference Chairs

Presentation of Awards
Marr Prize: Hongbin Wang
Honorable Mention: Srini Narayanan

Welcome & Introduction of Speaker
John D. Wiley, Provost
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Plenary Address: Cognitive Science: Inter- and Intra-Disciplinary Collaboration
John T. Bruer, President
James S. McDonnell Foundation

Saturday
August 1
10:30 - 11:00am

BREAK-MAIN LOUNGE

Saturday
August 1
11:00 - 12:30pm

RECEPTION ROOM

Invited Tutorial:
Basic Processes in Early Language Development

The Power of Babble-What Lessons can be Learned from Infant Vocalizations?
Ray Kent

Perceptual Organization for Speech Early in Life
Keith Kluender

Learning Processes in Early Language Development
Jenny Saffran

TRIPP COMMONS

Paper Session:
Human Factors Research

A Conceptual Framework for Predicting Error in Complex Human-Machine Environments
Michael Freed & Roger Remington

The Impact of a Response Management Tool on Air Warfare Tactical Decision Making
Mark St. John

Interdisciplinary Foundations for Multiple-Task Human Performance Modeling in OMAR
Stephen Deutsc

Early Validation of Task Analysis Data: Processes and Representations
Gail Haddock, John Priest, Karan Harbison & John Silva

PLAYCIRCLE THEATER

Invited Tutorial:
Object Recognition: An Interdisciplinary Exploration

Organizer/Chair: Pawan Sinha

Pawan Sinha

Pamela Lipson

Saturday
August 1
12:30 - 2:00pm

LUNCH

Saturday
August 1
2:00 - 3:30pm

RECEPTION ROOM

Paper Session:
Language Acquisition

The Development of Spoken Word Recognition: Experimental and Computational Studies
Tom Loucas & William Marslen-Wilson

Incremental Language Learning: Two and Three Year Olds' Acquisition of Adjectives
Toben H. Mintz & Lila R. Gleitman

Setting the First Few Syntactic Parameters-A Computational Analysis
William G. Sakas & Janet Dean Fodor

The Acquisition of Ergativity
David Ingram & Clifton Pye

TRIPP COMMONS

Symposium:
Kuhn, Cognitive Science, and Conceptual Change

Organizer/Chair: Xiang Chen

Xiang Chen & Peter Barker

Hanne Andersen & Nancy Nersessian

Thomas S. Nickles

 

PLAYCIRCLE THEATER

Paper Session:
Spatial Learning and Reasoning

Continuity Effects and Figural Bias in Spatial Relational Inference
Marcus Knauff, Reinhold Rauh, Christoph Schlieder & Gerhard Strube

A Computational Model of Rodent Spatial Learning and Some Behavioral Experiments
Karthik Balakrishnan, Ruchi Bhatt & Vasant Honavar

Representing the Local Space Qualitatively in a Cognitive Map
Margaret Jefferies & Wai-Kiang Yeap

Transitive Inference by Visual Reasoning
Simone Schnall & Meredith Gattis

Saturday
August 1
3:30 - 4:00pm

BREAK-MAIN LOUNGE

Saturday
August 1
4:00 - 5:30pm

RECEPTION ROOM

Paper Session:
Language and Learning

Unconfounding Similarity and Rules in Artificial Grammar Learning
Todd M. Bailey & Emmanuel M. Pothos

The Serial Reaction Time Task: Learning Without Knowing, or Knowing Without Learning?
Maud Boyer, Arnaud Destrebecqz & Axel Cleeremans

A Connectionist Investigation of Developmental Effects in Stroop Inference
Phil Rudling & Denis Mareschal

Emergent Modularity and U-Shaped Learning in a Constructivist Neural Network Learning the English Past Tense
Gert Westermann

TRIPP COMMONS

Invited Symposium:
Analyses of Work Across Disciplinary Boundaries

Organizer/Chair: Rogers Hall

Seeing in Depth
Charles Goodwin

Making and Using Generalizations: Interdisciplinary Consulting in Entomology versus Architecture
Rogers Hall & Reed Stevens

Categories and Cognition: Material and Conceptual Aspects of Large-Scale Category Systems
Susan Leigh Star

PLAYCIRCLE THEATER

Paper Session:
Cognitive Neuroscience

The Development of Synchrony Between Oscillating Neurons
David E. Huber

How Can I Know What You Think? Assessing Representational Similarity in Neural Systems
Aare Laakso & Garrison Cottrell

Why Double Dissociations Don't Mean Much
Patrick Juola & Kim Plunkett

Could Category-Specific Semantic Deficits Reflect Differences in the Distribution of Features within a Unified Semantic Memory?
Robert M. French & Denis Mareschal

Saturday
August 1
7:00 - 9:00pm

GREAT HALL

POSTER SESSION I and BUFFET RECEPTION

Sunday
August 2
9:00 - 10:30am

RECEPTION ROOM

Paper Session:
Lexical Access

Regularities in a Random Mapping from Orthography to Semantics
Daniel S. Clouse & Garrison Cottrell

Bilingualism and the Single Route/Dual Route Debate
Michael S. C. Thomas

Repetition Blindness: Levels of Processing Revisited
Alison L. Morris & Catherine L. Harris

A Sketched Computational Theory of Language Comprehension
Wai-Kiang Yeap

PLAYCIRCLE THEATER

Paper Session:
Architecture and Representation

Cognitive Architecture and Modeling Idiom: An Examination of Three Models of the Wickens's Task
Yannick Lallement & Bonnie E. John

Modeling Speed-Up and Transfer of Declarative and Procedural Knowledge
Todd R. Johnson, Hongbin Wang & Jiajie Zhang

A Complex-Systems Perspective on the "Computation Vs. Dynamics" Debate in Cognitive Science
Melanie Mitchell

Whither Representation?
Mark H. Bickhard

TRIPP COMMONS

Invited Tutorial:
Affective Neuroscience: The Next Frontier

Organizer/Chair: Richard J. Davidson

Richard J. Davidson

Margaret Bradley

Paul Whalen

Sunday
August 2
10:30 - 11:00am

BREAK-MAIN LOUNGE

Sunday
August 2
11:00 - 12:30pm

RECEPTION ROOM

Paper Session:
Semantics

Developing Semantic Representations for Proper Names
Curt Burgess & Patrick Conley

Distinguishing Between Manner of Motion and Inherently Directed Motion Verbs Using a High-Dimensional Memory Space and Semantic Judgments
Chad Audet & Curt Burgess

Path & Manner Verbs in Action: Effects of "Skipping" or "Exiting" on Event Memory
Dorrit Billman & Meredyth Krych

Reduplication and the Arbitrariness of the Sign
Terry Regier

TRIPP COMMONS

Symposium:
Cognitive Architecture

Organizer/Chair: Robert Hadley

Connectionism: Whence, Whither, and Why?
Jeff Elman

Novel Combinations of Skills: Implications for Cognitive Architecture
Robert Hadley

Rethinking Eliminative Connectionism
Gary Marcus

PLAYCIRCLE THEATER

Paper Session:
Cognition and Emotion

Emotions Just Are Cognitions
Hartvig Dahl & Virginia Teller

A Simple Neural Network Model's Categorical Perception of Facial Expressions
Curtis Padgett & Garrison Cottrell

Towards a Society of Affect-Driven Agents
A. E. Nicholson, I. Zukerman & C. D. Oliver

The Influence of Emotional Valence in Backward Masking: Evidence for Early Appraisal
Clark Ohnesorge & Clinton Bierman

Sunday
August 2
12:30 - 2:00pm

LUNCH

Sunday
August 2
12:45 - 2:00pm

INN WISCONSIN EAST

Teaching Cognitive Science at CogSci99-Interest Group Organizational Meeting

(Frank Ritter, Chair; bring lunch, all welcome)

Sunday
August 2
2:00 - 3:30pm

RECEPTION ROOM

Paper Session:
Psycholinguistics

Bayesian Models of Human Sentence Processing
Srini Narayanan & Daniel Jurasfsky

Implicit Consequentiality
Andrew J. Stewart, Martin J. Pickering & Anthony J. Sanford

Implicit Causality, Negation, and Models of Discourse
Peter C. Gordon & Randall Hendrick

Emergence
David Golumbia

TRIPP COMMONS

Symposium:
Studies in the Interaction of Psychology and Neuroscience

Organizer/ Chair: Gary Hatfield

Mental Functions as Constraints on Neurophysiology: Visual Psychology and Physiology
Gary Hatfield

Cognitive Science and the Neuroethology of Electroreception
Brian L. Keeley

Doubt, Certainty, and Confabulation
William Hirstein

PLAYCIRCLE THEATER

Paper Session:
Adaptive Mechanisms

Towards Artificial Forms of Intelligence, Creativity, and Surprise
Mark W. Peters

Modeling Adaptivity in a Dynamic Task
Brad Best, Christian Schunn & Lynne Reder

Representing Psychological Dimensions of Decisions: Implications for Behavioral Decision Models
Yuri Tada & Elke U. Weber

MARR PRIZE AWARD

UEcho: A Model of Uncertainty Management in Human Abductive Reasoning
Hongbin Wang, Todd R. Johnson & Jiajie Zhang

Sunday
August 2
3:30 - 4:00pm

BREAK-MAIN LOUNGE

Sunday
August 2
4:00 - 5:30pm

PLAYCIRCLE THEATER

Symposium:
Educational Dialogue

Organizer/Chair: Jean McKendree

Panelists: James Gee, Keith Stenning & James Voss

TRIPP COMMONS

Invited Symposium:
Research Initiatives in Cognitive Science

Organizer/Chair: Colleen M. Seifert

Melinda Bier
James S. McDonnell Foundation

Paul G. Chapin
National Science Foundation

Susan Chipman
Office of Naval Research

Susan M. Fitzpatrick
James S. McDonnell Foundation

Howard S. Kurtzman
National Institute of Mental Health Chief

Michael G. Shafto
NASA-Ames Research Center Chief

Herbert Weingartner
NIAAA of the NIH Chief

RECEPTION ROOM

Paper Session:
Priming

Representation of Knowledge in Memory: Evidence From Primed Recognition
Stéphanie Caillies, Guy Denhière & Walter Kintsch

Mediated Priming Does Not Rely on Weak Semantic Relatedness or Local Co-Occurrence
Kay Livesay & Curt Burgess

Modeling Functional Priming and the Associative Boost
Scott McDonald & Will Lowe

Semantic Similarity Priming Without Hierarchical Category Structure
Ken McRae, George Cree & Chris McNorgan

Sunday
August 2
5:30 - 7:00pm

INN WISCONSIN EAST

The Cognitive Science Governing Board Meeting

(Board Members Only)

Sunday
August 2
7:00pm

LEVEL 4-GRAND TERRACE EAST, FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S MONONA TERRACE CONVENTION CENTER

Buffet Social at Monona Terrace

(Tickets Required)

NOTE: Guided tours of the facility will be conducted at 6:30 & 8:00 pm.

Monday
August 3
8:00am - 12:00pm

GREAT HALL

Presenters' Setup: Poster Session II

Monday
August 3
9:00 - 10:00am

PLAYCIRCLE THEATER

Paper Session:
School Learning and Development

Considering Conceptual Growth as Change in Discourse Practices
James Greeno, Gertraud Benke, Randi A. Engle, Cathy Lachapelle & Muffie Wiebe

Generalization by Studying Examples Versus by Applying General Examples to Problems
Richard Catrambone

What Makes Children Change Their Minds? Changes in Problem Encoding Lead to Changes in Strategy Selection
Martha Wagner Alibali, Nicole M. McNeil & Michael A. Perrott

A Developmental Model for Algebra Symbolization: The Results of a Difficulty Factors Assessment
Neil T. Heffernan & Kenneth Koedinger

TRIPP COMMONS

Invited Tutorial:
Evolutionary Cognition

Organizer/Chair: Elliott Sober

Elliott Sober

Gerd Gigerenzer

Frank Sulloway

RECEPTION ROOM

Paper Session: Categorization I

Analogy as a Sub-Process of Categorization
Sarah Darrington, Toby Lingstadt & Michael Ramscar

Structural Alignment in Relational Interpretations of Conceptual Combinations
Cynthia M. Sifonis & Thomas B. Ward

What Family Resemblances are not: The Continuing Relevance of Wittgenstein to the Study of Concepts and Categories
Michael Ramscar & Ulrike Hahn

Categorization Changes Object Perception
Annie Archambault & Phillipe G. Schyns

Monday
August 3
10:30 - 11:00am

BREAK-MAIN LOUNGE

Monday
August 3
11:00 - 12:30pm

TRIPP COMMONS

Invited Tutorial:
Discourse in Contexts of Learning

Organizer/Chair: Art Graesser

Michelene Chi

Susan Goldman

Art Graesser & Roger Kreuz

PLAYCIRCLE THEATER

Paper Session:
Models of Skill Acquisition

The Acquisition of Programming Skills From Textbooks
Manfred Klenner & Thomas Hanneforth

Strength Adjustment in Hierarchical Learning
Stellan Ohlsson & Andrew D. Halpern

Memory for the Meaningless: How Chunks Help
Fernand Gobet

Modeling Individual Differences in Learning a Navigation Task
Diana Gordon, Devika Subramanian, Mary Haught, Robyn Kobayashi & Sandra Marshall

RECEPTION ROOM

Paper Session:
Categorization II- Category Acquisition

Modeling Item and Category Learning
Bradley C. Love & Douglas L. Medin

Building the New Onto the Old: Category Constraints on Category Formation
Ángel Cabrera

Probability Judgment in Three-Category Classification Learning
Derek J. Koehler

Neural Network Models of Discrimination Shifts
Sylvain Sirois & Thomas R. Schultz

Monday
August 3
12:30 - 2:00pm

LUNCH

Monday
August 3
2:00 - 3:30pm

PLAYCIRCLE THEATER

Paper Session:
Speech and Visual Processing

Disfluency Deafness: Graceful Failure in the Recognition of Running Speech
Ellen Gurman Bard & Robin Lickley

Modelling Action in Verbal Command Context with Fuzzy Subsets and Semantic Networks
Christophe Brouard, Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier & Charles Tijus

Using An Artificial Lexicon and Eye Movements to Examine the Development and Microstructure of Lexical Dynamics
James S. Magnuson, Delphine Dahan, Paul D. Allopenna, Michael K. Tanenhaus & Richard N. Aslin

Not Channels But Composite Signals: Speech, Gesture, Diagrams and Object Demonstrations Are Integrated in Multimodal Explanations
Randi Engle

TRIPP COMMONS

Symposium:
Embodiment as a Basis for Cognition

Organizer/Chair: Natika Newton

A Foundation for Intentionality
Natika Newton

Perceptual Symbol Systems
Larry Barsalou

The Emergence of Language from Embodiment
Brian MacWhinney

Indexical Understanding: An Embodied Approach to Meaning
Arthur Glenberg

RECEPTION ROOM

Paper Session:
Reasoning, Argument, and Belief Change

Period Doubling as a Means of Representing Instantiated Entities
Jacques Sougné

Deciding What Not to Say: An Attentional-Probabilistic Approach to Argument Presentation
Richard McConachy, Kevin B Korb & Ingrid Zukerman

Exciting Avocados and Dull Pears: Combining Behavioral and Argumentative Theory for Producing Effective Advice
Floriana Grasso

How to Disbelieve P-->Q: Resolving Contradictions
René Elio

Monday
August 3
3:30 - 4:00pm

BREAK-MAIN LOUNGE

Monday
August 3
4:00 - 5:30pm

RECEPTION ROOM

Symposium:
Modeling Cognitive Processes in Interactive Learning Situations: Face-to-Face Learning and Learning Over a Network

Organizer/Chair: Carl Frederiksen

Tutors' Use of Discourse to Model and Explain Problem-Solving Procedures
Carl Frederiksen

Promoting Argumentation in Face-to Face and Distributed Computer-Based Learning Situations
Susanne Lajoie

Cognitive Implications of Teacher-Student Discourse in Science Classrooms
Janet Donin

Discussant: Tim Koschman

TRIPP COMMONS

Invited Symposium:
Interdisciplinarity of Cognitive Science

Organizer/Chair: Christian D. Schunn

The Cognitive Science Society: Interdisciplinarity Now and Then
Christian D. Schunn

Being Interdisciplinary: Trading Zones in Cognitive Science
Paul Thagard

Making Interdisciplinary Collaboration Work
Susan Epstein

PLAYCIRCLE THEATER

Paper Session:
Cognition in Context

Who Killed Princess Diana? A Case Study of Causal Reasoning
Tanja Rapus, Isabelle Blanchette, Lisa Baker, Mike Dama & Kevin Dunbar

A Context-Based Framework for Mental Representation
Fausto Giunchiglia & Paolo Bouquet

Opportunistic Enterprises Invention
Marin Simina, Janet Kolodner, Ashwin Ram & Michael Gorman

GOMS, Distributed Cognition, and the Knowledge Structures of Organizations
Robert L. West, Alan Wong & Alonso H. Vera

Monday
August 3
5:40 - 7:00pm

UNION THEATER

Society Business Meeting

Monday
August 3
7:00 - 9:00pm

GREAT HALL

POSTER SESSION II and BUFFET RECEPTION

Tuesday
August 4
9:00 - 10:30am

PLAYCIRCLE THEATER

Paper Session:
Intelligent Tutoring Systems

What Makes a Tutorial Event Effective?
Kurt VanLehn, Stephanie Siler, Charles Murray & William B. Bagget

The Cognitive Basis for the Design of a Mammography Interpretation Tour
Roger Azevedo & Susanne P. Lajoie

Using Rule Induction to Assist in Rule Construction for a Natural Language Based Intelligent Tutoring System
Reva Freedman, Yujian Zhou, Michael Glass, Jung Hee Kim & Martha W. Evens

Mixed Depth Representations for Dialog Processing
Susan W. McRoy, Syed S. Ali & Susan M. Haller

RECEPTION ROOM

Paper Session:
Perception Linked to Higher-Level Cognition

Visual Dominance and the Control of Action
Richard Cooper

Tracing Eye Movement Protocols With Cognitive Process Models
Dario D. Salvucci & John R. Anderson

The Role of Motion in Children's Categorization
Benise S. K. Mak & Alonso H. Vera

Indexical Constraints on Symbolic Cognitive Functioning
David A. Schwartz

TRIPP COMMONS

Symposium:
Using Causal Knowledge

Organizers/Chair: Charles Kalish & Woo-Kyoung Ahn

Learning in Context: The Effect of Existing Causal Knowledge on the Acquisition of New Knowledge
Michael Pazzani

The Role of Causal Status of Features in Determining Feature Centrality in Categorization
Woo-Kyoung Ahn

The Pragmatics of Causal Inference
Denis Dellarosa Cummins

Children's Inductive Inferences in Natural Intentional Causal Contexts
Charles Kalish

Tuesday
August 4
10:30 - 11:00am

BREAK-MAIN LOUNGE

Tuesday
August 4
11:00 - 12:30pm

TRIPP COMMONS

Invited Tutorial:
Modeling in Mathematics and Science Education

Organizer/Chair: Richard Lehrer

Modeling Motion
James Kaput & Jeremy Roschelle

Modeling Data
Richard Lehrer & Leona Schauble

Students' Use of Empirical and Conceptual Criteria for Model Assessment in a High School Genetics Class
James Stewart & Jennifer Cartier

RECEPTION ROOM

Paper Session:
Quantifiers in Language and Reasoning

Geometry, Function, and the Comprehension of Over, Under, Above, and Below
Kenny R. Coventry & Mercè Prat-Sala

Complement Set Reference and Quantifiers
Linda M. Moxey & Anthony J. Sanford

Illusions in Reasoning With Quantifiers
Yingrui Yang & P. N. Johnson-Laird

In Defense of Logical Minds
Selmer Bringsjord, Ron Noel & Elizabeth Bringsjord

PLAYCIRCLE THEATER

Paper Session:
Causal Reasoning and Learning

A Bayesian Network Model of Causal Learning
Michael R. Waldmann & Laura Martignon

The Differential Effects of Causes on Categorization and Similarity
Bob Rehder & Reid Hastie

Heuristics Used in Reasoning With Multiple Causes and Effects
Woo-Kyoung Ahn & Brian Nosek

Conditional Reasoning With a Point of View: The Logic of Perspective Change
Sieghard Beller & Hans Spada

Tuesday
August 4
12:30 - 2:00pm

LUNCH

Tuesday
August 4
2:00 - 3:30pm

PLAYCIRCLE THEATER

Paper Session:
Problem Solving

How Impasses Enable Subjects to Discover the Relevant Properties of the Problem: Problem Space as a Space of Properties
Mojdeh Zamani & Jean François Richard

Goals, Strategies, and Motivation
Regina Vollmeyer, Falko Rheinberg & Bruce Burns

The Structure of Generate-and-Test in Algebra Problem Solving
Adisack Nhouyvanisvong & Irvin R. Katz

Modeling the Opponent Facilitates Adversarial Problem Solving
Bruce Burns & Regina Vollmeyer

TRIPP COMMONS

Symposium:
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Evolutionary Reasoning

Organizer/Chair: David R. Kaufman

The Metaphysics and Methodology of Function
Lawrence Shapiro

Novice Explanations for Biological Adaptations
Stellan Ohlsson

Teaching Evolutionary Reasoning and Argumentation
Brian J. Reiser, Iris Tabak, William Sandoval & Francis Steinmullar

Discussant: Michael Ranney

RECEPTION ROOM

Paper Session:
Judgment and Decision Making

Rational Hypothesis-Testing in a Rule Discovery Task
Frédéric Valée-Tourangeau & Martin New

Inference From Ignorance: The Recognition Heuristic
Daniel G. Goldstein

Naive Bayesian Accounts of Base Rate Effects in Human Categorization
Lewis J. Frey & Douglas H. Fisher, Jr.

Normative and Information Processing Accounts of Decision Making
Peter Yule, Richard Cooper & John Fox

Tuesday
August 4
3:30 - 4:00pm

BREAK-MAIN LOUNGE

Tuesday
August 4
4:00 - 5:30pm

TRIPP COMMONS

Symposium:
Cognitive Science Education

Organizer/Chair: Andrew Brook

Panelists: Andrew Brook, Janet Kolodner, Paul Thagard, Michael Ranney, & Seán Ó Nualláin

RECEPTION ROOM

Paper Session:
Memory Process Models

Pervasive Episodic Memory: Evidence from a Control-of-Attention Paradigm
Erik M. Altmann & Wayne D. Gray

The Effect of List Separation in the Process of Dissociation Procedure: The Bind Cue Decide Model of Episodic Memory
Simon Dennis & Michael Humphreys

Solutions to the Catastrophic Forgetting Problem
Anthony Robins

Assessing the Contribution of Representation to Results
Karen Anderson, Jeanne Milostan & Garrison Cottrell

PLAYCIRCLE THEATER

Paper Session:
Scientific Reasoning

Explorations in the Experiment Space: The Relationship Between Systematicity and Performance
Susan B. Trickett, J. Gregory Trafton & Paula D. Raymond

The Role of Reflection in Scientific Exploration
Todd Griffith & J. William Murdock

A Framework for Scientific Reasoning With Law Encoding Diagrams: Analyzing Protocols to Assess Its Utility
Peter C-H. Cheng

Evaluating Theories in the Context of a Web of Information
Amy M. Masnick, Susan M. Barnett, Stephanie L. Thompson & Barbara Koslowski

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