Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

Garrison W. Cottrell

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9780805825411
• eBook ISBN: 9781317729464
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
• Index: Psychology

This volume features the complete text of all regular papers, posters, and summaries of symposia presented at the 18th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Papers have been loosely grouped by topic, and an author index is provided in the back. In hopes of facilitating searches of this work, an electronic index on the Internet's World Wide Web is provided. Titles, authors, and summaries of all the papers published here have been placed in an online database which may be freely searched by anyone. You can reach the Web site at: http://www.cse.ucsd.edu/events/cogsci96/proceedings. You may view the table of contents for this volume on the LEA Web site at: http://www.erlbaum.com.

Table of Contents

The Eighteenth Annual Conference of the
Cognitive Science Society
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, California
July 12-15, 1996

Conference Organizers

Electronic Index Access Information

Preface

Reviewers

PLENARY ADDRESSES

Names and Titles

INVITED SYMPOSIA

Imaging Studies of Vision, Attention and Language

Helen Neville (organizer), Marty Sereno, Steven Hillyard

Learning in Complex Environments: Biological and Artificial Adaptive Behavior

Maja J. Matarić (Organizer)

Primitives as a basis for movement synthesis

Simon F. Giszter

Learning in Multi-Robot Systems

Maja J. Matarić

Reinforcement learning in factories: The Auton project

Andrew W. Moore

The role of transfer in learning

Sebastian Thrun

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

Gilles Fauconnier (Organizer), George Lakoff, Ron Langacker

Modeling the evolution of communication

John Batali (Organizer), David Ackley (Organizer)

SUBMITTED SYMPOSIA

Building a Theory of Problem Solving and Scientific Discovery: How Big is N in N-Space Search?

Bruce D. Burns (Organizer)

Problem spaces in real-world science: What are they and how do scientists search them?

Lisa M. Baker, Kevin Dunbar

Goals and problem solving: Learning as search of three spaces

Bruce D. Burns, Regina Vollmeyer

The problem of problem spaces: When and how to go beyond a 2-space model of scientific discovery

Christian D. Schunn, David Klahr

Task domains in N-space models: Giving explanation its due

David F. Wolf II, Jonathan R. Beskin

The Role of Rhythm in Cognition

J. Devin McAuley (Organizer)

The role of rhythm in guiding attending

Mari Riess Jones

A cortical network model of cognitive attentional streams, rhythmic expectation, and auditory stream segregation

Bill Baird

Language, audition and rhythm

Robert Port

Phase-resetting and rhythmic pattern generation in speech production

Elliot Saltzman

The Future Of Modularity

Michael Spivey-Knowlton (Organizer), Kathleen Eberhard (Organizer)

The basis of organization in interactive systems

James L. McClelland

What do visual modules do?

Peter Lennie

Modularity and plasticity are compatible

Robert Jacobs

Modularity of information, not processing

Dominic Massaro

Models and modularity in language processing

Gary Dell

Kenneth Forster (discussant)

The Evolution of Mind

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

The evolutionary principles underlying natural cognitive competences

John Tooby

Human reasoning from an evolutionary perspective

Denise Dellarosa Cummins

Actions and objects: Unequal partners in the evolution of communication

Colin Allen

Eye Movements in Cognitive Science

Julie Epelboim (Organizer), Patrick Suppes (Organizer)

Scanning of natural visual scenes: How cognitive and sensory mechanisms work together to control saccades

Eileen Kowler, James McGowan, Dan Bahcall, David Melcher, Christian Araujo

Adding resolution to an old problem: Eye movements as a measure of visual search

Greg Zelinsky, Rajesh P. N. Rao, Mary M. Hayhoe, Dana H. Ballard

Window on the mind? What eye movements reveal about geometrical reasoning

Julie Epelboim, Patrick Suppes

Computational Models of Development

Kim Plunkett (Organizer), Thomas R. Shultz (Organizer)

Contrasting models of object permanence

Denis Mareschal

A generative neural network analysis of conservation

Thomas R. Shultz

Can symbolic algorithms model cognitive development?

Charles X. Ling

Jeff Elman

Liz Bates (Discussant)

Jeff Shrager (Discussant)

PAPER PRESENTATIONS

Philosophy

Beyond Computationalism

Marco Giunti

Qualia: The Hard Problem

Todd W. Griffith, Michael D. Byren

Connectionism, Systematicity, and Nomic Necessity

Robert F. Hadley

F odor's New Theory of Content

Andrew...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Conference Organizers
• Electronic Index Access Information
• Preface
• Reviewers
• PLENARY ADDRESSES
• INVITED SYMPOSIA
• Imaging Studies of Vision, Attention and Language
• Learning in Complex Environments: Biological and Artificial Adaptive Behavior
• Primitives as a basis for movement synthesis
• Learning in Multi-Robot Systems
• Reinforcement learning in factories: The Auton project
• The role of transfer in learning
• Cognitive Linguistics: Mappings in Conceptual Systems, Grammar, and Meaning Construction
• Modeling the evolution of communication
• SUBMITTED SYMPOSIA
• Building a Theory of Problem Solving and Scientific Discovery: How Big is N in N-Space Search?
• Problem spaces in real-world science: What are they and how do scientists search them?
• Goals and problem solving: Learning as search of three spaces
• The problem of problem spaces: When and how to go beyond a 2-space model of scientific discovery
• Task domains in N-space models: Giving explanation its due
• The Role of Rhythm in Cognition
• The role of rhythm in guiding attending
• A cortical network model of cognitive attentional streams, rhythmic expectation, and auditory stream segregation
• Language, audition and rhythm
• Phase-resetting and rhythmic pattern generation in speech production
• The Future Of Modularity
• The basis of organization in interactive systems
• What do visual modules do?
• Modularity and plasticity are compatible
• Modularity of information, not processing
• Models and modularity in language processing
• The Evolution of Mind
• The evolutionary principles underlying natural cognitive competences
• Human reasoning from an evolutionary perspective
• Actions and objects: Unequal partners in the evolution of communication
• Eye Movements in Cognitive Science
• Scanning of natural visual scenes: How cognitive and sensory mechanisms work together to control saccades
• Adding resolution to an old problem: Eye movements as a measure of visual search
• Window on the mind? What eye movements reveal about geometrical reasoning
• Computational Models of Development
• Contrasting models of object permanence
• A generative neural network analysis of conservation
• Can symbolic algorithms model cognitive development?
• PAPER PRESENTATIONS
• Beyond Computationalism
• Qualia: The Hard Problem
• Connectionism, Systematicity, and Nomic Necessity
• F odor's New Theory of Content
• Integrating World Knowledge With Cognitive Parsing
• The Role of Ontology in Creative Understanding
• Working Memory in Text Comprehension: Interrupting Difficult Text
• Reasoning From Multiple Texts: An Automatic Analysis of Readers' Situation Models
• Lexical Limits on the Influence of Context
• Dynamics of Rule Induction by Making Queries: Transition Between Strategies
• The Impact of Information Representation on Bayesian Reasoning
• On Reasoning With Default Rules and Exceptions
• Satisficing Inference and the Perks of Ignorance
• A Connectionist Treatment of Negation and Inconsistency
• Hearing With the Eyes: A Distributed Cognition Perspective on Guitar Song Imitation
• Constraints on the Experimental Design Process in Real-World Science
• Teaching/Learning Events in the Workplace: A Comparative Analysis of Their Organizational and Interactional Structure
• Distributed Reasoning: An Analysis of Where Social and Cognitive Worlds Fuse
• The Impact of Letter Classification Learning on Reading
• Where Defaults Don't Help: The Case of the German Plural System
• Selective Attention in the Acquisition of the Past Tense
• Word Learning and Verbal Short-Term Memory: A Computational Account
• Spatial Cognition in the Mind and in the World - the Case of Hypermedia Navigation
• Individual Differences in Proof Structures Following Multimodal Logic Teaching
• Functional Roles for the Cognitive Analysis of Diagrams in Problem Solving
• A Study of Visual Reasoning in Medical Diagnosis
• The Interaction of Semantic and Phonological Processing
• The Combinatorial Lexicon: Priming Derivational Affixes
• Lexical Ambiguity and Context Effects in Spoken Word Recognition: Evidence From Chinese
• Phonological Reduction, Assimilation, Intra-Word Information Structure, and the Evolution of the Lexicon of English: Why Fast Speech Isn 't Confusing
• Color Influences Fast Scene Categorization
• Categorical Perception of Novel Dimensions
• Categorical Perception in Facial Emotion Classification
• MetriCat: A Representation for Basic and Subordinate-Level Classification
• Similarity to Reference Shapes as a Basis for Shape Representation
• Integrating Discourse and Local Constraints in Resolving Lexical Thematic Ambiguities
• Evidence fora Tagging Model of Human Lexical Category Disambiguation
• The Importance of Automatic Semantic Relatedness Priming for Distributed Models of Word Meaning
• Parallel Activation of Distributed Concepts: Who Put the P in the PDP?
• Discrete Multi-Dimensional Scaling
• Collaboration in Primary Science Classrooms: Learning About Evaporation
• Transferring and Modifying Terms in Equations
• Understanding Constraint-Based Processes: A Precursor to Conceptual Change in Physics
• The Role of Generic Models in Conceptual Change
• Using Orthographic Neighborhoods of Interlexical Nonwords to Support an Interactive-Activation Model of Bilingual Memory
• Conscious and Unconscious Perception: A Computational Theory
• In Search of Articulated Attractors
• A Recurrent Network That Performs a Context-Sensitive Prediction
• Competition in Analogical Transfer: When Does a Lightbulb Outshine an Army?
• Can a Real Distinction Be Made Between Cognitive Theories of Analogy and Categori
• LISA: A Computational Model of Analogical Inference and Schema Induction
• Alignability and Attribute Important in Choice
• Computational Bases of Two Types of Developmental Dyslexia
• Integrating Multiple Cues in Word Segmentation: A Connectionist Model Using Hints
• Statistical Cues in Language Acquisition: Word Segmentation by Infants
• Cognition and the Statistics of Natural Signals
• An Abstract Computational Model of Learning Selective Sensing Skills
• Epistemic Action Increases With Skill
• Perseverative Subgoaling and Production System Models of Problem Solving
• Probabilistic Plan Recognition for Cognitive Apprenticeship
• Dissociating Performance From Learning: An Empirical Evaluation of a Computational
• Rhythmic Commonalities Between Hand Gestures and Speech
• Modeling Beat Perception With a Nonlinear Oscillator
• Emotional Decisions
• Lateral Connections in the Visual Cortex Can Self-Organize Cooperatively With Multisize RFs Just as With Ocular Dominance and Orientation Columns
• Neuronal Homeostasis and REM Sleep
• The Perception of Causality: Feature Binding in Interacting Objects
• Judging the Contingency of a Constant Cue: Contrasting Predictions From an Associative and a Statistical Model
• What Language Might Tell Us About the Perception of Cause
• Mutability, Conceptual Transformation, and Context
• On Putting Milk in Coffee: The Effect of Thematic Relations on Similarity Judgments
• The Role of Situations in Concept Learning
• Modeling Interference Effects in Instructed Category Learning
• POSTERS
• Ethical Reasoning Strategies and Their Relation to Case-Based Instruction: Some Preliminary Results
• Explaining Preferred Mental Models in Allen Inferences With a Metrical Model of Imagery
• Can We Unmask the Phonemic Masking Effect? The Problem of Methodological Divergence
• The Evaluation of the Communicative Effect
• Computational Power and Realistic Cognitive Development
• Learning Qualitative Relations in Physics With Law Encoding Diagrams
• Building a Baby
• The Iteration of Concept Combination in Sense Generation
• Sociocultural Approaches to Analyzing Cognitive Development in Interdisciplinary Teams
• Modeling Qualitative Differences in Symmetry Judgements
• Unification of Language Understanding, Device Comprehension and Knowledge Acquisition
• Cognitive Modeling of Action Selection Learning
• The Effect of Selection Instructions on Reasoning About Thematic Content Rules in Wason's Card Selection Task
• Integration and Shielding of Regular and Irregular Items in MLPs
• Weighting in Similarity Judgements: Investigating the 'MAX Hypothesis'
• Incremental Centering and Center Ambiguity
• A Connectionist Architecture With Inherent Systematicity
• Empirical Evidence for Constraint Relaxation in Insight Problem Solving
• Context Effects on Problem Solving
• Linking Adaptation and Similarity Learning
• Lifelong Science Learning: A Longitudinal Case Study
• Dissociating Semantic and Associative Word Relationships Using High-Dimensional Semantic Space
• Inferential Realization Constraints on Functional Anaphora in the Centering Model
• On the Nature of Timing Mechanisms in Cognition
• Emergent Letter Perception: Implementing the Role Hypothesis
• Deafness Drives Development of Attention to Change in the Visual Field
• Backward Masking Reflects the Processing Demand of the Masking Stimulus
• The Emergence of Perceptual Category Representations During Early Development: A Connectionist Analysis
• Improving the Use of Analogies by Learning to Encode Their Causal Structure
• Confidence Judgements, Performance, and Practice, in Artificial Grammar Learning
• A Symbolic Model of Cognitive Transition
• Practice Effects and Learner Control on Acquisition, Outcome, and Efficiency
• A Connectionist Model of Reflective Reasoning Using Temporal Properties of Node Firing
• Culture Enhances the Evolvability of Cognition
• Quantifier Interpretation and Syllogistic Reasoning: An Individual Differences Account
• Bottom-Up Skill Learning in Reactive Sequential Decision Tasks
• A Dynamical System for Language Processing
• A Connectionist Model of Metaphor by Pattern Completion
• Multi-Level Analysis of Memory Dissociations
• Order Effects and Frequency Learning in Belief Updating
• Direct Visual Access Is the Only Way to Access the Chinese Mental Lexicon
• SOCIETY MEMBER ABSTRACTS
• Watching Spoken Language Perception: Using Eye-Movements to Track Lexical
• The Role of Connotation on Interpretation Type
• The Contrast-Relation Type Model
• A Cortical Network Model of Cognitive Attentional Streams, Rhythmic Expectation, and Auditory Stream Segregation
• Neural Networks for Simulating Cognitive Development: A Case Study in Early Mathematical Abilities
• The Decline of Communicative Competence After Closed Head Injury
• In Search of Intentional Causation
• Unsupervised Learning of Invariant Visual Representations
• Multimedia Representations for Science Learning: A Cautionary
• Generic Modeling in Analogical Reasoning
• Behavior-Based Analogy-Making
• A Physical Framework for Explaining Consciousness
• Problem Solving in Imagery
• Dennett, Phi, and Consciousness
• Modeling Parsing Constraints in High-Dimensional Semantic Space: On the Use of Proper Names
• A Pie in the Face for Global FOE Theories
• Explanatory Coherence as a Model for Belief Revision
• Towards a Computational Model of Discourse Summarization
• Representational Distortion as a Theory of Similarity
• Using a Multinomial Model to Differentiate Alzheimer's Disease, Vascular Disease, and Elderly Controls Based on an Immediate Recall Task
• Individuating Concepts
• Does Frequency Determine the Storage of Compounds? Evidence From Chinese
• A Predictive Perspective on the Cerebellum
• Time Course of Semantic and Phonological Interference Effects in Picture Naming
• Reflexive Sense Generation
• Frame-Shifting and Meaning Construction
• A Composite Model of Concept Representation
• Hierarchical Categorization and the Effects of Contrast Inconsistency in an Unsupervised Learning Task
• Representing Regularity: The English Past Tense
• The Theoro-Centric Bias: Philosophy of Science and Cognitive Science
• Still Looking for Structural Complexity Effects in Lexical Concepts
• Cognitive Mapping Theory and the Cognitive Sciences
• How Human Languages Cohere: Languages Seen as Artificial Life
• Cases Or Rules? the Case for Unification
• Playing Go by Search-Embedded Pattern Recognition
• Specific Long- and Short-Term Memory Deficits Producing Dyscalculia in a Physicist: A Single Case Study Carried Out Using the São Paulo MAT Test
• Perception of Simple Rhythmic Patterns in a Network of Oscillators
• Effects of Irrelevant Symbols in Text on Word Recognition and Saccadic Programming During Reading
• Learning of Categories Composed of Rules and Exceptions
• How Do We Scratch an Itch: A Model of Self-Reaching
• Metacognitive Models and Situation Assessment
• A Computer Simulation of Emotion Based Development and Processing
• Using Simulation to Predict Habit-capture Errors
• Realistic Limitations in Natural Language Processing for an Intelligent Tutoring System
• Representation of Relative Velocity in the Distal Retina Is Invariant in Respect to the Illumination of the Moving Object
• Effects of Modality on Subjective Estimates of Frequency of Spoken and Printed Words
• A Semantic Markov Field Model of Text Recall
• The Besieged Workplace: How Cognitive Science Can Respond
• Optical Flow for Visual Speech Recognition
• A Sparse Distributed Memory Model of Overregularization
• Cognitive Reconstruction in Hindsight: A Model and an Experiment
• Towards to Computational Theory of Cognitive Development
• A Topological Interpretation of Cognition
• The Guiding of Learning: An Overview, Analysis and Classification of Guides
• Learning in Collaborative Electronic Discussion vs. Classroom Discussion in Science
• Representational Momentum and Boundary Extension: Evidence Suggestive of a More General Displacement Mechanism
• Approximate Spatial Layout Processing in Early Vision
• The Influence of Task Factors on Strategy Use
• Vertical Foreshadowing Effect and the L Illusion
• Japanese and American Teachers' Implicit Theories of Mathematics Learning and Instruction
• A Hybrid Learning Model of Abductive Reasoning
• Measuring the Sounds of Silence: Latency and Duration of Word-Initial Plosives
• Divergent Inference in Dynamic Decision Making
• Working Memory Can Explain Antisaccade Failures Without Inhibition
• Cognitive GOMSfor Submarine Experts
• An Explication of the Concept of Breakdown in Heidegger, Leontjev, and Dewey
• Order Effects in Abductive Reasoning
• Category-Based Similarity
• Image Schema of Emotion in Drawing Task
• Self-Explanation in Concept Learning
• Learning Together: The Effect of Materials on Individuals and Pairs
• Understanding the Theory of Mind
• A Cognitive Approach to the Elicitation of Skills and Specifications
• In Search of Hidden Meaning: Cryptotype and Productivity in Connectionist Language Learning
• Emotions and Situated Cognition: A Connectionist Model
• A Conceptual Framework for Defining Emotion Concepts
• Does Probability Matching Require Complex Representations?
• Modeling the Costs of Ambiguity Resolution and Syntax-Semantics Interaction
• Fuzzy Logic vs. Pre-Logic: Zadeh vs Lévy-Bruhl
• What (Not Where) Are the Sources of the EEG?
• The Notion offDynamic Unit' and Its Development in Cognitive Science
• Why Some Arithmetic Facts Are Harder to Remember
• A Multi-Dimensional Scaling Analysis of English Spatial Prepositions
• Comparison of Simulated Annealing With Genetic Algorithms in Biological Problems That Use Recurrent Neural Nets
• Beyond Copycat: Toward a Self-Watching Architecture for High-Level Perception and Analogy-Making
• Meta-Cognitive Attentions: A Case Study of Learning in Game Playing
• A Situated Approach to Cognitive Interaction Modeling
• Apparent Motion on the World Wide Web
• Automatic Generation of Test-Cases for Software Testing
• Modeling the Role of Phonetic Knowledge in Learning to Read Aloud
• Development of Skilled Memory for Structured Lists
• Incorporating Semantics in a Connectionist Model of Reading Aloud: Surface Dyslexic Behavior With a Single Mechanism
• A Lateral Inhibition Account of Release From Proactive Inhibition
• Representational Restructuring in Insight Problem Solving
• Gabor Mosaics: A Description of Local Orientation Statistics, With Applications to Machine Perception
• Shared Network Resources and Shared Task Properties
• A Model of Innately Guided Learning by a Neural Network: The Case ofFeatural Representation of Speech
• An Antidote to Illusory References?
• Retrieval From the Social Information Base
• A Multi Agent Cognitive Theory
• A Preliminary Test of a Theory of the Applicability Conditions for Three Spatial Diagram Representations
• Opportunistic Planning: The Influence of Abstract Features on Reminding
• Embedding the Process of Science in Cognitive and Representational Processes
• Using Models to Stimulate Children's Interactions and Understanding of Science
• An Experimental Test of Rule-Like Network Performance
• Total and Partial-Order Planning: Application of Results From Artificial Intelligence to Children and Lesioned Adults
• Randomly Changing Transfer in Artificial Grammar Learning
• Managing Complexity: An Organizing Framework for Libraries and Learning in the 21st Century
• Resolving Anaphoric Reference: Reading as Enthymemic Reasoning
• See It! Draw It! Make It Move! Dynamic Representations of Causal Models: The STc Project
• A Protocol Study of Problem Solving in the Game of Go
• The Role of Task and Stimulus Context in Category Development
• Assessing and Supporting Remote Collaborative Problem Solving
• Some Parallels Between Visual and Linguistic Processing
• Is Cognitive Science Interdisciplinary? Past and Present Perspectives
• Implicit Learning of Invariants
• Planning Within a Virtual Environment
• An Analysis of Tutor Response to Student Initiatives in Keyboard-To-Keyboard Tutorial Sessions
• Evidence for Frontal Lobe-Based Mechanisms in Prospective Remembering
• The Generation of Creative Inferences
• Cases, Reasoning and Bell's Telephone
• Does Subitizing Depend on the Magnocellular Visual Pathway?
• Mental Content and the Causal History of Neural Substrates
• Individual Differences in Working Memory Capacity and the Duration of Elaborative Inferences
• Computational Differences Between Implicit and Explicit Learning: Evidence From Learning Crytpo-Grammars
• Syntactic Comprehension: Practice Makes Perfect and Frequency Makes Fleet
• CONICAL: The Computational Neuroscience Class Library
• Individual Characteristics as Factors in the Navigation Process
• Computation Matters: An Analog View of Vision
• An Ecological Approach to the Neural Code
• Processing Effects for Russian Gender
• The Effect of Heuristic Induction on Transfer in Mathematical Problem Solving
• Zombie Killer
• A Framework for Situativity in Dialogue
• Alphabet Arithmetic and ACT-R: A Reply to Rabinwitz and Goldberg
• Patterns and Effects of Analogies in Scientific Abduction: A Remarkable Case of Creative Analogy
• Performance of Simple Recurrent Network Indexes Creativity and Predicts Discovery in a Rule Induction Task
• Building Lexical Neighborhoods
• The Neighborhood Characteristics of Malapropisms
• Learning by Observation in Complex Task Environments
• The Role of Working Memory in Schema Induction
• On-Line Processing of Verbal Agreement in French
• The Cognitive Impact and Functions of Metaphors Used in Human/Computer Interaction: Why and How Should It Be Assessed?
• The Use of Exemplar Information in Classification-Based and Inference-Based Category Learning
• Mental Predicate Logic: An Empirical Examination
• Perception in TsumeGo Under 4 Seconds Time Pressure
• The Effect of Preliminary Sketches on the Conceptualization of Design Alternatives
• A New Model for the Stroop Effect
• Visual Speech Information for Face Identification
• AUTHOR INDEX