Proceedings of the twenty-fourth annual conference of the Cognitive science society : August 7-10, 2002, George Mason university, Fairfax, Virginia

Rumelhart Prize Talk -- Bayesian Modeling of Memory and Perception -- Richard M. Shijfrin (Indiana University) -- Rumelhart Symposium -- Rumelhart Symposium: Honoring Richard Shiffrin -- Susan Dumais (Microsoft Corporation) -- Wilson S. Geisler (University of Texas) -- Jeroen Raaijmakers (University of Amsterdam) -- Mark Steyvers (University of California) -- Plenary -- Cognitive Science as the Engine of Innovation: -- Beyond Human-Computer Interaction -- Stuart Card (Information Sciences and Technologies Laboratory, Xerox PARC) -- Steering the Reverberations of Technology Change on Fields of Practice: -- Laws that Govern Cognitive Work -- David D. Woods (Institute for Ergonomics, The Ohio State University) -- Symposium -- The Cognition of Complex Visualizations -- J. Gregory Trafton (Naval Research Laboratory) -- Priti Shah (University of Michigan) -- Eric G. Freedman (University of Michigan) -- Susan Kirschenbaum (Naval Undersea Warfare Center) -- Peter C-H.Cheng (University of Nottingham) -- Discussant: Mary Hegart (University of California, Santa Barbara) -- Nature’s Turing Test -- Organizer: Thomas R. Zentall (University of Kentucky) -- Participants: -- Perceptual Classes: Edward A. Wasserman (The University of Iowa) -- Superordinate Classes: Thomas R. Zentall (University of Kentuck)y -- Relational Classes: Roger K. R. Thompson, Mary Jo Rattermann, and Anthony P. Chemero (Franklin & Marshall College) -- The AMBR Model Comparison Project: Round III — Modeling Category Learning -- Organizers: Kevin A. Gluck (Air Force Research Laboratory) and Richard W. Pew (BBN Technologies) -- Participants: Experiment Design and Comparison of Human and Model Data: David Diller and Yvette Tenney (BBN Technologies) -- An EPIC-Soar Model of Concurrent Performance on a Category Learning and a Simplified ATC Task: Ron S. Chong (George Mason University) and Robert E. Wray (Soar Technology,Inc.) Developing Concept Learning Capabilities in the COGNET/iGEN Integrative Architecture and Associated AMBR ATC Model: Wayne Zachary (CHI Systems,Inc.) -- An Activation-based Theory of Categorization: Christian Lebiere (Carnegie Mellon University) Concept Learning:Knowing and Reasoning in the DCOG Architecture: Robert G.Eggleston, Air Force Research Laboratory and Katherine L.McCreight, N-Space Analysis Symposium Discussant: Bradley C. Love (University of Texas) -- Inquiry, Technology, and Cognition: Theory and Practice -- Organizer: Sarah K. Brem (Arizona State University) -- Participants: Technical and social supports for epistemic practices of scientific argumentation: William Sandoval, Kelli Millwood (UCLA) and Marie Bienkowski, Valerie Crawford (SRI International) Promoting critical inquiry from Web sources: Jennifer Wiley, Susan R. Goldman (UIC) and Arthur C. Graesser (University of Memphis) -- Tools for representational guidance during classroom scientific inquiry: EvaE. Toth (Allegheny-Singer Research Institute) -- Alternate forms of inquiry and their implications for theory and practice: Sarah K Brem (Arizona State University) -- New Models of Connectionist Language Acquisition -- Organizers: Ping Li (University of Richmond) and Brian MacWhinney (Carnegie Mellon University) -- Participants: Going beyond the input: the problem of generalization from sparse data: Jeff Elman -- The origin of categorical representation of language in the brain: Ping Li, Igor Farkas and Brian MacWhinney -- Acquisition of crisp andfuzzy concepts: Thomas Shultz -- Publication-based Talks -- Coordination of Talk & Action. -- Richard Alterman, Alex Feinman, Seth Landsman and Josh Introne (Brandeis University) -- Developing and Validating Cockpit Interventions based on Cognitive Modeling -- Deborah A. Boehm-Davis, Robert W. Holt, Melanie Diez and Jeffrey T. Hansberger (George Mason University) -- The Information-Processing Function of Conscious Intentions -- Richard A. Carlson, Lisa M. Stevenson, Marios N. Avraamides and Daniel N. Cassenti (Penn State University) -- Activity Awareness in Computer-supported Collaborations -- John M. Carroll (Virginia Tech) -- Testing the Roles of Design History and Affordances in the HIPE Theory of Function -- Sergio E. Chaigneau (Universidad de Tarapaca) and Lawrence W. Barsalou (Emory University) -- Misrepresenting Emergent Causal Processes as Non-Emergent: A Potential -- Schema for Overcoming Misunderstandings in Science -- Michelene T. H. Chi (University of Pittsburgh) -- Protocol Evidence On Thought Experiments Used By Experts -- John J. Clement (University of Massachusetts) -- Putting Geometry and Function Together — Towards a Psychologically-Plausible -- Computational Model for Spatial Language Comprehension -- Kenny R. Coventry, Angelo Cangelosi, Dan Joyce and Lynn V. Richards (University of Plymouth) -- A Basis for a Rigorous Cognitive Science: Maintaining Context for Information -- Exchange between Modules in a Functional Hierarchy -- L. Andrew Coward (Murdoch University) -- Dynamic Interrelations Among Processing Efficiency, Working Memory, and Problem Solving: A Longitudinal Study -- Andreas Demetriou (University of Cyprus) -- Tutoring Real-Time Dynamic Task Performance: Using ADAPT -- to Augment Pilot Skill Acquisition -- Stephanie M. Doane and Daniel W. Carruth (Mississippi State University) -- Implementing Latent Semantic Analysis in Learning Environments with -- Conversational Agents and Tutorial Dialog -- Arthur C. Graesser, Xiangen Hu, Brent A. Olde, Matthew Ventura, Andrew Olney, -- Max Louwerse and Donald R. Franceschetti (University of Memphis) and Natalie Person (Rhodes College) -- Human-Automation Interaction Strategies -- Stephanie Guerlain (University of Virginia) -- Statistical learning, implicit memory, and phonology -- Prahlad Gupta and John Lipinski (University of Iowa) -- Mental Visualizations and External Visualizations -- Mary Hegarty (University of California) -- Modeling aviation crew interaction using a cognitive architecture -- Robert W. Holt, Jeffrey T. Hansberger, Ronald S. Chong and Deborah A. Boehm-Davis (George Mason University) -- Promoting Transfer through Case-Based Reasoning: Rituals and Practices -- in the Learning by Design Classroom and Evidence of Transfer. -- Janet L. Kolodner (Georgia Institute of Technology) -- Dynamic Adaptation to Critical Care Medical Environment: Error Recovery as Cognitive Activity -- Tate T. Kubose, VimlaL. Patel and Desmond Jordan (Columbia University) -- Applications of Latent Semantic Analysis -- Thomas K Landauer (University of Colorado at Boulder) -- Modeling the Development of Lexicon with DevLex: -- A Self-Organizing Neural Network Model of Lexical Acquisition -- Ping Li and Igor Farkas (University of Richmond) -- Where Do Problem-Solving Strategies Come From? -- Marsha C. Lovett (Carnegie Mellon University) -- Is There a Decision Bias For Information From Internally Consistent Sources? -- Shenghua Luan, Robert D. Sorkin and Jesse Itzkowitz (University of Florida) -- Understanding and Scaffolding Constructive Collaboration -- Naomi Miyake and Hajime Shirouzu (Chukyo University) -- Learning fromWorked-Out Examples via Self-Explanations: How it Can(not) be Fostered -- Alexander Renkl (University of Freiburg) -- Category Use: Learning and Understanding Categories -- Brian H. Ross and Seth Chin-Parker (University of Illinois) -- Relating Properties of Human Memory to Cortico-Hippocampal Architecture -- Lokendra Shastri (International Computer Science Institute) -- What Happened to the Imagery Debate? -- Peter P. Slezak (University of New South Wales) -- On the Origins of Perceived Sameness in Shape -- Linda B. Smith (Indiana University) -- The Origins, Development, and Nature of Argument Understanding -- Nancy L Stein (University of Chicago) and Elizabeth R. Albro (Wheaton College) -- Constructive Perception: An Expertise to Use Diagrams for Dynamic Interactivity -- Masaki Suwa (Chukyo University) -- Literary Cognition and Aesthetic Computing -- Akifumi Tokosumi (Tokyo Institute of Technology) and Norikazu Yoshimine (Shonan Kokusai Women s College) -- Diagrams to Augment Cognition. -- Barbara Tversky, Julie Heiser and Paul Lee (Stanford University) and Jeffrey M. Zacks (Washington University) -- Papers -- Representation Strength Influences Strategy Use and Strategy Discovery -- Martha W. Alibali, Tara L. Booth (University ofWisconsin-Madisori) -- Integrating Decay and Interference: A New Look at an Old Interaction -- Erik M. Altmann (Michigan State University) and Christian D. Schunn (University of Pittsburgh) -- Preventing Catastrophic Interference in Multiple-Sequence Learning -- Using Coupled Reverberating Elman Networks -- Bernard Ans and Stephane Rousset (Universite Pierre Mendes-France) and -- Robert M. French (Universite de Liege) and Serban Musca (Universite Pierre Mendes-France) -- A Cognitive Account of Situated Communication -- Rita B.Ardito, Bruno G. Bara and Enrico Blanzieri (Universita ’ di Torino) -- Ah-Ha, I Knew It All Along: Differences in Hindsight Bias Between Insight -- and Algebra Problems -- Ivan K.Ash and Jennifer Wiley (The University of Illinois at Chicago) -- A Neurocognitive Model for Students and Educators -- Michael Atherton (Department of Educational Psychology) -- Do people update spatial relations described in texts? -- Marios N. Avraamides (The Pennsylvania State University) -- An Exploration of Real-World Analogical Problem Solving in Novices -- Christopher R. Bearman, Linden J. Ball and Thomas C. Ormerod (Lancaster University) -- Neonatal Learning of Faces: Environmental and Genetic Influence -- James A. Bednar and Risto Miikkulainen (The University of Texas at Austin) -- Conditional Promises and Threats - Cognition and Emotio -- Sieghard Beller (University of Freiburg) -- Combining Simplicity and Likelihood in Language and Music -- Rens Bod (University of Amsterdam) -- Mental Models Theory and Anaphor -- Guido Boella and Leonardo Lesmo, (Universit'a di Torino) -- Comparison and the development of knowledge -- Lera Boroditsky (MIT) -- What is universal in event perception? Comparing English & Indonesian speakers -- Lera Boroditsky and Wendy Ham (MIT) and Michael Ramscar (University of Edinburgh) -- Atomistic and Systems Approaches to Consciousness -- Andrew Brook and Luke Jerzykiewicz (Carleton University) -- Reference Resolution in the Wild: On-line circumscription of referential -- domains in a natural, interactive problem-solving task -- Sarah Brown-Schmidt, Ellen Campana and Michael K Tanenhaus (University of Rochester) -- On Straight TRACS: A baseline bias from mental models -- Kevin Burns (The MITRE Corporation) -- Contradictions and Counterfactuals: Generating Belief Revisions -- in Conditional Inference -- Ruth M,J. Byrne and Clare R. Walsh (University of Dublin, Trinity College) -- Anthropomorphic Agents as a User Interface Paradigm: Experimental Findings -- and a Framework for Research -- Richard Catrambone, John Stasko and Jun Xiao (Georgia Institute of Technology) -- The Effect of Goal Constraints on Strategy Generation -- Suzanne C. Charman and Andrew Howes (Cardiff University) -- Diagnosticity in Category Learning by Classification and Inference -- Seth Chin-Parker and Brian H Ross (University of Illinois) -- Comprehension Monitoring and Regulation in Distance Collaboration -- Kwangsu Cho, Christian D. Schunn and Alan M. Lesgold (University of Pittsburgh) -- Second Order Isomorphism: A Reinterpretation and Its Implications -- in Brain and Cognitive Sciences -- Yoonsuck Choe (Texas A&M University) -- Age Differences in Transitory Cognitive Performance -- Sy Miin Chow and John R. Nesselroade (University of Virginia) -- Reminiscence and Arousal: A Connectionist Mode -- Eric Chown (Bowdoin College) -- How Conceptual Metaphors are Productive of Spatial-Graphical Expressions -- Timothy C. Clausner (HRL Laboratories, LLC) -- What makes a word? -- Eliana Colunga and Linda B. Smith (Indiana University) -- Sequential Learning by Touch, Vision, and Auditio -- Christopher M. Conway and Morten H. Christiansen (Cornell University) -- Feedback Effects in the Acquisition of a Hierarchical Skill -- Andrew Corrigan-Halpern and Stellan Ohlsson (UIC) -- Investigating creative language: People’s choice of words in the production -- of novel noun-noun compounds -- Fintan Costello (Dublin City University) -- Do Expression and Identity Need Separate Representations -- Garrison W. Cottrell Kristin M. Branson (USCD) and Andrew J. Calder (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) -- Cognitive Precursors to Science Comprehension -- Kimberly G. Cottrell and Danielle S. McNamara (Old Dominion University) -- The Role of Diagrams and Diagrammatic Affordances in Analogy -- David Latch Craig, Nancy J. Nersessian and Richard Catrambone (Georgia Institute of Technology) -- A Classification of Cognitive Agents -- Mehdi Dastani (Institute of Information and Computer Sciences) and Leendert van der Torre (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) -- Declarative and Procedural Strategies in Problem Solving: -- Evidence from the Toads and Frogs Puzzle -- Fabio Del Missier and Danilo Fum (Trieste) -- Teaching with Dialectic Arguments vs. Didactic Explanations -- Ravi Desai and Kevin D. Ashley (University of Pittsburgh) -- Modeling Human Error in a Real-World Teamwork Environment -- Stephen Deutsch and Richard Pew (BBN Technologies) -- The Quality of Test Context and Contra-evidence as a Moderating -- Factor in the Belief Revision Process -- Kristien Dieussaert, Walter Schaeken and Gery d’ydewalle (University of Leuven) -- The Role of Analogy in Teaching Middle-School Mathematics -- Lindsey K Engle, Keith J. Holyoak and James W. Stigler (University of California) -- Category Size and Category-Based Inductio -- Aidan Feeney and David R. Gardiner, (University of Durham) -- Why Example Fading Works: A Qualitative Analysis Using Cascade -- Eric S. Fleischman and Randolph M. Jones (Colby College) -- Evolution of Gender in Indo-European Languages -- Harry E. Foundalis (Indiana University) -- Recovering Context After Interruption -- Jerry L. Franke, Jody J. Daniels and Daniel C. McFarlane (Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories) -- Four Problems with Extracting Human Semantics from Large Text Corpora -- Robert M. French and Christophe Labiouse (University of Liege) -- The Importance of Starting Blurry: Simulating Improved Basic-Level -- Category Learning in Infants Due to Weak Visual Acuity -- Robert M. French and Martial Merrnillod, (University of Liege) and Alan Chauvin (University of Grenoble) and Paul C. Quinn (Washington & Jefferson College) and Denis Mareschal (Birkbeck College) -- Modelling the Development of Dutch Optional Infinitives in MOSAIC -- Daniel Freudenthal, Julian Pine and Fernand Gobet (University of Nottingham) -- Subject Omission in Children’s Language: The Case for Performance -- Limitations in Learning -- Daniel Freudenthal, Julian Pine and Fernand Gobet (University of Nottingham) -- Does Positivity Bias Explain Patterns of Performance on Wason’s 2-4-6 Task -- Maggie Gale (University of Derby) and Linden J. Ball (Lancaster University) -- A Connectionist model of Planning via Back-chaining Search -- Max Garagnani, (The Open University) and -- Lohendra Shastri and Carter Wendelken (The International Computer Science Institute) -- Events versus States: Empirical Correlates of Lexical Classes -- Silvia Gennari and David Poeppel (University of Maryland) -- Interactive Knowledge Acquisition Tools: A Tutoring Perspective -- Yolanda Gil and Jihie Kim (University of Southern California) -- Taking Care of the Linguistic Features of Extraversion -- AlastairJ. Gill and Jon Oberlander (University of Edinburgh) -- The Role of Roles in Translating Across Conceptual Systems -- Robert L. Goldstone and Brian J. Rogosky (Indiana University) -- The Theory of Mind in Strategy Representation -- Andrew S. Gordon (University of Southern California) -- A probabilistic approach to semantic representation -- Thomas L.Griffiths & Mark Steyvers (Stanford University) -- Strategic Differences in the Coordination of Different Views of Space -- Glenn Gunzelmann and John R. Anderson (Carnegie Mellon University) -- Understanding Similarity in Choice Behavior: A Connectionist Model -- Frank Y Guo and Keith J. Holyoak (UCLA) -- Who says models can only do what you tell them? Unsupervised category -- learning data, fits, and prediction -- Todd M. Gureckis and Bradley C. Love (The University of Texas at Austin) -- A Constraint Satisfaction Model of Causal Learning and Reasonin -- York Hagmayer and Michael R. Waldmann (University of Gottingen) -- How Similarity Affects the Ease of Rule Application -- Ulrike Hahn (Cardiff University) and Merce Prat-Sala (King Alfred's College) and Emmanuel M. Pothos (University of Edinburgh) -- Modeling Grouping with Recursive Auto-Associative Memory -- Andreas Hansson and Lars F. Niklasson (University of Skovde) -- Holographic Reduced Representations for Oscillator Recall: A Model -- of Phonological Production -- Harlan D. Harris (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) -- Similarity and Difference Judgments Under Perceptual and -- Non-Perceptual Conditions -- Uri Hasson (Princeton University) and Vladimir Sloutsky (The Ohio State University) -- The /s/ morpheme and the compounding phenomenon in English -- Jenny Hayes, Victoria Murphy, Neil Davey, Pamela Smith and Lorna Peters (University of Hertfordshire) -- Interactional Context in Graphical Communication -- Patrick G. T. Healey, (Queen Mary University of London) and Simon Garrod, Nicholas Fay (University of Glasgow) and John Lee, Jon Oberlander (University of Edinburgh) -- Diagrams and Descriptions in Acquiring Complex Systems -- Julie Heiser and Barbara Tversky (Stanford University) -- Do argumentation tasks promote conceptual change about volcanoes? -- Joshua A Hemmerich and Jennifer Wiley (The University of Illinois at Chicago)