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CogSci2000 Program and Conference Schedule
Friday, August 11, 2000 through Tuesday, August 15, 2000

The Tutorials begin on Friday, August 11, 2000 at 1 p.m. and run through 5 p.m. Saturday, August 12, 2000. In addition to the hardcopy Proceedings, there will be a CogSci2000 website hosted by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates and a CD-ROM.

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Time Friday, August 11, 2000
11:00a.m.-6:00p.m. REGISTRATION
Prefunction Area, Woodlands Ballroom, Inn at Penn
Time Saturday, August 12, 2000
8:00a.m.-9:00p.m. REGISTRATION
Prefunction Area, Woodlands Ballroom, Inn at Penn
8:30 a.m.-9:00a.m. Continental Breakfast for Tutorial Attendees
Prefunction Area, Zellerbach Theater, Annenberg Center, 37th and Walnut Streets (entrance on 37th Street)
Time
Sunday, August 13, 2000
7:30a.m.-6:00p.m. REGISTRATION
Prefunction Area, Woodlands Ballroom, Inn at Penn
7:30 a.m.-8:30a.m. Continental Breakfast
Prefunction Area, Woodlands Ballroom, Inn at Penn
8:30 a.m.-9:00a.m. Continental Breakfast
Prefunction Area, Zellerbach Theater, Annenberg Center, 37th and Walnut Streets (entrance on 37th Street)
9:15a.m.-9:50a.m. Opening Remarks and Announcements
Zellerbach Theater, Annenberg Center, 37th and Walnut Streets (entrance on 37th)
10:00a.m.-11:30a.m. Plenary Talk
Randy Gallistel
The Symbolic Foundations of Conditioned Behavior
Zellerbach Theater, Annenberg Center
11:30a.m.-12:30p.m. LUNCH
Journal Subcommittee Meeting
12:30p.m.-2:35p.m. Session I:   Symposium
Regent/St. Marks

Perspectives on Conceptual Change Organizer and Chair:   David R. Kaufman

Presenters:
  1. Stella Vosniadou, National and Capodistrian University of Athens
  2. Andy diSessa, University of California, Berkeley
  3. Paul Thagard, University of Waterloo
Session II:
   Styracosaurus

pronunciation of styracosaurus
The Woodlands A
Session Chair: TBA
  1. Deep Learning in Virtual Reality: How to Teach Children That the Earth is Round, S. Ohlsson, T. Moher, and A. Johnson.
  2. Heterogeneous Reasoning in Learning to Model, K. Stenning and M. Sommerfeld.
  3. Linguistic Labels and the Development of Inductive Inference, V. Sloutsky and Y. Lo.
  4. A Generative Connectionist Model of the Development of Rule Use in Children, S. Marcovitch and P. Zelazo.
  5. Constituent Structure in Mathematical Expressions, A. Jansen, K. Marriott, and  G. Yelland.
Session III:
   Allosaurus

pronunciation of allosaurus
The Woodlands B
Session Chair: Heather Bortfeld
  1. Committing to an Ontology: A Connectionist Account, E. Colunga and L. Smith.
  2. Attentional Biases in Artificial Noun Learning Tasks: Generalizations Across the Structure of Already-Learned Nouns, L. Samuelson.
  3. Word Learning as Bayesian Inference, J. Tenenbaum and F. Xu.
  4. Sex, Syntax, and Semantics, L. Boroditsky and L. Schmidt.
  5. Addressing the Learnability of Verb Subcategorizations with Bayesian Inference, M. Dowman.
Session IV:
   Ankylosaurus

pronunciation of ankylosaurus
The Woodlands C/D
Session Chair: Whitney Tabor
  1. CANCELED Attention to Action: Securing Task-Relevant Control in Spoken Word Production, A. Roelofs.
  2. Are Structural Principles Useful for Automatic Disambiguation?, A. Kinyon.
  3. Learning the Use of Discourse Markers in Tutorial Dialogue for an Intelligent Tutoring System, J. Kim, M. Glass, R. Freedman, and M. Evens.
  4. Goal Specificity and Learning with a Multimedia Program, R. Vollmeyer, B. Burns, and F. Rheinberg.
  5. Syntactic Priming in German Sentence Production, C. Scheepers and M. Corley.
2:35p.m.-3:00p.m. BREAK
3:00p.m.-5:05p.m. Session V:   Symposium
Regent/St. Marks

The Role of the Cerebellum in Cognition and Affect
Organizer and Chair: Natika Newton


Presenters:
  1. Jeremy Schmahmann, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital
  2. Carl Anderson, Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital
  3. Ralph D. Ellis, Clark-Atlanta University
Session VI:
   Apatosaurus

pronunciation of apatosaurus
The Woodlands A
Session Chair: Paul Maglio
  1. Induction of Causal Chains, W. Ahn and M. Dennis.
  2. Rational Assessments of Covariation and Causality, G. Gredebäck, A. Winman, and P. Juslin.
  3. Simulating Causal Models: The Way to Structural Sensitivity, Y. Hagmayer and M. Waldmann.
  4. Teacakes, Trains, Taxicabs and Toxins: A Bayesian Account of Predicting the Future, T. Griffiths and J. Tenenbaum.
  5. A Rarity Heuristic for Hypothesis Testing, A. Feeney, J. Evans, and S. Venn.
Session VII:
   Triceratops

pronunciation of triceratops
The Woodlands B
Session Chair: Charles Beaman
  1. Influences on Attribute Selection in Redescriptions: A Corpus Study, P. Jordan.
  2. Phrases as Carriers of Coherence Relations, H. Schauer and U. Hahn.
  3. Seeking Coherent Explanations - A Fusion of Structured Connectionism, Temporal Synchrony, and Evidential Reasoning, L. Shastri and C. Wendelken.
  4. Hidden Markov Models for Coding Story Recall Data, M. Durbin, J. Earwood, and R. Golden.
  5. Talking through Graphics: An Empirical Study of the Sequential Integration of Modalities, I. Umata, A. Shimojima, and Y. Katagiri.
Session VIII:    Brachiosaurus
pronunciation of brachiosaurus
The Woodlands C/D
Session Chair: John Trueswell
  1. Organising Principles in Lexical Representation: Evidence from Polish, A. Reid and W. Marslen-Wilson.
  2. Lexical Contact During Speech Perception: A Connectionist Model, E. Forbell and E. Chown.
  3. Neighborhood and Position Effects Interact in Naming Latency, J. Milostan, G. Cottrell, and V. Ferreira.
  4. Is Lexical Retrieval in Speech Production like Recall or Recognition? The Effects of Word Frequency and Neighbourhood Size, S. MacAndrew, T. Harley, and S. Colgan.
  5. The Advantages and Disadvantages of Semantic Ambiguity, J. Rodd, G. Gaskell, and W. Marslen-Wilson.
5:05 p.m.-7:00p.m.
Board of Governors Meeting
7:00p.m.-9:00p.m. POSTER SESSION I and Buffet Reception
Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA), 36th and Sansom Streets (entrance on 36th Street)
Time Monday, August 14, 2000
8:30a.m.-10:35a.m. Session IX:   Symposium
Regent/St. Marks

Bayesian Approaches to Cognitive Modeling
Co-Organizers: J. Tenenbaum and M. Mozer


Presenters:
  1. Michael Brent, Washington University
  2. Bill Freeman, Mitsubishi Electronics Research Laboratory
  3. Evan Heit, University of Warwick
  4. Michael Mozer, University of Colorado
  5. Joshua Tenenbaum, Stanford University
Session X:
   Tyrannosaurus Rex

pronunciation of tyrannosaurus rex
The Woodlands A
Session Chair: Peter Drake
  1. Motivation in Insight versus Incremental Problem Solving, M. Wieth and B. Burns.
  2. From Studying Examples to Solving Problems: Fading Worked-Out Solution Steps Helps Learning, A. Renkl, R. Atkinson, and U. Maier.
  3. Resource-Adaptive Selection of Strategies in Learning from Worked-Out Examples, P. Gerjets, K. Scheiter, and W. Tack.
  4.  Function-Follows-Form Transformations in Scientific Problem Solving, T. Griffith, N. Nersessian and A. Goel.
  5. Memory-Based Problem Solving and Schema Induction in Go, A. Heneveld, A. Bundy, M. Ramscar, and J. Richardson.
Session XI:
   Quetzalcoatlus

pronunciation of quetzalcoatlus
The Woodlands B
Session Chair: Alan Lesgold
  1. Viewpoint Dependent Facial Expression Recognition: Japanese Noh Masks and the Human Face, M. Lyons, A Plante, M. Kamachi, S. Akamatsu, R. Campbell, and M. Coleman.
  2. A Six-Unit Network is All You Need to Discover Happiness, M. Dailey, G. Cottrell, and R. Adolphs.
  3. The Resemblance of One-Year-Old Infants to their Fathers: Refuting Christenfeld & Hill (1995), R. French, S. Brédart, J. Huart, and C. Labiouse.
  4. ANCHOR: A Memory-Based Model of Category Rating, A. Petrov and J. Anderson. 
  5. Individual Differences in Exemplar-Based Interference During Instructed Category Learning, D. Noelle and G. Cottrell.
Session XII:
   Struthiomimus

pronunciation of struthiomimus
The Woodlands C/D
Session Chair: Ed Kako
  1. Modeling Infant Learning via Symbolic Structural Alignment, S. Kuehne, D. Gentner, and  K. Forbus.
  2. Infant Familiarization to Artificial Sentences: Rule-Like Behavior Without Explicit Rules and Variables, T. Shultz and A. Bale.
  3. Babies, Variables, and Relational Correlations, M. Gasser and E. Colunga.
  4. Connectionist Single-Mechanism Account of Rule-Like Behavior in Infancy, M. Christiansen, C. Conway, and S. Curtin.
  5. Controlled Exploration of Alternative Mechanisms in Cognitive Modeling, R. Kovordányi.
10:35a.m.-11:00a.m. BREAK
11:00a.m.-1:05p.m. Session XIII:   Education Panel
Regent/St. Marks

Special Session on Undergraduate Education in Cogntive Science
Organizer and Chair: Mark Steedman


Presenters:
  1. Andrew Brook, Carleton University
  2. Nils Dahlbäck, Linköping University
  3. Randy Jones, Colby College
  4. Keith Stenning, University of Edinburgh
  5. John Trueswell, University of Pennsylvania
Session XIV:
   Stegosaurus

pronunciation of stegosaurus
The Woodlands A
Session Chair: Stellan Ohlsson
  1. Inducing Hybrid Models of Task Learning from Visualmotor Data, D. Subramanian
  2. Transfer along a Continuum: Differentiation or Association? I. McLaren and M. Suret.
  3. Problem Representation in Experts and Novices: Part 2. Underlying Processing Mechanisms, V. Sloutsky and A. Yarlas.
  4. The Dynamics of Simple Prediction: Judging Reachability, I. van Rooij, R. Bongers, and W. Haselager.
  5. Simulation of Self-Affirmation Phenomena in Cognitive Dissonance, T. Shultz and M. Lepper.
Session XV:
   Coelophysis

pronunciation of coelophysis
The Woodlands B
Session Chair: Jerry Franke
  1. Modeling Orientation Effects in Symmetry Detection: The Role of Visual Structure, R. Ferguson.
  2. Visual Learning for a Mid Level Pattern Discrimination Task, I. Fine and R. Jacobs.
  3. The Area Activation Model of Saccadic Selectivity in Visual Search, M. Pomplun, E. Reingold, J. Shen,  and D. Williams.
  4. A Sensorimotor Map of Visual Space, B. Bridgeman.
  5. A Neural Network Model of Concept-Influenced Segmentation, R. Goldstone.
Session XVI:
   Archaeopteryx

pronunciation of archaeopteryx
The Woodlands C/D
Session Chair: Laura Wagner
  1. An Optimality-Theoretic Model of Acquisition of Tense and Agreement in French, G. Legendre, P. Hagstrom, M. Todorova, and A. Vainikka.
  2. Regularity and Irregularity in French Inflectional Morphology, F. Meunier and W. Marslen-Wilson.
  3. Irregularization: The Interaction of Item Frequency and Phonological Interference in Regular Past Tense Production, C. Long and A. Almor.
  4. In Search of the Minority Default: The Case of Arabic Plurals, S. Boudelaa and M. Gaskell.
  5. Mapping the Syntax/Semantics Coastline, W. Tabor and S. Hutchins.
1:05p.m.-2:30p.m. LUNCH
Conference Subcommittee Meeting
2:30p.m.-4:35p.m. Session XVII:
   Deinonychus

pronunciation of deinonychus
Regent/St. Marks
Session Chair: Mike Byrne
  1. Hypertext Navigation and Conflicting Goal Intentions: Using Log Files to Study Distraction and Volitional Protection in Learning and Problem Solving, K. Scheiter, P. Gerjets, and E. Heise.
  2. Clarifying Word Meanings in Computer-Administered Survey Interviews, M. Schober, F. Conrad, and J. Bloom.
  3. Situating GOMS Models Within Complex, Sociotechnical Systems, R. West and G. Nagy.
  4. Latent Semantic Analysis Captures Causal, Goal-Oriented, and Taxonomic Structures, A. Graesser, A. Karnavat, V. Pomeroy, and K. Wiemer-Hastings.
  5. Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Cognitive Tutor for Fundamental Physics Concepts, P. Albacete and K. VanLehn.
Session XVIII:
   Velociraptor

pronunciation of velociraptor
The Woodlands A
Session Chair: Simon Levy
  1. Toward an Integrated Account of Reflexive and Reflective Reasoning, J. Hummel and J. Choplin.
  2. Dynamic Extension of Episode Representation in Analogy-Making in AMBR, B. Kokinov and A. Petrov.
  3. Structure-Mapping Theory and Lexico-Semantic Information, D. Yarlett and M. Ramscar.
  4. A Computational Level Theory of Similarity, B. Love.
  5. The Use of a High-Dimensional, "Environmental" Context Space to Model Retrieval in Analogy and Similarity-Based Transfer, M. Ramscar and D. Yarlett.
Session XIX:
   Pteranodon

pronunciation of pteranodon
The Woodlands B
Session Chair: Gary Hatfield
  1. Unity of Consciousness: What it is and Where it is Found, A. Brook.
  2. Vagueness in Context, S. Gross.
  3. Selective Advantages of Syntactic Language - A Model Study, W. Zuidema and P. Hogeweg.
  4. The Problem with Logic in the Logical Problem of Language Acquisition, P. Hendriks.
  5. Human Belief Revision and the Order Effect, H. Wang, J. Zhang, and T. Johnson.
Session XX:
   Parasaurolophus

pronunciation of parasaurolophus
The Woodlands C/D
Session Chair: Morten Christiansen
  1. Verb Meanings, Object Affordances, and the Incremental Restriction of Reference, E. Kako and J. Trueswell.
  2. Ungrammatical Influences: Evidence for Dynamical Language Processing, W. Tabor and B. Galantucci. 
  3. Aspectual Coercion and the Online Computation of Sentential Aspect, M. Todorova, K. Straub, W. Badecker, and R. Frank.
  4. Prosodic Choice: Effects of Speaker Awareness and Referential Context, J. Snedeker, L. Gleitman, M. Felberbaum, N. Placa, and J. Trueswell.
  5. Eye Movements During Comprehension of Spoken Scene Descriptions, M. Spivey, M. Tyler, D. Richardson, and E. Young.
4:40p.m.-5:30p.m. Announcement of a Major Prize Commemorating the Contributions of David E. Rumelhart
Reception to follow sponsored by the Robert J. Glushko and Pamela Samuelson Foundation

Announcement: Woodlands A/B; Reception: Regent/St. Marks
5:30p.m.-7:00p.m. BUSINESS MEETING 
Tuttleman Room
Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA), 36th and Sansom Streets (entrance on 36th Street)
7:00p.m.-9:00p.m. POSTER SESSION II and Buffet Reception
Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA), 36th and Sansom Streets (entrance on 36th Street)
Time Tuesday, August 15, 2000
9:00a.m.-10:30a.m. Plenary Talk
James Allen
Spoken Language Systems and Human Communication

Zellerbach Theater, Annenberg Center
10:35a.m.-12:00p.m. Session XXI: Funders' Panel
Regent/St. Marks, The Inn at Penn
Session Chair: Paul Smolensky
  1. Paul Chapin, Program Director, Division of Social and Economic Sciences, SBE, National Science Foundation
  2. Susan Chipman, Program Officer, Cognitive Science Base Program, Office of Naval Research
  3. Howard Kurtzman, Chief Cognitive Science Program, Behavioral Science Research Branch, National Institute of Mental Health
  4. Herbert Weingartner, Special Consultant, Behavioral Sciences Research Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health

12:00p.m.-1:00p.m. LUNCH
1:00p.m.-3:05p.m. Session XXII:   Symposium
Regent/St. Marks

The Nature of Human Errors: An Emerging Interdisciplinary Perspective Organizer and Chair: Jiajie Zhang

Presenters:
  1. Vimla L. Patel, McGill University
  2. Edward H. Shortliffe, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons
  3. Michael Freed, NASA Ames Research Center
  4. Roger Remington, NASA Ames Research Center
Session XXIII:
   Caudipteryx

pronunciation of caudipteryx
The Woodlands A
Session Chair: Wolfgang Schoppek
  1. Representing Categories in Artificial Neural Networks Using Perception-Derived Feature Networks, R. Branstrom.
  2. Making Inferences and Classifications Using Categories that are not Linearly Separable, T. Yamauchi and A. Markman.
  3. The Determinants of Basic-Level Performance, F. Gosselin and P. Schyns.
  4. An Exemplar Model of Classification in Single and Combined Categories, F. Costello.
  5. Algorithm, Heuristic or Exemplar: Process and Representation in Multiple-Cue Judgment, S. Jones, P. Juslin, H. Olsson, and A. Winman.
Session XXIV:
   Tenontosaurus

pronunciation of tenontosaurus
The Woodlands B
Session Chair: Frank Ritter
  1. Hemispheric Specialization During Episodic Memory Encoding in the Human Hippocampus and MTL, D. Casasanto, W. Killgore, G. Glosser, J. Maldjian, and J. Detre.
  2. Are Retrievals from Long-Term Memory Interruptible?, M. Byrne.
  3. Memory in Chains: Modeling Primacy and Recency Effects in Memory for Order, E. Altmann.
  4. Computational Explorations of the Irrelevant Sound Effect in Serial Short-Term Memory, C. Beaman.
  5. Memory versus Perceptual-Motor Tradeoffs in a Blocks World Task, W. Fu and W. Gray.
Session XXV:
   Argentinosaurus

pronunciation of argentinosaurus
The Woodlands C/D
Session Chair: Jesse Snedeker
  1. The Acquisition of Lexical and Grammatical Aspect in a Self-Organizing Feature-Map Model, P. Li.
  2. Measuring Verb Similarity, P. Resnik and M. Diab.
  3. Non-Linguistic Constraints on the Acquisition of Phrase Structure, J. Saffran.
  4. Infinite RAAM: A Principled Connectionist Basis for Grammatical Competence, S. Levy, O. Melnik, and J. Pollack.
  5. Decoding Syntactic Parameters: The Superparser as Oracle, J. Fodor and V. Teller.
3:05 p.m. CONFERENCE END


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