Recent Publications

Anthropology

P. Thomas Schoenemann
Schoenemann, P. Thomas, in press, “Conceptual complexity and the brain: Understanding language origins” in Proceedings of the Workshop on Language Acquisition, Change, and Evolution.

Schoenemann, P. Thomas, in press, “Brain size and body composition in mammals,” Brain Behavior and Evolution

Schoenemann, P. Thomas, and L. Daniel Glotzer, 2003, “Evolution of the prefrontal cortex: A stereological analysis of primate brain MRI scans” American Journal of Physical Anthropology, supplement p.185-186

Schoenemann, P. Thomas, 2003, “Commentary on 'Genes and cultures: What creates our behavioral phenome' by Ehrlich and Feldman” Current Anthropology, v. 44(1):101

Gregory Urban
Metaculture: How Culture Moves through the World 2001 Metaculture: How Culture Moves through the World. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/U/urban_metaculture.html

Biology

Dorothy Cheney
Kitchen, D.M., Cheney, D.L., & Seyfarth, R.M. In press. Male baboon (Papio cynocephalus ursinus) responses to loud call contests between rivals of different relative ranks. Animal Cognition.

Kitchen, D.M., Cheney, D.L., & Seyfarth, R.M. In press. Friends, food and females: contextual factors meditating contests between male chacma baboons (Papio cynocephalus ursinus) in Botswana. International Journal of Primatology.

Cheney, D.L., Seyfarth, R.M., Fischer, J., Beehner, J. Bergman, T., Johnson, S.E., Kitchen, D.M., Palombit, R.A., Rendall, D. & Silk, J.B. 2004. Factors affecting reproduction and mortality among baboons in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. International Journal of Primatology 25, 401-428.

Fischer, J., Kitchen, D.M., Seyfarth, R.M. & Cheney, D.L. 2004. Baboon loud calls advertise male quality: Acoustic features and their relation to rank, age, and exhaustion. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology 56, 140-148.

Kitchen, D.M., Cheney, D.L., & Seyfarth, R.M. 2004. Factors mediating inter-group encounters in savannah baboons (Papio cynocephalus ursinus). Behaviour 141, 197-218.

Marc Schmidt
Cardin, J.A. and M. F. Schmidt (2003) Song system auditory responses are stable and highly tuned during sedation, rapidly modulated and unselective during wakefulness, and suppressed by arousal J. Neurophys. 90: 2884-2899.

Schmidt M. F. (2003) Pattern of interhemispheric synchronization in HVc during singing correlates with key transitions in the song pattern J. Neurophyiology 90: 3931-3949.

Cardin J.A. and M.F. Schmidt (2004) Auditory responses in two sensorimotor forebrain song system nuclei are co-modulated by behavioral state J. Neurophyiology. 91: 2148-2163.

Cardin J.A. and M.F. Schmidt (2004) Noradrenergic Inputs Mediate State-Dependence of Auditory Responses in the Avian Song System. J. Neuroscience (In Press)

Computer and Science

Norman Badler
L. Zhao and N. Badler. "Acquiring and validating motion quantities from live limb gestures," Graphical Models 67 (1), 1-16, (2005).

J. Allbeck and N. Badler. "Creating Embodied Agents with Cultural Context." In R. Trappl and S. Payr (Eds.), Agent Culture: Designing virtual characters for a multi-cultural world. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004.

J. Allbeck and N. Badler. Representing and Parameterizing Agent Behaviors. In Life-like Characters: Tools, Affective Functions and Applications. Helmut Prendinger and Mitsuru Ishizuka, Ed. Springer, Germany, 2003.

Y. Liu and N. Badler, "Real-Time Reach Planning for Animated Characters Using Hardware Acceleration", Computer Animation and Social Agents, IEEE Computer Society, New Brunswick, NJ, May 2003, pp. 86-93.

K. Ashida and N. Badler, "Feature preserving manifold mesh from an octree." Solid Modeling and Applications 2003, pp. 292-297.

A. Bloomfield, Y. Deng, P. Rondot, J. Wampler, D. Harth, M. McManus, N. Badler. "A Taxonomy and Comparison of Haptic Actions for Disassembly Tasks." IEEE Virtual Reality Conf., LA, CA, March 2003, pp. 225-231.

Kostas Daniilidis
L. Sorgi and K. Daniilidis, Normalized Cross-correlation in spherical images, European Conference on Computer Vision, 2004.

A. Makadia and K. Daniilidis, Direct 3D-rotation estimation from spherical images via a generalized shift theorem, IEEE Computer Vision Pattern Recognition, 2003.

C. Geyer and K. Daniilidis, Mirrors in motion: Epipolar geometry and motion estimation, International Conference on Computer Vision, Nice, France, pp. 766-773, 2003.

Susan Davidson
Y. Chen, S. Davidson, Y. Zheng. "BLAS: An Efficient XPath Processing System." SIGMOD2004 (2004)

Y. Chen, G. A. Mihaila, S. Davidson, S. Padmanabhan. "EXPedite: a system for Encoded XML Processing." Thirteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2004. (2004) Y. Chen, G. A. Mihaila, S. Davidson, S. Padmanabhan. "Efficient Path Query Processing on Encoded XML." First International Workshop on High Performance XML Processing (2004).

V. Braganholo, S. Davidson, C. Heuser. "From XML View Updates to Relational View Updates: old solutions to a new problem" International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB). (2004) V. Braganholo, S. Davidson, C. Heuser. "Propagating XML View Updates to a Relational Database." Technical Report RP-341. (2004)

Jean Gallier
Books
Gallier's geometry books

Aravind Joshi
Selected publications:
Relationship of formal devices to the competence/performance distinction. Presented at the Workshop on Computational Models of Human Syntactic Processing, NIAS, Wassenaar, The Netherlands, June, 1996.

A parser from antiquity: an early application of finite state transducers to natural language processing. Presented at the ECAI-96 Workshop on ``Extended Finite State Models of Language,'' Budapest, Hungary, August, 1996, a revised version in Natural Language Engineering, 1997.

Coordination in tree adjoining grammars: formalization and implementation . Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING '96), Copenhagen, Denmark, August, 1996, (Co-author: A. Sarkar).

Formal Systems for Complexity and Control of Inference: a reprise and some hints. To appear in Centering in Discourse, (ed. A. K. Joshi, E. Prince, L. Walker), Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1997.

Partial proof, trees, natural deduction and proof-nets, Resource Sensitive Logics (ed. C. Retore), Springer-Verlag, 1997.

Michael Kearns
Economics Properties of Social Networks. With S. Kakade, L. Ortiz, R. Pemantle, and S. Suri. To appear, NIPS 2004.

Graphical Economics. With S. Kakade and L. Ortiz. In Proceedings of COLT 2004.

Competitive Algorithms for VWAP and Limit Order Trading. With S. Kakade, Y. Mansour and L. Ortiz. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, 2004.

Computational Game Theory and Multi-Agent Systems:
Economics Properties of Social Networks. With S. Kakade, L. Ortiz, R. Pemantle, and S. Suri. To appear, NIPS 2004.

Graphical Economics. With S. Kakade and L. Ortiz. In Proceedings of COLT 2004.

Algorithms for Interdependent Security Games. With L. Ortiz. NIPS 2003.

Correlated Equilibria in Graphical Games. With S. Kakade, J. Langford, and L. Ortiz. ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, 2003.

Vijay Kumar
Refereed Journal Publications:
Chaimowicz, L., Kumar, V. and Campos, F. M., "A Paradigm for Dynamic Coordination of Multiple Robots," Autonomous Robots, Volume 17, Issue 1, July 2004: Pages 7 – 21.

Tanner, H. G., Kumar, V. and G. J. Pappas, "Leader-to-Formation Stability," IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, June, 2004.

P. Song, J.S. Pang, and V. Kumar, "A Semi-Implicit Time-Stepping Model for Frictional Compliant Contact Problems," International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Accepted for publication, 2004.

G. A. S. Pereira, V. Kumar, and M. F. M. Campos, "Decentralized Algorithms for Multirobot Manipulation via Caging," International Journal of Robotics Research, Accepted for publication, 2004.

Refereed Papers in Conference Proceedings and Books:
S. P. Parikh, V. Grassi Jr., V. Kumar, and J. Okamoto Jr., “Incorporating User Inputs in Motion Planning for a Smart Wheelchair,” IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, New Orleans, LA, April 2004.

L. Chaimowicz, B. Grocholsky, J. F. Keller, V. Kumar and C. J. Taylor, “Experiments in Multirobot Air-Ground Coordination,” IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, New Orleans, LA, April 2004.

Z. Fan, B. Grocholsky, and V. Kumar, “Formations for Localization of Robot Networks,” IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, New Orleans, LA, April 2004.

M. A. Hsieh, V. Kumar, and C. J. Taylor, “Constructing Radio Signal Strength Maps with Multiple Robots,” IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, New Orleans, LA, April 2004.

P. Song, J. Trinkle, V. Kumar, and J. Pang, “Design of Part Feeding and Assembly Processes with Dynamics,” IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, New Orleans, LA, April 2004 .

R. Rao, C. J. Taylor, and V. Kumar, “Experiments in Robot Control from Uncalibrated Overhead Imagery,” Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium of Experimental Robotics, Singapore, June 2004.

B. Grocholsky, S. Bayraktar, V. Kumar, C. J. Taylor, and G. Pappas, “Synergies in Feature Localization by Air-Ground Teams,” Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium of Experimental Robotics, Singapore, June 2004.

R. Rao, C. J. Taylor, and V. Kumar, “Calibrating an Air-Ground Control System from Motion Correspondences,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Washington D.C., June 2004.

L. Chaimowicz and V. Kumar, “Aerial Shepherds: Coordination among UAVs and Swarms of Robots,” 7th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, Toulouse, France, June 23-25, 2004.

J. Esposito, J. W. Kim, and V. Kumar, “Adaptive RRT’s for Validating Hybrid Robotic Control Systems,” 6th International Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics, Utrecht, Netherlands, July 11-13, 2004.

Mitch Marcus
Selected Publications:
Text Chunking using Transformation-Based Learning'', Association for Computational Linguistics Workshop on Very Large Corpora, Boston, MA, June 1995 (with Lance Ramshaw). Reprinted in Natural Language Processing Using Very Large Corpora, Armstrong et al. (eds.), Kluwer, 1998.

New Trends in Natural Language Processing: Statistical Natural Language Processing'', Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Vol 92, pp. 10052-10059, 1995. Reprinted in Voice Communication Between Humans and Machines, Rowe and Wilpon (eds.), National Academy Press, 1994.

Building a large annotated corpus of English: the Penn Treebank.'' Computational Linguistics, Vol.19, 1993. Reprinted in Using Large Corpora, S. Armstrong (ed.), MIT Press, 1994. (with Beatrice Santorini and Mary Ann Marcinkiewicz)

The Penn Treebank: A Revised Corpus Design for Extracting Predicate Argument Structure,'' 1994 ARPA Human Language Technology Workshop, Princeton, NJ, March 1994, Morgan-Kaufman (with 6 others).

A Theory of Syntactic Recognition for Natural Language, MIT Press, 1980.

Martha Palmer
Journal Papers:
Martha Palmer, Dan Gildea, Paul Kingsbury, The Proposition Bank: An Annotated Corpus of Semantic Roles, submitted to Computational Linguistics, December, 2003.

Martha Palmer, Hoa Dang and Christiane Fellbaum, Making Fine-grained and Coarse-grained sense distinctions, both manually and automatically, Journal of Natural Language Engineering, to appear, 2004.

Nianwen Xue, Fei Xia, Fu-dong Chiou, Martha Palmer,, The Penn Chinese Treebank: Phrase Structure Annotation of a Large Corpus, Natural Language Engineering, 10(4):1-30, June, 2004.

Computational Lexical Semantics:
Dan Gildea and Martha Palmer, The Necessity of Parsing for Predicate Argument Recognition, The 40th Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL-02, Philadelphia, PA, July 7-12, 2002.

Parameterized Action Representation (PAR):
Jan Allbeck, Karin Kipper, Charles Adams, William Schuler, Elena Zoubanova, Norman Badler, Martha Palmer, Aravind Joshi. ACUMEN: Amplifying Control and Understanding of Multiple Entities. AAMAS 2002, First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. Bologna, Italy, July 15-19, 2002.

Fernando Pereira
[McAllester et al., 2004] David McAllester, Michael Collins, and Fernando Pereira. Case-factor diagrams for structured probabilistic modeling. In Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, July 2004.

[McDonald and Pereira, 2004] Ryan McDonald and Fernando Pereira. Identifying gene and protein mentions in text using conditional random fields. In Critical Assessment of Text Mining Methods in Molecular Biology. European Molecular Biology Organization, 2004.

[McDonald et al., 2004] Ryan T. McDonald, R. Scott Winters, Mark Mandel, Yang Jin, Peter S. White, and Fernando Pereira. An entity tagger for recognizing acquired genomic variations in cancer literature. Bioinformatics, 2004. To appear.

[Sha and Pereira, 2003] Fei Sha and Fernando Pereira. Shallow parsing with conditional random fields. In Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2003, pages 213-220. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2003.

Benjamin Pierce
Types and Programming Languages MIT Press, 2002; a comprehensive graduate textbook on type systems by Benjamin C. Pierce. The MIT Press. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142. ISBN 0-262-16209-1
Papers and Software

Val Tannen
MARS: A System for Publishing XML from Mixed and Redundant Storage .bib International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB) (2003) Alin Deutsch, Val Tannen

Reformulation of XML Queries and Constraints .bib International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT) (2003) Alin Deutsch, Val Tannen

C.J. Taylor
Refereed Journal Publications:
Aveek Das, Rafael Fierro, Vijay Kumar, Jim Ostrowski and C.J. Taylor. "A Vision-Based Formation Control Framework" IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation Vol. 18 No. 5 pp 813-826 October 2002

R. Alur, A. Das, J. Esposito, R. Fierro, Y. Hur, G. Grudic, V. Kumar, I. Lee, J. P. Ostrowski, G. Pappas, J. Southall, J. Spletzer, and C. Taylor. "A framework and architecture for multirobot coordination," (accepted for publication) International Journal of Robotics Research

Lyle Ungar
Publications online

Linguistics

Gene Buckley
In press: The phonetic origin and phonological extension of Gallo-Roman palatalization. [Proceedings of the North American Phonology Conferences 1 and 2.]

In press: Children’s unnatural phonology. Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 29.

Emergent vowels in Tigrinya templates. Research in Afroasiatic Grammar II (Selected Papers from the Fifth Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics, Paris, 2000), ed. Jacqueline Lecarme, pp. 105-125. John Benjamins. (2003)

Robin Clark
Assorted papers

David Embick
Recent manuscripts

Anthony Kroch
Online papers
Other selected publications
Book: Studies in General Linguistics,. Beijing: Beijing University Language and Culture Press. 2001.
Paper: "Verb-object order in early Middle English.'' In Pintzuk, Tsoulas and Warner (eds.), Diachronic Syntax: Models and Mechanisms. pp. 132-163, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (with Ann Taylor) 2001

William Labov
Books, articles and research reports

Mark Liberman
Akinlabi, A. and M. Liberman, "Tonal Complexes and Tonal Alignment". NELS 31.

Akinlabi, A. and M. Liberman, "The Tonal Phonology of Yoruba Clitics". In B. Gerlach and J. Grijzenhout, eds., Clitics in Phonology, Morphology and Syntax. John Benjamins (2000).

Bird, S. and M. Liberman, "A Formal Framework for Linguistic Annotation".Speech Communication 33.1-2 (pp. 23-60).

Schultz, M. and M. Liberman, "Towards a 'Universal Dictionary' for Multi-Language Information Retrieval Applications". in J. Allan, J. Carbonell and J. Yamron, Eds.

Topic Detection and Tracking: Event-based Information Organization, Kluwer Academic Press. (forthcoming)

Bamba, M. and M. Liberman, "Focus in Manding". LSA annual meeting (1999).

Rolf Noyer
Downloadable papers and handouts

Ellen Prince
Yiddish as a contact language. In Smith, N. and Veenstra, T., eds. Creolization and contact. CLL 23. Philadelphia/Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. 263-90. 2001.

The Yiddish impersonal pronoun men 'one' in discourse. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the LSA, Atlanta, January 2003.

Maribel Romero
"Concealed Questions and Specificational Subjects," 2003. Submitted to Linguistics & Philosophy.

On Negative Yes/No Questions, 2003. Joint paper by Maribel Romero and Chung-hye Han. Revised version of 2002 draft. Submitted to Linguistics & Philosophy.

Verum Focus in Negative Yes/No Questions and Ladd’s p/¬p Ambiguity, 2002, SALT XII. Joint paper by Maribel Romero and Chung-hye Han. In Brendan Jackson (ed.), Proceedings of SALT XII. Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications. Pp. 204-224.

Ellipsis and Movement in the Syntax of Whether/Q...or Questions, 2002, NELS 32. Joint paper by Chung-hye Han and Maribel Romero. In Masako Hirotani (ed.), Proceedings of the NELS 32. Amherst, Mass.: GLSA. Pp. 197-216.

Ellipsis and the Structure of Discourse, 2002, Sinn und Bedeutung VI. Joint paper by Daniel Hardt and Maribel Romero. In Graham Katz, Sabine Reinhard and Philip Reuter (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung VI. Osnabrück: Publications of the Institut for Cognitive Science, University Osnabrück. Pp. 85-98.

Gillian Sankoff
Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Studies in U. Ammon, N. Dittmar et al, Handbook, 2003, Mouton de Gruyter.

Linguistic Outcomes of Language Contact. In Trudgill, P., J. Chambers and N. Schilling-Estes (eds.), Handbook of Sociolinguistics, Blackwell 2001.

Adolescents, young adults and the critical period: two case studies from Seven Up A case study of Short A and Short U for two British speakers from age 7 - 35. Carmen Fought, ed., Sociolinguistic Variation, Oxford University Press.

Mathematics

Andre Scedrov
Formal analysis of multi-party contract signing (with R. Chadha and S. Kremer). In: R. Focardi, ed., " 17th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Workshop (CSFW)", Pacific Grove, California, June 2004. IEEE Computer Society Press, 2004, pp. 266-279.

A formal analysis of some properties of Kerberos 5 using MSR (with F. Butler, I. Cervesato, and A. Jaggard). University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer and Information Science Technical Report MS-CIS-04-04, April 2004, 59 pages.

Verifying Confidentiality and Authentication in Kerberos 5 (with F. Butler, I. Cervesato, and A. Jaggard). In: K. Futatsugi, F. Mizoguchi, N. Yonezaki, eds., "Software Security - Theories and Systems Second Mext-NSF-JSPS International Symposium, ISSS 2003, Tokyo, Japan, November 4-6, 2003" Springer LNCS Volume 3233, Springer-Verlag, 2004.

Probabilistic bisimulation and equivalence for security analysis of network protocols (with A. Ramanathan, J. Mitchell, and V. Teague). In: I. Walukiewicz, ed., "Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures, 7-th International Conference, FOSSACS 2004", Springer LNCS Volume 2987, Springer-Verlag, 2004, pp. 468-483.

Composition of cryptographic protocols in a probabilistic polynomial-time process calculus (with P. Mateus and J.C. Mitchell). In: R. Amadio and D. Lugiez, eds., "CONCUR 2003 - Concurrency Theory, 14-th International Conference, Marseille, France, September 2003", Springer LNCS Volume 2761, Springer-Verlag, 2003, pp. 327-349. Revised version.

Contract signing, optimism, and advantage (with R. Chadha, J.C. Mitchell, and V. Shmatikov). Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming (Special issue on Processes and Security), accepted for publication. [.pdf] [.ps] [.ps.gz] Extended abstract in: R. Amadio and D. Lugiez, eds., "CONCUR 2003 - Concurrency Theory, 14-th International Conference, Marseille, France, September 2003", Springer LNCS Volume 2761, Springer-Verlag, 2003, pp. 366-382.

Neuroscience and Bioengineering

Gershon Buchsbaum
G. Buchsbaum, O. Bloch, Color Categories Revealed by Non-negative Matrix Factorization of Munsell Color Spectra Vision Research, 42, 559-563 (2002)

D. Tailor, L. Finkel, G. Buchsbaum, Color Opponent Receptive Fields Derived from Independent Component Analysis of Natural Images Vision Research, 40, 2671-2676 (2000)

Anjan Chatterjee
Kable, Joseph W., Kan, Irene P., Wilson, Asley, Thompson-Schill, Sharon L. and Chatterjee, Anjan. Conceptual Representations of Action in Lateral Temporal Cortex. In press (2005)

Gottfried JA, Sancar F, Chatterjee A. Acquired mirror writing and reading: evidence for reflected graphemic representations. Neuropsychologia, 2003, 41: 96-107.

Kable J, Lease-Spellmeyer J, Chatterjee A. The neural substrate of action event knowledge. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2002, 14: 785-794.

Chatterjee A. Language and space: some interactions. Trends in Cognitive Science, 2001, 5: 55-61.

Leif Finkel
Menschik ED, Finkel LH: Cholinergic neuromodulation of an anatomically reconstructed hippocampal CA3 pyramidal cell. Neurocomputing, 32-33:197-205, 2000

Menschik ED, Finkel LH: Cholinergic neuromodulation and Alzheimer's disease: from single cells to network simulations. Progress in Brain Research, 121:19-45.

Murray Grossman
Progressive Nonfluent Aphasia: Language, Cognitive, and PET Measures Contrasted with Probable Alzheimer's Disease. Murray Grossman, Jenifer Mickanin, Kris Onishi, Elizabeth Hughes, Mark D'Esposito, Xin-Sheng Ding, Abass Alavi and Margin Reivich In Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Volume 8, Issue 2/March 1996

Philosophy

Steven Gross
Forthcoming Publications:
Context-Sensitive Truth-Theoretic Accounts of Semantic Competence, Mind and Language.
Can Empirical Theories of Semantic Competence Really Help Limn the Structure of Reality?, Nous.
Putnam, Context, and Ontology, Canadian Journal of Philosophy.
Linguistic Understanding and Belief, Mind.
The Nature of Semantics: On Jackendoff’s Arguments, The Linguistic Review.

Gary Hatfield
Links to IRCS abstracts/tech reports can be found on Dr. Hatfield's webpage.

Hatfield, Gary C.(Gary Carl)Routledge philosophy guidebook to Descartes and The meditations. Publisher: London; New York: Routledge, 2003.

Prolegomena to any future metaphysics that will be able to come forward as science: with selections from the Critique of pure reason (Immanuel Kant, author); translated and edited by Gary Hatfield. Revised edition. Publisher: Cambridge [England]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Michael Weisberg
"Explanation in Chemistry," Philosophy of Science, forthcoming.
"Interpreting Aristotle on Mixture," Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, forthcoming (with Rega Wood)
“Water is Not H2O,” Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science.
Review of Science, Truth, and Democracy, by Philip Kitcher. Angewandte Chemie 2000, 114 (16), 3189-3190 (German) and Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English 2002, 41 (16) 3064-3066.

Scott Weinstein
Electronic archive of recent papers

Psychology

Ben Backus
Representative recent papers:
Backus, B.T. (2002). Perceptual metamers in sterescopic vision. In Neural information processing systems 14. Ed. T. G. Dietterich, Becker, S., and Ghahramani, Z., MIT Press.

Backus, B.T., Fleet, D.J., Parker, A.J., and Heeger, D.J. (2001). Cortical activity correlates with stereoscopic depth perception. Journal of Neurophysiology, 86: 2054-2068.

Backus, B.T., and Banks, M.S. (1999). Estimator reliability and distance scaling in stereoscopic slant perception. Perception, 28:217-242.

Backus, B.T., Banks, M.S., van Ee, R., and Crowell, J.A. (1999). Horizontal and vertical disparity, eye position, and stereoscopic slant perception. Vision Research, 39:1143-1170.

On-line reprints

David Brainard
Bloj, M., Ripamonti, C., Mitha, K., Hauck, R., Greenwald, S., & Brainard, D. H. (2004). An equivalent illuminant model for the effect of surface slant on perceived lightness. Journal of Vision, 4, 735-746, http://journalofvision.org/4/9/6/, doi:10.1167/4.9.6.

Bloj, M., Ripamonti, C., Mitha, K., Hauck, R., Greenwald, S., & Brainard, D. H. (2004). An equivalent illuminant model for the effect of surface slant on perceived lightness. Journal of Vision, 4, 735-746, http://journalofvision.org/4/9/6/, doi:10.1167/4.9.6.

Delahunt, P. B. and Brainard, D. H. (2004). Does human color constancy incorporate the statistical regularity of natural daylight? Journal of Vision, 4, 57-81 doi:10.1167/4.2.1.

Brainard, D. H., Kraft, J. M., and Longere, P. (2003). Color constancy: developing empirical tests of computational models. In Colour Perception: Mind and the Physical World, R. Mausfeld and D. Heyer (eds.), Oxford University Press, 307-334.

Delahunt, P.B. & Brainard, D.H. (2000). Control of chromatic adaptation: signals from separate cone classes interact. Vision Research, 40, 2885-2903. Supplemental Material.

Brainard, D. H. and Freeman, W. T. (1997). Bayesian color constancy. Journal of the Optical Society of America A , 14, 1393-1411.
More publications

Delphine Dahan
Dahan, D., & Tanenhaus, M. K. (submitted). Looking at the rope when looking for the snake: Conceptually mediated eye movements during spoken-word recognition.

Dahan, D., & Tanenhaus, M. K. (2004). Continuous mapping from sound to meaning in spoken-language comprehension: Immediate effects of verb-based thematic constraints. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 30, 498-513.

Salverda, A. P., Dahan, D., & McQueen, J. M. (2003). The role of prosodic boundaries in the resolution of lexical embedding in speech comprehension. Cognition, 90, 51-89

Magnuson, J. S., Tanenhaus, M. K., Aslin, R. N., & Dahan, D. (2003). The time course of spoken word learning and recognition: studies with artificial lexicons. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 132, 202-227.

Dahan, D., Tanenhaus, M. K., & Chambers, C. G. (2002). Accent and reference resolution in spoken-language comprehension. Journal of Memory and Language, 47, 292-314.
Complete list of publications

Martha Farah
Books:
Farah, M. J. (2000). The Cognitive Neuroscience of Vision. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Farah, M. J. & Feinberg, T. E. (2000). Patient-based Approaches to Cognitive Neuroscience. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Representative Publications:
Farah, M. J. (1994). "Neuropsychological inference with an interactive brain: A critique of the 'locality assumption,'" Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 17, 43-61.

Farah, M. J., Wilson, K. D., Drain, M., & Tanaka, J. N. (1998). "What is "special" about face perception?" Psychological Review, 105, 482-498.

Polk, T. A. & Farah, M. J. (1998). "The neural development and organization of letter recognition: Evidence from functional neuroimaging, computational modeling, and behavioral studies." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 95, 847-852.

Farah, M. J., & Aguirre, G. K. (1999). Imaging visual recognition: PET and fMRI studies of functional anatomy of human visual recognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 3, 179-186.

Farah, M.J., Rabinowitz, C., Quinn, G. E., & Liu, G. T. (2000). Early commitment of neural substrates for face recognition. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 17, 117-124.

Farah, M. J., Brotman, M. A., DeRubeis, R., Wang, J. J., Detre, J. A., Egeth, M. J., Cornew, L. A., & O'Reardon, J. P. (in press). The mind and the amygdala: A quantitative fMRI study of amygdala perfusion during cognitive mood induction. Brain & Cognition.

Farah, M. J. (2002). Emerging ethical issues in neuroscience. Nature Neuroscience, 5, 1123-1129.

Henry Gleitman
1. General Psychology:
Gleitman, H. 1992 Basic Psychology, 3rd edition. New York, N.Y.: Norton.

Gleitman, H. Some trends in the study of cognition. In S. Koch and D.E. Leary (Eds.), A Century of Psychology as Science. NY: McGraw-Hill, 1985, 420-436.

Gleitman, H. Introducing Psychology. American Psychologist, 1984, 39(4), 421-427.

2. Language and Language Learning:
Fisher, C., Gleitman, L.R., and Gleitman, H. Relations between verb syntax and semantics. Cognitive Psychology (in press).

Gleitman, L., Gleitman, H., Landau, B., and Wanner, E. 1988. Where learning begins: Initial representations for language learning. In F.J. Newmeyer (Ed.) Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey, Vol. 3, Language: Psychological and Biological Aspects. New York: Cambridge University Press, 150-193.

Armstrong, Sharon Lee, Gleitman, Lila R., and Gleitman, Henry. What some concepts might not be. Cognition, 1983, 13, 263-308.

3. Psychology of Humor, Play, and Drama:
Gleitman, H. 1990 Some reflections on drama and the dramatic experience. In Rock, I. (Ed.), The legacy of Solomon Asch. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum.

Parrott, W. G. and Gleitman, H. 1989 Infants' expectations in play": The joy of peek-a-boo. Cognition and Emotion, 3, 291-311.

4. Spatial Representation:
Landau, B., Spelke, E., and Gleitman, H. Spatial knowledge in a young blind child. Cognition, 1984, 16, 225-260.

Language and experience: Evidence from the blind child. Harvard University Press, 1985 (with B. Landau).

"What some concepts might not be." Cognition, 13, 263--308, 1983 (with S.L. Armstrong and H. Gleitman).

"The structural sources of verb meanings." Language Acquisition, 1990, 1(1), 3 - 55

"When it is better to receive than to give: form and meaning in the verb lexicon," in press, Lingua (with Fisher, Hall, and Rakowitz)

Invitation to Cognitive Science (in press), editor and author, Volume I Language, MIT Press.

Amishi Jha
Jha, A.P. (2002). Tracking the Time-Course of Attentional Involvement in Spatial Working Memory: An Event-related Potential Investigation. Cognitive Brain Research. 15(1), 61-69.

Petrella, J.R., Lustig, C., Bucher, L.A., Jha, A.P., Doraiswamy, P.M. (2002), Prefrontal Activation Patterns in Patients at Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 10-1, 112-113.

Jha, A.P., and McCarthy, G. (2000). The Influence of Memory Load upon Delay Interval Activity in a Working Memory Task: An Event-related Functional MRI Study, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 12, 90-105.

Handy, T.C., Jha, A.P. and Mangun, G.R. (1999). Promoting novelty in vision: Inhibition of return modulates perceptual-level processing. Psychological Science. 10(2), 157-161.

Mangun, G.R., Buonocore, M., Girelli, M., Jha, A.P. (1998). ERP and FMRI. Measures of Visual Spatial Selective Attention. Human Brain Mapping. 6, 383-389.

Jha, A.P., Kroll, N. E. A., Baynes, K., Gazzaniga, M.S. (1997). Memory Encoding Following Callosotomy. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 9 (1), 143-159.

Michael Kahana
Ekstrom, A.D., Kahana, M.J., Caplan, J.B., Newman, E.L. and Fried, I. (2003). Cellular networks underlying human spatial navigation Nature, 425, 184-187.

Sederberg, P. B. , Kahana, M. J. , Howard, M. W. , Donner, E. and Madsen, J. R. (2003).Theta and Gamma Oscillations During Encoding Predict Subsequent Recall The Journal of Neuroscience, 23,10809-10814.

Rizzuto, D.S., Madsen, J. R., Bromfield, E., Schulze-Bonhage, A., Seelig, D., Aschenbrenner-Scheibe, R., and Kahana, M. J. (2003). Reset of human neocortical oscillations during a working memory task. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 100, 7931-7936.

Kahana, M.J. and Sekuler, R. (2002). Recognizing spatial patterns: A noisy exemplar approach. Vision Research, 42, 217-2192.

Howard, M. W. and Kahana, M. J. (2002). A distributed representation of temporal context. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 46, 269-299.

Jacob Nachmias
Nachmias, J. A template matching model of subthreshold summation. (1991) In Computational

Models of Visual Processing, (eds. M. Landy and J.A. Movshon), MIT Press: Cambridge, 137-147.

Nachmias, J. Masked detection of gratings: the standard model revisited. (1993) Vision Research, 33, 1359-1365.

Nachmias, J. How is a grating detected on a narrowband noise masker? (1999) Vision Research, 39, 1133-1142.

Nachmias, J. Contrast discrimination with and without spatial uncertainty (2002) Vision Research, 42, 41-48.

Virginia Richards
Richards, V. M. (2002). Effects of a Limited Class of Nonlinearities on Estimates of Relative Weights. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 111, 1012-1017.

Richards, V. M., Tang, Z., and Kidd, G.D. Jr. (2002). Informational Masking with Small Set Sizes. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 111, 1399-1366.

Richards, V. M. (2002). The Detection of a Tone Added to Noise: Effects of Feedback Variation. J. Assoc. Res. Otolaryn, 03, 209-221.

Tang, Z. and Richards, V. M. (2003). Estimation of a Linear Model in an Informational Masking Study. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 114, 361-367

Representative Publications:
Richards, V.M., (1987). Monaural Envelope Correlation Perception, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 82, 1621-1630.

Richards, V.M., and Lentz, J.J. (1998). Sensitivity to Changes in Level and Envelope Patterns Across Frequency. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 104, 3019-3029.

Robert Seyfarth
Kitchen, D.M., Cheney, D.L., & Seyfarth, R.M. In press. Male baboon (Papio cynocephalus ursinus) responses to loud call contests between rivals of different relative ranks. Animal Cognition.

Kitchen, D.M., Cheney, D.L., & Seyfarth, R.M. In press. Friends, food and females: contextual factors meditating contests between male chacma baboons (Papio cynocephalus ursinus) in Botswana. International Journal of Primatology .

Cheney, D.L., Seyfarth, R.M., Fischer, J., Beehner, J. Bergman, T., Johnson, S.E., Kitchen, D.M., Palombit, R.A., Rendall, D. & Silk, J.B. 2004. Factors affecting reproduction and mortality among baboons in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. International Journal of Primatology 25, 401-428.

Fischer, J., Kitchen, D.M., Seyfarth, R.M. & Cheney, D.L. 2004. Baboon loud calls advertise male quality: Acoustic features and their relation to rank, age, and exhaustion. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology 56, 140-148.

Kitchen, D.M., Cheney, D.L., & Seyfarth, R.M. 2004. Factors mediating inter-group encounters in savannah baboons (Papio cynocephalus ursinus). Behaviour141, 197-218.

Bergman, T.J., Beehner, J.C., Cheney, D.L. & Seyfarth, R.M. 2003. Hierarchical classification by rank and kinship in baboons. Science 302, 1234-1236.

Kitchen, D.M., Cheney, D.L., & Seyfarth, R.M. 2003. Female baboons' responses to male loud calls. Ethology 109, 401-412.

Kitchen, D.M., Seyfarth, R.M., Fischer, J., & Cheney, D.L. 2003. Loud calls as an indicator of dominance in male baboons, Papio cynocephalus ursinus. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology 53, 374-384.

Seyfarth, R.M. & Cheney, D.L. 2003. Signalers and receivers in animal communication. Annual Review of Psychology 54, 145-173.

Silk, J.B., Rendall, D., Cheney, D.L. & Seyfarth, R.M. 2003. Natal attraction in adult female baboons (Papio cynocephalus ursinus) in the Moremi Reserve, Botswana . Ethology 109, 627-644.

Saul Sternberg
Structure of Mental Processes:
Sternberg, S. (2003) Process decomposition from double dissociation of subprocesses. Cortex, 39, 180-182. (Contribution to Cortex Forum on Double Dissociation. See www.masson.it/cortex/39(1).htm)

Sternberg, S. (2001) Separate modifiability, mental modules, and the use of pure and composite measures to reveal them. Acta Psychologica, 106, 147-246.

Daniel Swingley
Swingley, D. (in press). Statistical clustering and the contents of the infant vocabulary. Cognitive Psychology.

Goudbeek, M., Smits, R., Swingley, D., & Cutler, A. (in press). Acquiring auditory and phonetic categories. In Lefebvre, C. & Lefebvre, H. (Eds). Handbook of categorization in cognitive science. Elsevier.

Swingley, D. (2003). Phonetic detail in the developing lexicon. Language and Speech, 46, 265-294.

Swingley, D. and Aslin, R.N. (2002). Lexical neighborhoods and the word-form representations of 14-month-olds. Psychological Science, 13, 480-484.

Swingley, D. and Fernald, A. (2002). Recognition of words referring to present and absent objects by 24-month-olds. Journal of Memory and Language, 46, 39-56.

Fernald, A., McRoberts, G.W., and Swingley, D. (2001). Infants' developing competence in recognizing and understanding words in fluent speech. In J. Weissenborn & B. Hoehle (eds.) Approaches to bootstrapping: Phonological, lexical, syntactic, and neurophysiological aspects of early language acquisition (Vol. I, pp. 97-123). Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Fernald, A., Swingley, D., and Pinto, J.P. (2001). When half a word is enough: infants can recognize spoken words using partial phonetic information. Child Development, 72, 1003-1015.

Sharon Thompson-Schill
Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2003). Neuroimaging studies of semantic memory: inferring "how" from "where". Neuropsychologia, 41, 280-292.

Kan, I. P., Barsalou, L. W., Solomon, K. O., Minor, J. K. & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2003). Role of mental imagery in a property verification task: fMRI evidence for perceptual semantic representations. Cognitive Neuropsychology. 20, 525-540.

Oliver, R. T. & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2003). Dorsal stream activation during the retrieval of object size and shape. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience. 3(4), 309-322.

Kan, I. P. & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2004). Effect of name agreement on prefrontal activity during overt and covert picture naming. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience. 4(1), 43-57.

Tippett, L. J., Gendall, A., Farah, M. J., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2004). Selection Ability in Alzheimer's Disease: Investigation of a Component of Semantic Processing. Neuropsychology. 18(1), 163-173.

Shivde, G. S. & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2004). Dissociating semantic and phonological maintenance using fMRI. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience.

Kan, I. P. & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (in press). Selection from perceptual and conceptual representations. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience.

John Trueswell
New book!
(2004) Approaches to Studying World-Situated Language Use Bridging the Language-as-Product and Language-as-Action Traditions Edited by John C. Trueswell and Michael K. Tanenhaus. Boston, MA: MIT Press.

Systems Engineering

Barry Silverman
Silverman, BG, Holmes, J, Kimmel, S., et al., “Decision Theoretic Emotion Models for Pedagogical Agents in Virtual Reality Games for Healthcare Behavioral Shifting,,” in L.Jain (ed), Practical Applications of Intelligent Agents, Springer-Verlag,

Silverman, BG, Bachann,m, Al-Akharas, K, “Implications of Buyer Decision Theory for the Design of Online e-Commerce Websites”, International J. of Human Computer Studies , Winter 2002

Silverman, BG, Holmes, J, Kimmel, S., “Computer Games May Be Good For Your Health: Shifting Healthcare Behavior Via Virtual Reality Simulators”, HIMMS J. Healthcare Info Mgmt, v.16,n.2, Spring’02, pp. 80-85.

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