Topics in Immediate Interactive Behavior
COGS 6960
List of readings read by the Weekly Reading Group. This list will grow, weekly, throughout the semester.
Fall 2009
Oct 1th
Walsh, M. M., & Anderson, J. R. (2009). The strategic nature of changing your mind. Cognitive Psychology, 58(3), 416-440.
Sep 24th
Nersessian, N. J. (2009). How Do Engineering Scientists Think? Model-Based Simulation in Biomedical Engineering Research Laboratories. Topics in Cognitive Science, 1(4).
Sep 17th
Cooper, R. P. (2007). The role of falsification in the development of cognitive architectures: Insights from a Lakatosian analysis. Cognitive Science, 31(3), 509-533.
Sep 03rd
Ophir, E., Nass, C., & Wagner, A. D. (2009). Cognitive control in media multitaskers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(37), 15583-15587.
Summer 2009
Jul 16th
Chapters 9 & 10: Clark, A. (2008). Supersizing the mind: Embodiment, action, and cognitive extension. New York: Oxford University Press.
Jul 9th
Chapters 8: Clark, A. (2008). Supersizing the mind: Embodiment, action, and cognitive extension. New York: Oxford University Press.
Jun 19th
Chapters 6 & 7: Clark, A. (2008). Supersizing the mind: Embodiment, action, and cognitive extension. New York: Oxford University Press
Jun 11th
Chapters 5: Clark, A. (2008). Supersizing the mind: Embodiment, action, and cognitive extension. New York: Oxford University Press
Jun 3rd
Chapters 3 & 4: Clark, A. (2008). Supersizing the mind: Embodiment, action, and cognitive extension. New York: Oxford University Press
May 27th
Chapters 1 & 2: Clark, A. (2008). Supersizing the mind: Embodiment, action, and cognitive extension. New York: Oxford University Press
May 21th
Hills, T. T., Todd, P. M., & Goldstone, R. L. (2008). Search in external and internal spaces - Evidence for generalized cognitive search processes. Psychological Science, 19(8), 802-808.
Spring 2009
May 12th
John, B. E., Rosenbloom, P. S., & Newell, A. (1985). A Theory of Stimulus-Response Compatibility Applied to Human-Computer Interaction. In L. Borman & B. Curtis (Eds.), ACM CHI'85 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 213–219). New York: ACM Press.
Schooler, L. J., & Hertwig, R. (2005). How forgetting aids heuristic inference. Psychological Review, 112(3), 610-628.
Apr 30th
Kieras, D. E. (2009). The persistent visual store as the locus of fixation memory in visual search tasks. Manuscript.
Kieras, D. E. (2009). Why EPIC was wrong about motor feature programming. Manuscript.
Apr 23rd
Botvinick, M. M., & Plaut, D. C. (2006). Such stuff as habits are made on: A reply to Cooper and Shallice (2006). Psychological Review, 113(4), 917-927.
Botvinick, M. M., & Plaut, D. C. (2006). Postscript: The way forward. Psychological Review, 113(4), 928-928.
Cooper, R. P., & Shallice, T. (2006). Structured representations in the control of behavior cannot be so easily dismissed: A reply to Botvinick and Plaut (2006). Psychological Review, 113(4), 929-931.
Apr 2nd
Cooper, R. P., & Shallice, T. (2006). Hierarchical schemas and goals in the control of sequential behavior. Psychological Review, 113(4), 887-916.
Mar 19th
Botvinick, M., & Plaut, D. C. (2004). Doing Without Schema Hierarchies: A Recurrent Connectionist Approach to Normal and Impaired Routine Sequential Action. Psychological Review, 111(2), 395-429.
Mar 5th
Wu, C., & Liu, Y. (2008). Queuing network modeling of the psychological refractory period (PRP). Psychological Review, 115(4), 913-954.
Feb 12th & 19th
Carpenter, P. A., Just, M. A., & Shell, P. (1990). What one intelligence test measures: A theoretical account of the processing in the Raven Progressive Matrices Test. Psychological Review, 97(3), 404–431.
Feb 5th
Barrouillet, P., Lépine, R., & Camos, V. (2008). Is the influence of working memory capacity on high-level cognition mediated by complexity or resource-dependent elementary processes? Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15(3), 528-534.
Jaeggi, S. M., Buschkuehl, M., Jonides, J., & Perrig, W. J. (2008). Improving fluid intelligence with training on working memory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105(19), 6829-6833.
Sternberg, R. J. (2008). Increasing fluid intelligence is possible after all. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105(19), 6791-6792.
Jan 22nd
Conway, A. R. A., Kane, M. J., Bunting, M. F., Hambrick, D. Z., Wilhelm, O., & Engle, R. W. (2005). Working memory span tasks: A methodological review and user's guide. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 12(5), 769-786.
Green, C. S., & Bavelier, D. (2003). Action video game modifies visual selective attention. Nature, 423(6939), 534-537.
Jan 15th
Gray, W. D. & Schoelles, M. J. (2008). Resource allocation in decision-making: Working memory and problem solving under resource constraints and time pressure. CWL-2008.
Fall 2008
Altmann, E. M., & Gray, W. D. (2008). An integrated model of cognitive control in task switching. Psychological Review, 115(3), 602-639.
Burke, M., Hornof, A. J., Nilsen, E., & Gorman, N. (2005). High-cost banner blindness: Ads increase perceived workload, hinder visual search, and are forgotten. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact., 12(4), 423-445.
Droll, J. A., & Hayhoe, M. M. (2007). Trade-offs between gaze and working memory use. Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance, 33(6), 1352-1365.
Feldhutter, I., Schleidt, M., & Eibleibesfeldt, I. (1990). Moving in the beat of seconds – Analysis of the time structure of human action. Ethology and Sociobiology, 11(6), 511-520.
Gigerenzer, G., & Brighton, H. (2009). Homo heuristicus: Why biased minds make better inferences. Topics in Cognitive Science, 1(1).
Hardiess, G., Gillner, S., & Mallot, H. A. (2008). Head and eye movements and the role of memory limitations in a visual search paradigm. Journal of Vision, 8(1), 1-13. Retrieved from http://journalofvision.org/8/1/7/. doi:10.1167/8.1.7
McClelland, J. L. (2009). The place of modeling in cognitive science. Topics in Cognitive Science, 1(1).
Navalpakkam, V., & Itti, L. (2005). Modeling the influence of task on attention. Vision Research, 45(2), 205-231.
Vogel, E. K., & Machizawa, M. G. (2004). Neural activity predicts individual differences in visual working memory capacity. Nature, 428(6984), 748-751.
Vogel, E. K., McCollough, A. W., & Machizawa, M. G. (2005). Neural measures reveal individual differences in controlling access to working memory. Nature, 438(7067), 500-503.
Summer 2008
May 27th
Salvucci, D. D., & Taatgen, N. A. (2008). Threaded cognition: An integrated theory of concurrent multitasking. Psychological Review, 115(1), 101-130.
May 23rd
Posner, M. I., & Rothbart, M. K. (2007). Research on Attention Networks as a Model for the Integration of Psychological Science. Annual Review of Psychology, 58(1), 1-23.
May 15th
Gopher, D., Weil, M., & Bareket, T. (1994). Transfer of skill from a computer game trainer to flight. Human Factors, 36(3), 387–405.
Spring 2008:
May 2nd
Talk by Jelmer Borst, Ph.D. student, University of Groningen
April 25th – No meeting due to NSF Workshop at Duke
April 11th
Burke, M., Hornof, A. J., Nilsen, E., & Gorman, N. (2005). High-cost banner blindness: Ads increase perceived workload, hinder visual search, and are forgotten. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact., 12(4), 423-445.
April 4th
Reynolds, J. R., Zacks, J. M., & Braver, T. S. (2007). A computational model of event segmentation from perceptual prediction. Cognitive Science, 31(4), 613-643.
March 28th – No meeting due to the 2008 Workshop on Natural Environments, Tasks, and Intelligence, UofTx, Austin.
March 21st
Cooper, R. P., Schwartz, M. F., Yule, P., & Shallice, T. (2005). The simulation of action disorganisation in complex activities of daily living. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 22(8), 959-1004.
March 14th – Spring Break, no class
March 7th
Joiner, W. M., & Shelhamer, M. (2006). An internal clock generates repetitive predictive saccades. Experimental Brain Research, 175(2), 305-320.
February 29th
Poppel, E. (2004). Lost in time: a historical frame, elementary processing units and the 3-second window. Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis, 64(3), 295-301.
Feldhutter, I., Schleidt, M., & Eibleibesfeldt, I. (1990). Moving in the beat of seconds – Analysis of the time structure of human action. Ethology and Sociobiology, 11(6), 511-520.
February 22ndBurke, M., Hornof, A. J., Nilsen, E., & Gorman, N. (2005). High-cost banner blindness: Ads increase perceived workload, hinder visual search, and are forgotten. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact., 12(4), 423-445.
Carmi, R., & Itti, L. (2006). The role of memory in guiding attention during natural vision. Journal of Vision, 6(9), 898-914.
February 15th
Lee, M. D. (2008). Three case studies in the Bayesian analysis of cognitive models. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15, 1-15.
February 8th
Lee, M. D. (2008). Three case studies in the Bayesian analysis of cognitive models. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15, 1-15.
February 1st – no class
January 25th
Land, M., Mennie, N., & Rusted, J. (1999). The roles of vision and eye movements in the control of activities of daily living. Perception, 28(11), 1311-1328.
January 18th
Droll, J. A., & Hayhoe, M. M. (2007). Trade-offs between gaze and working memory use. Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance, 33(6), 1352-1365.
Fall 2007:
December 14th
Gevins, A., Smith, M. E., Leong, H., McEvoy, L., Whitfield, S., Du, R., et al. (1998). Monitoring working memory load during computer-based tasks with EEG pattern recognition methods. Human Factors, 40(1), 79–91.
December 7th – no class
November 30th
Griffiths, T. L., Steyvers, M., & Firl, A. (2007). Google and the Mind: Predicting Fluency With PageRank. Psychological Science, 18(12), 1069-1076.
November 23rd – no class, Thanksgiving Holiday
November 16th
November 8th (Thursday)
Group discussion of Psychological Review submission – part 3
November 2nd
Group discussion of Psychological Review submission – part 2
October 26th
Group discussion of Psychological Review submission – part 1
October 19th – no meeting due to ONR Workshop
October 11th
Anderson, J. R. (2007). How can the human mind occur in the physical universe? New York: Oxford University Press; Chapters 5 & 6
October 5th
Anderson, J. R. (2007). How can the human mind occur in the physical universe? New York: Oxford University Press; Chapters 4
September 28th – canceled due to dissertation celebration
September 21st
Anderson, J. R. (2007). How can the human mind occur in the physical universe? New York: Oxford University Press; Chapters 3
September 14th
Anderson, J. R. (2007). How can the human mind occur in the physical universe? New York: Oxford University Press; Chapters 2
September 7th
Anderson, J. R. (2007). How can the human mind occur in the physical universe? New York: Oxford University Press; Chapter 1
August 31st
Anderson, J. R. (1991). Is human cognition adaptive? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 14(3), 471–517.