ABSTRACT

First Published in 1988. A collection of papers, presentations and poster summaries from the tenth annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society in Montreal, Canada August 1988.

part |488 pages

PAPER PRESENTATIONS

chapter |7 pages

Transitions in Strategy Choices

ByRobert S. Siegler

chapter |8 pages

VITAL

A Connectionist Parser
ByTim Howells

chapter |7 pages

Applying Contextual Constraints in Sentence Comprehension

ByMark F. St. John, James L. McClelland

chapter |8 pages

Experiments With Sequential Associative Memories

ByStephen I. Gallant, Donna J. King

chapter |7 pages

Using Rules and Task Division to Augment Connectionist Learning

ByWilliam L. Oliver, Walter Schneider

chapter |7 pages

Analyzing a connectionist model as a system of soft rules

ByClayton McMillan, Paul Smolensky

chapter |7 pages

HOW TO SUMMARIZE THICK TEXT

(And Represent It Too)
ByRichard Alterman, Lawrence Bookman

chapter |7 pages

ON-LINE PROCESSING OF A PROCEDURAL TEXT

ByANDRÉ RENAUD, CARL H. FREDERIKSEN

chapter |7 pages

Understanding Stories in their Social Context

ByEric Domeshek

chapter |7 pages

Context effects in the comprehension of idioms

ByPATRIZIA TABOSSI, CRISTINA CACCIARI

chapter |7 pages

Action Planning: Routine Computing Tasks

BySuzanne M. Mannes, Walter Kintsch

chapter |7 pages

A Theory of Simplicity

ByGilbert Harman, Michael Ranney, Ken Salem, Frank Döring, Jonathan Epstein, Agnieszka Jaworska

chapter |7 pages

Basic Levels in Hierarchically Structured Categories

ByJames E. Corter, Mark A. Gluck, Gordon H. Bower

chapter |7 pages

FLEXIBLE NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND ROSCHIAN CATEGORY THEORY

BySandra L. Peters, Stuart C. Shapiro, William J. Rapaport

chapter |7 pages

Integrating Marker Passing and Connectionism for Handling Conceptual and Structural Ambiguities*

ByRonald A. Sumida, Michael G. Dyer, Margot Flowers

chapter |7 pages

Learning Subgoals and Methods for Solving Problems

ByRichard Catrambone, Keith J. Holyoak

chapter |7 pages

Integrating Case-Based and Causal Reasoning

ByPhyllis Koton

chapter |7 pages

Modeling Human Syllogistic Reasoning in Soar

ByThad A. Polk, Allen Newell

chapter |7 pages

How Near Is Too Far? Talking about Visual Images

ByUri Zernik, Barbara J. Vivier

chapter |7 pages

AN ADAPTIVE MODEL FOR VIEWPOINT-INVARIANT OBJECT RECOGNITION

ByPeter A. Sandon, Leonard M. Uhr

chapter |7 pages

Representation and Recognition of Biological Motion2

ByNigel H. Goddard

chapter |7 pages

A Theory of Scientific Problem Solving

ByRandolph Jones, Pat Langley

chapter |6 pages

EMPIRICAL ANALYSES AND CONNECTIONIST MODELING OF REAL-TIME HUMAN IMAGE UNDERSTANDING

ByIRVING BIEDERMAN, THOMAS W. BLICKLE, GINNY JU, H. JOHN HILTON, JOHN E. HUMMEL

chapter |7 pages

A Computational Model of Syntactic Ambiguity as a Lexical Process1

ByCurt Burgess, S.C. Hollbach

chapter |7 pages

A PARALLEL MODEL FOR ADULT SENTENCE PROCESSING1

ByROBIN CLARK, EDWARD GIBSON

chapter |7 pages

Interpretation of Quantifier Scope Ambiguities

ByHoward S. Kurtzman, Maryellen C. MacDonald

chapter |7 pages

The Role of Analogy in a Theory of Problem-Solving

ByBeth Adelson, Mark Burstein, Dedre Gentner, Kristinn Hammond, Keith Holyoak, Paul Thagard

chapter |7 pages

Hierarchical Problem Solving as a Means of Promoting Expertise*

ByJose Mestre, Robert Dufresne, William Gerace, Pamela T. Hardiman

chapter |6 pages

COLLABORATIVE COGNITION

ByBarbara A. Fox, Lorraine Karen

chapter |7 pages

Explorations in Understanding How Physical Systems Work

ByBarbara Y. White, John R. Frederiksen

chapter |8 pages

Instructional Strategies for a Coached Practice Environment

BySusanne P. Lajoie, Gary M. Eggan, Alan Lesgold

chapter |7 pages

Creatures of Habit

A Computational System to Enhance and Illuminate the Development of Scientific Thinking*
ByRoy Pea, Michael Eisenbergt, Franklyn Turbak

chapter |7 pages

THE PRAGMATICS OF EXPERTISE IN MEDICINE

ByDavid A. Evans

chapter |9 pages

COGNITIVE FLEXIBILITY THEORY: ADVANCED KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION IN ILL-STRUCTURED DOMAINS

ByRand J. Spiro, Richard L. Coulson, Paul J. Feltovich, Daniel K. Anderson

chapter |7 pages

Language Experience and Prose Processing in Adulthood

ByRoger A. Dixon, Lars Bäckman

chapter |7 pages

EFFECTS OF AGE AND SKILL ON DOMAIN-SPECIFIC VISUAL SEARCH

ByStephanie M. Clancy, William J. Hoyer

chapter |7 pages

PATCHING UP OLD PLANS

ByKatia Sycara

chapter |7 pages

Systematicity as a Selection Constraint in Analogical Mapping

ByCatherine Clement, Dedre Gentner

chapter |7 pages

ABSTRACTION PROCESSES DURING CONCEPT LEARNING: A STRUCTURAL VIEW

ByJanice Skorstad, Dedre Gentner, Doug Medin

chapter |7 pages

EXPLANATORY COHERENCE AND BELIEF REVISION IN NAIVE PHYSICS

ByMichael Ranney, Paul Thagard

chapter |7 pages

Access and Use of Previous Solutions In A Problem Solving Situation

ByJeremiah M. Faries, Brian J. Reiser

chapter |7 pages

The Use of Explanations for Completing and Correcting Causal Models1

ByJoel D. Martin, Michael Redmond

chapter |7 pages

Varieties of Learning from Problem Solving Experience*

ByJuliana Lancaster, Janet L. Kolodner

chapter |7 pages

The Process of Learning LISP

ByFrederick G. Conrad, John R. Anderson

chapter |7 pages

A Dynamical Theory of the Power-Law of Learning in Problem-Solving

ByJeff Shrager, Tad Hogg, Bernardo A. Huberman

chapter |7 pages

ASSESSING THE STRUCTURE OF KNOWLEDGE IN A PROCEDURAL DOMAIN

ByMichel C. Desmarais, Luc Giroux, Serge Larochelle, Serge Leclerc

chapter |7 pages

IMPROVEMENT IN MEDICAL EXPERTISE INDEPENDENT OF STABLE KNOWLEDGE

ByG.R. NORMAN, L.R. BROOKS, S.W. ALLEN, D. ROSENTHAL

part |283 pages

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

chapter |7 pages

The usefulness of the script concept for characterizing dream reports

ByDaniel Deslauriers, George W. Baylor

chapter |7 pages

Unsupervised Learning of Correlational Structure*

ByAndrew Chalnick, Dorrit Billman

chapter |7 pages

Causal Reasoning about Complex Physiological Mechanisms by Novices

ByAnoop S. Chawla, Vimla L. Patel

chapter |8 pages

Naive Materialistic Belief: An Underlying Epistemological Commitment

ByMiriam Reiner, Michelene T. H. Chi, Lauren Resnick

chapter |7 pages

MULTIPLE CHARACTER RECOGNITION - A SIMULATION MODEL

BySebastian Koebe, Gerhard Deffner

chapter |7 pages

INTUITIVE NOTIONS OF LIGHT AND LEARNING ABOUT LIGHT

ByReiner M., Finegold M.

chapter |7 pages

Signalling Importance in Spoken Narratives: The Cataphoric Use of the Indefinite This

ByMorton A. Gernsbacher, Suzanne Shroyer

chapter |7 pages

PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION ERRORS IN ALGORITHM DESIGN

ByWayne D. Gray, Albert T. Corbett, Kurt Van Lehn

chapter |7 pages

Conceptual Slippage and Analogy-Making: A Report on the Copycat Project

ByDouglas R. Hofstadter, Melanie Mitchell

chapter |8 pages

Problem Solving is What You Do When You Don't Know What to Do

ByJohnson Kochevar, Laura K. Kochevar, Paul E. Johnson

chapter |7 pages

Cirrus: Inducing Subject Models From Protocol Data

ByBernadette Kowalski, Kurt VanLehn

chapter |7 pages

THREE KINDS OF CONCEPTS?

ByBarbara C. Malt

chapter |7 pages

Constructing Coherent Text using Rhetorical Relations*

ByJohanna D. Moore, Cecile L. Paris

chapter |7 pages

DEFEASIBILITY IN CONCEPT COMBINATION: A CRITERIAL APPROACH

ByFranks Bradley, Terry Myers, Scott Mcglashan

chapter |7 pages

THE COMPREHENSION OF ARCHITECTURAL PLANS BY EXPERT AND SUB-EXPERT ARCHITECTS

ByJanice D. Gobert, Carl H. Frederiksen

chapter |8 pages

Processing Aspectual Semantics

BySergel Nirenburg, James Pustejovsky

chapter |8 pages

Generalization by humans and multi-layer adaptive networks

ByM. Pavel, Mark A. Gluck, Van Henkle

chapter |7 pages

Pattern-Based Parsing for Word-Sense Disambiguation

ByRajesh S. Virkar, John W. Roach

chapter |7 pages

MULTIPLE THEORIES IN SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY

ByDonald Rose

chapter |7 pages

A Model of Meter Perception in Music

ByBenjamin O. Miller, Don L. Scarborough, Jacqueline A. Jones

chapter |7 pages

Acquiring Computer Skills by Exploration versus Demonstration

ByFranz Schmalhofer, Otto Kühn

chapter |7 pages

A HYBRID MODEL FOR CONTROLLING RETRIEVAL OF EPISODES

ByColleen M. Seifert

chapter |7 pages

The Role of Mapping in Analogical Transfer1

ByHong S. Shinn

chapter |7 pages

A Computational Model of Reactive Depression

ByCharles Webster, Richard M Glass, Gordon Banks

chapter |7 pages

Reasoning by rule or model ?

ByP.N. Johnson-Laird