Computational Cognition Lab
University of California, Riverside
Presentations of Lab Research

(Titles are linked to abstracts)
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Spring, 2002

Banff Annual Seminar in Cognitive Science (BASICS 2002) -- May 10-12, 2002
Burgess, C. High-dimensional memory models: Transforming real world information into semantics (Invited presentation)
Statistical Learning Across Cognition -- April 13-14, 2002
Cornell University
Burgess, C. Transforming Real-world Language into Semantic Representations
(Invited presentation)

Fall, 2001

Psychonomics Society ----- November 15-18, 2001
Conley, P., Burgess, C., & Decker, C. An examination of semantic density and familiarity in semantic priming
Burgess, C., Conley, P., & Audet, C. Semantic feature characteristics of natural kind and man-made concepts
Society for Computers in Psychology (SCiP) ----- November 15, 2001
Conley, P., & Burgess, C. Hybrid Connectionist/High Dimensional Networks in Modeling Aging and Memory
Robinson, C.S., & Burgess, C. Vocabulary Performance of HAL and LSA Using a Standardized Performance Measure
Devitto, Z., Burgess, C., Decker, C., & Conley, P. Academic and Professional Development: Expanding the Psychology Graduate ApplicantŐs Portal
Colloquium: University of Kansas -- November 2, 2001
Burgess, C. TBA

Spring, 2001

American Psychological Association -- August 25, 2001
Burgess, C., Conley, P., & Decker, C. Developing the Psychology Graduate Applicant's Portal
Colloquium: University of California, San Deigo, Center for Research on Language -- April 2001
Burgess, C. Controversy with high-dimensional modeling
Colloquium: University of California, San Deigo, Psychology Department -- April 5, 2001
Burgess, C. The emergence of high-dimensional models in cognitive psychology

Fall, 2000

Psychonomics Society ----- November 16-19, 2000
Conley, P., & Burgess, C. Can high-dimensional memory models have affordances? Comparing HAL and the Indexical Hypothesis
Livesay, K., & Burgess, C. Influence of verbal ability and working memory on syntactic processing.
Buchanan, L., Westbury, C., & Burgess, C. Semantic influences in word recognition
Audet, C., Burgess, C., & Decker, C. Emergence of global meaning attributes in the HAL memory model
Bueno, S., Frenck-Mestre, C., Burgess, C., & Lund, K. Why semantic relationships are more reliable than associations: Human and computational results
Society for Computers in Psychology (SCiP) ----- November 16, 2000
Burgess, C., Conley, P., & Decker, C. The psychology graduate student portal

Spring, 2000

Conference: On the consequences of meaning selection, Funded by the American Psychological Association.
March 10-12, 2000 ----- University of Texas, Arlington ----- Organized by David Gorfein
Curt Burgess Representing and resolving ambiguity: Contributions of high-dimensional memory models
Colloquium: University of Richmond ----- February 9, 2000
Curt Burgess The application of high-dimensional memory modeling to issues in aging and memory disorders
Colloquium: Army Research Labs ----- February 7, 2000
Curt Burgess Extending contextual analysis techniques for massively parallel computational environments

Fall, 1999

Society for Computers in Psychology (SCiP)
November 18, 1999 ----- Los Angles, CA
Symposium! Organizers: Art Graesser & Curt Burgess Cognitively motivated computerized approaches to survey research
Patrick Conley & Curt Burgess A Computational Approach to Modeling Individual Differences
Lori Buchanan, Chris Westbury, & Curt Burgess Semantic Neighbours in Lexical Decision
Kay Livesay & Curt Burgess Correlations among verbal ability measures and their relationship to psycholinguistic tasks
Curt Burgess, Kevin Lund, & Chad Audet Symposium presentation: The evaluation of survey questions and responses using the density metric from the HAL model
Robert Morrow Using UNIX Shell Scripts to Process Data From Web Experiments: Power, Ease, And Efficiency
Psychonomic Society
November 19 - 21, 1999 ----- Los Angles, CA
Curt Burgess & Kevin Lund Context, not frequency, determines categorical structure
Patick Conley, Curt Burgess, & Catherine Decker The density theory of aging
Kay Livesay & Curt Burgess Mediated priming and individual differences
Robert Morrow, Robert Peterson, Curt Burgess, & Janet Eakins An initial computational analysis of figurative language: The role of density in idiomatic and metaphoric expressions
Ping Li, Kevin Lund, & Curt Burgess Global Lexical Co-occurrences and the Acquisition of Word Meanings
Frequency processing and cognition (Small Group Meeting)
Sponsored by the German Science Foundation,
November 26 - 28, 1999 ----- Psychological Institute, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Curt Burgess Learning via global co-occurrence: Contextual representations of word-meaning
Colloquium: University of Kansas ----- October 29, 1999
Curt Burgess Modeling aging in a high-dimensional model of memory
Colloquium: Fuller Graduate School of Psychology ----- October 5, 1999
Curt Burgess The application of high-dimensional memory modeling to issues in aging and memory disorders

Summer, 1999


Cognitive Science Society
August 19 - 21, 1999 ----- Vancouver, BC, Canada
Kay Livesay& Curt Burgess The Influence of Verbal Ability on Mediated Priming
Chad Audet & Curt Burgess Using a High-dimensional Memory Model to Evaluate the Properties of Abstract and Concrete Words

Spring, 1999


The 13th Annual International Symposium
on High Performance Computing Systems and Applications
June 13 - 16, 1998 ----- Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Curt Burgess Computational cognition and the age of supercomputing: Using high-performance computing and Usenet to model memory, meaning and the mind
Western Psychological Association
April 29 - May 2, 1999 ----- Irvine, California
Curt Burgess & Jennifer Guire Repressed memories and WWII veterans: A special memory mechanism or retrograde amnesia?
Patrick Conley & Curt Burgess Aging title
Rob Morrow & Curt BurgessGlobal Constraint and Metaphors: The Contribution of Representational Density

Winter, 1999

Psychology Department Colloquium
March 12, 1999 ----- Claremont Graduate School
TBA pm, Room tba
Curt Burgess The Density Theory of Aging and Memory
Cognitive Science Colloquium
January 25, 1999 ----- UCLA
12:00 pm, Franz Hall
Curt Burgess Modeling Memory with the HAL Model

Fall, 1998

International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS)
December 4 - 5, 1998 ----- Breckenridge, Colorado
Curt Burgess & Kevin Lund The transduction of symbolic environmental input into high-dimensional distributed representations
Psychonomic Society Meeting
November 19 - 22, 1998 ----- Dallas, Texas
Kevin Lund & Curt Burgess Using the HAL Model's Context Similarity Metric to Model Decision Making
Society for Computers in Psychology (SCiP)
November 19, 1998 ----- Dallas, Texas
Curt Burgess, Kevin Lund,
Maureen Keeney & Chad Audet
A Generic Multiple Choice Test Program for Web-based Applications
Patrick Conley, Dotty Hage,
& Curt Burgess
Large Scale Databasses of Proper Names
Rob Morrow, Curt Burgess,
& Kevin Lund
Assessing HAL's and LSA's Verbal Intelligence: Vocabulary Level and the Relationship Between Word Difficulty and Neighborhood Density
Kevin Lund & Curt Burgess Using Word Context to predict Part of Speech Proportions for Grammatically Ambiguous Words
Kevin Lund HAL Compared to LSA: Is it the Matrix or Is It the Metric?
Curt Burgess Measuring Similarity: The Many Metrics of HAL
Presentation at the University of Victoria
November 13, 1998 ----- British Columbia, Canada
Curt Burgess Global co-occurrence and connectionist models: Contextual representations of word-meaning