Publications

Papers
Book Chapters
Conference Abstracts

MURI researcher

Papers

  1. Achtman, R.L., Green, C.S., & Bavelier, D. (2008). Video games as a tool to train visual skills. Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience, Special Issue on Visual System Damage and Plasticity, 26 (4-5), 435-446.
  2. Andersen, S.K., Hillyard, S.A. & Müller, M.M. (2008). Attention facilitates multiple features in parallel in human visual cortex. Current Biology 18:1006-1009.
  3. Baker, C.L., Tenenbaum, J.B., & Saxe, R.R. (in press). Action understanding as inverse planning. Cognition.
  4. Battaglia, P.W., Di Luca, M., Ernst, M.O., Schrater, P.R., Machulla, T. & Kersten, D. (submitted). Within- and cross-modal distance information disambiguates visual size perception.
  5. Bavelier, D. & Green, C.S. (in press). Video game based learning: there is more than meet the eye. Frontiers in Neuroscience, special issue on Augmented Cognition.
  6. Beck, J., Ma, W.J., Kiani, R., Hanks, T., Churchland, A.K., Roitman, J., Shadlen, M.N, Latham, P.E., & Pouget, A. (2008). Probabilistic population codes for Bayesian decision making. Neuron. 60(6):1142-52.
  7. Beck, J., Ma, W.J., Latham, P.E., & Pouget, A. (2007). Probabilistic Population Codes and the Exponential Family of Distributions. Progress in Brain Research. 165:509-19.
  8. Beck, J., Bejunki, V., & Pouget, A. (under review). Fisher information in stimulus correlated spiking networks.
  9. Beck, J., Ma, W.J., Latham, P.E., & Pouget, A. (under review). Neural variability: Noise, internal variables or incompetence?
  10. Brady, M., Hegdé, J., & Gu, H. (under review). Morphogen interaction and evoluation in digital embryos. Transactions in Graphics.
  11. Clayards, M.A., Tanenhaus, M.K., Aslin, R.N., & Jacobs, R.A. (2008). Perception of speech reflects optimal use of probabilistic speech cues. Cognition, 108, 804-809.
  12. Creel, S.C., Aslin, R.N., & Tanenhaus, M.K. (2008). Heeding the voice of experience: The role of talker variation inlexical access. Cognition, 106, 633-664.
  13. Destefano, M. & Gray, W.D. (2008). Progress reporton Pygame Space Fortress. Technical report. Troy, NY: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
  14. Dye, M.W.G., Green, C.S. & Bavelier, D. (In Press). Attentional networks and their development in action video game players. Neuropsychologia.
  15. Dye, M.W.G., Green, C.S., & Bavelier, D. (In Press). Increasing speed of processing through action video games. Current Directions in Psychological Science.
  16. Gebhart, A.L., Aslin, R.N., & Newport, E.L. (in press). Changing structures in mid-stream: Learning along the statistical garden path. Cognitive Science.
  17. Gebhart, A.L., Newport, E.L., & Aslin, R.N. (in press). Statistical learning of adjacent and non-adjacent dependencies among non-linguistic sounds. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
  18. Goodman, N., Tenenbaum, J.B., Griffiths, T.L., & Feldman, J. (2008). A rational analysis of rule-based concept learning. Cognitive Science 32:1, 108-154.
  19. Green, C.S. & Bavelier, D. (2007). Action video game experience alters the spatial resolution of vision. Psychological Science, 18(1), 88-94.
  20. Green, C.S. & Bavelier, D. (2008). Exercising your brain: A review of human brain plasticity and training induced learning. Psychology and Aging, Special Issue on Plasticity, 23(4), 692-701.
  21. Green, C.S., Benson C., Kersten, D. & Schrater, P. (submitted). Alterations in choice behavior by manipulations of world-model.
  22. Green, C.S., Li, R., & Bavelier, D. (submitted). Perceptual learning during action video games. TopiCS. Special issue on perceptual learning.
  23. Green, C.S., Pouget, A., & Bavelier, D. (submitted). Improving perceptual decision making with action video games.
  24. Griffiths, T.L. & Tenenbaum, J.B. (2007). From mere coincidences to meaningful discoveries. Cognition 103(2), 180-226.
  25. Hagler, D.J., Halgren, Jr., E., Martinez, A., Huang, M., Hillyard, S.A., & Dale, A.M. (2009). Source estimates for MEG/EEG visual evoked responses constrained by multiple, retinotopically-mapped stimulus locations. Human Brain Mapping, 30:1290-1309.
  26. Hegdé, J., Bart, E., & Kersten, D. (2008). Fragment-based learning of visual object categories. Curr. Biol., 18, 597-601.
  27. Hegdé J., Fang F., Murray, S.O., & Kersten D. (2008). Preferential responses to occluded objects in the human visual cortex. Journal of Vision, 8(4), 1-16.
  28. Hegdé, J., Thompson, S.K., Brady, M. & Kersten, D. (submitted). A Link between 'On-line' Visual Disambiguation and Neural Mechanisms of Working Memory.
  29. Hegdé, J., Thompson, S.K., Brady, M. & Kersten, D. (submitted). Object recognition in clutter: Cortical responses depend on how objects are learned.
  30. Hunt, R.H. & Aslin, R.N. (under review). Category induction via distributional analysis: Evidence from a serial reaction timetask. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
  31. Kemp, C., Perfors, A. & Tenenbaum, J.B. (2007). Learning overhypotheses with hierarchical Bayesian models. Developmental Science 10(3), 307-321.
  32. Kemp, C. & Tenenbaum, J.B. (2008). The discovery of structural form. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(31), 10687-10692.
  33. Kemp, C. & Tenenbaum, J.B. (2009). Structured statistical models of inductive reasoning. Psychological Review 116(1), 20-58.
  34. Khoe, W., Mitchell, J.F., Reynolds, J.H., & Hillyard, S.A. (2008). ERP evidence that surface-based attention biases interocular competition during rivalry. Journal of Vision 8: 1-11.
  35. Kording, K., Beierholm, U., Ma, W.J., Quartz, S., Tenenbaum, J.B., & Shams, L. (2007). Causal inference in multisensoryperception. Public Library of Science ONE2(9), e943.
  36. Kording, K., Tenenbaum, J.B., & Shadmehr, R. (2007). The dynamics of motor memory are a consequence of optimal adaptation toa changing body. Nature Neuroscience, 10, 779-786.
  37. Krynski, T.R. & Tenenbaum, J.B. (2007). The role of causality in judgment under uncertainty. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 136(3), 430-450.
  38. Li, R., Polat, U., Makous, W. & Bavelier, D. (In Press). Enhancing the contrast sensitivity function through action video game playing. Nature Neuroscience.
  39. Ma, W.J., Beck, J. & Pouget, A. (2008). Spiking networks for Bayesian inference and choice. Current Opinion in Biology. 18:217-222.
  40. Ma, W.J. & Pouget, A. (2008). Linking neurons to behavior in multisensory perception: a computational review. Brain Research. 1242:4-12.
  41. Maye, J., Aslin, R.N., & Tanenhaus, M.K. (2008). The weckud wetch of the wast: Lexical adaptation to a novel accent. Cognitive Science, 32, 543-562.
  42. Mishra, J., Martinez, A., & Hillyard, S.A. (2008). Cortical processes underlying sound-induced flash fusion.Brain Research 1242: 102-115.
  43. Mishra, J. & Hillyard, S.A. Endogenous attention selection during binocular rivalry at early stages of visual processing.Vision Research, in press. {Epub ahead of print}
  44. Orban, G., Fiser, J., Aslin, R.N., & Lengyel, M. (2008). Bayesian learning of visualchunks by human observers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105, 2745-2750.
  45. Pirog Revill, K., Aslin, R.N., Tanenhaus, M.K., & Bavelier, D. (2008). Neural correlates of partial lexical activation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105, 13110-13114.
  46. Pouget, A. & Bavelier, D. (2007). Paying attention to neurons with discriminative taste. Neuron. Neuron Previews. 53(4), 473-475.
  47. Pouget, A. & DeAngelis, G.C. (2008). (News and Views) Paying attention to correlated neural activity. Nature Neuroscience. 11(12):1371-2.

Book Chapters

  1. Aslin, R.N., Clayards, M.A., & Bardhan, N.P. (2008). Mechanisms of auditory reorganization during development: From sounds to words. In C. A. Nelson & M. Luciana (Eds.), Handbook of developmental cognitive neuroscience, 2nd edition. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  2. Aslin, R.N. & Newport, E.L. (2008). What statistical learning can and can't tell us about language acquisition. In J. Colombo, P. McCardle, & L. Freund (Eds.), Infant pathways to language: Methods, models, and research directions. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  3. Bavelier, D. & Green, C.S. (in press). Entry: Video Games. In. B. Goldstein (Ed). The SAGE Encyclopedia of Perception, SAGE Publication, Inc.
  4. Bavelier, D., Dye, M.W.G., & Green, C.S. (in press). Exercising your brain: Training-related brain plasticity. In M. Gazzaniga (Ed). The Cognitive Neurosciences, Volume IV – Section Plasticity.
  5. Cohen, J.E., Green, C.S., & Bavelier, D. (2007). Training visual attention with video games: Not all games are created equal. In Harry O'Neil & Ray Perez (Eds). Computer games and adult learning. Elsevier Group Inc.
  6. Griffiths, T.L., Kemp, C., & Tenenbaum, J.B. (2008). Bayesian models of cognition.In Ron Sun (ed.), Cambridge Handbook of Computational Cognitive Modeling. Cambridge University Press.
  7. Kersten, D. & Mamassian, P. (2009). Ideal Observer Theory. In: Squire LR (ed.) Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, volume 5, pp. 89-95. Oxford: Academic Press.
  8. Ma, W.J. & Pouget, A. (2008). Population codes: Theoretic aspects. Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Squire, L. et al. MIT Press.

Conference Abstracts

  1. Acuña, D., & Schrater, P. (2009). Structure learning in human sequential decision-making. Computational and Systems Neuroscience 2009 (COSYNE), Salt Lake City, UT.
  2. Acuña, D. & Schrater, P. (2008). Evidence for structural learning in people's sequential decision-making. Submitted to Neural Information Processing Systems.
  3. Acuña, D. & Schrater, P. (2008). Bayesian modeling of human sequential decision-making on the multi-armed bandit problem. In B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2065-2070). Austin, TX.
  4. Aslin, R.N. (2008). Constraints on statistical learning: Implications for plasticity and sensitive periods. Language, Mind & Brain: Mechanisms of Learning, Brain Plasticity, and Critical Periods. McGill University, Montreal.
  5. Aslin, R.N. (2008). The infant as statistical learner: Implications for cognitive and language development. International Conference on Infant Studies. Vancouver.
  6. Baker, C.L., Tenenbaum, J.B., & Saxe, R. (2007). Goal inference as inverse planning. Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
  7. Baker, C.L., Goodman, N.D., & Tenenbaum, J.B. (2008). Theory-based social goal inference. Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
  8. Battaglia, P. & Schrater, P. (2008). Humans use stereo and haptic distance cues to improve physical object size estimates. Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting.
  9. Battaglia, P. & Schrater, P. (2008). Robust Bayesian framework for modeling psychophysical tasks. Computational and Systems Neuroscience 2008 (COSYNE).
  10. Bavelier, D. (2008). Speaker Plenary Session. NIN-KNAW Meeting on Perceptual learning, motor learning and automaticity. Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  11. Bavelier, D. (2009). Learning in complex environment: the case of video games. Gordon Research Conference on Neural Circuits and Plasticity. Salve Regina University, Newport RI.
  12. Bavelier, D (2009). Action video game playing enhances vision and perceptual decision making. Games for Health Conference, Boston MA.
  13. Bavelier, D. (2009). Transfer of learning: The case of video game playing. Carnegie Mellon University, 2009 Carnegie Symposium on Cognition - A memorial tribute to the scientific contributions of the late Bill Chase, Invited Speaker, Pittsburgh PA.
  14. Bavelier, D. (2009). Action video game playing as a learning tool. New York University, Games for Learning Institute, New York NY.
  15. Bavelier, D. (2007). Invited speaker at a special session on The Neuroscience of Language, American Educational Research Association, APA, Chicago, NW.
  16. Bavelier, D., Green C.S., & Pouget, A. (2007). Action videogame playing improves Bayesian inference for perceptual decision-making. OSA/Fall Vision Meeting. San Francisco, CA.
  17. Beck, J.M., Latham, P.E., & Pouget, A. (2009). Complex Bayesian Inference in Neural Circuits using Divisive Normalization. Computational and Systems Neuroscience Annual Meeting (COSYNE), Salt Lake City, UT.
  18. Beck, J.M., Ma, W.J., Navalpakkam, V., & Pouget, A. (2008). Exact and approximate solutions for marginalization with probabilistic population codes. COSYNE abstracts. Salt Lake City.
  19. Bejjanki, V.R., Beck, J., & Pouget, A. (2008). A neural basis for perceptual learning: Improved Bayesian inference during sensory representation. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. Washington DC.
  20. Benson, C., Green, C.S., Kersten, D., & Schrater, P. (2009). The effect of reward structure on sequential decision-making. Vision Sciences Society Annual meeting, Naples FL.
  21. Benson C., Kersten S., & Schrater P. (2008). Decision making in an uncertain video game environment. Vision Sciences Society.
  22. Destefano, M., and Gray, W.D. (2009). Space Fortress and Cognitive Control, Beckman Institute, University of Ilinois.
  23. Destefano, M. & Gray, W.D. (2008). Choreographing cognition, perception, and motor control over 7.03 orders of magnitude. Paper presented at the Thirteenth Annual ACT-R Summer Workshop. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
  24. Destefano, M. & Gray, W.D. (2008). An integrated model of action video game play. In V. Sloutsky, B. Love, & K. McRae (Eds.), Poster presented at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2016). Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX.
  25. Destefano, M. & Gray, W.D. (2008). Progress report on Pygame Space Fortress. Technical report. Troy, NY: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
  26. Drugowitsch, J., Moreno-Bote, R., & Pouget, A. (2009). Computing the cost function in decision making. Computational and Systems Neuroscience Annual Meeting (COSYNE), Salt Lake City, UT.
  27. Frank, M., Ichinco, D., & Tenenbaum, J.B. (2008). Principles of generalization for learning sequential structure in language. Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
  28. Goodman, N.D., Mansighka, V.K., Roy, D., Bonawitz, K., & Tenenbaum J.B. (2008). Church: A language for generative models. Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence.
  29. Goodman, N.D., Tenenbaum, J.B., & Mansinghka, V.K. (2007). Learning grounded causal models. Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
  30. Gray, W.D., & Destefano, M. (2007). Deconstructing video games. Paper presented at the ONR MURI Kick-Off Meeting.
  31. Green C.S., Pouget A., & Bavelier, D. (2007). Action videogame playing improves Bayesian inference for perceptual decision-making. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Visual Sciences conference. Sarasota, FL.
  32. Green, C.S., Benson, C., Kersten, D., & Schrater, P. (2009). Promoting Optimal Decision Making By Reducing Unexplained Variability in Outcome. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.
  33. Hillyard, S.A. (2008). Electrophysiolgical Measures of Cognitive Efficiency. National Research Council Conference on Future Neuroscience Applications. National Academy of Sciences, Irvine, California.
  34. Hillyard, S.A. (2008). Electrophysiology of Visual Attention. Tenth International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON X), Bodrum, Turkey.
  35. Katz, Y., Goodman, N.D., Kersting, K., Kemp, C., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2008). Modeling semantic cognition as logical dimensionality reduction. Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
  36. Kemp, C., Goodman, N.D., & Tenenbaum, J.B. (2007). Learning causal schemata. Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
  37. Kemp, C., Goodman, N.D., & Tenenbaum, J.B. (2008). Learning and using relational theories. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 20.
  38. Kemp, C., Goodman, N.D., & Tenenbaum, J.B. (2008). Theory acquisition and the language of thought. Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
  39. Latham, P.E., Roudi, Y., Ahmadi, M., & Pouget, A. (2007). Deciding when to decide. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. San Diego, CA.
  40. Li, R., Bejjanki, V., Lu, Z., Pouget, A. & Bavelier, D. (2009). Playing Action Video Games Leads to Better Perceptual Templates. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.
  41. Li, R., Polat, U., & Bavelier, D. (2008). Action video game enhances visual sensitivity. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Visual Science conference. Sarasota, FL.
  42. Li, R., Polat, U., & Bavelier, D. (2007). Action video game playing alters early visual processing. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Visual Sciences conference, Sarasota, FL.
  43. Li, R., Polat, U., Makous, W., & Bavelier, D. (2008). Enhancing the Contrast Sensitivity Function through Action Video Game Training. NIN-KNAW Meeting on Perceptual learning, motor learning and automaticity. Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  44. Ma, W.J., Beck, J.M., & Pouget A. (2007). Noise as incompetence. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. San Diego, CA.
  45. Ma, W.J., Navalpakkam, V., Beck, J., & Pouget, A. (2008). A neural Bayesian theory of visual search. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. Washington, DC.
  46. Ma, W.J, Navalpakkam, V.; Beck, J.M. & Pouget, A. (2009). Optimal integration of information across space in homogeneous and heterogeneous search displays: Data and Neural implementation. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.
  47. Moreno-Bote, R., Knill, D. & Pouget, A. (2009). Sampling and Optimal Cue Combination during Bistable Perception. Computational and Systems Neuroscience Annual Meeting (COSYNE), Salt Lake City, UT.
  48. Navalpakkam, V., Ma, W.J., Beck, J., & Pouget, A. (2008). A neural Bayesian theory of visual search and its behavioral predictions. CVS symposium, University of Rochester. Rochester, NY.
  49. Savova, V., Jakel, F., & Tenenbaum, J.B. (2009). It helps to know the rules: The role of structural object representations in a segmentation task. Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
  50. Savova, V. & Tenenbaum, J.B. (2008). A grammar-based approach to visual category learning. Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
  51. Schrater, P. & Battaglia, P. (2008). Characterizing reach strategies in ambiguous tasks. Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE).
  52. Schrater, P., Green, C.S., Benson, C., & Kersten, D. (2009). Causal model attribution in sequential decision making. Computational and Systems Neuroscience Annual Meeting (COSYNE), Salt Lake City, UT.
  53. Schrater, P. & Acuña, D. (2009). Structure Learning in sequential decision making. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society Annual meeting, Naples FL.
  54. Stoermer, V.S., McDonald J.J., & Hillyard, S.A. (2009). Cross-modal cueing of attention alters visual appearance and early cortical processing. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Cognitive Neuroscience, San Francisco.
  55. Tenenbaum, J.B. (2007). Plenary address. International Conference on Machine Learning.
  56. Tenenbaum, J.B. (2007). Cognitive decision theory: Developing models of real-world decision behavior. Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
  57. Tenenbaum, J.B. (2007). Cases, rules, and probabilities. Workshop. Cowles Institute, Yale University.
  58. Tenenbaum, J.B. (2007). Generalization in language learning. Society for Language Development. Boston, MA.
  59. Tenenbaum, J.B. (2007). Bridging the developmental divide: Sentence processing meets word and grammar learning. Workshop. Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania.
  60. Vul, E., Goodman, N.D., Griffiths, T.L., & Tenenbaum, J.B. (2009). One and done? Optimal decisions from very few samples. Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
  61. Warner, R., Shafto, P., Baker, C.L., & Tenenbaum, J.B. (2009). Abstract knowledge guides search and prediction in novel situations. Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
  62. You, Z., Kwok, W.E., Nair, R. & Bavelier, D. (2007). Specially-designed phase array coil for whole-brain, high-resolution anatomical and low distortion echo-planar MR imaging of monkey brain at 3T. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, November 2007.