Technical Reports
Below are titles of the Institute’s Technical Reports produced by our members. This gives a sampling of some of the research, both in the past and ongoing, that is available by request. Some of the more recent Technical Reports will be available on-line as Adobe Acrobat PDF files. To read the Technical Reports, you will need to have Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. Acrobat reader can be downloaded for free from by clicking on the icon above.
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2010
No. 10-01. Making Heat Work: The Thermodynamics of Groups by K.B. Henry and H. Arrow
2004
No. 04-1. What are Values? A Folk-Conceptual Investigation by B.F. Malle and Eric Edmondson
No. 04-2. The Moral Dimension of Intentionality Judgments by Bertram F. Malle
2003
No. 03-1. The Representation of Conversation in Episodic Memory: Information Vs. Interaction by M. Barker and T. Givón
No. 03-2. Toward a Neuro-Cognitive Interpretaton of ‘Context’ by T. Givon
2002
No. 02-1. From Attributions to Folk Explanations: An Argument in 10 (or so) Steps by B.F. Malle
No. 02-2. People’s Praise and Blame for Intentions and Actions: Implications of the Folk Concept of Intentionality by B.F. Malle and Ruth E. Bennett
No. 02-3. The Relation Between Language and Theory of Mind in Development and Evolution by B.F. Malle
No. 02-4. F.EX A Coding Scheme for Folk Explanations of Behavior by B.F.Malle
No. 02-5. The Role of Orienting Attention for Learning Novel Phonetic Categories by S.G. Guion and E. Pederson
No. 02-6. Shiwiar Health Risk and the Evolution of Health Care Provisioning by L.S. Sugiyama
2001
No. 01-1. Anatomy of the N400: Brain Electrical Activity in Propositional Semantics by G.A. Frishkoff and D.M. Tucker
No. 01-2. On The Pre-Linguistic Origins of Language Processing Rates by T. Givón and Mitzi Barker
No. 01-3. Toward a Neuro-Cognitive Interpretation of ‘Context’ by T. Givón
No. 01-4Embodied Meaning: An Evolutionary-Developmental Analysis of Adaptive Semantics by D.M. Tucker
No. 01-5. Implications of Pathology Risk and Disability Care for Human Life History Evolution: Evidence from Shiwiar Forager-Horticulturalists by L. Sugiyama
2000
No. 00-1
Superiors’ Emotional, Behavioral and Cognitive Responses on Their Subordinate’s Face-Work and Performance
by Byungjune Chun
No. 00-2
Cooperation and Inter-Personal Manipulation in the Society of Intimates
by T. Givón and Phil Young
No. 00-3
The Role of Grammar in Discourse Processing
by T. Givón
1999
No. 99-1
Social Poker: A Paradigm for Studying the Formation of Self-Organized Groups
by Holly Arrow, Ruth Bennett, Scott Crosson and John Orbell
No. 99-2
An Implicit Measure of Undetected Change
by Ian M. Thornton and Diego Fernandez-Duque
No. 99-3
Processing of Object Identity, Location and Change in the Absence of Focused Attention
by Diego Fernandez-Duque
1998
No. 98-1
“Internal Reconstruction: As Method, As Theory”
by T. Givón
No. 98-2
“The Functional Approach to Grammar”
by T. Givón
No. 98-3
“The Cognitive and Neural Architecture of Sequence Representation”
by Steven W. Keele, Richard B. Ivry, Eliot Hazeltine, Ulrich Mayr and Herbert Heuer
No. 98-4
“Acquiring Linguistic Cues to Identify AGENT: Evidence From Children Learning Japanese as a Second Language”
by Patricia L. Rounds and Ruth Kanagy
No. 98-5
“Change Detection Without Awareness: Do Explicit Reports Underestimate the Representation of Change in the Visual System?”
by Diego Fernandez-Duque and Ian Thornton
No. 98-6
“The Usual Suspects: The Grammar of Perspective in Narrative Fiction”
by T. Givón
No. 98-7
“On the Co-Evolution of Language, Mind and Brain”
by T. Givón
No. 98-8
“Evaluation of Attention Process Training in Persons with Acquired Brain Injury”
by Mckay Sohlberg, Karen McLaughlin, Antonella Pavese, Anke Heidrich and Michael Posner
No. 98-9
“Memory Judgments”
by Douglas L. Hintzman
No. 98-10
“Pathologies of Attentional Networks Following Traumatic Brain Injury”
by Antonella Pavese, Anke Heidrich, Mckay Moore Sohlberg, Karen A. McLaughlin and Michael I. Posner
No. 98-11
“The Representation and Transfer of Sequence Learning”
by Benjamin A. Clegg
No. 98-12
“The Compulsive Brain: The Neurophysiology of OCD”
by Edward B. Cutrell
1997
No. 97-1
“Toward a Functional Analysis of the Basal Ganglia”
by Amy E. Hayes, Matthew C. Davidson, Steven W. Keele and Robert Rafal
No. 97-2
“Brain Mechanisms of Cognitive Skills”
by Michael I. Posner, Gregory J. DiGirolamo and Diego Fernandez-Duque
No. 97-3
“Retrieval Dynamics in Recognition and List Discrimination: Further Evidence of Separate Processes of Familiarity and Recall”
by Douglas L. Hintzman, David A. Caulton and Daniel J. Levitin
No. 97-4
“Event-Related Brain Potential Imaging of Semantic Encoding During Processing Single Words”
by Yalchin G. Abdullaev and Michael I. Posner
No. 97-5
“Negative Priming and Stages of Selection: The Effect of Perceptual Discriminability and Response Congruency”
by Antonella Pavese
No. 97-6
“Iconic Memory Has Neural Shadows”
by Brent A. Field
No. 97-7
“Generativity and Variation: The Notion ‘Rule of Grammar’ Revisited”
by T. Givón
No. 97-8
“Toward a Neuro-Cognitive Interpretation of ‘context'”
by T. Givón
No. 97-9
“Literacy and Grammar”
by T. Givón
1996
No. 96-1
“Recognition Memory and Modality Judgments: A Comparison of Retrieval Dynamics”
by Douglas L. Hintzman and David A. Caulton
No. 96-2
“Conflict, Target Detection and Cognitive Control”
by Michael I. Posner and Gregory J. DiGirolamo
No. 96-3
“The Time Course of Parietal Activation in Single-Digit Multiplication: Evidence from Event-Related Potentials”
by Markus Kiefer and Stanislas Dehaene
No. 96-4
“Anatomy, Circuitry and Plasticity of Word Reading”
by Michael I. Posner, Yalchin G. Abdullaev, Bruce D. McCandliss and Sara C. Sereno
No. 96-5
“Time Course of Activating Brain Areas in Generating Verbal Associations”
by Yalchin G. Abdullaev and Michael I. Posner
No. 96-6
“Emotional Expectancy: Patterns of Brain Electrical Activity as Depressives Consider Life Events”
by Phan Luu, Don M. Tucker and Lynn McDougal
No. 96-7
“Vertical Integration of Neurolinguistic Mechanisms”
by Phan Luu and Don M. Tucker
No. 96-8
“Comparing Conditions for Learning Syntactic Patterns: Attentional, Nonattentional and Aware”
by J. Schachter, P.L. Rounds, S. Wright and T. Smith
No. 96-9
“On the Role of Metaphors in Science: Metaphors of Attention in the History of Psychology”
by Diego Fernandez-Duque and Mark L. Johnson
No. 96-10
“2-D Center-Surround Effects on 3-D Structure-From-Motion”
by Margaret E. Sereno and Martin I. Sereno
No. 96-11
“Interaction Among Depth Cues in Structure-From-Motion”
by Margaret E. Sereno and Martin I. Sereno
No. 96-12
“Sequential Representation and the Neural Basis of Motor Skills”
by Steven W. Keele, Matthew Davidson and Amy Hayes
1995
No. 95-1
“Brain Plasticity in Learning Visual Words”
by Bruce D. McCandliss
No. 95-2
“The Evolution of Human Language and the Primate Visual Processing System”
by T. Givón
No. 95-3
“The Effect of the Interlocutor on Episodic Recall: An Experimental Study”
by Connie Dickinson and T. Givón
No. 95-4
“Principal Components Analysis of the N400 Effect: Superimposed Brain Electrical Fields During Semantic Processing”
by Joseph Dien and Don M. Tucker
No. 95-5
“On the Modularity of Sequence Learning Systems in Humans”
by Steven W. Keele and Tim Curran
No. 95-6
“Hyperacuity in Early Vision: A Bayesian Reentrant Neuromorphic Model”
by Gerald S. Russell
No. 95-7
“Memory for Musical Tempo: Additional Evidence that Auditory Memory is Absolute”
by Daniel J. Levitin and Perry R. Cook
No. 95-8
“Comparing Retrieval Dynamics in Recognition Memory and Lexical Decision”
by Douglas Hintzman and Tim Curran
No. 95-9
“Neuronal Activity of Human Caudate Nucleus in Cognitive Tasks”
by Yalchin G. Abdullaev and Konstantin V. Melnichuk
No. 95-10
“Difference Testing with DiffTest 3.8”
by Gil Osgood
No. 95-11
“A Review of Biological Factors in Autism: Implications for Cognitive and Social Development”
by Gina Gerardi
No. 95-12
“Attention and Representational Momentum”
by Amy Hayes and Jennifer F. Freyd
1994
No. 94-1
“Evidence of Incomplete Motor Programming in Parkinson’s Disease”
by Peggy J. Jennings
No. 94-2
“Emotional Expectancy: Mood-Congruent Bias in Anticipating the Outcomes of Life Events”
by Paula West, Don M. Tucker, Geoffrey Chung, Geoffrey F. Potts and Phan Luu
No. 94-3
“Tracking the Acquisition of L2 Grammar: Memory Measures”
by Lynne Yang and Tom Givón
No. 94-4
“Attention and Automaticity in Number Processing”
by Stanislas Dehaene
No. 94-5
“The Organization of Brain Activations in Number Comparison: Event-Related Potentials and the Additive-Factors Method”
by Stanislas Dehaene
No. 94-6
“Speed and Cerebral Correlates of Syllable Discrimination in Infants”
by Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz and Stanislas Dehaene
No. 94-7
“Limitations of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test: The Need for Circular Statistics in Psychology”
by Daniel J. Levitin
No. 94-8
“Interacting Neural Systems of Regulation and Representation: Evidence from the N1 and Selection Negativity of the Event-Related Potential During Visual Attention”
by Geoffrey F. Potts, Mario Liotti, Don M. Tucker and Michael I. Posner
No. 94-9
“An Expanded Table of Probability Values for Rao’s Spacing Test”
by Gerald S. Russell and Daniel J. Levitin
No. 94-10
“On the Robustness of Cognitively Simple Judgment”
by John Orbell, Audun Runde and Tom Morikawa
No. 94-11
“The Advantage of Being Moderately Cooperative”
by Tomonori Morikawa, John M. Orbell and Audun S. Runde
No. 94-12
“Individual Experience and the Fragmentation of Societies”
by John Orbell, Langche Zeng and Matthew Mulford
No. 94-13
“Spatial Attention and Implicit Sequence Learning: Evidence for Independent Learning of Spatial and nonspatial Sequences”
by Ulrich Mayr
No. 94-14
“Typicality, Category-Exemplar Relations and Stereotyping”
by Myron Rothbart, N. Sriram and Carene Davis-Stitt
No. 94-15
“Self-Anchoring and Differentiation Processes in the Minimal Group Paradigm”
by Mara Rosaira Cadinu and Myron Rothbart
No. 94-16
“Social Categories and Decision Making: How Much Differentiation do we Need?”
by Myron Rothbart and Robert Mauro
1993
No. 93-1
“Retrieval Dynamics of Recognition and Frequency Judgments: Evidence for Separate Processes of Familiarity and Recall”
by Douglas L. Hintzman and Tim Curran
No. 93-2
“Affective Regulation of Perception and Comprehension: Amplification and Semantic Priming”
by Shinobu Kitayama and Susan Howard
No. 93-3
“Creature Motion”
by Jennifer J. Freyd and Geoffrey F. Miller
No. 93-4
“Spatial Sampling of Head Electrical Fields: A Best Fit Spherical model of the Braincase”
by Michael Worden, Don M. Tucker, Gerald S. Russell, Daren Jackson and Michael Murias
No. 93-5
“Constructing Neuronal Theories of Mind”
by Michael I. Posner and Mary K. Rothbart
No. 93-6
“Processing of Emotional Speech: Improvement and Attenuation of Incidental Memory by Emotional Voice”
by Shinobu Kitayama
No. 93-7
“Social Welfare, Cooperators’ Advantage, and the Option of Not Playing the Game”
by John M. Orbell and Robyn M. Dawes
No. 93-8
“Cognitive Factors in Learning About Structured Sequences: Applications to Syntax”
by Thomas H. Carr and Tim Curran
No. 93-9
“Sources of Violations of Probability Theory”
by Deborah Frisch and John Sabini
No. 93-10
“Retrieval Constraints and the Mirror Effect”
by Douglas L. Hintzman, David A. Caulton and Tim Curran
No. 93-11
“Tracking the Acquisition of L2 Vocabulary: The Keki Language Experiment”
by Lynne Yang and Tom Givón
No. 93-12
“Attention in Cognitive Science and SLA”
by Russell S. Tomlin and Victor Villa
No. 93-13
“Static Patterns Moving in the Mind”
by Jennifer J. Freyd and Teresa M. Pantzer
No. 93-14
“Representational Momentum for a Spiral Path”
by Jennifer J. Freyd and Kristine T. Jones
1992
No. 92-1
“The Impact of Learning to Read on the Functional Anatomy of Language Processing”
by Thomas H. Carr and Michael I. Posner
No. 92-2
“Topography of the N400: Brain Electrical Activity Reflecting Semantic Expectation”
by Tim Curran, Don Tucker and Michael Posner
No. 92-3
“Attentional and Nonattentional Forms of Sequence Learning”
by Tim Curran and Steven W. Keele
No. 92-4
“On the Modularity of Sequence Representation”
by Steven W. Keele, Peggy Jennings, Steven Jones and Asher Cohen
No. 92-5
“Emotional Voice quality and Emotional Verbal Content in Speech Perception: An Exploration With a Stroop Task”
by Shinobu Kitayama and Cynthia M. Ferguson
No. 92-6
“Basal Ganglia Function in the Control of Visuospatial Attention: A Neural-Network Model”
by Stephen Jackson an George Houghton
No. 92-7
“Attentional Regulation: From Mechanism to Culture”
by Michael I. Posner and Mary K. Rothbart
No. 92-8
“Spatial Sampling of Head Electrical Fields: The Geodesic Electrode Net”
by Don M. Tucker
No. 92-9
“Sequence Structure and Sequential Learning Reconsidered: Evidence From Aging”
by Georgina M. Jackson and Stephen Jackson
No. 92-10
“Precision Toolbox Timing on the Macintosh Personal Computer Family”
by David A. Caulton
No. 92-11
“Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Look Through the History of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual and Recommendations for Future Editions”
by C. Raßl Collazo
No. 92-12
“The Significance of the Basal Ganglia in Suppressing Hyper-Reflexive Orienting”
by Stephen Jackson and Marek Lees
1991
No. 91-1
“Mathematical Constraints and the Tulving-Wiseman Law”
by Douglas L. Hintzman
No. 91-2
“Attention in the Representation of Sequence: Experiment and Theory”
by Steven W. Keele and Peggy J. Jennings
No. 91-3
“Impairment of Perception by Positive and Negative Affect”
by Shinobu Kitayama
No. 91-4
“Two Modes of Consciousness in Visual Perception”
by Syoichi Iwasaki
No. 91-5
“Lexical Access and the Brain: Anatomical Constraints on Cognitive Models of Word Recognition”
by Michael I. Posner and Thomas H. Carr
No. 91-6
“Enhancement and Impairment of Perception by Affect”
by Shinobu Kitayama
No. 91-7
Some Thoughts on the Cognitive-Psychodynamic Self From a Cultural Perspective
No. 91-8
“Studies From the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention”
Published in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 3, 1991
No. 91-9
“Five Hunches About Perceptual Processes and Dynamic Representations”
by Jennifer J. Freyd
No. 91-10
“Focal Attention, Voice and Word Order: An Experimental, Cross-Linguistic Study”
by Russell S. Tomlin
No. 91-11
“The Electrophysiological Graphical Imaging System: Part II: Programming with EGIS”
by Gil Osgood
No. 91-12
“Effects of Similarity and Repetition on Memory: Registration Without Learning?”
by Douglas L. Hintzman, Tim Curran, and Brian Oppy
No. 91-13
“The Effects of Drawing Method on the Discriminability of Characters”
by Michael L. DeKay and Jennifer J. Freyd
No. 91-14
“Image Enhancement Filters Significantly Improve reading Performance for Low Vision Observers”
by Teri B. Lawton
No. 91-15
“Visual Attention”
by Michael I. Posner, Peter G. Grossenbacher and Paul E. Compton
No. 91-16
“Interaction of Arousal and Selection in the Posterior Attention Network”
by Michael I. Posner
No. 91-17
“Self-Other Similarity Judgments Depend on Culture”
by Shinobu Kitayama
1990
No. 90-1
“Regulatory Mechanisms in Infant Development”
by Mary K. Rothbart, Michael I. Posner and Anne Boylan
No. 90-2
“Attention”
by Michael I. Posner and Kevin Briand
No. 90-3
“Natural Language Learning and Organized Language Teaching”
by T. Givón
No. 90-4
“The Processing of Second Language Vocabulary: From Attended to Automated Word-Recognition”
by T. Givón, L. Yang and M. A. Gernsbacher
No. 90-5
“A Computational Model of Attentional Requirements in Sequence Learning”
by Peggy J. Jennings and Steven W. Keele
No. 90-6
“Motivated Attention: Anxiety and the Frontal Executive Functions”
by Don Tucker and Douglas Derryberry
No. 90-7
“Isomorphism in the Grammatical Code: Cognitive and Biological Considerations”
by T. Givón
No. 90-8
“Markedness in Grammar: Distributional, Communicative and Cognitive Correlates of Syntactic Structure”
by T. Givón
No. 90-9
“The Electrophysiological Graphical Imaging System: Part I”
by Gil Osgood
No. 90-10
“Why are Formal Models Useful in Psychology?”
by Douglas L. Hintzman
No. 90-11
“25 Years of Learning and Memory: Was the Cognitive Revolution a Mistake?”
by Douglas L. Hintzman
No. 90-12
“Assessing the Accuracy of Decisions”
by Deborah Frisch and Steve Jones
No. 90-13
“Reasons for Framing Effects”
by Deborah Frisch
No. 90-14
“Category Labels and Social Reality: Do we View Social Categories as Natural Kinds?”
by Marjorie Taylor and Myron Rothbart
No. 90-15
“Permastore or Grade Inflation? Adjusting Bahrick’s Data for Changes in Academic Standards”
by Douglas L. Hintzman
No. 90-16
“On Interpreting Text-Distributional Correlations: Some Methodological Issues”
by T. Givón
No. 90-17
“Attentional Mechanisms and Conscious Experience”
by Michael I. Posner and Mary K. Rothbart
No. 90-18
“Components of Visual Orienting in Early Infancy: Contingency Learning, Anticipatory Looking and Disengaging”
by Mark H. Johnson, Michael I. Posner and Mary K. Rothbart
1989
No. 89-1
Serial Verbs and the Mental Reality of ‘Event’: Grammatical vs. Cognitive Packaging
by T. Givón
No. 89-6
Does the Cerebellum Provide a Common Computation for Diverse Tasks: A Timing Hypothesis
by Steven W. Keele and Richard Ivry
No 89-7
The Grammar of Referential Coherence as Mental Processing Instructions
by T. Givón
No. 89-12
The Management of Reference in Mandarin Discourse”
by Russell S Tomlin and Ming Ming Pu
No. 89-13
Functionalism in Second Language Acquisition
by Russell S. Tomlin
1988
No. 88-3a
The Role of Attention in Normal Development and Psychopathology
by Mark K, Rothbart, Douglas Derryberry, James M. Swanson, Steven G. Potkin, Terrence S. Early and Eric M. Reiman
No. 88-3b
The Multi-Media Comprehension Battery
by Morton S. Gernsbacher and Kathy R. Varner
1987
No. 87-1
Illusory Conjunctions as a Function of Distance Between Objects Inside and Outside the Focus of Attention
by Asher Cohen and Richard B. Ivry
1986
No. 86-1
Sequencing and Timing in Skilled Perception and Action: An Overview
by Steven W. Keele
No. 86-2
The Concept of Energy in Psychological Theory
by Michael I. Posner and Mary K. Rothbart
No. 86-3
Isolating Attention Systems: A Cognitive-Anatomical Analysis
by Michael I. Posner, Albrecht W. Inhoff, Frances J. Friedrich and Asher Cohen
No. 86-4
Force Control and its Relation to Timing
by Steven W. Keele, Richard I. Ivry and Robert A. Pokorny
No. 86-5
Selective Attention and Cognitive Control
by Michael I. Posner and David E. Presti
No. 86-6
Processes in the Resolution of Ambiguous Words: Towards a Model of Selective Inhibition
by Penny L. Yee
No. 86-10
Recognition and Recall in Minerva 2: Analysis of the ‘Recognition Failure’ Paradigm
by Douglas L. Hintzman
No. 86-11
Judgments of Frequency and Recognition Memory in a Multiple-Trace Memory Model
by Douglas L. Hintzman
1985
No. 85-1
Hierarchical Distributed Networks in the Neuropsychology of Selective Attention
by Michael I. Posner
No. 85-3
The Tracking of Referents in Discourse: Automated Vs. Attended Processes
by T. Givón