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  Number: Title/Author(s):
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. Giv—n
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. 01-4 Embodied 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



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