publications

Below are all publications in reverse chronological order. For key overview papers and publications related to specific topics, click on the topics at left. Click here for a file of bibtex references. Attend to the copyright notice below.

2009

Howes, A., Lewis, R. L., and Vera, A. H. (just published). Rational adaptation under task and processing constraints: Implications for testing theories of cognition and action. Psychological Review, 116(4):717-751. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

Vasishth, S., Suckow, K., Lewis, R. L., and Kern, S. (appearing soon). Short-term forgetting in sentence comprehension: Crosslinguistic evidence from verb-final structures. Language and Cognitive Processes. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

Berman, M. G., Jonides, J., and Lewis, R. L. (2009). In search of decay in verbal short-term memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 35(2):317-333. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

Lustig, C. A., Lewis, R. L., Berman, M. G., Nee, D. E., Moore, K. S., and Jonides, J. (2009). Psychological and neural mechanisms of short-term memory. In Berntson, G. and Cacioppo, J. T., editors, Handbook of Neuroscience for the Behavioral Sciences. John Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

Marinier, R. P., Laird, J. E., and Lewis, R. L. (2009). A computational unification of cognitive behavior and emotion. Cognitive Systems Research, 10(1):48-69. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

Singh, S., Lewis, R. L., and Barto, A. G. (2009). Where do rewards come from? In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pages 2601-2606, Amsterdam. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

2008

Jonides, J., Lewis, R. L., Nee, D. E., Lustig, C. A., Berman, M. G., and Moore, K. S. (2008). The mind and brain of short-term memory. Annual Review of Psychology, 59:15.1-15.32. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

Vasishth, S., Bruessow, S., Lewis, R. L., and Drenhaus, H. (2008). Processing polarity: How the ungrammatical intrudes on the grammatical. Cognitive Science, 32(4):685-712. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

2007

Lewis, R. L., Polk, T. A., and Laird, J. E., editors (2007). The Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, New York. Psychology Press/Taylor & Francis. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

Chu, A., Lewis, R. L., and Howes, A. (2007). Evaluating the performance of optimizing constraint satisfaction techniques for cognitive constraint modeling. In Lewis, R., Polk, T., and .Laird, J., editors, The Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, pages 26-31, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Psychology Press/Taylor & Francis. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

Howes, A., Lewis, R. L., and Vera, A. (2007). Bounding rational analysis: Constraints on asymptotic performance. In Gray, W. D., editor, Integrated Models of Cognitive Systems. Oxford University Press, New York. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

Pearson, D., Gorski, N. A., Lewis, R. L., and Laird, J. E. (2007). Storm: A framework for biologically-inspired cognitive architecture research. In Lewis, R., Polk, T., and Laird, J., editors, The Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. Psychology Press/Taylor & Francis. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

2006

Eng, K., Lewis, R. L., Tollinger, I., Chu, A., and Howes, A. (2006). Generating automated predictions of behavior strategically adapted to specific performance objectives. In Proceedings of the Computer-Human Interaction Conference, CHI 2006. Best paper nomination: top 5 per cent of submissions. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

Lewis, R. L., Vasishth, S., and Van Dyke, J. A. (2006). Computational principles of working memory in sentence comprehension. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10:44-54. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

Nakayama, M., Vasishth, S., and Lewis, R. L. (2006). Difficulty of certain sentence constructions in comprehension. In Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics, volume 2. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

Remington, R. W., Lewis, R. L., and Wu, S. (2006). Scheduling mental operations in a multiple-response sequence: Modeling the effects of a strategy to minimize variance in the timing of saccades. In Fum, D., Del Missier, F., and Stocco, A., editors, Proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, pages 250-255. Edizioni Goliardiche, Trieste, Italy. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

Ritter, F. E., Haynes, S. R., Cohen, M., Howes, A., John, B., Best, B., Lebiere, C., Jones, R. M., Crossman, J., Lewis, R. L., St. Amant, R., McBride, S. P., Urbas, L., Leuchter, S., and Vera, A. (2006). High-level behavior representation languages revisited. In Fum, D., Del Missier, F., and Stocco, A., editors, Proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM). Edizioni Goliardiche, Trieste, Italy.

Vasishth, S. and Lewis, R. L. (2006b). Symbolic models of human sentence processing. In Brown, K., editor, Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edition, volume 5, pages 410-419. Elsevier. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

Vasishth, S. and Lewis, R. L. (2006a). Argument-head distance and processing complexity: Explaining both locality and anti-locality effects. Language, 82:767-794. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

Wu, S., Remington, R. W., and Lewis, R. L. (2006). Modeling the scheduling of eye movements in performing a sequence of discrete tasks. In Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

2005

Howes, A., Lewis, R. L., Vera, A., and Richardson, J. (2005). Information-requirements grammar: A theory of the structure of competence for interaction. In Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society, Stresa, Italy. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

Lewis, R. L. and Vasishth, S. (2005). An activation-based model of sentence processing as skilled memory retrieval. Cognitive Science, 29:375-419. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

Nakayama, M., Lee, S.-H., and Lewis, R. L. (2005). Difficulty of processing Japanese and Korean center-embedding constructions. In Minami, M., Kobayashi, H., Nakayama, M., and Sirai, H., editors, Studies in Language Sciences, volume 4, pages 99-118. Kurosio Publishers, Tokyo. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

Vasishth, S., Drenhaus, H., Saddy, D., and Lewis, R. L. (2005). Processing negative polarity. In Proceedings of the CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, University of Arizona. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

Tollinger, I., Lewis, R. L., McCurdy, M., Tollinger, P., Vera, A., Howes, A., and Pelton, L. (2005). Supporting efficient development of cognitive models at multiple skill levels: Exploring recent advances in constraint-based modeling. In Proceedings of the Computer-Human Interaction Conference, Portland, Ore. Best paper nomination: top 5 per cent of submissions. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

Vannest, J., Polk, T. A., and Lewis, R. L. (2005). Dual-route processing of complex words: new fMRI evidence from derivational suffixation. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 5:67-76. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

Vera, A. H., Howes, A., Lewis, R. L., Tollinger, I., Eng, K., and Richardson, J. (2005a). A constraint-based approach to understanding the composition of skill. In Proceedings of the Human-Computer Interaction 2005 Symposium,, Las Vegas.

Vera, A. H., Tollinger, I., Eng, K., Lewis, R. L., and Howes, A. (2005b). Architectural building blocks as the locus of adaptive behavior selection. In Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society, Stresa, Italy. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

2004

Howes, A., Vera, A., Lewis, R. L., and McCurdy, M. (2004). Cognitive constraint modeling: A formal approach to supporting reasoning about behavior. In Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society, Chicago. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

Lewis, R. L., Vera, A., and Howes, A. (2004). A constraint-based approach to understanding the composition of skill. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

Simen, P., Polk, T. A., Lewis, R. L., and Freedman, E. (2004). A computational account of latency impairments in problem solving by parkinson's patients. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

Vasishth, S. and Lewis, R. L. (2004). Modeling sentence processing in act-r. In Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Barcelona. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

Vera, A., Howes, A., McCurdy, M., and Lewis, R. L. (2004). A constraint-satisfaction approach to predicting skilled interactive cognition. In Proceedings of the Computer-Human Interaction Conferece CHI-2004, Vienna, Austria. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

2003

Lewis, R. L. (2003). Computational psycholinguistics. In Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. Macmillon (Nature Publishing Group), London. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

Simen, P., Polk, T. A., and Lewis, R. L. (2003). Universal computation by networks of model cortical columns. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM). [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

Van Dyke, J. A. and Lewis, R. L. (2003). Distinguishing effects of structure and decay on attachment and repair: A cue-based parsing account of recovery from misanalyzed ambiguities. Journal of Memory and Language, 49:285-316. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

2002

Lewis, R. L. and Nakayama, M. (2002). Syntactic and positional similarity effects in the processing of japanese embeddings. In Nakayama, M., editor, Sentence Processing in East Asian Languages. CSLI Publications, Stanford, CA. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

Simen, P., Polk, T. A., Lewis, R. L., and Freedman, E. (2002a). Goal management in a recurrent neural network. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Intelligence, pages 566-569. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

Simen, P., Polk, T. A., Lewis, R. L., and Freedman, E. (2002b). A recurrent neural network model of goal management. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, pages 504-508. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

2001

Lewis, R. L. (2001a). Cognitive theory, Soar. In International Encylopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, pages 2178-2183. Pergamon (Elsevier Science), Amsterdam. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

Lewis, R. L. (2001b). Falsifying serial and parallel parsing models: Empirical conundrums and an overlooked paradigm. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 29(2):241-248. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

2000

Lewis, R. L. (2000). Specifying architectures for language processing: Process, control, and memory in parsing and interpretation. In Crocker, M. W., Pickering, M., and Clifton, Jr., C., editors, Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

Nakayama, M. and Lewis, R. L. (2000). Similarity interference and scrambling in Japanese. Korean Journal of Cognitive Science, 12:39-53. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

1999

Lewis, R. L. (1999a). Accounting for the fine structure of syntactic working memory: Similarity-based interference as a unifying principle. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22:105-106. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

Lewis, R. L. (1999b). Cognitive modeling, symbolic. In Wilson, R. A. and Keil, F. C., editors, The MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

Young, R. and Lewis, R. (1999). The Soar cognitive architecture and human working memory. In Miyake, A. and Shah, P., editors, Models of Working Memory: Mechanisms of Active Maintenance and Executive Control. Cambridge University Press, New York. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

1998

Lehman, J. F., Newell, A., and Lewis, R. L. (1998). Architectural influences on language comprehension. In Pylyshyn, Z. W., editor, Constraining Cognitive Theorie: Issues and Options. Ablex Press, Norwood, NJ.

Lewis, R. L. (1998). Leaping off the garden path: Reanalysis and limited repair parsing. In Fodor, J. and Ferreira, F., editors, Reanalysis in Sentence Processing, pages 247-285. Kluwer Academic, Boston. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

1996

Lewis, R. L. (1996a). Architecture matters: What Soar has to say about modularity. In Steier, D. and Mitchell, T., editors, Mind Matters: Contributions to Cognitive and Computer Science in Honor of Allen Newell. Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

Lewis, R. L. (1996b). Interference in short-term memory: The magical number two (or three) in sentence processing. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 25(1):93-115. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

Vera, A. H. and Lewis, R. L. (1996). Dissociating performance from learning: An empirical evaluation of a computational model. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

1994

Lewis, R. L. (1994). Task specification language, or theory of human memory? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 17(4):67-75.

Lewis, R. L. and Vera, A. H. (1994). Non-declarative learning in an interactive task. In CHI '94 Research Symposium.

1993

Lewis, R. L. (1993b). An architecturally-based theory of sentence comprehension. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pages 108-113. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

Lewis, R. L. (1993a). An Architecturally-based theory of Human Sentence Comprehension. PhD thesis, Carnegie Mellon University. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

Steier, D. M., Lewis, R. L., Lehman, J. F., and Zacherl, A. L. (1993). Combining multiple sources of knowledge in an integrated intelligent system. IEEE Expert, 8(3):3-4. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

Vera, A. H., Lewis, R. L., and Lerch, F. J. (1993). Situated decision-making and recognition-based learning: Applying symbolic theories to interactive tasks. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

1991

Lehman, J. F., Lewis, R. L., and Newell, A. (1991). Integrating knowledge sources in language comprehension. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pages 46-66. Also in P. S. Rosenbloom, J. E. Laird, and A. Newell, eds., The Soar Papers: Research on Integrated Intelligence, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1993. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

1990

Lewis, R. L., Huffman, S. B., John, B. E., Laird, J. E., Lehman, J. F., Newell, A., Rosenbloom, P. S., Simon, T., and Tessler, S. G. (1990). Soar as a unified theory of cognition: Spring 1990. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pages 103-042. Also in P. S. Rosenbloom, J. E. Laird, and A. Newell, eds., The Soar Papers: Research on Integrated Intelligence, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1993. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

1989

Lewis, R. L., Newell, A., and Polk, T. A. (1989). Toward a Soar theory of taking instructions for immediate reasoning tasks. In Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pages 514-521. Also in P. S. Rosenbloom, J. E. Laird, and A. Newell, eds., The Soar Papers: Research on Integrated Intelligence, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1993. [ DOWNLOAD PDF ]

Polk, T. A., Newell, A., and Lewis, R. L. (1989). Toward a unified theory of immediate reasoning in Soar. In Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pages 50-13. Also in P. S. Rosenbloom, J. E. Laird, and A. Newell, eds., The Soar Papers: Research on Integrated Intelligence, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1993.

1988

Moshell, J. M., Hughes, C. E., Lacy, L. W., Lewis, R. L., and Blower, D. (1988). Action graphics: An interactive spreadsheet-based animation system for simulation and training. In Clymer, B. and Amico, V., editors, Proceedings of the Simulators V Conference, volume 19, pages 47-78. The Society for Computer Simulation International.

1987

Moshell, J. M., Hughes, C. E., Lacy, L. W., Lewis, R. L., and Blower, D. (1987b). A spreadsheet-based visual language for freehand sketching of complex motions. In Proceedings of the 1987 Workshop on Visual Languages.

Moshell, J. M., Hughes, C. E., Lacy, L. W., Lewis, R. L., and Blower, D. (1987a). An educational animation system based on class inheritance. In Proceedings of the Conference of the National Computer Graphics Association, pages 59-62.

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