<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><div>Hi folks, </div><div><br></div><div>Reading for "the new decade" seemed a little presumptuous, but these recent papers might be of interest to some in the short term. You can follow the links directly below, but I hope you'll also visit our new website: <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> </span></font><a href="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~rickl/"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">http://www-personal.umich.edu/~rickl/</span></font></a></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><br></span></font></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Howes, A., Lewis, R. L., and Vera, A. H. (2009). </span></font><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Rational adaptation under task and processing constraints: Implications for testing theories of cognition and action</span></font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">. </span></font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Psychological Review</span></font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">, 116(4):717-751. </span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span">[Understanding behavior as the adaptation to joint task and architecture constraints, deriving boundedly optimal task strategies, accounting for individual differences, and a new approach to teasing apart the contributions of architecture and strategy]. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; "><a href="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~rickl/pubs/howes-lewis-vera-2009-psy-rev.pdf"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">DOWNLOAD PDF</span></font></a></span></span></font></font></span></blockquote><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; "><div apple-content-edited="true"><br></div><br></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; "></span></font><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Vasishth, S., Bruessow, S., Lewis, R. L., and Drenhaus, H. (2008). </span></font><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Processing polarity: How the ungrammatical intrudes on the grammatical</span></font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">. </span></font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Cognitive Science</span></font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">, 32(4):685-712. </span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "> [Confirming a novel prediction from the ACT-R theory of sentence processing that Shravan Vasishth and I have been working on: the existence of "grammatical illusions" (patently ungrammatical strings that are sometimes perceived as grammatical)] <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "><a href="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~rickl/pubs/vasishth-brussow-lewis-drenhaus-2008-cogsci.pdf">DOWNLOAD PDF</a></span></font></span></span></font></font></span></blockquote><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: medium; line-height: normal; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><br></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Singh, S., Lewis, R. L., and Barto, A. G. (2009). </span></font><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Where do rewards come from?</span></font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "> In </span></font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society</span></font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">, pages 2601-2606, Amsterdam. [</span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Extends the standard reinforcement learning framework by separating fitness from reward, providing a framework for deriving (optimal) reward functions. There will shortly be several more papers out on this, but this is a start.] <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; "><a href="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~rickl/pubs/singh-lewis-barto-2009-cogsci.pdf"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">DOWNLOAD PDF</span></font></a></span></span></font></font></span></div></span></span></font></blockquote><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Jonides, J., Lewis, R. L., Nee, D. E., Lustig, C. A., Berman, M. G., and Moore, K. S. (2008). </span></font><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">The mind and brain of short-term memory</span></font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">. </span></font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Annual Review of Psychology</span></font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">, 59:15.1-15.32. </span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">[A review of modern accounts of STM in psychology and neuroscience, showing convergence with approaches in ACT-R, and hypothesizing a set of low-level neural mechanisms at the base that may surprise you.]</span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; "><a href="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~rickl/pubs/jonides-lewis-nee-lustig-berman-moore-2008-annrev.pdf.pdf">DOWNLOAD PDF</a></span></span></font></font></span></blockquote><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font></span></span></font></span></font></blockquote><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Berman, M. G., Jonides, J., and Lewis, R. L. (2009). </span></font><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">In search of decay in verbal short-term memory</span></font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">. </span></font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition</span></font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">, 35(2):317-333. </span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "> </span></font></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">[We tried very hard to find solid evidence for decay, and barely succeeded. We also tried very hard to use the data to falsify ACT-R's decay assumption, and failed. Short term decay seems to skate on thin ice, but it refuses to go down...] </span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "><a href="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~rickl/pubs/berman-jonides-lewis-2009-jeplmc.pdf">DOWNLOAD PDF</a></span></font></span></span></span></font></span></font></blockquote><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: medium; line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 17px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "><a href="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~rickl/pubs/berman-jonides-lewis-2009-jeplmc.pdf"></a></span></font></span></span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "><br></span></font></div></span></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><br></span></font></blockquote>Marinier, R. P., Laird, J. E., and Lewis, R. L. (2009). <b>A computational unification of cognitive behavior and emotion.</b> <i>Cognitive Systems Research</i>, 10(1):48-69</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">[A deep integration of emotion (via appraisal theory) and cognitive architecture (via Soar). This is a chunk of Bob Marinier's thesis.] </span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "> </span></font><a href="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~rickl/pubs/marinier-laird-lewis-2008-cogsys.pdf"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">DOWNLOAD PDF</span></font></a><br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; "><br></span></font></blockquote><div><br></div>Happy New Year!<div><br></div><div>-rick </div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div><br></div><div>--------------------------</div><div>Richard L. 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