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 Ramscar, M. & Baayen, H. (2013) Production, comprehension and synthesis: A communicative perspective on language. Frontiers in Language Sciences. 4:233. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00233
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 Ramscar, M., Dye, M. & McCauley, S. Error and expectation in language learning: The curious absence of ‘mouses’ in adult speech. To appear in Language.
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Ramscar, M., Dye, M. & Klein, J. Children value informativity over logic in word learning. To appear in Psychological Science.
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Ramscar, M., Dye, M., Gustafson, J.W., & Klein, J. Dual routes to cognitive flexibility: Learning and response conflict resolution in the dimensional change card sort task. To appear in Child Development. |
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Baayen, R.H., Hendrix, P. & Ramscar, M. Sidestepping the combinatorial explosion: Towards a processing model based on discriminative learning. To appear in Language and Speech. |
2012
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Arnon, I. & Ramscar, M. (2012) Granularity and the acquisition of grammatical gender: How order of acquisition affects what gets learned. Cognition, 122(3), 292-305. |
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Ramscar, M., Dye, M. & Hubner, M. (2012) When the fly flied and when the fly flew: How semantics can make sense of inflection. Language and Cognitive Processes. |
2011
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Ramscar, M. & Dye, M. (2011) Learning language from the input: Why innate constraints can’t explain noun compounding. Cognitive Psychology, 62(1), 1-40. |
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Ramscar M, Dye M, Popick HM, O’Donnell-McCarthy F (2011) The enigma of number: Why children find the meanings of even small number words hard to learn and how we can help them do better. PLoS ONE 6(7): e22501. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0022501 |
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Matlock, T., Holmes, K.J., Srinivasan, M., & Ramscar, M. (2011). Even abstract motion influences the understanding of time. Metaphor and Symbol, 26(4), 260-271. |
| Ramscar, M., Dye, M., Popick, H. & O’Donnell-McCarthy, F. (2011) How children learn to value numbers: Information structure & the acquisition of numerical understanding. Proceedings of the 33rd Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston, MA. |
| Ramscar, M., Suh, E. & Dye, M. (2011) How pitch category learning comes at a cost to absolute frequency representations. Proceedings of the 33rd Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston, MA. |
| Ramscar, M., Dye, M., Klein, J., Ruiz, L.D., Aguirre, N. & Sadaat, L. (2011) Informativity versus logic: Children and adults take different approaches to word learning. Proceedings of the 33rd Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston, MA. |
| Popick, H., Dye, M., Kirkham, N. & Ramscar, M. (2011) Investigating how infants learn to search in the A-not-B task. Proceedings of the 33rd Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston, MA. |
| November, A. & Ramscar, M. (2011) Breaking the World into Symbols. Proceedings of the 33rd Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston, MA. |
2010
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Ramscar, M. (2010) Computing machinery and understanding. Cognitive Science, 34(6), 966-971. |
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Ramscar, M., Yarlett, D., Dye, M., Denny, K., & Thorpe, K. (2010) The Effects of Feature-Label-Order and their implications for symbolic learning. Cognitive Science, 34(6), 909-957. |
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Ramscar, M., Matlock, T., & Dye, M. (2010) Running down the clock: the role of expectation in our understanding of time and motion. Language and Cognitive Processes, 25(5), 589-615. |
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Ramscar, M., Boroditsky, L., & Matlock, T. (2010) Time, motion, and meaning: The experiential basis of abstract thought. In Kelly S. Mix, Linda B. Smith, and Michael Gasser (eds.), The Spatial Foundations of Language and Cognition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 67-82. |
| Kosaraju, R., Dye, M. & Ramscar, M. (2010) Of Frames and Frequencies: How Early Language Production is Influenced by the Distribution. Proceedings of the 36th Meeting of the Society for Philosophy & Psychology, Portland, OR. |
| Kao, J., Ryan, R., Dye, M. & Ramscar, M. (2010) An acquired taste: How reading literature affects sensitivity to word distributions when judging literary texts. Proceedings of the 32nd Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Portland, OR. |
2008-9
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Thompson-Schill, S., Ramscar, M., & Chrysikou, E. (2009) Cognition without control: when a little frontal lobe goes a long way. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 8(5), 259-263. |
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St. Clair, M., Monahan, P., & Ramscar, M. (2009) Relationships between language structure and language learning: the suffixing preference and grammatical categorization. Cognitive Science, 33(7), 1317-1329. |
| Ramscar, M., & Dye, M. (2009) No representation without taxation: The costs and benefits of learning to conceptualize the environment. 2nd International Analogy Conference, Sophia, Bulgaria. |
| Ramscar, M. & Dye, M. (2009) Error and expectation in language learning: An inquiry into the many curious incidences of “mouses” in adult speech. Proceedings of the 31st Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Amsterdam, NE. |
| Arnon, I. & Ramscar, M. (2009) Granularity and the acquisition of grammatical gender: How order of acquisition affects what gets learned. Proceedings of the 31st Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Amsterdam, NE. |
| Ramscar, M., Yarlett, D., Dye, M., Kalchbrenner, N. (2009) The Feature-Label-Order Effect in Symbolic Learning. Proceedings of the 31st Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Amsterdam, NE. |
| Ramscar, M., Dye, M., Witten, J., Klein, J. (2009) Two routes to cognitive flexibility: Learning and response conflict resolution in the dimensional change card sort task. Proceedings of the 31st Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Amsterdam, NE. |
2006-7
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Yarlett, D., & Ramscar, M. Language learning through similarity-based generalization. (Unpublished manuscript). |
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Ramscar, M. & Yarlett, D. (2007) Linguistic self-correction in the absence of feedback: A new approach to the logical problem of language acquisition. Cognitive Science, 31, 927-960. |
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Ramscar, M. & Gitcho, N. (2007) Developmental change and the nature of learning in childhood. Trends In Cognitive Science, 11(7), 274-279. |
| Ramscar, M., Thorpe. K.L., & Denny., K.G., (2007) Surprise in the learning of color words. Proceedings of the 29th Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Nashville, TN. |
| Bannard, C. & Ramscar, M. (2007). Reading time evidence for storage of frequent multiword sequences. Proceedings of Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing 2007, Turku, Finland. |
| Smith, A.H. & Ramscar, M. (2007). First Language Translations in New Language Learning. Proceedings of the Second European Cognitive Science Conference, Delphi, Greece. |
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Davidenko, N. (2007) Silhouetted Face Profiles: A New Methodology for Face Perception Research. Journal of Vision: 7(4):6, 1-17. |
| Alloway, T.P., Corley, M., & Ramscar, M. (2006). Seeing ahead: experience and language in spatial perspective. Memory and Cognition, 34, 380-386. (PDF) |
2004-5
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Matlock, T, Ramscar, M., & Boroditsky, L. (2005). The experiential link between spatial and temporal language. Cognitive Science, 29, 655-664. |
| Davidenko, N., & Ramscar, M. (2005). Distinctiveness effects in face memory vanish with well-controlled distractors. Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ. |
| Matlock, T., Ramscar, M., & Boroditsky, L. (2004) The experiential basis of motion language. In A. Soares da Silva, A. Torres, & M. Goncalves (Eds.) Linguagem, cultura e cognicao: Estudo de linguistica cognitiva. Vol 2. 43-57. Coimbra: Almedina. |
2003
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Ramscar, M. & Yarlett, D. (2003) Semantic grounding in models of analogy: an environmental approach. Cognitive Science, 27, 41-71. |
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Ramscar, M. (2003) The past-tense debate: exocentric form versus the evidence. Trends in Cognitive Science, 7(3), 107-8. |
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Yarlett, D & Ramscar, M (2003). Overfurnishing the mind. Review of Jesse J. Prinz, Furnishing the Mind: Concepts and their Perceptual Basis. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002. Metascience 12: 285-291. |
| Davidenko, N., & Ramscar, M. (2003) Age and gender: similarly cued from silhouetted face profiles. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Boston, MA. |
| Yarlett D.G. & Ramscar M.J.A (2003). Belief Revision in Causal Induction. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Boston, MA. |
| Matlock, T., Ramscar, M. & Boroditsky, L. (2003). The Experiential Basis of Meaning. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Boston, MA. |
| Ramscar, M., Pearson, I., & Ali, S. (2003) Why children sometimes say mice-eater. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Boston, MA. |
| Frank, M.C. & Ramscar, M. (2003) How do Presentation and Context Influence Representation for Functional Fixedness Tasks? Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Boston, MA. |
2002
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Ramscar, M. (2002) The role of meaning in inflection: why the past tense does not require a rule. Cognitive Psychology, 45(2), 45-94. |
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Boroditsky, L. & Ramscar, M. (2002). The roles of body and mind in abstract thought. Psychological Science, 13(2), 185-188. |
| Yarlett D.G. & Ramscar M.J.A. (2002). A Quantitative Model of Counterfactual Reasoning. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 14, MIT Press. |
| Yarlett D.G. & Ramscar M.J.A. (2002). Uncertainty in causal and counterfactual inference. Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Fairfax, VA. |
| Alloway, T.P., Ramscar, M.J.A & Corley, M. (2002) The role of thought and experience in the understanding of spatio-temporal metaphors. Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Fairfax, VA. |
| Boroditsky, L., Ham, W., & Ramscar, M.J.A (2002) What is universal in event perception? Comparing English & Indonesian speakers. Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Fairfax, VA. |
| Ramscar, M.J.A. (2002) When the fly flied and when the fly flew: The effects of semantics on past tense inflection. Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Fairfax, VA. |
2001
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Hahn, U. & Ramscar, M.J.A. (2001) Mere similarity? In U. Hahn & M.J.A. Ramscar, (eds.) Similarity and Categorization. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Read a Review) |
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Boroditsky, L. & Ramscar, M.J.A. (2001). ”First, we assume a spherical cow…” A commentary on Tenenbaum & Griffiths, Generalization, Similarity, and Bayesian Inference. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24(4), 656-7. |
| MacDonald, S & Ramscar, M (2001). Testing the Distributional Hypothesis: The Influence of Context on Judgements of Semantic Similarity. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, University of Edinburgh. |
| Yarlett, D & Ramscar, M (2001). Structural Determinants of Counterfactual Reasoning. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, University of Edinburgh. |
| Connell, L & Ramscar, M (2001). Using Distributional Measures to Model Typicality in Categorization. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, University of Edinburgh. |
| Connell, L. & Ramscar, M. (2001). Modeling canonical and contextual typicality using distributional measures. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Cognitive Science, Beijing, China. |
| Lynott, D & Ramscar, M. J. A. (2001) Can we model conceptual combination using distributional information? Proceedings of the Twelfth Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, NUI, Maynooth, September, 2001. |
| Ramscar, M.J.A (2001). The influence of semantics on past-tense inflection. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. University of Edinburgh. |
| Boroditsky, L, Ramscar, M & Frank, M (2001) The roles of body and mind in abstract thought. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. University of Edinburgh. |
2000
| Ramscar, M.J.A. & Yarlett, D.G. (2000) The use of a high-dimensional, “environmental” context space to model retrieval in analogy and similarity-based transfer. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. University of Pennsylvania. |
| Yarlett, D.G. & Ramscar, M.J.A. (2000). Structure-Mapping Theory and Lexico-Semantic Information. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. University of Pennsylvania. |
| Heneveld, A. Bundy, A. Ramscar, M.J.A. & Richardson, J. (2000) Memory-Based Problem Solving and Schema Induction in Go. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. University of Pennsylvania. |
| Ramscar, M.J.A. (2000) Evidence for the processing of re-representations during the mapping of externally represented analogies. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. University of Pennsylvania. |
1998-9
| Alloway, T.P., Ramscar, M.J.A & Corley, M. (1999) Verbal and embodied priming in schema mapping tasks. Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Vancouver, British Columbia. |
| Ramscar, M.J.A., Lee, J.R., & Pain, H.G. (1998) Reply to Per Galle’s: ‘Product modelling: 20 years of stalemate?’ Design Studies, 19, 241-244. |
| Ramscar, M.J.A. & Hahn, U. (1998) What family resemblances are not: The continuing relevance of Wittgenstein to the study of concepts and categories. Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, University of Wisconsin – Madison. |
| Ramscar, M.J.A. & Hahn, U. (1998) Wittgenstein and the ontological status of analogy. In Holyoak, K, Gentner, D and Kokinov, B (eds.) Advances in Analogy Research. Sofia, Bulgaria: New Bulgarian University Press. |
| Darrington, S., Lingstadt, T & Ramscar, M.J.A. (1998) Analogy as a sub-process of categorisation. Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, University of Wisconsin – Madison. |
| Bueno, R.M., Pain, H., & Ramscar, M. (1998) Modeling the Cognitive Effects of Participative Learning Modeling. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems. London, UK. |
| Ramscar, M.J.A. Pain, H.G., Darrington, S. & Lee, J. R. (1998) Examples and generalisations: Using surface versus structural recall biases to probe conceptual storage.Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, University of Wisconsin – Madison. |
Earlier
| Ramscar, M.J.A., Pain, H.G., & Cooper, R. (1997) Is there a place for semantic similarity in the analogical mapping process? Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Stanford University. |
| Ramscar, M.J.A. (1997) Wittgenstein and the representation of psychological categories. Similarity and categorisation. SimCat 97, Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh. |
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Ramscar, M.J.A., Lee, J.R., & Pain, H.G. (1996) A classification-based methodology for the integration of agent views within design systems. Design Studies, 17, 465-483. |
| Ramscar, M.J.A. & Pain, H.G. (1996) Can a real distinction be made between cognitive theories of analogy and categorisation? Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, University of California, San Diego. |
| Ramscar, M.J.A., Pain, H.G. & Lee, J. (1996) Do we know what the user knows, and does it matter? The epistemics of user modelling. In Anthony Jameson, Cecile Paris, and Carlo Tasso (Eds.), User Modeling: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference, UM97. Vienna, New York. |
| Ramscar, M. & White, R. (1993) “A Goal Driven Approach to Knowledge Extraction for Architectural Design Systems.” Information Modeling and Knowledge Bases IV: Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications. |
