Here you will find a representative list of publications by lab members. Some files are available for download by clicking on the [pdf] link after to the reference. You must have a PDF reader installed to view these files. (download free Adobe reader)

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Journal papers:

Sandhofer, C. M. & Doumas, L. A. A. (in press).  Order and presentation effects in learning categories.  Journal of Cognition and Development.  [pdf]

Doumas, L. A. A. & Richland, L. E. (in press).  Developing structured representations.  Behavioral and Brain Sciences.  [pdf]

Opfer, J. E. & Doumas, L. A. A. (in press).  The structure in semantic concepts.  Behavioral and Brain Sciences.  [pdf]

Doumas, L. A. A., Hummel, J. E., & Sandhofer, C. M. (2008).  A theory of the discovery and predication of relational concepts.  Psychological Review, 115, 1-43.  [pdf]

Doumas, L. A. A., Holyoak, K. J., & Hummel, J. E. (2006).  The problem with using associations to carry binding information.  Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29, 38-39.  [pdf]

Book chapters:

Doumas, L. A. A. & Hummel, J. E. (2005).  Modeling human mental representations:  What works, what doesn’t, and why.  In K. J. Holyoak  & R. G. Morrison (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning, 73-91.  Cambridge, UK:  Cambridge University Press.  [pdf]

Refereed conference proceedings:

Doumas, L. A. A., & Hummel, J. E. (2007). A Computational Account of the Development of the Generalization of Shape Information.  Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.  [pdf]

Doumas, L. A. A., Bassok, M., Guthromson, A., Hummel, J. E. (2006). A Theory of Reflexive Relational Generalization.  Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.  [pdf]

Morrison, R. G., Doumas, L. A. A., & Richland L. E. (2006).  The a unified account of the dual constraints of capacity and complexity on children’s relational reasoning. Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.  [pdf]

Doumas, L. A. A., & Hummel, J. E. (2005).  A symbolic-connectionist model of relation discovery.  In B. G. Bara, L. Barsalou, & M. Bucciarelli (Eds.),  Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 606-611.  Mahwah NJ:  LEA.  [pdf]

Hummel, J.E., Holyoak, K.J., Green, C., Doumas, L.A.A., Devnich, D., Kittur, A., & Kalar, D.J.  (2004).  A Solution to the Binding Problem for Compositional Connectionism.  In S.D. Levy & R. Gayler: Compositional Connectionism in Cognitive Science: Papers from the AAAI Fall Symposium [Technical Report FS-04-03] (pp. 31-34).  Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press.  [pdf]

Doumas, L. A. A., & Hummel, J.E. (2004).  Structure mapping and relational predication. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 333-338.  [pdf]

Doumas, L. A. A., & Hummel, J.E. (2004). A fundamental limitation of symbol-argument-argument notation as a model of human relational representations.  In Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 327-332.  [pdf]