Presentations

Young, M.E. (August, 2009).  Using a video game environment to study choice in the human animal.  Invited paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Toronto, ON, Canada.

Cole, J. J., Sutherland, S.C., & Young, M.E. (June, 2009).  Representative design versus systematic sampling:  A Monte Carlo simulation.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Illinoisy Data Conference, Edwardsville, IL.

Racey, D.E., & Young, M.E. (June, 2009).  Choosing among multiple options: A multi-armed bandit task.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Illinoisy Data Conference, Edwardsville, IL.

Sutherland, S.C., & Young, M.E. (June, 2009).  The utilization of expert advice: Effects of cost and accuracy.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Illinoisy Data Conference, Edwardsville, IL.

Falmier, O., & Young, M.E. (November, 2008).  The impact of object motion on perceptual categorization.  Poster presented at the annual meeting of Object Perception and Memory, Chicago, IL.

Racey, D., Young, M.E., & Jacobs, E.A. (November, 2008).  Differences in sustained operant variability levels.  Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL.

Sutherland, S., & Young, M.E. (November, 2008).  Using an expert when using the expert is harmful.  Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Chicago, IL.

Young, M.E., Clark, M.H., Goffus, A.M., & Hoane, M.R. (November, 2008).  Nonlinear mixed effects modeling of Morris water maze learning. Paper presented at the fall meeting of the Comparative Cognition Society, Chicago, IL.

Young, M.E., & Nguyen, N. (November, 2008).  Identifying the cause of distal events.  Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Chicago, IL.

Young, M.E. (June, 2008). Playing games for a greater cause: Research.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Illinoisy Data Conference, Carbondale, IL.

Beckmann, J.S., & Young, M.E. (May, 2008).  The role of the pacemaker in duration discrimination of dynamic stimuli.  Invited symposium presenter at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavior Analysis, Chicago, IL.

Racey, D., Young, M.E., & Jacobs, E.A. (May, 2008).  Differences in sustained operant variability levels.  Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavior Analysis, Chicago, IL.

Limongi-Tirado, R., Habib, R., Young, M.E., & Reinke, K. (April, 2008).  Neural basis of attentional top-down modulation of causal judgment.  Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

Young, M.E. (November, 2007). Comparing policy use by those who draft and those who coach in the NBA. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Judgment and Decision Making Society, Long Beach, CA.

Beckmann, J.S., & Young, M.E. (November, 2007). Stimulus dynamics alter the perception of time: Faster is longer. Paper presented by M. E. Young at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA.

Nguyen, N., & Young, M.E. (October, 2007). Causal learning in a dynamic environment: The effect of delays and auditory fillers.  Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Association for Behavior Analysis, Athens, GA.

Beckmann, J.S., & Young, M.E. (June, 2007). Temporal discrimination within dynamic environments. Paper presented at the Illinoisy Data Conference, Normal, IL.

Nikonova, O., & Young, M.E. (June, 2007). The impact of object behavior on categorization. Paper presented at the Illinoisy Data Conference, Normal, IL.

Beckmann, J.S. & Young, M.E. (May, 2007).  Dynamic temporal bisection: Implications for pacemakers.  Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Quantitative Analyses of Behavior, San Diego, CA. 

Beckmann, J.S. & Young, M.E. (March, 2007).  Effects of stimulus dynamics on temporal discrimination.  Poster presented at the annual Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL. 

Lazareva, O. F., Young, M. E., & Wasserman, E. A. (2007, February).  A three-component model of relational learning in a transposition paradigm.  Paper presented at the meeting of Winter Conference on Animal Learning and Behavior, Winter Park, CO.

Limongi, R.T. & Young, M.E. (November, 2006).  Linguistic top-down modulation of causal perception.  Poster presented at the annual Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Conference, Houston, TX.

Beckmann, J.S. & Young, M.E. (March, 2006).  Novelty as a feature in the feature positive effect in humans.  Poster presented at the annual Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL. 

Lazareva,  O.F., Miner, M., Wasserman, E.A., & Young, M.E. (March, 2006). Transposition in pigeons:   Multiple-pair training facilitates relational responding.  Paper presented at the annual Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL. 

Racey, D.E., Young, M.E., & Wasserman, E.A. (March, 2006).  Discriminating continuous variability: Evidence for the Finding Differences Model.  Poster presented at the annual Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL. 

Young, M.E. & Wasserman, E.A. (March, 2006).  A theory of variability discrimination: Finding differences.  Paper presented at the annual Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL. 

Nikonova, O., & Young, M.E. (November, 2005).  The effect of background texture on event prediction.  Poster presented at the annual conference on Object Perception, Attention, and Memory, Toronto, Canada. 

Young, M.E., & Nikonova, O. (November, 2005). Color change as a cause of object movement: Revisited. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, Canada.

Beckmann, J.S., Young, M.E., & Nikonova, O. (May, 2005). Temporal bisection judgments and stimulus dynamics. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Quantitative Analyses of Behavior. Chicago, IL.

Beckmann, J.S., Young, M.E., & Nikonova, O.  (March, 2005).  Stimulus dynamics and duration judgments.  Poster presented at the annual Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL. 

Frank, A.J., Wasserman, E.A., & Young, M.E. (March, 2005).  Item and relation control in same-different discrimination.  Poster presented at the annual Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL. 

Nikonova, O., Young, M.E., & Beckmann, J.S. (March, 2005).  Contingency versus mechanism in causal comparisons.  Poster presented at the annual Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL. 

Young, M.E., Beckmann, J.S., & Wasserman, E.A. (March, 2005).  The pigeon’s discrimination of Michotte’s launching effect.  Paper presented at the annual Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL. 

Nikonova, O., & Young, M.E. (November, 2004).  Alleviating the detrimental effects of a spatial gap in causal perceptions.  Poster presented at the annual conference on Object Perception, Attention, and Memory, Minneapolis, MN. 

Castro, L., Young, M.E., & Wasserman, E.A. (September, 2004).  Effects of number of items on the human’s discrimination of same from different visual displays.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Comparative Psychology, Oviedo, Spain.

Lazareva, O. F., Young, M. E., & Wasserman, E. A. (May, 2004). Pigeon’s recognition of occluded objects: Differential effect of training experience.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL. 

Nikonova, O., & Young, M.E. (May, 2004).   Alleviating the detrimental effects of a spatial gap in causal perceptions.   Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.  

Nikonova, O., & Young, M.E. (November, 2003). The impact of perceived animacy on causal judgments. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Judgment and Decision Making Society, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Young, M.E. (November, 2003). The role of predictability in the launching effect. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Schlesinger, M., & Young, M.E. (August, 2003). Examining the role of prediction in infants. Poster presented at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston, MA.

Young, M.E. (May, 2003). The origin of causal impressions in the launching effect. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Show Me Mental State Conference on Cognition, Columbia, MO.

Ellefson, M. R., Young, M. E., & Christiansen, M. C. (April, 2003). The relative benefit of cues for middle school students in a sequential learning task: Educational implications. Poster presented at the Society of Research in Child Development, Tampa, FL.

Beckmann, J.S., Young, M.E., & Ellefson, M.R. (November, 2002). Learning about the importance of occurrence and non-occurrence. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Judgment and Decision Making Society, Kansas City, MO.

Peissig, J.J., Young, M.E., & Wasserman, E.A. (May, 2002). Object recognition in pigeons: The effects of spatial frequencies. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.

Young, M.E., & Wasserman, E.A. (May, 2002). A computational model of variability discrimination: Finding differences. Invited paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Quantitative Analysis of Behavior, Toronto, Canada.

Young, M.E., Ellefson, M.R., & Rogers, E.T. (May, 2002). The effect of symmetric and asymmetric binary features on category learning. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Show Me Mental State Conference on Cognition, St. Louis, MO.

Castro, L., Young, M.E., & Wasserman, E.A. (April, 2002). Same-different learning in the pigeon: Entropy and similarity. Paper presented at the IV Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Psicologia Experimental (Fourth Conference of the Spanish Society of Experimental Psychology), Oviedo, Spain.

Ellefson, M.R., & Young, M.E. (November, 2001). Predictive learning of main effects and interactions: A comparison of computational models. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Orlando, FL.

Peissig, J. J., Young, M. E., Wasserman, E. A., & Biederman, I. (November, 2001). The pigeon's recognition of depth rotated objects. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Orlando, FL.

van den Broek, P., Tzeng, Y., Virtue, S., Linderholm, T., & Young, M.E. (November, 2001). Inference making and memory for text: A computational model. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Orlando, FL.

Young, M.E., Ellefson, M.R., & Wasserman, E.A. (November, 2001). Spatial organization and perceived variety. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Judgment and Decision Making Society, Orlando, FL.

Wasserman, E.A., & Young, M.E. (August, 2001). Stimulus variability and the control of human and animal behavior. Paper presented by both authors at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA.

Young, M.E., & Wasserman, E.A. (May, 2001). Visual variability discrimination in the pigeon is not determined by spatial regularity. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.

DiPietro, N.T., Wasserman, E.A., & Young, M.E. (May, 2001). The effects of occlusion on pigeons object recognition. Paper presented by E.A. Wasserman at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.

Peissig, J.M., Wasserman, E.A., Young, M.E., & Biederman, I. (March, 2001). Object recognition in pigeons: The effects of a dynamic light source. Paper presented at the annual Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL.

Shu, S., Young, M.E., & Wasserman, E.A. (November, 2000). Number interpolation and extrapolation by pigeons. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA.

Windschitl, P. D., Young, M. E., & Jenson, M. (November, 2000). The alternative-outcomes effect in a learning paradigm. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Judgment and Decision Making Society, New Orleans, LA.

Young, M.E. (November, 2000). The relative learning rates of main effects and interactions in predictive learning. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Judgment and Decision Making Society, New Orleans, LA.

Young, M.E., & Wasserman, E.A. (November, 2000). Predictive learning: The Effects of attentional capacity and cue order. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA.

Wasserman, E.A., Fagot, J., & Young, M.E. (March, 2000). Same-different conceptualization by baboons (Papio papio): The role of entropy. Paper presented at the annual Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL.

Fagot, J. & Young, M.E., & Wasserman, E.A. (March, 2000). Relational matching by baboons. Paper presented at the annual Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL.

Peissig, J. M., Young, M. E., Wasserman, E. A., & Biederman, I. (November, 1999). Object recognition in pigeons: The role of stimulus features. Poster presented at the annual workshop on Object Perception and Memory (OPAM 99), Los Angeles, CA.

Peissig, J. M., Young, M. E., Wasserman, E. A., & Biederman, I. (November, 1999). Stimulus size and the pigeon's ability to recognize objects. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Los Angeles, CA.

Young, M.E.,Wasserman, E. A., & Dierking, K. L. (November, 1999). Faster learning of causal interactions when causes are presented serially. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Los Angeles, CA.

Young, M.E. (May, 1999). Temporal similarity between cues affects causal learning. Paper presented at the Special Interest Meeting on Cue Competition in Associative Learning (Sponsored by the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology and the Belgian FWO Research Community), Ardennes, Belgium.

Young, M.E. & Wasserman, E.A. (April, 1999). Entropy detection by pigeons and people. Invited paper presented by E.A. Wasserman at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago,IL.

Peissig, J. M., Young, M. E., Wasserman, E. A., & Biederman, I. (April,1999). The pigeon's ability to form a generalized structural description. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Washington, DC.

Peissig, J. M., Young, M. E., Wasserman, E. A., & Biederman, I. (November,1998). The pigeon's discrimination of single geons rotated in depth. Paper presented by E.A. Wasserman at the annual meeting of the PsychonomicSociety.

Wilson, J.M., Young, M.E., & Wasserman, E.A. (November, 1998). Attentional tradeoffs in pigeons learning to discriminate complex visual stimuli. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, LosAngeles, CA.

Young, M.E., Johnson, J.L., & Wasserman, E.A. (November, 1998). Occasion setting in causal induction: The importance of temporal relations among the candidate causes. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Judgment and Decision Making Society, Dallas, TX.

Young, M.E. & Wasserman, E.A. (November, 1998). Discriminating differences in categorical variability. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Dallas, TX.

Tzeng, Y., van den Broek, P., & Young, M.E. (July, 1998). Updating memory representations during reading: The role of cohort competition. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society,Madison, WI.

van den Broek, P. & Tzeng, Y., & Young, M.E. (July, 1998). The role of attention allocation in the construction of the mental representation of a text. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, Madison, WI.

Young, M.E. & Wasserman, E.A. (March, 1998). Successive same-different discrimination in pigeons: Data and theory. Paper presented by E.A.Wasserman at the annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL.

Wasserman, E.A. & Young, M.E. (November, 1997). The classification of display variability by people and pigeons. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Philadelphia, PA.

Young, M.E., Johnson, J.L., & Wasserman, E.A. (November, 1997). Occasion setting in a causal induction task. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Philadelphia, PA.

Wasserman, E.A. & Young, M.E. (July, 1997). Abstraction in people and pigeons. Paper presented by E.A. Wasserman and M.E. Young at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

Peissig, J.J., Young, M.E., Wasserman, E.A., & Biederman, I. (May,1997). The pigeon's discrimination of single geons rotated in depth. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

van den Broek, P. & Young, M.E. (April, 1997). The Landscape model of reading comprehension: Inferential processes and the on-line construction of a memory representation. Invited presentation at Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.

Wasserman, E.A. & Young, M.E. (March, 1997). Abstraction in people and pigeons. Paper presented at the annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL.

Young, M.E., Johnson, J.L., & Wasserman, E.A. (November, 1996). Positive and negative patterning in a human causal judgment task. Paper presented by E.A. Wasserman at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL.

van den Broek, P. & Young, M.E. (March, 1996). The 'Landscape' model of reading: Inferences and memory representation. Paper presented at the conference on Minimalism vs. Constructionism, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France.

Young, M. E. & DeBauche, B. (June, 1993). Causal mechanisms as temporal bridges in a connectionist model of causal attribution. Poster presented at the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Boulder, CO.

Young, M.E. (July, 1992). A simple recurrent network model of serial conditioning: Implications for temporal event representation. Poster presented at the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Bloomington, IN.

Young, M. E. & Fletcher, C.R. (November, 1991). Causal inferences in comprehension: Does syntax play a role? Paper presented by C.R. Fletcher at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, San Francisco, CA.