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2008
Brown, S.D., & Steyvers, M. (in press). Detecting and Predicting Changes. Cognitive Psychology.
Chemudugunta, Smyth, P., & Steyvers, M. (2008). Combining Concept Hierarchies and Statistical Topic Models. In: ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management.
Chemudugunta, C., Smyth, P., & Steyvers, M. (2008). Text Modeling using Unsupervised Topic Models and Concept Hierarchies. Technical Report
Chemudugunta, C., Holloway, A., Smyth, P., & Steyvers, M. (2008). Modeling Documents by Combining Semantic Concepts with Unsupervised Statistical Learning. In: 7th International Semantic Web Conference.
Hemmer, P., Steyvers, M. (in press). Integrating Episodic Memories and Prior Knowledge at Multiple Levels of Abstraction. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
Hemmer, P. & Steyvers, M. (2008). A Bayesian Account of Reconstructive Memory. In V. Sloutsky, B. Love, and K. McRae (Eds.) Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum
Steyvers, M. & Griffiths, T.L. (2008). Rational Analysis as a Link between Human Memory and Information Retrieval. In N. Chater and M Oaksford (Eds.) The Probabilistic Mind: Prospects from Rational Models of Cognition. Oxford University Press, pp. 327-347.

2007
Griffiths, T.L., Steyvers, M., & Firl, A. (2007). Google and the mind: Predicting fluency with PageRank. Psychological Science, 18(12), pp. 1069-1076.
Chemudugunta, C., Smyth, P., & Steyvers, M. (2007). Modeling General and Specific Aspects of Documents with a Probabilistic Topic Model. In: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 19.
Griffiths, T.L., Steyvers, M., & Tenenbaum, J.B.T. (2007). Topics in Semantic Representation. Psychological Review, 114(2), 211-244.
Brown, S.D., Steyvers, M., & Hemmer, P. (2007). Modeling Experimentally Induced Strategy Shifts. Psychological Science, 18, 40-45.

2006
  Newman, D., Smyth, P., & Steyvers, M. (2006). Scalable Parallel Topic Models. Journal of Intelligence Community Research and Development.
Newman, D., Chemudugunta, C., Smyth, P., & Steyvers, M. (2006). Statistical entity-topic models. The Twelfth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Philadelphia
Steyvers, M., Griffiths, T.L., & Dennis, S. (2006). Probabilistic inference in human semantic memory. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10(7), 327-334.
Newman, D., Chemudugunta, C., Smyth, P., & Steyvers, M. (2006). Analyzing entities and topics in news articles using statistical topic models. In: Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series -- IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics.
Wagenmakers, E.J., Grunwald, P., & Steyvers, M. (2006). Accumulative prediction error and the selection of time series models. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 50, 149-166.
Navarro, D.J., Griffiths, T.L., Steyvers, S., & Lee, M.D. (2006). Modeling individual differences using Dirichlet processes. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 50, 101-122.

Steyvers, M., & Brown, S. (2006). Prediction and Change Detection. In Y. Weiss, B. Scholkopf, and J. Platt (eds), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 18, pp. 1281-1288. MIT Press.
Steyvers, M. & Griffiths, T. (in press). Probabilistic topic models. In T. Landauer, D McNamara, S. Dennis, and W. Kintsch (eds), Latent Semantic Analysis: A Road to Meaning. Laurence Erlbaum

2005

Brown, S.D., & Steyvers, M. (2005). The Dynamics of Experimentally Induced Criterion Shifts. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 31(4), 587-599.

Steyvers, M., & Tenenbaum, J. (2005). The Large Scale Structure of Semantic Networks: Statistical Analyses and a Model of Semantic Growth.  Cognitive Science, 29(1), 41-78. 

Navarro, D. J., Griffiths, T. L., Steyvers, M. & Lee, M. D. (2005). Modeling individual differences with Dirichlet processes. In B. G. Bara, L. W. Barsalou & M. Bucciarelli (Eds.) Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1594-1599). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum

2004

Griffiths, T., & Steyvers, M. (2004). Finding Scientific Topics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 101 (suppl. 1), 5228-5235. 

Griffiths, T.L., & Steyvers, M., Blei, D.M., & Tenenbaum, J.B. (2005). Integrating Topics and Syntax. In: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 17 (Saul, L.K et al., eds), 537-544. MIT Press. 

Rosen-Zvi, M., Griffiths T., Steyvers, M., & Smyth, P. (2004). The Author-Topic Model for Authors and Documents. In 20th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence. Banff, Canada

Steyvers, M., Shiffrin, R.M., & Nelson, D.L. (2004). Word Association Spaces for Predicting Semantic Similarity Effects in Episodic Memory. In A. Healy (Ed.), Experimental Cognitive Psychology and its Applications. 

Wagenmakers, E-J., Zeelenberg, R., Steyvers, M., Shiffrin, R. M., & Raaijmakers, J. G. W. (2004). Nonword repetition in lexical decision: Evidence for two opposing processes. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology A, 57(7), 1191-1210.

Steyvers, M., Smyth, P., Rosen-Zvi, M., & Griffiths, T. (2004). Probabilistic Author-Topic Models for Information Discovery. The Tenth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Seattle, Washington.  

Wagenmakers, E.J.M., Steyvers, M., Raaijmakers, J.G.W., Shiffrin, R.M., van Rijn, H., & Zeelenberg, R. (2004). A Model for Evidence Accumulation in the Lexical Decision Task. Cognitive Psychology, 48, 332-367. 

2003

Goldstone, R., Steyvers, M., & Rogosky, B.J. (2003). Conceptual Interrelatedness and Caricatures. Memory and Cognition, 31(2), 169-180. 

Steyvers, M., & Malmberg, K. (2003). The effect of normative context variability on recognition memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 29(5), 760-766. 

Excel file with word and sample frequency counts for 26414 selected words from TASA corpus

Steyvers, M., Tenenbaum, J., Wagenmakers, E.J., Blum, B. (2003). Inferring Causal Networks from Observations and Interventions. Cognitive Science, 27, 453-489. 

2002

Griffiths, T.L., & Steyvers, M. (2002). A probabilistic approach to semantic representation. In: Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Conference of Cognitive Science Society. George Mason University, Fairfax, VA.

Griffiths, T.L., & Steyvers, M. (2002). Prediction and semantic association. In: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 15, pp. 11-18. MIT Press.

Malmberg, K. J., Steyvers, M., Stephens, J. D., & Shiffrin, R.M. (2002).  Feature-frequency effects in recognition memory.  Memory & Cognition, 30(4), 607-613. 

Steyvers, M. (2002). Multidimensional Scaling. In: Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. Nature Publishing Group, London, UK.

2001

Goldstone, R.L., & Steyvers, M. (2001). The sensitization and differentiation of dimensions during category learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology, General, 130. 116-139.
(for software to create images as in Figure 1, download this example software in C)

All BMP images of the 4 x 4 grid in Figure 1

A zipped package of all original BMP files with line files, including C program to create 10 x 10 grid of Figure 1. Also includes all the resulting BMP files of the 10 x 10 grid. See the README file for instructions.

Steyvers, M., Wagenmakers, E.J.M., Shiffrin, R.M., Zeelenberg, R., & Raaijmakers, J.G.W. (2001). A Bayesian model for the time-course of lexical processing. In: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. 

2000

Goldstone, R., Steyvers, M., Kersten, A., & Spencer-Smith, J. (2000). Interactions between perceptual and conceptual learning. In Dietrich, E., & A. Markman (eds.), Cognitive Dynamics: conceptual and representational change in humans and machines. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Steyvers, M. (2000). Modeling semantic and orthographic similarity effects on memory for individual words. Dissertation, Psychology Department, Indiana University. Formatted for 55 pages 

Steyvers, M., & Busey, T. (2000). Predicting Similarity Ratings to Faces using Physical Descriptions. In M. Wenger, & J. Townsend (Eds.), Computational, geometric, and process perspectives on facial cognition: Contexts and challenges. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Set of all 60 faces (BMP format) plus geometric distances

Matrix of dissimilarity ratings to all 60 faces. Higher numbers --> more dissimilar. All ratings were z-transformed for each individual subject before averaging.

1995-1999

Goldstone, R.L., Steyvers, M. & Larimer, K. (1996). Categorical Perception of Novel Dimensions. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 243-248). La Jolla, CA. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 

Shiffrin, R.M. & Steyvers, M. (1997). A model for recognition memory: REM: Retrieving Effectively from Memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 4 (2), 145-166.

Shiffrin, R. M., & Steyvers, M. (1998). The effectiveness of retrieval from memory. In M. Oaksford & N. Chater (Eds.). Rational models of cognition. (pp. 73-95), Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. 

Steyvers, M. (1999). Morphing techniques for generating and manipulating face images. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 31, 359-369.

Steyvers, M. & Grunwald, P. (1996). A recurrent network that performs a context-sensitive task. In: Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 335-339). La Jolla, CA. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Van Leeuwen, C., Steyvers, M., & Nooter, M. (1997). Stability and intermittency in large-scale coupled oscillator models for perceptual segmentation. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 41, 319-344.