McGill Cognitive Computing Laboratory
Johns, B. T., Jamieson, R. K., Crump, M. J. C., & Jones, M. N. (in press). Instance memory models as a general computational framework for exploring language processing: Bringing the lexicon to life. Linguistics Vanguard.
Antal, C., Johns, B. T., & de Almeida, R. G. (in press). The effect of contextual and semantic diversity in lexical and conceptual access: Evidence from a picture-word semantic congruency task. Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience.
Chang, M., Johns, B. T., & Brainerd, C. J. (in press). True and false recognition in MINERVA2: Integrating fuzzy-trace theory and computational memory modeling. Psychological Review.
Johns, B. T. (2024). Large-scale social feedback and language usage: A distributional analysis. PsyArXiv.
Johns, B. T. (2024). Determining the optimal environmental information for training computational models of lexical semantics and lexical organization. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 78, 163-173.
Qiu, M., Castro, N., & Johns, B. T. (2024). Estimating type of print exposure across aging through author production. Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Johns, B. T. (2024). Determining the relativity of word meanings through the construction of individualized models of semantic memory. Cognitive Science, 48, e13413 (50 pages).
Lundin, N. B., Brown, J. W., Johns, B. T., Jones, M. N., Purcell, J. R., Hetrick, W. P., O’Donnell, B. F., & Todd, P. M. (2023). Neural evidence of switch processes during semantic and phonetic foraging in human memory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120, e2312462120 (12 pages).
Chang, M., Jones, M. N., & Johns, B. T. (2023). Comparing word frequency, semantic diversity, and semantic distinctiveness in lexical organization. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152, 1814–1823.
Johns, B. T., Jamieson, R. K., & Jones, M. N. (2023). Scalable cognitive modeling: Putting Simon’s (1969) ant back on the beach. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 77, 185–201.
Johns, B. T., Taler, V., & Jones, M. N. (2023). Contextual dynamics in lexical encoding across aging: A simulation study. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 76, 2164–2182.
Johns, B. T. (2023). Computing word meanings by aggregating individualized distributional models: Wisdom of the crowds in lexical semantic memory. Cognitive Systems Research, 80, 90-102.
Chang, M. & Johns, B. T. (2023). Integrating distributed semantic models with an instance memory model to explain false recognition. Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Taler, V. & Johns, B. T. (2022). Using big data to understand bilingual performance in semantic fluency: Findings from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging. PLoS One,17, e0277660.
Johns, B. T. (2022). Determining the relativity of word meanings through the construction of individualized models of semantic memory. PsyArXiv.
Lundin, N. B., Brown, J. W., Johns, B. T., Jones, M. N., Purcell, J. R., Hetrick, W. P., O'Donnell, B. F., & Todd, P. M. (2022). Neural switch processes guide semantic and phonetic foraging in human memory. PsyArXiv.
Antal., C., de Almeida, R. G., & Johns, B. T. (2022). Which semantic properties of a feature affect access to an object concept? In J. Culbertson, A. Perfors, H. Rabagliati, & V. Ramenzoni (Eds.), Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Toronto, ON: Cognitive Science Society.
Senaldi, M. S. G., Titone, T., & Johns, B. T. (2022). Determining the importance of frequency and contextual diversity in the lexical organization of multiword expressions. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 76, 87–98.
Jamieson, R. K., Johns, B. T., Vokey, J. R., & Jones, M. N. (2022). Instance theory as a domain-general framework for cognitive psychology. Nature Reviews Psychology, 1, 174-183.
Johns, B. T. (2022). Accounting for item-level variance in recognition memory: Comparing word frequency and contextual diversity. Memory & Cognition, 50, 1013–1032.
Jamieson, R. K., Johns, B. T., Taler, V., & Jones, M. N. (2022). The importance of formal modelling for the development of cognitive theory. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 25, 218-219.
Johns, B. T. & Jones, M. N. (2022). Content matters: Measures of contextual diversity must consider semantic content. Journal of Memory and Language, 123, 104313.
Johns, B. T. (2021). Distributional social semantics: Inferring word meanings from communication patterns. Cognitive Psychology, 131, 101441 (20 pages).
Qiu, M. & Jones, M. N. (2021). A distributional and sensorimotor analysis of noun and verb fluency. PsyArXiv.
Qiu, M., Castro, N., & Johns, B. T. (2021). Structural comparisons of noun and verb networks in the mental lexicon. In Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1649-1655).
Johns, B. T. (2021). Disentangling contextual diversity: Communicative need as a lexical organizer. Psychological Review, 128, 525–557. Supplementary Materials.
Johns, B. T., Jones, M. N., & Mewhort, D. J. K. (2021). A continuous source reinstatement model of true and false recollection. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 75, 1–18.
Johns, B. T., Jamieson, R. K., Crump, M. J. C., Jones, M. N., & Mewhort, D. J. K. (2020). Production without rules: Using an instance memory model to exploit structure in natural language. Journal of Memory and Language, 115, 104165 (20 pages).
Taler, V., Johns, B. T., & Jones, M. N. (2020). A large scale semantic analysis of verbal fluency across the aging spectrum: Data from the Canadian longitudinal study on aging. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 75, e221-e230.
Johns, B. T., Jamieson, R. K., & Jones, M. N. (2020). The continued importance of theory: Lessons from big data approaches to language and cognition. In Woo, S. E., Proctor, R., and Tay, L. (Eds.) Big Data in Psychological Research, APA Books.
Johns, B. T., Dye, M., & Jones, M. N. (2020). Estimating the prevalence and diversity of words in written language. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73, 841-855. Supplementary Materials.
Crump, M. J. C., Jamieson, R. K., Johns, B. T., & Jones, M. N. (2020). Controlling the retrieval of general versus specific semantic knowledge in the instance theory of semantic memory. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Cognitive Science Society.
Qiu, M. & Johns, B. T. (2020). Semantic diversity in paired-associate learning: Further evidence for the information accumulation perspective of cognitive aging. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review , 27, 114–121.
Johns, B. T., Mewhort, D. J. K., & Jones, M. N. (2019). The role of negative information in distributional semantic learning. Cognitive Science, 43, e12730.
Johns, B. T. & Jamieson, R. K. (2019). The influence of time and place on lexical behavior: A distributional analysis. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 2438-2453. Supplementary Materials.
Johns, B. T. & Dye, M. (2019). Gender bias at scale: Evidence from the usage of personal names. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 1601-1618. Supplementary Materials.
Johns, B. T., Jones, M. N., & Mewhort, D. J. K. (2019). Using experiential optimization to build lexical representations. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 26, 103-126.
Johns, B. T. (2019). Mining a crowdsourced dictionary to understand consistency and preference in word meanings. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 268 (14 pages). Supplementary Materials.
Jamieson, R. K., Avery, J. E., Johns, B. T., & Jones, M. N. (2018). An instance theory of semantic memory. Computational Brain & Behavior, 1, 119-136.
Johns, B. T., & Jamieson, R. K. (2018). A large-scale analysis of variance in written language. Cognitive Science, 42, 1360-1374.
Johns, B. T., Taler, V., Pisoni, D. B., Farlow, M. R., Hake, A. M., Kareken, D. A., Unverzagt, F. W., & Jones, M. N. (2018). Cognitive modeling as an interface between brain and behavior: Measuring the semantic decline in mild cognitive impairment. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72, 117-126.
Jamieson, R. K., Avery, J. E., Johns, B. T., & Jones, M. N. (2018). An instance theory of distributional semantics. In C. Kalish, M. Rau, J. Zhu, & T. T. Rogers (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Jones, M. N., Dye, M., & Johns, B. T. (2017). Context as an organizational principle of the lexicon. In B. Ross (Ed.), The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, 67:43.
Johns, B. T., Mewhort, D. J. K., & Jones, M. N. (2017). Small worlds and big data: Examining the simplification assumption in cognitive modeling. In Jones, M. N. (Ed.) Big Data in Cognitive Science: From Methods to Insights, Taylor & Francis.
Johns, B. T., Dye, M. W., & Jones, M. N. (2016). The influence of contextual diversity on word learning. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 4, 1214-1220.
Johns, B. T., Sheppard, C., Jones, M. N., & Taler, V. (2016). The role of semantic diversity in lexical organization across aging and bilingualism. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 703 (11 pages).
Chubala, C. M., Johns, B. T., Jamieson, R. K., & Mewhort, D. J. K. (2016). Applying an exemplar model to the implicit rule-learning task: Implicit learning of semantic structure. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 69, 1049-1055.
Johns, B. T., Jones, M. N., & Mewhort, D. J. K. (2016). Experience as a free parameter in the cognitive modeling of language. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Dye, M., Johns, B. T., Jones, M. N., & Ramscar, M. (2016). The structure of names in memory: Deviations from uniform entropy impair memory for linguistic sequences. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Johns, B. T., Jamieson, R. K., Crump, M. J. C., Jones, M. N., & Mewhort, D. J. K. (2016). The combinatorial power of experience. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Johns, B. T., & Jones, M. N. (2015). Generating structure from experience: A retrieval-based model of sentence processing. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 69, 233-251. [Winner of 2015 CPA/CSBBCS Best Article Award]
Johns, B. T., Dye, M., Jones, M. N. (2014). The influence of contextual variability on word learning. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Johns, B. T., Jones, M. N., & Mewhort, D. J. K. (2014). A continuous source reinstatement model of true and illusory recollection. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Johns, B. T., & Jones, M. N. (2014). Generating structure from experience: The role of memory in language. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Taler, V., Johns, B. T., Young, K., Sheppard, C., & Jones, M. N. (2013). A computational analysis of semantic structure in bilingual fluency. Journal of Memory and Language, 69, 607-618.
Johns, B. T., Taler, V., Pisoni, D. B., Farlow, M. R., Hake, A. M., Kareken, D. A., Unverzagt, F. W., & Jones, M. N. (2013). Using cognitive models to investigate the temporal dynamics of semantic memory impairments in the development of Alzheimer’s disease. In the Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM).
Johns, B. T., Jones, M. N., & Mewhort, D. J. K. (2012). A synchronization account of false recognition. Cognitive Psychology, 65, 486-518.
Johns, B. T., Gruenenfelder, T. M., Pisoni, D. B., & Jones, M. N. (2012). Effects of word frequency, contextual diversity, and semantic distinctiveness on spoken word recognition. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 132:2, EL74-EL80.
Johns, B. T., & Jones, M. N. (2012). Perceptual Inference through global lexical similarity. Topics in Cognitive Science, 4, 103-120.
Jones, M. N., Johns, B. T., & Recchia, G. (2012). The role of semantic diversity in lexical organization. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 66, 115-124.
Johns, B. T., & Jones, M. M. (2011). Construction in semantic memory: Generating perceptual representations with global lexical similarity. In L. Carlson, C. Hölscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [Marr Prize for Best Student Paper]
Johns, B. T., & Jones, M. N. (2010). Evaluating the random representation assumption of lexical semantics in cognitive models. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 17, 662-672.
Mewhort, D. J. K., Johns, B. T., & Kelly, M. (2010). Applying the permutation test to factorial designs. Behavior Research Methods, 42, 366-372.
Johns, B. T., & Jones, M. N. (2010). Are random representations accurate approximations of lexical semantics? In S. Ohisson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Cognitive Science Society. Austin TX: CSS.
Mewhort, D. J. K., Kelly, M., & Johns, B. T. (2009). Randomization tests and the unequal-N/unequal-variance problem. Behavior Research Methods, 41, 664-667.
Johns, B. T., & Jones, M. N. (2009). False recognition through semantic amplification. In N. A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 2795-2800). Austin TX: CSS.
Johns, B. T., & Jones, M. N. (2009). Simulating false recall as an integration of semantic search and recognition. In N. A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 2511-2516). Austin TX: CSS.
Johns, B. T., & Jones, M. N. (2008). Predicting word-naming and lexical decision times from a semantic space model. In B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 279-285). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Recchia, G., Johns, B. T., & Jones, M. N. (2008). Context repetition benefits are dependent on context redundancy. In B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 267-273). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
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