Mark SteyversAssociate Professor, Cognitive Sciences Joint faculty appointment, Computer Science Joint faculty appointment, Psychology & Social Behavior |
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Research Interests |
Computational Models for Knowledge Extraction and Processing; Models for Human Memory and Dynamic Decision Making; Causal Reasoning; Bayesian Networks | |
| URL | psiexp.ss.uci.edu/research/ | |
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Academic Distinctions |
Early Investigator Award from Society for Experimental Psychologists (SEP) American Psychological Association New Investigator Award (2004); Division 3 – Journal of Experimental Psychology, Learning, Memory & Cognition. Research Achievement Award (2002). Indiana University, Cognitive Science Program. |
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| Appointments |
Postdoctoral Fellow Stanford University 2000—2002 |
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Research Abstract |
My research interests span a diverse set of topics in cognitive science such as episodic and semantic memory, dynamic decision making, and causal reasoning. In each of these areas, I combine mathematical and computational modeling with behavioral experiments. The models and experiments are tightly coupled: I try to formulate empirical questions with the goals of constraining, developing, or testing between alternative computational models of how people learn, process, and represent information. My research interests also include some computer science topics in the domain of statistical machine learning and information retrieval. The adoption of recent machine learning methodology has helped me in advancing cognitive science research, especially in the area of semantic memory. | |
| Publications |
Shiffrin, R.M. & Steyvers, M. (1997). A model for recognition memory: REM: Retrieving Effectively from Memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 4 (2), 145-166. Goldstone, R.L., & Steyvers, M. (2001). The sensitization and differentiation of dimensions during category learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology, General, 130. 116-139. Malmberg, K. J., Steyvers, M., Stephens, J. D., & Shiffrin, R.M. (2002). Feature-frequency effects in recognition memory. Memory & Cognition, 30(4), 607-613. Goldstone, R., Steyvers, M., & Rogosky, B.J. (2003). Conceptual Interrelatedness and Caricatures. Memory and Cognition, 31(2), 169-180. Steyvers, M., Tenenbaum, J., Wagenmakers, E.J., Blum, B. (2003). Inferring Causal Networks from Observations and Interventions. Cognitive Science, 27, 453-489. Steyvers, M., & Malmberg, K. (2003). The effect of normative context variability on recognition memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 29(5), 760-766. 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. Griffiths, T., & Steyvers, M. (2004). Finding Scientific Topics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 101 (suppl. 1), 5228-5235. Steyvers, M., & Tenenbaum, J.B. (2005). Graph Theoretic Analyses of Semantic Networks: Small Worlds in Semantic Networks. Cognitive Science, 29, 41-78. Brown, S.D., & Steyvers, M. (2005). The Dynamics of Experimentally Induced Criterion Shifts. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 31(4), 587-599. Navarro, D.J., Griffiths, T.L., Steyvers, M., & Lee, M.D. (2006). Modeling individual differences using dirichlet processes. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 50, 101-122. Wagenmakers, E.J., Grünwald, P., & Steyvers, M. (2006). Accumulative prediction error and the selection of time series models. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 50, 149-166. Steyvers, M., Griffiths, T.L., & Dennis, S. (2006). Probabilistic inference in human semantic memory. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10(7), 327-334. Newman, D., Smyth, P., & Steyvers, M. (2006). Scalable Parallel Topic Models. Journal of Intelligence Community Research and Development. Brown, S.D., Steyvers, M., & Hemmer, P. (2007). Modeling Experimentally Induced Strategy Shifts. Psychological Science, 18(1), 40-45. Griffiths, T.L., Steyvers, M., & Tenenbaum, J.B.T. (in press). Topics in Semantic Representation. Psychological Review. Griffiths, T.L., Steyvers, M., & Firl, A. (in press). Google and the mind: Predicting fluency with PageRank. Psychological Science. |
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| Grants | AFRL/AFOSR. “Inference in dynamic environments”. 7/1/2004 – 6/30/2006. PI (Steyvers) | |
| NSF-DARPA-NSA consortium, Knowledge Discovery and Dissemination Program. “Entity-Based Data Mining from Spatiotemporal and Text-Based Data Streams”. 10/1/2002 – 5/1/2005. PI (Smyth) | ||
| AFRL/AFOSR, “Modeling Exploration and Exploitation in Structured Environments”, 1/1/2007 – 11/30/2009. PI (Michael Lee). Role: Co-PI. | ||
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Professional Societies |
Cognitive Science Society Psychonomics Society Society of Experimental Psychologists |
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| Research Center | Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences | |
| Link to this profile | http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5064 | |
| Last updated | 03/17/2007 | |