Michael D LeeProfessor, Cognitive Sciences |
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Research Interests |
Mathematical and computational models of stimulus representation, categorization, memory, decision-making and problem-solving. | |
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Academic Distinctions |
William K. Estes Early Career Award, Society for Mathematical Psychology, 2003. Honorable mention, David Marr Prize, Cognitive Science Society, 2004. Best Applied Cognitive Modeling Paper Prize, Cognitive Science Society, 2011. President, Society for Mathematical Psychology, 2010. |
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| Appointments |
Action Editor, Journal of Mathematical Psychology Editorial Board, Psychological Review Editorial Board, Journal of Problem Solving Editorial Board, Behavior Research Methods |
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Research Abstract |
My research interests are in developing and evaluating mathematical and algorithmic psychological models. I have worked in areas ranging from stimulus representation, to categorization and memory, to decision-making and problem-solving. One recurrent theme in this modeling is the benefit of thinking about both the basic and applied aspects of psychological phenomena simultaneously, with the conviction that knowing about one facilitates progress on the other. This means I try and do research that might be useful outside of the laboratory. A second recurrent theme is the need to make inferences about theories and models under uncertainty in rigorous and systematic ways. This means that I am a Bayesian. | |
| Publications | Lee, M.D. (2001). On the complexity of additive clustering models. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 45(1), 131-148. | |
| Lee, M.D., & Navarro, D.J. (2002). Extending the ALCOVE model of category learning to featural stimulus domains. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 9(1), 43-58. | ||
| Lee, M.D., & Corlett, E.Y. (2003). Sequential sampling models of human text classification. Cognitive Science, 27(2), 159-193. | ||
| Lee, M.D., & Cummins, T.D.R. (2004). Evidence accumulation in decision making: Unifying the ‘take the best’ and ‘rational’ models. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 11(2), 343-352. | ||
| Lee, M.D., & Wagenmakers, E.-J. (2005). Bayesian statistical inference in psychology: Comment on Trafimow (2003). Psychological Review, 112(3), 662-668. | ||
| Lee, M.D., & Webb, M.R. (2005). Modeling individual differences in cognition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 12(4), 605-621. | ||
| Lee, M.D. (2006). A hierarchical Bayesian model of human decision-making on an optimal stopping problem. Cognitive Science, 30(3), 555-580. | ||
| Lee, M.D. (2008). Three case studies in the Bayesian analysis of cognitive models. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15(1), 1-15. | ||
| Dennis, S.J., Lee, M.D., & Kinnell, A. (2008). Bayesian analysis of recognition memory: The case of the list-length effect. Journal of Memory and Language, 59, 361-376. | ||
| Lee, M.D., & Vanpaemel, W. (2008). Exemplars, prototypes, similarities and rules in category representation: An example of hierarchical Bayesian analysis. Cognitive Science, 32(8), 1403-1424. | ||
| Lee, M.D., & Sarnecka, B.W. (2011). Number knower-levels in young children: Insights from a Bayesian model. Cognition, 120, 391-402. | ||
| Lee, M.D. (2011). How cognitive modeling can benefit from hierarchical Bayesian models. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 55, 1-7. | ||
| Grants | 2006-2009: Modeling Exploration and Exploitation in Structured Environments, Air Force Office of Scientific Research (with M. Steyvers) | |
| 2009-2010: Bayesian methods for the detection, diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's Disease, Alzheimer's Association (with R. Shankle) | ||
| 2011-2012, Aggregate Contingent Estimation, Applied Research Associates (with M. Steyvers and W. Batchelder) | ||
| 2011-2013, Sequential Sampling Models of Adaptive Human Decision-Making, Air Force Office of Scientific Research | ||
| 2011-2013, Toward a unified account of adaptive decision making: learning to search, stop and decide, Australian Research Council (with B. Newell) | ||
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Professional Societies |
Executive Board, Society for Mathematical Psychology Member, Cognitive Science Society |
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| Other Experience |
Senior Research Scientist Australian Defence Science and Technology Organisation 1997—2001 |
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Associate Professor Department of Psychology, University of Adelaide 2001—2006 |
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| Link to this profile | http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5326 | |
| Last updated | 01/18/2013 | |