Publications
Manuscripts in Progress
Newman, L.I., Park, J. & Polk, T.A. (in preparation). Nature, nurture, and faces: A computational account of multiple genetic influences on the neural substrates of face processing.
Newman, L.I., Bechara, A., Preston, S.P., Weller, J.A., and Polk, T.A. (in preparation). Reexamining performance in the Iowa Gambling Task: Disadvantageous or just different?
Papers in Refereed Journals
Polk, T.A., Lacey, H.P., Nelson, J.K., Demiralp E., Newman, L.I.*, et. al. (2009). The development of abstract letter representation for reading: Evidence for the role of context, Cognitive Neuropsychology 26(1), 70-90. (*Designed computational model, performed simulations, wrote modeling section of article.) [pdf] [link]
Park, J., Newman, L.I.* & Polk, T.A. (2009). Face Processing: the interplay of nature and nurture, Neuroscientist) 15(5), 445-449. (*Contributed ideas, helped edit the article.) [link]
Sterman, J.D., Henderson, R., Beinhocker, E.D. & Newman, L.I.* (2007). Getting big too fast: Strategic dynamics with increasing returns and bounded rationality”, Management Science 53(4), 683-696. (*Article based on unpublished MIT Masters thesis by Newman & Beinhocker, advised by Henderson & Sterman). [link]
Papers in Refereed Conference Proceedings
Newman, L.I., Polk, T.A., & Preston, S.D. (2008). Revealing individual differences in the Iowa Gambling Task, In B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (1067-1072). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [pdf]
Newman, L.I. & Polk, T.A. (2007). The emergence of semantic topography in a neurally-inspired computational model, Proceedings of ICCM, Eighth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, (103-108). Oxford, UK: Taylor & Francis/Psychology Press. (Awarded Alan Newell Student Paper Prize) [pdf]
Conference Presentations
Newman, L.I. & Polk, T.A. (2009, March). “How nature shapes nurture: A computational account of genetic influences on the neural substrates of face processing”, poster presented at 14th Annual Meeting of Cognitive Neuroscience Society. San Francisco, CA. [pdf]
Newman, L.I., Polk, T.A., & Preston, S.D. (2008, September). “Modeling individual differences in the Iowa Gambling Task”, poster presented at Annual Conference of the Society for NeuroEconomics. Park City, UT. [pdf]
Newman, L.I., Polk, T.A., & Preston, S.D. (2008, July). “Revealing individual differences in the Iowa Gambling Task”, poster presented at 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Washington, DC.
Newman, L.I. & Polk, T.A. (2008, April). “The emergence of semantic topography and category-specific impairments in a neurally-inspired computational model”, poster presented at 13th Annual Meeting of Cognitive Neuroscience Society. San Francisco, CA. [pdf]
Newman, L.I. & Polk, T.A. (2007, July). “The emergence of semantic topography in a neurally-inspired computational model”, paper presented at 8th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. Ann Arbor, MI. [talk slides]
Newman, L.I. & Polk, T.A. (2006, November). “The emergence of semantic representations from topographic sensory maps”, paper presented at Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Conference. Houston, TX.
Newman, L.I. & Polk, T.A. (2006, May). “Clusters, symbols, and cortical topography”, presentation at 26th Annual Soar Workshop. Ann Arbor, MI.
Book Chapters
Newman, L.I. & Polk, T.A. (2008). “The computational cognitive neuroscience of learning and memory: Principles and models”, in Guadagnoli, M., Benjamin, A., DeBelle, S., Etnyre, B. & Polk, T.A., Human Learning: Biology, Brain, and Neuroscience, (77-99). Oxford, UK: Elsevier Ltd. [link]
