Academic
My research interests lie in the broad intersection of learning, memory, and categorization. Because I am interested in scrutinizing areas that are often studied separately, my work falls in the various subareas of categorical perception, semantic models, associative learning, language learning, decision-making, and memory.
Research Statement
Brief descriptions and figures
Curriculum Vitae. (2/2/12)
~G.K., 12.14.2011
Papers
- Kachergis, G., Yu, C. & Shiffrin, R. M. (in preparation). A Bootstrapping Associative Model for Cross-Situational Word Learning.
- Kachergis, G., Yu, C. & Shiffrin, R. M. (in preparation). Temporal Contiguity Improves Cross-Situational Word Learning.
- Kachergis, G. (submitted). Learning Nouns with Domain-General Associative Learning Mechanisms
- Kachergis, G., Yu, C. & Shiffrin, R. M. (submitted). Actively Learning Nouns Across Ambiguous Situations.
- Hendrickson, A. T., Kachergis, G., Fausey, C., & Goldstone, R. L. (submitted). Re-learning labeled categories reveals structured representations.
- Cox, G. E., Kachergis, G., & Shiffrin, R. M. (submitted). Gaussian Process Regression for Trajectory Analysis.
- Kachergis, G., Yu, C., & Shiffrin, R. M. (2012). An Associative Model of Adaptive Inference for Learning Word-Referent Mappings. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. [web]
- Cox, G. E., Kachergis, G., Recchia, G., & Jones, M. N. (2011). Towards a Scalable Holographic Word-form Representation. Behavior Research Methods. [pdf]
- Kachergis, G., Recchia, G., & Shiffrin, R. M. (2011). Adaptive Magnitude and Valence Biases in a Dynamic Memory Task. In L. Carlson, C. Hölscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. xxx). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [pdf]
- Kachergis, G., Cox, G. E., & Jones, M. N. (2011). OrBEAGLE: Integrating Orthography into a Holographic Model of the Lexicon. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Springer). International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks. Espoo, Finland. [pdf]
- Trueblood, J. S., Kachergis, G., & Kruschke, J. K. (2011). A Cue Imputation Bayesian Model of Information Aggregation. In L. Carlson, C. Hölscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. xxx). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [pdf]
2011
- Hendrickson, A. T., Kachergis, G., Gureckis, T. M., & Goldstone, R. L. (2010). Is categorical perception really verbally mediated perception? In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. xxx). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [pdf]
- Gangwani, T., Kachergis, G., & Yu, C. (2010). Simultaneous Cross-situational Learning of Category and Object Names. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. xxx). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [pdf]
- Kachergis, G., Yu, C., & Shiffrin, R. M. (2010). Adaptive Constraints and Inference in Cross-Situational Word Learning. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1210-1215). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [pdf]
- Kachergis, G., Yu, C., & Shiffrin, R. M. (2010). Cross-Situational Statistical Learning: Implicit or Intentional? In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1189-1194). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [pdf]
2010
- Kachergis, G., Yu, C., & Shiffrin, R. M. (2009). Frequency and Contextual Diversity Effects in Cross-Situational Word Learning. In N. Taatgen, H. van Rijn, J. Nerbonne, & L. Schomaker (Eds.) Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. xxx). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [pdf]
- Kachergis, G., Yu, C., & Shiffrin, R. M. (2009). Temporal Contiguity in Cross-Situational Statistical Learning. In N. Taatgen, H. van Rijn, J. Nerbonne, & L. Schomaker (Eds.) Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. xxx). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [pdf]
2009
- Barbella, D., Kachergis, G., Liben-Nowell, D., Sallstrom, A., and Sowell, B. (2007). Depth of Field and Cautious- Greedy Routing in Social Networks. Proceedings of 18th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation. [pdf]
2007
Early, Unpublished Work
Lexical Variety in Human Processing of Syntactically Ambiguous Sentences - (2005) Jamie Olson and G.K.
Mechanisms of Optimal Pathfinding in the Ant Tapinoma sessile - The research paper from my research in biology class during my final year (2003) at NCSSM.
