Invited talks and conference presentations

2024

• July 27. 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Combining individuating and context-general cues in lie detection.


• July 23. 31st Annual ACT-R Workshop. Tilburg University, The Netherlands.

Modelling the effect of prioritisation in visual working memory.


• June 27. 4th International Conference on Working Memory, University of Leeds.

Modelling the effect of prioritisation on recall in visual working memory.


• May 15. Invited talk to the Working Memory and Cognition Group, School of Psychology, University of Leeds.

Modelling the effect of prioritisation in a visual working memory task.

2023

• December 18. Annual Conference of the United Kingdom Alliance for Disaster Research. University of Huddersfield, UK.

The effective communication of risk: Insights from cognitive science.


• October 5. Public lecture. University of Huddersfield, UK.

Minds, machines and the quest for artificial general intelligence.

2021

• July 1. Invited expert panel member to discuss the book "Cognitive Design for Artificial Minds" with the author.

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2019

• July 27. 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Montreal, Canada.

Modelling mental imagery in the ACT-R cognitive architecture.


• July 22. 17th International Conference on Cognitive Modelling. Montreal, Canada.

Modelling alternative strategies for mental rotation.

2018

• February 23. Artificial Intelligence Research Group, School of Science & Technology, Middlesex University.

Multiple representations and visual mental imagery in artificial cognitive systems.


• March 21. Socio-Technical Systems Research Group. School of Computing Science and Digital Media, Robert Gordon University.

Multiple representations and visual mental imagery in artificial cognitive systems.


• June 7. 16th European Workshop on Imagery and Cognition, Padua, Italy.

Multiple representations and visual mental imagery in cognitive architectures.

2017

• April 25. Engage Research Festival, University of Huddersfield, UK.

Machine Learning, Artificial General Intelligence, and Robots with Human Minds.

2016

• August 9. ACT-R Post-Graduate Summer School, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, US.

Two methods for optimising cognitive model parameters.

2014

• November 14. DECISIVe Workshop, IEEE VIS Conference, Paris.

Sources of bias when working with visualisations.

A cognitive architecture-based modelling approach to understanding biases in visualisation behaviour.


• July 25. 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Quebec City, Canada.

A model of object location memory: ACT-R plays Kim's game.

2013

• July 31. Diagrammatic Cognition: Discovery and Design workshop, Humboldt University, Berlin.

Cognitive-architectural approaches to diagrammatic reasoning.

2012

• February 17. Laboratoire Travail et Cognition, Universite Toulouse Le Mirail.

A cognitive-architecture based model of graph comprehension.


• February 15. Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London.

A computational model of graph comprehension.

2011

• April 12. School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University.

Map-based orientation in urban environments.

2007

• August 3. 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Nashville, USA.

Strategies for Orientation: The Role of 3D Landmark Salience and Map Alignment.

2004

• August 6. 26th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Chicago, USA.

Distortions of perceptual judgement in diagrammatic representations.

2003

• August 22. 12th European Conference on Eye Movements, Dundee, UK.

Modelling eye movements with the ACT-R cognitive architecture.

1999

• August 20. 21st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, Canada.

Multiple processes in graph-based reasoning.