Prof Rick Cooper
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Overview
Overview
Qualifications
- Ph.D., University of Edinburgh, 1990
- B.Math., University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia, 1986
Administrative responsibilities
- Head of Department (Assistant Dean)
- Programme Director, MSc Cognition and Computation
- Chair, College Working Party on Open Research
Professional activities
Executive Editor, Cognitive Science (2015-2020)
Associate Editor, Cognitive Science (2011-2014)
Associate Editor, Frontiers in Psychology (Cognitive Section) (2009-2014)
Associate Editor, Topics in Cognitive Science (2008-2012)
Conference Co-Chair: International Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. August 2012, Sapporo, Japan.
Conference Co-Chair: International Conference on Cognitive Modelling. July 2009, Manchester, UK.
Professional memberships
Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Member of the Cognitive Science Society
Member of the British Neuropsychological Society
Honours and awards
- Fellow, Association for Psychological Science, November 2020
- Cognitive Psychology Section Award for “outstanding published contributions to research in the area of Cognitive Psychology”, British Psychological Society, April 2020
- Governing Board Distinguished Service Award, Cognitive Science Society, April 2021
- British Academy Medal: Awarded for “outstanding achievement in any branch of the humanities and social sciences”, British Academy, November 2013
- Ronald Tress Prize, Birkbeck College, University of London, November 1998
- University Medal for Mathematics, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, November 1987
ORCID
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Research
Research
Research interests
- Executive functions and cognitive control
- The generation and regulation of routine sequential behaviour
- Intentional modulation of routine sequential behaviour
- Cognitive architecture
- Cognitive impairments following neurological disease or damage
Research overview
My research is broadly concerned with the cognitive processes underlying the control of thought and action. I study these using behavioural and computational methods, and using data from studies of patients with brain injury. Thus, I am interested in questions such as:
- Are there any well-defined control processes implemented by the brain (and if so what functions do those processes perform)?
- How we are able to do multiple tasks concurrently, and are there constraints on what can be done concurrently due to cognitive limitations?
- What computational processes underlie the generation and regulation of sequential behaviour?
- How do cognitive control process operate in concert to regulate behaviour in complex tasks?
I also have interests in general issues relating to the methodology of cognitive modelling. This includes:
- sound and replicable principles for the development and reporting of computational models of cognition;
- the appropriate use of cognitive architectures (or unified theories of cognition) within the study of cognitive psychology;
- the development of a computational environment to allow psychologists who are not specialist programmers to develop their own simulations.
Research Centres and Institutes
Research projects
•Fractionation of cognitive control functions using behavioural studies of dual tasking
•Computational processes underlying cognitive control (and their impairment following focal frontal brain injury)
•Computational processes underlying human routine sequential action: simulation studies of normal behaviour and behaviour following neurological impairment
•Methodological and computational support for simulation experiments in the cognitive sciences
•General, theory neutral, principles of natural and artificial intelligence
Lab information
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Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Supervision
PhD Students Supervised to Completion:
- Andrea Caso: Neurocomputational Models of Corticostriatal Interactions in Action Selection (28/09/2015 – 01/04/2019)
- Liusha He: Attentional Control in Categorisation: Towards a Computational Synthesis (29/09/2014 – 06/12/2018)
- Ajitesh Ghose: Grounding Semantic Cognition Using Computational Modelling and Network Analysis (30/09/2013 – 18/12/2018)
- Nicholas Sexton: Human task switching and the role of inhibitory processes: A computational modelling and empirical approach (30/09/2013 – 27/09/2017)
- Constantinos Mitsopoulos: Reinforcement learning approaches to the analysis of the emergence of goal-directed behaviour (01/10/2012 – 26/08/2016)
- Olivia Guest: Modelling semantic cognition and its impairments (27/09/2010 – 26/09/2014)
- Nicolas Ruh: Computational and empirical studies of the acquisition of routine action sequences (29/09/2003 – 10/01/2007)
Current doctoral researchers
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MARK BENSILUM
Doctoral alumni since 2013-14
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ANDREA CASO
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CONSTANTINOS MITSOPOULOS
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AUDE CARTERON
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LIUSHA HE
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AJITESH GHOSE
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NICHOLAS SEXTON
Teaching
Supervised MSc Projects:
- 2019/20: Dual task interference on generating random responses
- 2019/20: Modelling human planning with heuristic tree search and reinforcement learning methods
- 2019/20: Modelling the representation of number
- 2019/20: Investigating the effects of holding something in memory when performing the UNRAVEL task
- 2019/20: Can cognitive behavioural therapy data be utilised to build an empirical classification framework of anxiety and depression disorders, using an associationist computational model?
- 2018/19: Investigating the importance of set-shifting in solving Three-Disc Tower of London
- 2018/19: A connectionist model of treatment decisions in diabetes
- 2017/18: Feature based character recognition
- 2017/18: Strategy discovery: A perspective from a number game
- 2017/18: The Effect of Memory Load on Place-Keeping Ability
- 2017/18: The effects of secondary task interference on Wisconsin Card Sorting
- 2017/18: Investigating the effect of simulated brain lesions on the goal circuit model of routine sequential action control
- 2017/18: Random Number Generation and Executive Functions in adulthood
- 2015/16: Brief Inter-Trial Intervals and Interruptions Impacting Sequential Task Performance
- 2015/16: Computational modelling of action selection deficits: Exploring relationship between various forms of simulated damage and behavioral impairment in the Goal Circuit Model of the routine action selection
- 2014/15: Computational Modelling of Semantic Impairment in Semantic Dementia and Herpes Simplex Encephalitis
- 2014/15: Breakdown in activities of daily living following neurological damage: A computational study
- 2014/15: An architecturally constrained computational model of the Tower of London task
- 2014/15: An investigation of the relationship between attention and learning by using the ANT
- 2014/15: The role of set-shifting and memory in problem-solving
- 2013/14: The effect of interruptions on routine sequential action tasks
- 2013/14: Modelling the effects of dual-task interference on supervisory functions: Using Wisconsin Card Sorting Task
- 2013/14: How on earth do I do that? A qualitative and computational approach towards problem-solving on the block-balancing task for children and young adults with Williams syndrome
- 2013/14: Intrinsic capacities and latching dynamics of different network structures
- 2012/13: Response Inhibition: A Separable Component of Executive Function? A Within-Participant, Dual-Task Interference Investigation Based on Random Number Generation
- 2012/13: Modelling the Effect of Frontal Injury on Human Routine Sequential Action: A Goal-Directed Recurrent Connectionist Approach to Action Selection Deficits
- 2012/13: Error Type Behaviour of Ideational Apraxia and Similarities to Frontal Apraxia: A Simulation Study
- 2012/13: Cognitive Control Processes of the Supervisory System: A Computational Model of the Random Number Generation Task
- 2011/12: The Effect of Response Inhibition on the Tower of London Task, Using Dual-Task Interference
- 2011/12: Executive Function Deficits in Neurological Patients with Frontal Lobe Injury: Analysis Using Computational Modelling
- 2010/11: Simulating Frontal Damage in a Computational Model of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Task
- 2009/10: Modelling Semantic Memory and its Impairments Following Neural Damage
- 2008/09: Semantic Cognition in Computational Models
- 2006/07: Exploring the Relationship Between Plasma Concentrations of Omega 3 Fatty Acids and Emotional Processing in Adolescent Boys with and without Attention Hyperactivity Disorder
- 2006/07:Fractionating Executive Function Using a Dual-Task Paradigm
- 2005/06: The Issue of Psychologically Induced Stress at Work
- 2004/05: The Role of Inhibition in Young Children's Performance on the Tower of London: A Computational Study
- 1997/98: An Analysis of Incident Command Decision Making Based on a Critical Incident Command Simulation
Teaching modules
- Cognitive, Affective, and Social Neuroscience (PSYC004H7)
- Neuropsychology (SCPS227H6)
- Cognitive Modelling (SCPS229H6)
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Schroer, Lisanne and Cooper, Rick and Mareschal, Denis (2023) Assessing executive functions in free roaming 2-to 3-year-olds. Frontiers in Psychology 14, ISSN 1664-1078.
- Schroer, Lisanne and Cooper, Rick and Mareschal, Denis (2022) Left, right, left, right: 24-to-36-months-olds’ planning and execution of simple alternating actions. Infancy 27 (6), pp. 1104-1115. ISSN 1525-0008.
- Schultheis, H. and Cooper, Rick (2022) Everyday activities. Topics in Cognitive Science 14 (2), pp. 214-222. ISSN 1756-8765.
- Caso, Andrea and Cooper, Richard P. (2022) Executive functions in aging: an experimental and computational study of the Wisconsin Card Sorting and Brixton Spatial Anticipation tests. Experimental Aging Research 48 (2), pp. 99-135. ISSN 1096-4657.
- Schröer, Lisanne and Cooper, Richard P. and Mareschal, Denis (2021) Science with Duplo: multilevel goal management in preschoolers’ toy house construction. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 206 (105067), ISSN 0022-0965.
- Cooper, Richard P. (2021) Précis of Cooper, Byde, de Cecilio, Fulks and Morais (2018): ‘Set-Shifting and Place-Keeping as Separable Control Processes’. The Cognitive Psychology Bulletin 6, pp. 8-13. ISSN 2397-2661.
- Guest, O. and Caso, A. and Cooper, Richard P. (2020) On simulating neural damage in Connectionist Networks. Computational Brain & Behavior 3, pp. 289-321. ISSN 2522-087X.
- Caso, Andrea and Cooper, Richard P. (2020) A neurally plausible schema-theoretic approach to modelling cognitive dysfunction and neurophysiological markers in Parkinson's Disease. Neuropsychologia 140 (107359), ISSN 0028-3932.
- Cooper, Richard P. (2019) Multidisciplinary flux and multiple research traditions within Cognitive Science. Topics in Cognitive Science 11 (4), pp. 869-879. ISSN 1756-8765.
- Cooper, Richard P. (2019) Action production and event perception as routine sequential behaviours. Topics in Cognitive Science 13 (1), pp. 63-78. ISSN 1756-8765.
- Cracco, E. and Cooper, Richard P. (2019) Automatic imitation of multiple agents: a computational model. Cognitive Psychology 113, pp. 101224. ISSN 0010-0285.
- Cooper, Richard P. and Byde, C. and de Cecilio, R. and Fulks, C. and Morais, D. (2018) Set-shifting and place-keeping as separable control processes. Cognitive Psychology 105, pp. 53-80. ISSN 0010-0285.
- Yuan, W. and Lin, F. and Cooper, Richard P. (2018) Relevance theory, pragmatic inference and cognitive architecture. Philosophical Psychology 32 (1), pp. 98-122. ISSN 0951-5089.
- Cooper, Richard P. and Peebles, D. (2017) On the relation between Marr’s levels: a response to Blokpoel (2017). Topics in Cognitive Science 10 (3), pp. 649-653. ISSN 1756-8765.
- Sexton, Nicholas J. and Cooper, Richard P. (2017) Task inhibition, conflict, and the n-2 repetition cost: A combined computational and empirical approach. Cognitive Psychology 94, pp. 1-25. ISSN 0010-0285.
- Freier, Livia and Cooper, Richard P. and Mareschal, Denis (2017) Preschool children’s control of action outcomes. Developmental Science 20 (2), pp. e12354. ISSN 1363-755x.
- Cooper, Richard P. (2017) Deep-learning networks and the functional architecture of executive control. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 40, pp. e261. ISSN 0140-525X.
- Cooper, Richard P. (2016) Executive functions and the generation of “Random” sequential responses: a computational account. Journal of Mathematical Psychology 73 (1), pp. 153-168. ISSN 0022-2496.
- Cooper, Richard P. and Marsh, Verity (2016) Set-shifting as a component process of goal-directed problem-solving. Psychological Research 80 (2), pp. 307-323. ISSN 1430-2772.
- Freier, Livia and Cooper, Richard P. and Mareschal, Denis (2015) The planning and execution of natural sequential actions in the preschool years. Cognition 144, pp. 58-66. ISSN 0010-0277.
- Cooper, Richard P. and Peebles, D. (2015) Beyond single-level accounts: the role of cognitive architectures in cognitive scientific explanation. Topics in Cognitive Science 7 (2), pp. 243-258. ISSN 1756-8765.
- Peebles, D. and Cooper, Richard P. (2015) Thirty years after Marr’s vision: levels of analysis in cognitive science. Topics in Cognitive Science 7 (2), pp. 187-190. ISSN 1756-8765.
- Papera, Massimiliano and Cooper, Richard P. and Richards, Anne (2014) Artificially created stimuli produced by a genetic algorithm using a saliency model as its fitness function show that Inattentional Blindness modulates performance in a pop-out visual search paradigm. Vision Research 97, pp. 31-44. ISSN 0042-6989.
- Cooper, Richard P. and Guest, Olivia (2014) Implementations are not specifications: specification, replication and experimentation in computational cognitive modeling. Cognitive Systems Research 27, pp. 42-49. ISSN 1389-0417.
- Cooper, Richard P. and Ruh, N. and Mareschal, Denis (2014) The goal circuit model: a hierarchical multi-route model of the acquisition and control of routine sequential action in humans. Cognitive Science 38 (2), pp. 244-274. ISSN 1551-6709.
- Sexton, N.J. and Cooper, Richard P. (2014) An architecturally constrained model of random number generation and its application to modeling the effect of generation rate. Frontiers in Psychology 5, ISSN 1664-1078.
- Shallice, T. and Cooper, Richard P. (2013) Is there a semantic system for abstract words?. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 7 (175), pp. 1-10. ISSN 1662-5161.
- Cooper, Richard P. and Catmur, C. and Heyes, C. (2013) Are automatic imitation and spatial compatibility mediated by different processes?. Cognitive Science 37 (4), pp. 605-630. ISSN 0364-0213.
- Cooper, Richard P. and Catmur, C. and Heyes, C. (2013) Neither shaken nor stirred: reply to Bertenthal and Scheutz. Cognitive Science 37 (4), pp. 642-645. ISSN 0364-0213.
- Cooper, Richard P. and Cook, R. and Dickinson, A. and Heyes, C. (2013) Associative (not Hebbian) learning and the mirror neuron system. Neuroscience Letters 540, pp. 28-36. ISSN 0304-3940.
- Fox, J. and Cooper, Richard P. and Glasspool, D.W. (2013) A canonical theory of dynamic decision-making. Frontiers in Psychology 4 (150), pp. 1-26. ISSN 1664-1078.
- Shallice, T. and Cooper, Richard P. (2012) The organisation of mind: response to commentators. Cortex 48 (10), pp. 1383-1387. ISSN 0010-9452.
- Cooper, Richard P. and Wutke, Karolina and Davelaar, Eddy J. (2012) Differential contributions of set-shifting and monitoring to dual-task interference. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 65 (3), pp. 587-612. ISSN 1747-0218.
- Cooper, Richard P. (2011) Complementary perspectives on cognitive control. Topics in Cognitive Science 3 (2), pp. 208-211. ISSN 1756-8765.
- Cooper, Richard P. and Shallice, T. (2011) The roles of functional neuroimaging and cognitive neuropsychology in the development of cognitive theory: a reply to Coltheart. Cognitive Neuropsychology 28 (6), pp. 403-413. ISSN 0264-3294.
- Cooper, Richard P. (2010) Cognitive control: componential or emergent?. Topics in Cognitive Science 2 (4), pp. 598-613. ISSN 1756-8765.
- Ruh, N. and Cooper, Richard P. and Mareschal, Denis (2010) Action selection in complex routinized sequential behaviors. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 36 (4), pp. 995-975. ISSN 0096-1523.
- Cooper, Richard P. and Shallice, T. (2010) Cognitive neuroscience: the troubled marriage of cognitive science and neuroscience. Topics in Cognitive Science 2 (3), pp. 398-406. ISSN 1756-8757.
- Cooper, Richard P. (2009) Development of executive function: more than conscious reflection. Developmental Science 12 (1), pp. 19-20. ISSN 1363-755x.
- Leech, Robert and Mareschal, Denis and Cooper, Richard P. (2008) Analogy as relational priming: a developmental and computational perspective on the origins of a complex cognitive skill. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 31 (4), pp. 357-378. ISSN 0140-525X.
- Leech, Robert and Mareschal, Denis and Cooper, Richard P. (2008) Growing cognition from recycled parts. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 31 (4), pp. 401-414. ISSN 0140-525X.
- Cooper, Richard P. (2007) The role of falsification in the development of cognitive architectures: insights from a Lakatosian analysis. Cognitive Science 31 (3), pp. 509-533. ISSN 0364-0213.
- Baughman, Frank D. and Cooper, Richard P. (2007) Inhibition and young children's performance on the Tower of London task. Cognitive Systems Research 8 (3), pp. 216-226. ISSN 1389-0417.
- Cooper, Richard P. (2007) Tool use and related errors in ideational apraxia: The quantitative simulation of patient error profiles. Cortex 43 (3), pp. 319-337. ISSN 0010-9452.
- Grecucci, A. and Cooper, Richard P. and Rumiati, R.I. (2007) A computational model of action resonance and its modulation by emotional stimulation. Cognitive Systems Research 8 (3), pp. 143 - 160. ISSN 1389-0417.
- Leech, R. and Mareschal, Denis and Cooper, Richard P. (2007) Relations as transformations: implications for analogical reasoning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 60 (7), pp. 897-908. ISSN 1747-0218.
- Cooper, Richard P. and Shallice, T. (2006) Hierarchical schemas and goals in the control of sequential behavior. Psychological Review 113 (4), pp. 887-916. ISSN 0033-295X.
- Cooper, Richard P. and Shallice, T. (2006) Structured representations in the control of behavior cannot be so easily dismissed: a reply to Botvinick and Plaut (2006). Psychological Review 113 (4), pp. 929-931. ISSN 0033-295X.
- Cooper, Richard P. (2006) Cognitive architectures as Lakatosian research programmes: two case studies. Philosophical Psychology 19 (2), pp. 199-220. ISSN 0951-5089.
- Cooper, Richard P. and Schwartz, M.F. and Yule, P. and Shallice, T. (2005) The simulation of action disorganisation in complex activities of daily living. Cognitive Neuropsychology 22 (8), pp. 959-1004. ISSN 0264-3294.
- Cooper, Richard P. (2003) Applying cognitive science to the teaching of science: commentary on "The Role of Communication in Learning to Model" edited by Paul Brna, Michael Baker, Keith Stenning, and André Tiberghien.. The American Journal of Psychology 116 (4), pp. 655-661. ISSN 0002-9556.
- Cooper, Richard P. (2003) Mechanisms for the generation and regulation of sequential behaviour. Philosophical Psychology 16 (3), pp. 389-416. ISSN 0951-5089.
- Yule, P. and Cooper, Richard P. (2003) Express: a web-based technology to support human and computational experimentation. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers 35 (4), pp. 605-613. ISSN 0743-3808.
- Cooper, Richard P. (2002) Control and communication in mental computation. Computational Intelligence 18 (1), pp. 29-31. ISSN 0824-7935.
- Cooper, Richard P. (2002) Order and disorder in everyday action: the roles of contention scheduling and supervisory attention. Neurocase 8 (1 & 2), pp. 61-79. ISSN 1355-4794.
- Cooper, Richard P. (2001) The role of object-oriented concepts in cognitive models. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 5 (8), pp. 333. ISSN 1364-6613.
Book
- Shallice, T. and Cooper, Richard P. (2011) The organisation of mind. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199579242.
Book Section
- Buyakin, Eugene V. and Cooper, Richard P. (2020) Automatic and controlled sentence production: a computational model. In: Developing a Mind: Learning in Humans, Animals, and Machines - Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society.
- Caso, A. and Cooper, Richard P. (2019) Executive functions in aging: an experimental and computational study of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Task. In: Goel, A. and Seifert, C. and Freksa, C. (eds.) Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society. pp. 1464-1464. ISBN 991196775.
- Butz, M.V. and Knott, A. and Cooper, Richard P. and Elman, J.L. and McRae, K. and Papafragou, A. and Zachs, J.M. (2018) Symposium on event predictive cognition. In: Kalish, C. and Rau, M. and Rogers, T. and Zhu, J. (eds.) Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
- Caso, A. and Cooper, Richard P. (2017) A model of cognitive control in the Wisconsin card sorting test: integrating schema theory and basal ganglia function. In: Gunzelmann, G. and Howes, A. and Tenbrink, T. and Davelaar, Eddy J. (eds.) Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. 2017: Cognitive Science Society.
- Caso, A. and Cooper, Richard P. (2017) A neurocomputational model of learning to select actions. In: Van Vugt, M. and Banks, A. and Kennedy, W. (eds.) Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Cognitive Modelling. ICCM. pp. 91-96. ISBN 9780998508214.
- Langley, P. and Cooper, Richard P. (2017) Symposium on problem solving and goal-directed sequential activity. In: Gunzelmann, G. and Howes, A. and Tenbrink, T. and Davelaar, Eddy J. (eds.) Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, U.S.: Cognitive Science Society. pp. 29-30. ISBN 9780991196760.
- Eisenberg, M.L. and Zacks, J.M. and Flores, S. and Howard, L.H. and Woodward, A.L. and Loucks, J. and Meltzoff, A.N. and Cooper, Richard P. (2016) Higher-level goals in the processing of human action events. In: Papafragou, A. and Grodner, D. and Mirman, D. and Trueswell, J. (eds.) CogSci 2016: Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society. pp. 53-54. ISBN 9780991196739.
- Cooper, Richard P. (2016) Schema theory and neuropsychology. In: Arbib, M.A. and Bonaiuto, J.J. (eds.) From Neuron to Cognition via Computational Neuroscience. Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: MIT Press. ISBN 9780262034968.
- Sexton, N.J. and Cooper, Richard P. (2015) Task-set inhibition, conflict, and the n-2 repetition cost: a computational model of task switching. In: Dale, R. and Jennings, C. and Maglio, P. and Matlock, T. and Noelle, D. and Warlaumont, A. and Yoshimi, J. (eds.) Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Pasadena, U.S.: Cognitive Science Society.
- Mitsopoulos, Constantinos and Mareschal, Denis and Cooper, Richard P. (2015) Model-based analysis of the Tower of London task. In: Pineau, J. and Dayan, P. (eds.) Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making 2015. University of Alberta. pp. 198-202.
- Guest, Olivia and Cooper, Richard P. and Davelaar, Eddy J. (2014) The influence of implementation on 'hub' models of semantic cognition. In: Mayor, J. and Gomez, P. (eds.) Computational Models of Cognitive Processes. Singapore: World Scientific. pp. 155-169. ISBN 9789814458832.
- Cooper, Richard P. (2013) Action slips. In: Pashler, H. (ed.) Encyclopedia of the Mind. London, UK: Sage. pp. 1758-1760. ISBN 9781412950572.
- Sood, M. and Cooper, Richard P. (2013) Modelling the supervisory system and frontal dysfunction: an architecturally grounded model of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Task. In: Knauff, M. (ed.) Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Berlin, Germany: Cognitive Science Society. pp. 1354-1359. ISBN 9780976831891.
- Cooper, Richard P. (2012) Learning action affordances and action schemas. In: Seel, N. (ed.) Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning. London, UK: Springer. ISBN 9781441914279.
- Davelaar, Eddy J. and Harbison, J.I. and Yu, E.C. and Hussey, E.K. and Dougherty, M.R. (2012) Rational search of associative memory. In: Miyake, N. and Peebles, D. and Cooper, Richard P. (eds.) Proceedings of the 34th Annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, Texas, USA: Cognitive Science Society. ISBN 9780976831884.
- Guest, Olivia and Cooper, Richard P. (2012) Semantic cognition: a re-examination of the recurrent network "hub" model. In: Rußwinkel, N. and Drewitz, U. and Van Rijn, H. (eds.) Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. Berlin, Germany: Universitaetsverlag der TU Berlin. pp. 259-264. ISBN 9783798324084.
- Wu, Rachel and Kirkham, Natasha Z. (2012) Learning (to Learn) from spatial attention cues during infancy. In: Miyake, N. and Peebles, D. and Cooper, Richard P. (eds.) Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, Texas, USA: Cognitive Science Society. pp. 1161-1166. ISBN 9780976831884.
- Cooper, Richard P. (2011) Cognitive control in the generation of random sequences: a computational study of secondary task effects. In: Carlson, L. and Hoelscher, C. and Shipley, T.F. (eds.) Expanding the Space of Cognitive Science: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Boston, U.S.: Cognitive Science Society. pp. 2168-2173. ISBN 9780976831877.
- Cooper, Richard P. and Davelaar, Eddy J. (2011) Modelling correlations in 'response inhibition'. In: Davelaar, Eddy J. (ed.) Connectionist Models of Neurocognition and Emergent Behavior: From Theory to Applications. London, UK: World Scientific. pp. 245-258. ISBN 9789814340342.
- Cooper, Richard P. and Davelaar, Eddy J. (2010) Modelling the correlation between two putative inhibition tasks: a simulation approach. In: Salvucci, D.D. and Gunzelmann, G. (eds.) Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. Philadelphia, USA: Drexel University. pp. 31-36.
- Cooper, Richard P. (2010) Forward and inverse models in motor control and cognitive control. In: Chappell, J. and Thorpe, S. and Hawes, N. and Sloman, A. (eds.) Proceedings of the Symposium on AI-Inspired Biology. London, UK: The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour. pp. 108-110. ISBN 1902956923.
- Davelaar, Eddy J. and Cooper, Richard P. (2010) Modelling the correlation between two putative inhibition tasks: an analytic approach. In: Ohlsson, S. and Catrambone, R. (eds.) Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Portland, USA: Cognitive Science Society Incorporated. pp. 937-942. ISBN 9780976831860.
- Mareschal, Denis and Leech, Robert and Cooper, Richard P. (2009) Combining connectionist and dynamic systems principles in models of development: the case of analogical completion. In: Spencer, J. (ed.) Toward a Unified Theory of Development: Connectionism and Dynamic System Theory Re-Considered. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. pp. 203-217. ISBN 9780195300598.
- Cooper, Richard P. (2009) Extending the contention scheduling model of routine action selection: The Wisconsin Card Sorting Task and frontal dysfunction. In: Howes, A. and Peebles, D. and Cooper, Richard P. (eds.) Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. Manchester, UK. pp. 198-203.
- Cooper, Richard P. (2009) Frontal cortex. In: Bayne, T. and Cleeremans, A. and Wilken, P. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Consciousness. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. pp. 303-308. ISBN 9780198569510.
- Mareschal, Denis and Leech, Robert and Cooper, Richard P. (2009) Connectionist and dynamic systems models of development: two sides of the same coin? the case of analogical completion. In: Spencer, J. and Thomas, Michael S.C. and McClelland, J.L. (eds.) Toward a Unified Theory of Development: Connectionism and Dynamic Systems Theory Re-Considered. New York, USA: Oxford University Press USA. pp. 203-217. ISBN 9780195300598.
- Ruh, N. and Cooper, Richard P. and Mareschal, Denis (2009) A connectionist approach to modelling the flexible control of routine activities. In: French, R.M. and Thomas, E. (eds.) From Associations to Rules: Connectionist Models of Behavior and Cognition. Progress in Neural Processing. Singapore: World Scientific. pp. 3-15. ISBN 9789812797315.
- Ruh, N. and Cooper, Richard P. and Mareschal, Denis (2008) The hierarchies and systems that underlie routine behavior: evidence from an experiment in virtual gardening. In: Love, B.C. and McRae, K. and Sloutsky, V. (eds.) Proceedings of the 30th International Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. The Cognitive Science Society. pp. 339-344. ISBN 9780976831846.
- Ruh, N. and Cooper, Richard P. and Mareschal, Denis (2005) The time course of routine action. In: CogSci 2005: XXVII Annual Conference of The Cognitive Science Society, July 21-23, Stresa, Italy. Cognitive Science Society, Inc.. pp. 1889-1894. ISBN 976831813.
- Ruh, N. and Cooper, Richard P. and Mareschal, Denis (2005) Routine action: combining familiarity and goal orientedness. In: Bryson, J.J. and Prescott, T.J. and Seth, A.K. (eds.) Proceedings of the Workshop on Modelling Natural Action Selection. Edinburgh, UK: AISB Press. pp. 174-179. ISBN 9781902956409.
- Ruh, N. and Cooper, Richard P. and Mareschal, Denis (2005) A reinforcement model of sequential routine action. In: Honkela, T. and Koenoenen, V. and Poellae, M. and Simula, O. (eds.) Proceedings of the International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Adaptive Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. Helsinki, Finland: Helsinki University of Technology Press. pp. 65-70.
- Leech, R. and Mareschal, Denis and Cooper, Richard P. (2004) Modelling asymmetric infant categorization with the representational acuity hypothesis. In: Howe, P. and Labouise, C. (eds.) Connectionist models of cognition and perception II: Proceedings of the Eighth Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop (NCPW8). London, UK: World Scientific. pp. 95-104. ISBN 9789812388056.
- Leech, R. and Mareschal, Denis and Cooper, Richard P. (2004) A temporal attractor framework for the development of analogical completion. In: Howe, P. and Labouise, C. (eds.) Connectionist models of cognition and perception II: Proceedings of the Eighth Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop (NCPW8). London, UK: World Scientific. pp. 201-210. ISBN 9789812388056.
- Leech, Robert and Mareschal, Denis and Cooper, Richard P. (2003) A connectionist account of analogical development. In: Alterman, R. and Kirsch, D. (eds.) CogSci 2003: Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2003. Cognitive Science Society, Inc.. pp. 710-715. ISBN 9780805849912.
Conference Item
- Ghose, Ajitesh and Cooper, Richard P. (2018) Extending symbol interdependency: perceptual scene vectors. ESLP 2018, 2018, Lancaster, UK
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04/05/16: “On Theory Development in Cognitive Science”. Talk presented to the group Philosophy for All. The Cock Tavern, London.
23/02/12: Interview with Mariann Unterluggauer (Austrian Journalist) on “Prospects for Cognitive Systems” at CogSys2012.
18/08/11: Comment cited on BBC news website: “IBM produces first 'brain chips'” http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14574747
11/08/09: Interview for Korean Broadcasting System (the Korean national TV station) on “Habits”