Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Director, Cognitive Science Program
(812) 855-4853
rgoldsto@indiana.edu

See also: The "Percepts and Concepts" laboratory

Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1991

• Associate Editor for Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1998-1999
• Gill Fellow in Cognitive Science, 1997-2002

• James McKeen Cattell Sabbatical Award, 1997-1998
  
• Chase Memorial Award from Carnegie Mellon University for Outstanding Young Researcher in Cognitive Science, 1996
• APA Division of Experimental Psychology 1995 Young Investigator Award in Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
• APA Division of Experimental Psychology 1995 Young Investigator Award in Experimental Psychology: General
• Marquis Award for Most Outstanding Dissertation in Psychology, University of Michigan,1991

Most of my current research interests involve the representation and learning of concepts. I conduct psychological experiments on people's acquisition of visually presented concepts, interactions between developing concepts, the influence of concepts on perception, and concept specialization/differentiation. I develop computer simulations (often times, neural network models) to model concept formation and the two-way interaction between our conceptual and perceptual systems.

In other lines of research, I study judgment, decision making, and comparison processes involving similarity and analogy. I am also interested in educational applications of cognitive psychology.

My laboratory consists of four rooms in the Psychology building. There are seven Macintosh computers for running human subjects, and additional computers for graduate student use. Our laboratory has been funded by National Institute of Health and National Science Foundation grants.

For a more complete list of publications with web-viewable versions, visit http://cognitrn.psych.indiana.edu/rgoldsto/papers.html

Goldstone, R. L. (in press). Unitization during category learning.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.

Goldstone, R. L. (in press). Similarity.
In R.A. Wilson & F. C. Keil (eds.) MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Goldstone, R. L., Steyvers, M., Spencer-Smith, J., & Kersten, A. (in press). Interactions between perceptual and conceptual learning.
In E. Diettrich & A. Markman (eds.) Cognitive Dynamics: Conceptual Change in Humans and Machines. Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates.

Goldstone, R. L. (1998). Perceptual Learning.
Annual Review of Psychology, 49, 585-612.

Goldstone, R. L. (1998). Hanging Together: A connectionist model of similarity.
In J. Grainger & A. M. Jacobs (Eds.) Localist Connectionist Approaches to Human Cognition. (pp. 283 - 325). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Kersten, A. W., Goldstone, R. L., & Schaffert, A. (1998). Two competing attentional mechanisms in category learning.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 24, 1437-1458.

Goldstone, R. L., & Barsalou, L. (1998). Reuniting perception and conception.
Cognition, 65, 231-262.
Reprinted as:
Goldstone, R. L., & Barsalou, L. (1998). Reuniting perception and conception.
In S. A. Sloman and L. J. Rips (Eds.)Similarity and symbols in human thinking. (pp. 145-176). Cambridge,MA: MIT Press

Schyns, P. G., Goldstone, R. L, & Thibaut, J. (1998). Development of features in object concepts.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21, 1-54.

Goldstone, R. L., Schyns, P. G., & Medin, D. L. (1997). (Eds.)
Psychology of Learning and Motivation: Perceptual Learning, Vol. 36. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

Goldstone, R. L., Medin, D. L., & Halberstadt, J. (1997). Similarity in Context.
Memory & Cognition, 25, 237-255.

Goldstone, R. L. (1996). Isolated and Interrelated Concepts.
Memory and Cognition, 24, 608-628.

Goldstone, R. L. (1996). Alignment-based nonmonotonicities in similarity.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 22, 988-1001.

Levine, G. M., Halberstadt, J. B., & Goldstone, R. L. (1996). Reasonin and the weighting of attributes in attitude judgments.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70, 230-240.

Goldstone, R. L. (1995). Effects of categorization on color perception.
Psychological Science, 6, 298-304.

Medin, D. L., Goldstone, R. L., & Markman, A. (1995). Comparison and choice: Relations between similarity processes and decision processes.
Psychonomics Bulletin and Review, 2, 1-19.

Goldstone, R. L. (1994). Influences of categorization on perceptual discrimination.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 123, 178-200.

Goldstone, R. L. (1994). The role of similarity in categorization: Providing a groundwork.
Cognition, 52, 125-157.

Goldstone, R. L. (1994). Similarity, Interactive Activation, and Mapping.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 20, 3-28.

Goldstone, R. L., & Medin, D. L. (1994). The time course of comparison.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 20, 29-50.

Goldstone, R.L., & Medin, D.L. (1994). Interactive activation, similarity, and mapping: An overview.
In K. Holyoak and J. Barnden (Eds.) Advances in Connectionist and Neural Computation Theory, Vol. 2: Analogical Connections. (pp. 321-362). Ablex : New Jersey.

Goldstone, R. L. (1993). Feature distribution and biased estimation of visual displays.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 19, 564-579.

Medin, D.L., Goldstone, R.L., & Gentner, D. (1993). Respects for similarity.
Psychological Review, 100, 254-278.

Goldstone, R. L., Medin, D. L., & Gentner, D. (1991). Relational similarity and the nonindependence of features in similarity judgments.
Cognitive Psychology, 23, 222-264.