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CogSci at Carleton

Jim Davies
Cognitive Science
22nd Floor, Dunton Tower
Carleton University
1125 Colonel By Dr.
Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5B6
Canada

613-520-2600 x1109
jim@jimdavies.org I'm Jim Davies, an assistant professor of cognitive science at Carleton University, and director of the Science of Imagination Laboratory.
My current research focuses on regularities in human imagination. For example, visualizing rectangles, people tend to imagine them with a flat side (rather than a point) facing down. I approach cognitive science through artificial intelligence: I create computer models of visualization.
I am currently accepting students and other researchers who might want to do some work in this area. If you are interested please see my note to potential collaborators.
You can see my CV. I also maintain the Cognitive Science Summaries webpage and the Brain Areas Mnemonics wiki .

Upcoming Travel:

IJCAI Workshop on Grand Challenges for Experience-Based Reasoning 11 July 2009 – Pasadena
http://www.comp.rgu.ac.uk/docs/ijcai09/gcworkshop/

IJCAI International Joint Conference On Artificial Intelligence July 14-17, Los Angeles (Pasadena)
http://ijcai-09.org/index.html

ICCBR International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (I will be there July 20-21) Seattle
http://www.iccbr.org/iccbr09/

Analogy 09 July 24-27, Sofia, Bulgaria
http://nbu.bg/cogs/analogy09/

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society July 29-31, Amsterdam
http://www.cognitivesciencesociety.org/conference2009/index.html

Selected Publications:

[Complete publication list]

Davies, J., Goel, A. K., & Nersessian, N. J. (2009). A Computational Model of Visual Analogies in Design. Cognitive Systems Research: Special Issue on Analogies, 10, 204--215.
Davies, J., & Goel, A. K. (2008). Visuospatial Re-Representation in Analogical Reasoning. The Open Artificial Intelligence Journal. 2(1), 11--20.
Davies, J., Goel, A. K. & Yaner, P. W. (2008). Proteus: Visuospatial analogy in problem solving. Knowledge-Based Systems.
Davies, J., Glasgow, J., & Kuo, T. (2006). Visio-spatial case-based reasoning: A case study in prediction of protein structure. Accepted to Computational Intelligence.
Nersessian, N. J., Kurz-Milcke, E., Newstetter, W. C., & Davies, J. (2003). Research laboratories as evolving distributed cognitive systems. In A. Markman and L. Barsalou (Eds.) Proceedings of The 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. 857--862. Erlbaum. Hillsdale, NJ.
Davies, J., & Goel, A. K. (2001). Visual analogy in problem solving. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2001. pp 377-382. Morgan Kaufmann publishers.
Davies, J. R. (2001). Ocelots are endangered South American wild cats. In Ohler, J. (Ed.) Future Courses: A Compendium of Thought About the Future of Technology and Education.

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