Publications
Sommer, J., Musolino, J., & Hemmer, P. (2022). Towards a cognitive science of beliefs. In J. Musolino, J. Sommer, & P. Hemmer (Eds), The Science of Belief: a multidisciplinary approach. Cambridge University Press.
Musolino, J., Sommer, J., & Hemmer, P. (Eds) (2022) The Science of Belief: a multidisciplinary approach. Cambridge University Press.
Sommer, J., Hemmer, P., & Musolino, J. (2022). A Hobgoblin of Large Minds: Troubles with Consistency in Belief.
Sommer, J., Spencer, C.*, Musolino, J., & Hemmer, P. (2022). A new methodological tool to study the memorability of supernatural concepts. Behavior Research Methods.
Sommer, J., Musolino, J., & Hemmer, P. (2022). The Memorability of Supernatural Concepts: Some Puzzles and New Theoretical Directions. Journal of Cognition and Culture.
Saad, L., Musolino, J., & Hemmer, P. (2022). Bayesian rational memory model simulates temporal binding effect. Proceedings of the 44nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 3549– 3556). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Macias, C., Persaud, K., Hemmer, P., & Bonawitz, E. (2021). Evaluating episodic memory error in preschoolers: Category expectations influence episodic memory for color. Cognitive Psychology, 124, 1-25
Altay, A., Hemmer, P. & Gursoy, M. (2020). Behavior Associations in Lone Actor Terrorists. Terrorism and Political Violence. doi:10.1080/09546553.2020.1787384
Nur Poyraz, E., Hemmer, P., & Leslie, A. (2020). Can Changes in Inhibitory Control Explain Child-Level Theory of Mind Development? Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 1825– 1832). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Wang, L., Hemmer, P., & Leslie, A. (2019). A Bayesian framework for the development of belief-desire reasoning: Estimating inhibitory power in low- and high-demand false belief. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 26, 205-221. doi: 10.3758/s13423-018-1507-9 Wang2019_Article_ABayesianFrameworkForTheDevelo
Kleinschmidt, D. F., & Hemmer, P. (2019). A Bayesian model of memory in a multi-context environment. In A. Goel, C. Seifert, & C. Freksa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. cogsci_Dave K_draft
Persaud, K. Macias, C., Hemmer, P., & Bonawitz, E. (2019). Age-related differences in the influence of category expectations on episodic memory in early childhood. In A. Goel, C. Seifert, & C. Freksa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Persaud_Macias_Hemmer_Bonawitz19_FINALmanuscript
Cox, G. E., Hemmer, P., Aue, W. R., & Criss, A. H. (2018). Information and processes underlying semantic and episodic memory across tasks, items, and individuals. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147, 545-590. doi: 10.1037/xge0000407
Robbins, T. & Hemmer, P. (2018). Lay Understanding of Illness Probability Distributions. In T.T. Rogers, M. Rau, X. Zhu, & C. W. Kalish (Eds.), Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2346-2351). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. Persaud_Macias_Hemmer_Bonawitz19_FINALmanuscript distribution builder cog sci final
Wall, D.G., Chapman, G., & Hemmer, P. (2018). Risky Intertemporal Choice with Multiple Outcomes and Individual Differences. In T.T. Rogers, M. Rau, X. Zhu, & C. W. Kalish (Eds.), Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2645-2650). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Persaud, K., Hemmer, P., Kidd, C. & Piantadosi, S. (2017). Seeing colors: Cultural and environmental influences on episodic memory. i-Perception, 1-5. doi: 10.1177/2041669517750161
Robbins, T. & Hemmer, P. (2017). Explicit predictions for illness statistics. In Gunzelmann, G., Howes, A., Tenbrink, T., & Davelaar, E. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. London, UK: Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 2998-3003). Robbins & Hemmer 2017_Cognitive Science Proceedings
Persaud, K., McMahan, B., Alikhani, M., Pei, K.*, Hemmer, P., & Stone, M. (2017). When is Likely Unlikely: Investigating the Variability of Vagueness. In Gunzelmann, G., Howes, A., Tenbrink, T., & Davelaar, E. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. London, UK: Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 2876-2881). Persaud McMahan Alikhani Pei Hemmer & Stone 2017_Cognitive Science Proceedings
Ahluwalia, A.*, Hemmer, P., & Persaud, K. (2017). The influence of pop-culture on misattribution of memory. In Gunzelmann, G., Howes, A., Tenbrink, T., & Davelaar, E. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. London, UK: Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 1513-1518).
Persaud, K. & Hemmer, P. (2016). The Dynamics of Fidelity over the Time Course of Long-Term Memory. Cognitive Psychology, 88, 1-21. (Link to paper here.)
Trueblood, J. S. & Hemmer, P. (2016). The Generalized Quantum Episodic Memory Model. Cognitive Science, 1-37. doi: 10.1111/cogs.12460 Trueblood_et_al-2016-Cognitive_Science
Hemmer, P., Tauber, S. & Steyvers, M. (2015). Moving beyond qualitative evaluations of Bayesian models of cognition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, DOI 10.3758/s13423-014-0725-z (Contact authors) (PDF)
Hemmer, P., Persaud, K., Kidd, C., & Piantadosi, S. (2015). Inferring the Tsimane’s use of color categories from recognition memory. In Noelle, D. C., Dale, R., Warlaumont, A. S., Yoshimi, J., Matlock, T., Jennings, C. D., & Maglio, P. P. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp 896-901). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. https://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2015/papers/0161/paper0161.pdf HemmerPersaudKiddPiantadosi_CogSci2015
Macias, C.*, Yung, A.*, Hemmer, P., & Kidd, C. (2015). Memory strategically encodes externally unavailable information. In Noelle, D. C., Dale, R., Warlaumont, A. S., Yoshimi, J., Matlock, T., Jennings, C. D., & Maglio, P. P. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp 1458-1463). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. https://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2015/papers/0255/paper0255.pdf
Hemmer, P. & Persaud, K. (2014). Interactions between Categorical Knowledge and Episodic Memory across Domains. Frontiers in Psychology, 5:584. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00584. (PDF) Hemmer & Persaud Frontiers 2014
Persaud, K. & Hemmer, P. (2014). The influence of knowledge and expectations for color on episodic memory. In P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane, & B. Scassellati (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp 1162-1167). Quebec City, CA: Cognitive Science Society. https://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2014/papers/206/
Hemmer, P., Persaud, K., Venaglia, R.*, & DeAngelis, J.* (2014). What’s your source: Evaluating the effects of context in episodic memory for objects in natural scenes. In P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane, & B. Scassellati (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp 2765-2770). Quebec City, CA: Cognitive Science Society. https://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2014/papers/478/ Hemmer_Persaud_Venaglia_DeAngelis_CogSci_2014
Robbins, T., Hemmer, P., & Tang, Y.* (2014). Bayesian Updating: A Framework for Understanding Medical Decision Making. In P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane, & B. Scassellati (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp1299-1304). Quebec City, CA: Cognitive Science Society. https://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2014/papers/229/
Hemmer, P. & Criss, A. (2013). The Shape of Things to Come: Evaluating Word Frequency as a Continuous Variable in Recognition Memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 39, 1947-52. doi: 10.1037/a0033744 Hemmer & Criss 2013 JEP_LMC
Steyvers, M. & Hemmer, P. (2012). Reconstruction from Memory in Naturalistic Environments. In Brian H. Ross (Ed), The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, (126-144). Elsevier Publishing Bookchapter_published
Hemmer, P., Steyvers, M., & Miller, B. (2010). The Wisdom of Crowds with Informative Priors. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp 1130-1135). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. http://www.cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-archival-conference-information/ Hemmer_Steyvers_Miller_2010
Hemmer, P. & Steyvers, M. (2009a). Integrating Episodic Memories and Prior Knowledge at Multiple Levels of Abstraction. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16, 80-87. Hemmer_Tauber_Steyvers_PB&R 2014 Hemmer_Steyvers_PB&R
Hemmer, P. & Steyvers, M. (2009b). A Bayesian Account of Reconstructive Memory. Topics in Cognitive Science, 1, 189-202. Hemmer_Steyvers_topiCS
Hemmer, P. & Steyvers, M. (2009c). Integrating Episodic and Semantic Information in Memory for Natural Scenes. In N.A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1557-1562). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. HemmerSteyversCogSci2009 HemmerSteyversCogsci2009_resubmit
Steyvers, M., Lee, M.D., Miller, B., & Hemmer, P. (2009d). The Wisdom of Crowds in the Recollection of Order Information. In J. Lafferty, C. Williams (Eds.) Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 23, (pp 1785-1793). MIT Press. NIPS_2009
Miller, B., Hemmer, P. Steyvers, M. & Lee, M.D. (2009e) The wisdom of crowds in rank ordering tasks. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of Cognitive Modeling. MillerHemmerSteyversLeeICCM2009
Hemmer, P. & Steyvers, M. (2008). A Bayesian Account of Reconstructive Memory. In V. Sloutsky, B. Love, and K. McRae (Eds.) Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. (pp. 327-332). [Award: Cognitive Science best paper on modeling higher-level cognition] HemmerSteyversCogSci2008 (2)
Brown, S.D., Steyvers, M., & Hemmer, P. (2007) Modeling Experimentally induced Strategy Shifts. Psychological Science, 18, 40-45. PsychScience_Brown_Steyvers_Hemmer