Publications (selected by topic)


Journals

Phillips, S. (2022). What is category theory to cognitive science? Compositional representation and comparison. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 1048975. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1048975

Phillips, S. (2021). A reconstruction theory of relational schema induction. PLoS Computational Biology, 17(1), e1008641. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008641

Phillips, S. (2021). A category theory principle for cognitive science: cognition as universal construction. Cognitive Studies: Bulletin of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society, 28(1), 11-24. Preprint

Phillips, S. (2019). Sheaving—a universal construction for semantic compositionality. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 375 (1791), 20190303. doi:110.1098/rstb.2019.0303

Phillips, S. (2018). Going beyond the data as the patching (sheaving) of local knowledge. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 1926. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01926

Phillips, S., Takeda, Y., & Sugimoto, F. (2017). Dual-routes and the cost of determining least-cost. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 1943. doi: 0.3389/fpsyg.2017.01943

Phillips, S., & Takeda, Y. (2017). Mathematical fixation: Search viewed through a cognitive lens. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, 40-41. Commentary on Hulleman, J., & Olivers, C. N. L. (same issue). "The impending demise of the item in visual search". PDF

Phillips, S., Takeda, Y., & Sugimoto, F. (2016). Why are there failures of systematicity? The empirical costs and benefits of inducing universal constructions. Frontiers in Psychology,7, 1310. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01310

Phillips, S., & Wilson, W. H. (2016c). Second-order systematicity of associative learning: a paradox for classical compositionality and a coalgebraic resolution. PLoS ONE, 11(8), e0160619. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0160619

Phillips, S., & Wilson, W. H. (2016b). Commentary: Experimental evidence for compositional syntax in bird calls. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 1171. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01171

Phillips, S., & Wilson, W. H. (2016). Systematicity and a categorical theory of cognitive architecture: universal construction in context. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 1139. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01139

Phillips, S. (2014). Analogy, cognitive architecture and universal construction: a tale of two systematicities. PLoS ONE, 9(2), e89152. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0089152

Phillips, S., & Wilson, W. H. (2012). Categorial compositionality III: F-(co)algebras and the systematicity of recursive capacities in human cognition. PLoS ONE, 7(4), e35028. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0035028

Phillips, S., Takeda, Y., & Singh, A. (2012). Visual feature integration indicated by phase-locked frontal-parietal EEG signals. PLoS ONE, 7(3), e32502. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0032502

Phillips, S., & Wilson, W. H. (2011). Categorial compositionality II: Universal constructions and a general theory of (quasi-)systematicity in human cognition. PLoS Computational Biology, 7(8), e1002102. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002102

Phillips, S., & Wilson, W. H. (2010). Categorial compositionality: A category theory explanation for the systematicity of human cognition. PLoS Computational Biology, 6(7), e1000858. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000858

Phillips, S., Wilson, W. H., & Halford, G. S. (2009). What do Transitive Inference and Class Inclusion have in common? Categorical (co)products and cognitive development. PLoS Computational Biology, 5(12), e1000599. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000599

Phillips, S., & Takeda, Y. (2010). Frontal-parietal synchrony in elderly EEG for visual search. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 75(1), 39-43. doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2009.11.001 PDF

Phillips, S., & Takeda, Y. (2009). Greater frontal-parietal synchrony at low gamma-band frequencies for inefficient than efficient visual search in human EEG. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 73(3), 350-354. doi:10.1016/j.visres.2006.06.016 PDF

Phillips, S. (2008). Abstract analogies not primed by relations learned as object transformations. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31(4), 393-394. Commentary on Leech, R., Mareschal, D., and Cooper, R. P. (same issue). "Analogy as relational priming: A developmental and computational perspective on the origins of a complex cognitive skill". PDF

Phillips, S. (2007). Kenneth Aizawa, The Systematicity Arguments, Studies in Brain and Mind. Minds and Machines, 17(3), 357-360. PDF

Phillips, S., Takeda, Y., & Kumada, T. (2006). An inter-item similarity model unifying feature and conjunction search. Vision Research, 46(22), 3867-3880. PDF

Phillips, S., & Niki, K. (2006). Sensitivity to effective relational complexity in the occipitoparietal lobe. Neuroimage, 30(4), 1347-1356. PDF

Phillips, S., & Niki, K. (2003). Increased bilateral occipitoparietal activity for retention of binary versus unary indexed lists in pair recognition. Neuroimage, 20(2), 1226-1235. PDF

Phillips, S. (2002). Neo-associativism: Limited learning transfer without binding symbol representations. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 25(2), 350-351. Commentary on Perruchet, P., & Vinter, A. (same issue). "The self-organizing consciousness". PDF

Phillips, S., & Niki, K. (2002). Separating relational from item load effects in paired recognition: Temporoparietal and middle frontal gyral activity with increased associates, but not items during encoding and retention. Neuroimage, 17(2), 1031-1055. PDF

Phillips, S. (2002). Does Classicism explain universality? Arguments against a pure Classical component of mind. Minds and Machines, 12(3), 423-434. PDF

Phillips, S. (2000). Constituent similarity and systematicity: The limits of first-order connectionism. Connection Science, 12(1), 45-63. PDF

Phillips, S. (1999). Systematic minds, unsystematic models: Learning transfer in humans and networks. Minds and Machines, 9(3), 383-398. PDF

Phillips, S. (1998). Are feedforward and recurrent networks systematic? Analysis and implications for a connectionist cognitive architecture. Connection Science, 10(2), 137-160. PDF

Phillips, S., Halford, G. S., & Wilson, W. H. (1998). What changes in children's drawing procedures? Relational complexity as a constraint on representational redescription. Cognitive Studies, 5(2), 33-42. PDF

Phillips, S. (1997). Measuring relational complexity in oddity discrimination tasks. Noetica, 3(1). PDF

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Moriguchi, Y., & Phillips, S. (2023). Evaluating the distinction between cool and hot executive function during childhood. Brain Sciences, 13(2), 313. doi:10.3390/brainsci13020313

Tsuchiya, N., Saigo, H., & Phillips, S. (2023). An adjunction hypothesis between qualia and reports. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 1053977. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1053977

Tsuchiya, N., Phillips, S., & Saigo, H. (2022). Enriched category as a model of qualia structure based on similarity judgements. Consciousness and Cognition, 101, 103319.

Singh, A. K., Asoh, H., Takeda, Y., & Phillips, S. (2015) Statistical detection of EEG synchrony using Empirical Bayesian inference. PLoS ONE, 10(3). e0121795. PDF HTML XML

Halford, G. S., Andrews, G., Phillips, S., & Wilson, W. H. (2013). The role of working memory in the subsymbolic-symbolic transition. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 22(3), 210-216. PDF

Halford, G. S., Andrews, G., Wilson, W. H., & Phillips, S. (2012). Computational models of relational processes in cognitive development. Cognitive Development, 27(4), 481-499. PDF

Singh, A. K., Asoh, H., & Phillips, S. (2011). Optimal detection of functional connectivity from high-dimensional EEG synchrony data. Neuroimage, 58(1), 148-156. PDF

Halford, G. S., Wilson, W. H., & Phillips, S. (2010). Relational knowledge: The foundation of higher cognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 14(11), 497-505. PDF

Singh, A. K., & Phillips, S. (2010). Hierarchical control of false discovery rate for phase locking measures of EEG synchrony. Neuroimage, 50(1), 40-47. PDF

Halford, G. S., Phillips, S., & Wilson, W. H. (2008). The missing link: Dynamic, modifiable representations in working memory. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31(2), 137-138. Commentary on Penn, D. C., Holyoak, K. J., & Povinelli, D. J. (same issue). "Darwin's mistake: Explaining the discontinuity between human and nonhuman minds". PDF

Takeda, Y., Phillips, S., & Kumada, T. (2007) A conjunctive feature similarity effect for visual search. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60(2), 186-190. PDF

Luo, J., Niki, K., & Phillips, S. (2004). Neural correlates of the "Aha! Reaction". Neuroreport, 15(13), 2013-2017. PDF

Luo, J., Niki, K., & Phillips, S. (2004). The function of anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) in insightful puzzle solving: ACC activated less when the structure of the puzzle was known. Journal of Psychology in Chinese Societies, 5(2), 195-213. PDF

Halford, G. S., Phillips, S., & Wilson, W. H. (2001). Processing capacity limits are not explained by storage limits. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24(1), 123-124. Commentary on Cowan, N. (same issue). "The magical number 4 in short-term memory: A reconsideration of mental storage capacity". PDF

Halford, G. S., Wilson, W. H., & Phillips, S. (1998). Processing capacity defined by relational complexity: Implications for comparative, developmental, and cognitive psychology. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21(6), 803-831. Target article. HTML PDF

Halford, G. S., Wilson, W. H., & Phillips, S. (1998). Relational complexity metric is effective when assessments are based on actual cognitive processes. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21(6), 848-864. Reply to commentary on target article, "Processing capacity defined by relational complexity: Implications for comparative, developmental and cognitive psychology". PDF

Hiraki, K., Sashima, A., & Phillips, S. (1998). From egocentric to allocentric spatial behavior: A computational model of spatial development. Adaptive Behavior, 6(3/4), 371-391. Abstract. HTML

Halford, G. S., Wilson, W. H., & Phillips, S. (1997). Abstraction: Nature, Costs and Benefits. International Journal of Educational Research, 27(1), 21-35. PDF

Bakker, P., Phillips, S., & Wiles, J. (1994). The 1000-2-1000 encoder: A matter of Representation. Neural Network World, 4(5), 527-534.


Conferences, book chapters, etc

Phillips, S. (2022). Transitive inference in non-humans: Not so fast! In, Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 2416-2422. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. Toronto, Canada. July 27-30.

Phillips, S. (2021). A formal comparison/contrast of associative and relational learning: a case study of relational schema induction. In T. Fitch et al (Eds.), Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 334-340. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. Vienna, Austria. July 26-29.

Phillips, S. (2020). The limits of learning to learn. In S. Denison., M. Mack, Y. Xu, & B.C. Armstrong (Eds.), Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 2486-2491. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. Toronto, Canada. July 29-August 1.

Phillips, S. (2019). Five aspects of compositionality and a universal principle. In A.K. Goel, C.M. Seifert, & C. Freksa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 3546. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. Montreal, Canada. July 24-27.

Phillips, S. (2018). What underlies dual-process cognition? Adjoint and representable functors. In T.T. Rogers, M. Rau, X. Zhu, & C. W. Kalish (Eds.), Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 2250-2255. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. Madison, Wisconsin. July 25-28.

Phillips, S. (2017). A general (category theory) principle for general intelligence: duality (adjointness). In T. Everitt, B. Goertzel, & A. Potapov (Eds), Artificial General Intelligence (AGI 2017), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 10414 (pp. 57-66). Springer International Publishing. PDF

Phillips, S., Takeda, Y., & Sugimoto, F. (2017). Dual-routes and the costs of computing least-costs. In A. Papafragou, D. Grodner, D. Mirman, & J.C. Trueswell (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 2901. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. London, UK. July 27-29.

Phillips, S. (2017). A categorical (fixed point) foundation for cognition: (adjoint) corecursion [Abstract]. In A. Papafragou, D. Grodner, D. Mirman, & J.C. Trueswell (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 2900. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. London, UK. July 27-29.

Phillips, S., Takeda, Y., & Sugimoto, F. (2016).Why are we (un)systematic? The (empirical) costs and benefits of learning universal constructions [Abstract]. In, Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 3058. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. Philadelphia, PA. August 11-13.

Phillips, S., & Wilson, W. H. (2015). Cognitive architecture and second-order systematicity: categorical compositionality and a (co)recursion model of systematic learning. In D. C. Noelle, R. Dale, A. S. Warlaumont, J. Yoshimi, T. Matlock, C. D. Jennings, & P. P. Maglio (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 1877-1882. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. Pasedena, CA. July 23-25.

Phillips, S. (2014). Analogy and cognitive architecture: Two kinds of systematicity, one kind of (universal) construction. In P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane, & B. Scassellati (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 2781-2786. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. Quebec City, Canada. July 23-26.

Phillips, S., & Wilson, W. H. (2014). A category theory explanation for systematicity: Universal constructions. In P. Calvo & J. Symons, J. (Eds.), The Architecture of Cognition: Rethinking Fodor and Pylyshyn's Systematicity Challenge (pp. 227-249). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. PDF

Phillips, S. (2013). A category theory perspective on compositionality and (the development of) cognitive capacity. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 3223-3228. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. Berlin, Germany. July 31-August 3.

Phillips, S., Takeda, Y., & Singh, A. (2013). Information integration and phase-locking (synchrony) of frontal-parietal EEG signals. In, Abstracts of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society (Neuro 2013). Kyoto, Japan. June 20-23.

Phillips, S., Takeda, Y., & Singh, A. (2012). Phase-locking (synchrony) of frontal-parietal EEG signals associated with visual feature integration. In, Abstracts of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society (Neuro 2012). Nagoya, Japan. September 18-21.

Phillips, S., & Wilson, W. H. (2012). Categorial compositionality continued (further): A category theory explanation for the systematicity of recursive cognitive capacities. In N. Miyake, D. Peebles, & R. P. Cooper, Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 869-874. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. Sapporo, Japan. August 1-4.

Phillips, S., & Wilson, W. H. (2011). Categorial compositionality continued: A category theory explanation for quasi-systematicity. In L. Carlson, C. Hoelscher, & T. F. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 348-353. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. Boston, Massachusetts. July 20-22.

Phillips, S. (2011). The gift of systematicity (interview). The new evolutionary enlightenment. HTML  In Spanish: El don de la sistematicidad (Entrevista a Steven Phillips). Desde El Exilio. HTML

Phillips, S. (2011). Categorial compositionality: A category theory explanation for systematicity. Invited talk for the workshop, Systematicity and the post-connectionist era: Taking stock of the architecture of cognition. San Jose, Spain. May.

Phillips, S., & Wilson, W. H. (2010). A category theory explanation for systematicity. In S. Ohlsson & R Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 1523-1528. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. Portland, Oregon. July.

Phillips, S. & Takeda, Y. (2009). An EEG/ERP study of efficient versus inefficient visual search. In N A Taatgen & H van Rijin (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 383-388. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. July.

Phillips, S. & Takeda, Y. (2009). Frontal-parietal synchrony (phase-locking) in human EEG during visual search. Neuroscience Research, 65 (Suppliment 1), s192. Abstracts of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society (Neuro 2009).

Phillips, S. & Takeda, Y. (2009). Duration but not onset of working memory processes differs for inefficient versus efficient visual search: An EEG/ERP study. Presented at the 29th Annual Meeting of the Australian Neuroscience Society. Canberra, Australia. January 27-30. Abstract.

Phillips, S. & Takeda, Y. (2008). An fMRI study of item similarity effects in visual search. In, Proceedings of the 14th annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping. Melbourne, Australia. June 15-19. Neuroimage, 41, s4. Abstract.

Phillips, S., Takeda, Y., & Kumada, T. (2006). An inter-item similarity model for feature and conjunction search. 2nd Pacific Rim Brain Conference. Sunshine Coast, Australia. August 14-16. Poster. SVG

Phillips, S., & Niki, K. (2006). Learning modulates indicators of relational complexity in the occipitoparietal lobe. In, Proceedings of the 12th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping. Florence, Italy. June 11-15. Neuroimage, 31, 423 M-AM. Abstract. HTML

Phillips, S., & Niki, K. (2005). An fMRI study of learning on indicators of relational complexity in parietal and temporal lobes. Presented at the 25th Annual Meeting of the Australian Neuroscience Society. Perth, Australia. January 31 – February 3. Abstract.

Phillips, S. (2004). StimuLab: Design-oriented experiment implementation software. 28th International Congress of Psychology. Beijing, China. August 8-13.

Phillips, S., & Niki, K. (2004). An fMRI study of brain activity during short-term storage of learned and unlearned item pairs. 28th International Congress of Psychology. Beijing, China. August 8-13.

Phillips, S., Kamewari, K., & Hiraki, K. (2003). Preliminary report on the link between relational complexity and visual attention. Joint International Conference on Cognitive Science. Sydney, Australia. July 13-17. Abstract. HTML

Phillips, S., & Niki, K. (2003). Bilateral occipitoparietal activity for retention of binary minus unary indexed lists in pair recognition. In, Proceedings of the 9th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping. New York, USA. June 18-22. Neuroimage, 19(2), 205. Abstract. HTML

Phillips, S., & Niki, K. (2002). Increased right temporo-parietal and middle frontal gyral activity with more associates, but fewer items in four paired associate recognition tasks. In, Proceedings of the 8th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping. Sendai, Japan. June 2-6. Neuroimage, 16, s570-s571. Abstract. HTML

Phillips, S., Niki, K., & Luo, J. (2001). An fMRI study of relational complexity effects in a kanji pair list recognition task. In K.J. Friston, R.S.J. Frackowiak & E. Bullmore (Eds.), Proceedings of the 7th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping. Brighton, England. Neuroimage, 13(6), s723. Abstract. HTML

Phillips, S., Halford, G. S., & Hiraki, K. (2000). Infant A-not-B errors: A case for conceptual dynamics. In Proceedings of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society. Shizuoka, Japan. PDF

Phillips, S. (1998). A comparison of learning transfer in networks and humans. In S. Usui & T. Omori (Eds.), Proceeding of the Fifth International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems: ICONIP'98, pp. 691-694. Kitakyushu, Japan. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: IOS Press. Preprint. PDF

Phillips, S. (1997). Limits of generalization: An error surface view. In 1997 Annual Conference of Japanese Neural Network Society: JNNS'97, pp. 188-189. Kanazawa, Japan. PS

Phillips, S., & Halford, G. S. (1997). Systematicity: Psychological evidence with connectionist implications. In M. G. Shafto & P. Langley (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 614-619. Stanford University, CA. PDF

Phillips, S., Halford, G. S., & Wilson, W. H. (1995a). The processing of associations versus the processing of relations and symbols: A systematic comparison. In J. D. Moore & J. F. Lehman (Eds.), Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 688-691. PDF

Phillips, S., Halford, G. S., & Wilson, W. H. (1995b). The processing of associations versus the processing of relations and symbols: A systematic comparison. In 3rd Conference of the Australasian Cognitive Science Society (CogSci'95), Brisbane, April 1995, pp. 96. (Short version of Phillips, et al, 1995a.)

Phillips, S. & Halford, G. S. (1995). Modeling schema induction within relational and connectionist frameworks: A first approximation. In 1995 Annual Conference of Japanese Neural Network Society: JNNS'95 - Sendai, pp. 243-244. Sendai, Japan.

Phillips, S. (1995b). Introducing learning into tensor networks. In 1995 Annual Conference of Japanese Neural Network Society: JNNS'95, pp. 87-88. Sendai, Japan. PDF

Phillips, S. (1995a). Connectionism and the Problem of Systematicity. Ph.D. thesis, The University of Queensland. Abstract PDF

Phillips, S. (1994a). Strong Systematicity within Connectionism: The Tensor-Recurrent Network. In A. Ram & K. Eiselt (Eds.), Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 723-727. Atlanta, GA. PDF

Phillips, S. (1994b). Connectionism and Systematicity. In A. C. Tsoi & T. Downs (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fifth Australian Conference on Neural Networks, pp. 53-55 Brisbane, Australia. PDF

Phillips, S. & Wiles, J., (1993). Exponential Generalizations from a Polynomial Number of Examples in a Combinatorial Domain. In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, pp. 505-508 Nagoya, Japan. PDF

Phillips, S., (1993). The Effect of Representation on Error Surface. In P. Leong & M. Jabri (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fourth Australian Conference on Neural Networks, pp. 86-89. Melbourne, Australia: Sydney University Electrical Engineering. PDF

Phillips, S., (1992). Making a Simple Recurrent Network a Self-Oscillator by Incremental Training. In P. Leong and M. Jabri (Eds.), Proceedings of the Third Australian Conference on Neural Networks, pp. 244-247. Canberra, Australia: Sydney University Electrical Engineering.

Phillips, S., Wiles, J. & Schwartz, S., (1991). A Comparison of Three Classification Algorithms on the Diagnosis of Abdominal Pains. In M. Jabri (Ed.), Proceedings of the Second Australian Conference on Neural Networks, pp. 283-287. Sydney, Australia. Sydney University Electrical Engineering.

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Wilson, W. H. & Phillips, S. (2012). Systematicity, accessibility, and universal properties. 25th Anniversary of the Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Sydney. December 4-7. In Thielscher, M. & Zhang, D. (Eds). AI 2012, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7691, pp555-566. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag.

Singh, A., Takeda, Y., Hideki, A., & Phillips, S. (2012). Empricial Bayes inference for analyzing function connectivity from EEG data. In, Abstracts of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society (Neuro 2012). Nagoya, Japan. September 18-21.

Miyadera, T., & Phillips, S. (2012). A quantum probability-theoretic account of human judgment using Positive-Operator-Valued measures. In N. Miyake, D. Peebles, & R. P. Cooper (Eds.), Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 2014-2018. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. Sapporo, Japan. August 1-4.

Singh, A. K., Asoh, H., & Phillips, S. (2010b). Optimal discovery procedures for simultaneous testing of phase locking values in a visual EEG study. Abstracts of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society (Neuro 2010).

Singh, A. K., Asoh, H., & Phillips, S. (2010). Optimal control of false discoveries for multiple testing of phase locking values in EEG synchrony analysis. Presented at Neuroinformatics 2010. Kobe, Japan. August, 30-31.

Singh, A. K. & Phillips, S. (2009). Controlling false positives for analysis of EEG phase-locking values (synchrony) in visual search. Neuroscience Research, 65 (Suppliment 1), s129. Abstracts of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society (Neuro 2009).

Singh, A., & Phillips, S. (2009). Multiple significance testing of ERP phase locking (synchronization) effects during visual search. Presented at the 6th International Conference on Multiple Comparison Procedures. Tokyo, Japan. March 25-27.

Halford, G. S., Phillips, S., Wilson, W. H., McCredden, J., Andrews, G., Birney, D., Baker, R., Bain, J. D. (2007). Relational processing is fundamental to the central executive and is limited to four variables. Chapter 16 in Naoyuki Osaka, Robert Logie, & Mark D'Esposito (Eds.), The Cognitive Neuroscience of working memory, pp. 261-280. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-857039-4

Berthouze, L., Phillips, S., Terasaki, O., & Kawano, K. (2004). The role of precentral gyrus (BA6) in speechreading: An fMRI study on hearing Japanese subjects. In, Proceedings of the 10th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping. Budapest, Hungary, June 13-17.

Halford, G.S., Phillips, S., & Wilson, W.H. (2003). Functionally structured cognitive processes: An intermediate level between associations and rules. Joint International Conference on Cognitive Science. Sydney, Australia. July 13-17. Abstract. HTML

Wilson, W. H., Halford, G. S., Gray, B. & Phillips, S. (2001). The STAR-2 Model for Mapping Hierarchically Structured Analogs. In D. Gentner, K.J. Holyoak, & B. Kokinov (Eds.), The analogical mind: Perspectives from cognitive science, pp.125-159. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. PDF

Halford, G. S., Phillips, S., & Wilson, W. H. (2000). Corresponding Levels of Structural Complexity in Cognitive Processes and Neural Nets. In, Proceedings of The Fifth Biennial Australasian Cognitive Science Conference. Melbourne, Australia. January. PDF

Hiraki, K., Takizawa, R., Hiraki, C., Ueda, K., & Phillips, S. (1999). Infants' eye-movement during a non-search spatial task. In, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Cognitive Science. Tokyo, Japan.

Hiraki, K., Sashima, A., & Phillips, S. (1999). A computational model of spatial development. In W. Tschacher (Ed.), Dynamics, Synergetics, Autonomous Agents, pp. 180-192. World Scientific. (Book version of Hiraki, Sashima and Phillips, 1997c.)

Halford, G.S., Wilson, W.H., & Phillips, S. (1998) Relational processing in higher cognition: Implications for analogy, capacity and cognitive development. In K. Holyoak, D. Gentner, & B. Kokinov (Eds.), Advances in analogy research: Integration of Theory and Data from the Cognitive, Computational, and Neural Sciences, pp. 57-73. Sofia, Bulgaria, New Bulgarian University. NBU Series in Cognitive Science. ISBN: 954-535-200-0. PDF

Halford, G. S., Wilson, W. H., & Phillips, S. (1999). A conceptual complexity metric based on representational rank. In, R. Heath, B. Hayes, A. Heathcote, C. Hooker (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fourth Conference of the Australasian Cognitive Science Society. Newcastle, Australia.

Gray B., Halford, G. S., Wilson, W. H., & Phillips, S. (1999). A neural net model for mapping hierarchically structured analogs. In, R. Heath, B. Hayes, A. Heathcote, C. Hooker (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fourth Conference of the Australasian Cognitive Science Society. Newcastle, Australia.

Wilson, W. H., Halford, G. S., & Phillips, S. (1999). The Properties of higher cognitive processes and how they can be modelled in neural nets. In, R. Heath, B. Hayes, A. Heathcote, C. Hooker (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fourth Conference of the Australasian Cognitive Science Society. Newcastle, Australia.

Hiraki, K., Sashima, A., & Phillips, S. (1997a). Mental tracking: A computational model of spatial development. In M. E. Pollack (Ed.), Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), pp. 301-307. Nagoya, Japan.

Hiraki, K., Sashima, A., & Phillips, S. (1997b). Mental tracking: A computational model of spatial development. In Proceedings of the 14th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society. (In Japanese.)

Halford, G. S., Wilson, W. H., Gray, B., & Phillips, S. (1996). Human analogical reasoning capacity: Toward a neural net model. In Proceedings of the XXVI International Congress of Psychology. Montreal, Canada. International Journal of Psychology, 31(3&4), abstract 512.4.

Schwartz, S., Wiles, J., & Phillips, S., (1995). Connectionist, rule-based and Bayesian decision aids: an empirical comparison. In P. Slezak, T. Caelli & R. Clark (Eds.), Perspectives on Cognitive Science: Theories, Experiments and Foundations, pp. 167-180. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

Schwartz, S., Wiles, J., Gough, I., & Phillips, S., (1993). Connectionist, rule-based and Bayesian decision aids: an empirical comparison. In D. J. Hand (Ed.), Artificial Intelligence Frontiers in Statistics (pp. 264-277). London: Chapman & Hall. (NB. An earlier version of Schwartz et al 1994). PDF

Bakker, P., Phillips, S., & Wiles, J., (1993). The N-2-N encoder: A matter of Representation. In S. Gielen & B. Kappen (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, pp. 554-557. London: Springer-Verlag. PDF


Abstracts, reports, unpublished papers, talks

Phillips, S., Kamewari, K., & Hiraki, K. (2004). Relational complexity interacts with visual attention. Mechanisms of Brain and Mind: 4th Winter Workshop. Rusutsu, Japan. January 7-9.

Phillips, S., & Niki, K. (2003). Increased bilateral occipito-parietal activity for retention of binary versus unary indexed lists in pair recognition. Poster presented at the Fourth Tsukuba International Conference on Memory, January 11-13, Tsukuba, Japan.

Phillips, S., & Niki, K. (2003). Increased bilateral occipito-parietal activity for retention of binary versus unary indexed lists in pair recognition. Mechanisms of Brain and Mind: 3nd Winter Workshop. Rusutsu, Japan. January 8-10.

Phillips, S., & Niki, K. (2002). An fMRI study of relational and item effects in paired recognition: Increased temporo-parietal and middle frontal gyral activity with associates, but not items during encoding and retention. Talk presented at the School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Australia. 10th May, 2002.

Phillips, S., & Niki, K. (2002). Increased right temporo-parietal and middle frontal gyral activity with increased associates, but fewer unique items during study in four paired recognition tasks. Poster presented at the Third Tsukuba International Conference on Memory: Memory and Society, March 8-10, Tsukuba, Japan.

Phillips, S., & Niki, K. (2002). Right temporo-parietal and middle frontal gyral activity with increased associates, but not items during encoding of paired associates. Mechanisms of Brain and Mind: 2nd Winter Workshop. Rusutsu, Japan. January 9-11.

Phillips, S., & Halford, G. S. (1998). An analysis of learning transfer in neural networks with relevance to connectionism. Unpublished manuscript.

Phillips, S. (1996). Connectionism, systematicity and the nature of internal representations.

Phillips, S., Halford, G. S., & Wilson, W. H. (1998). Representational redescription: From associative to relational systems.

Phillips, S., Hiraki, K., Nakai, T., & Niki, K. (1997). Can connectionism bridge the cognitive-neuroscience gap? A case study on filler-filler versus filler-role methods for representing relations. Technical Report of IEICE. NLP96-156.

Phillips, S. (1994c). Understanding as generalization not just representation. In J. Wiles, C. Latimer & C. Stevens (Eds.), Collected Papers from a Symposium on Connectionist Models and Psychology, pp. 110-111. Technical Report No. 289, Department of Computer Science, The University of Queensland, Australia. A comment on Halford & Wilson's paper: "How far do neural network models account for human reasoning?" PDF

Hiraki, K., Sashima, A., & Phillips, S. (1998). Maturational biases and encapsulation in spatial development. In Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 1226. San Diego, CA. (Abstract only).

Niki, K., Hiraki, K., Phillips, S., Nisikimi, M., & Sashima, A. (1997). Towards an integrative approach to cognitive development. In M.G.Shafto & P.Langley (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 999. Stanford University, CA. (Abstract only).

Hiraki, K., Phillips, S., & Sashima, A. (1996). Towards a computational theory of cognitive development. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 774. San Diego, CA. (Abstract only).

Dennis, S., & Phillips, S., (1991). Analysis Tools for Neural Networks. Tech. Report No. 207, Department of Computer Science, The University of Queensland, Australia.