Publications & Presentations
Manuscripts & In-press
Bates, C. J., Lerch, R. A., Sims, C. R., & Jacobs, R. A. (Under review). Adaptive allocation of human visual working memory capacity during statistical and categorical learning. Manuscript under review.
2018
Sims, C. R. (2018). Efficient coding explains the universal law of generalization in human perception. Science, 360:6389, 652-656.
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2017
Hitchcock, P. F., Radulescu, A., Niv, Y., & Sims, C. R. (2017). Translating a reinforcement learning task into a computational psychiatry assay: Challenges and strategies. In Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2217-2222.
2016
Sims, C. R. (2016). Rate–distortion theory and human perception. Cognition, 152, 181-198. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2016.03.020.
Sims, C. R., Ma, Z., Allred, S. R., Lerch, R. A., & Flombaun, J. I. (2016). Exploring the cost function in color perception and memory: An information-theoretic model of categorical effects in color matching. In Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Lerch, R. A., Cui, H., Patwardhan, S., Visell, Y., & Sims, C. R.. Exploring Haptic Working Memory as a Capacity-limited Information Channel. Proc. IEEE Haptics Symposium 2016 (Best Paper Finalist; Acceptance rate: 49%).
Lerch, R. A.., Sims, C. R. (2016). Decision theory, motor planning, and visual memory: Deciding where to reach when memory errors are costly. Experimental Brain Research, Published online 28 January 2016, doi:10.1007/s00221-016-4553-4.
2015
Neth, H., Sims, C. R., & Gray, W. D. (2015). Rational task analysis: A unifying approach to study bounded rationality. Minds and Machines, 25(1), 1-24, doi:10.1007/s11023-015-9368-8.
Lerch, R. A., & Sims, C. R. (2015). Visual working memory as decision making: Compensation for memory uncertainty in reach planning. 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. 1296-1301). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society
Sims, C. R. (2015). The cost of misremembering: Inferring the loss function in visual working memory. Journal of Vision, 15(3), 2.
2014
Sims, C. R. (2014). Inferring the loss function of visual working memory. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomics Society.
Orhan, E.*, Sims, C. R.*, Jacobs, R. A., & Knill, D. C. (2014). The adaptive nature of visual working memory. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 23(3), 164–179. *Co-first authors.
2013
Sims, C. R., Neth, H., Jacobs, R. A., & Gray, W. D. (2013). Melioration as rational choice: Sequential decision making in uncertain environments. Psychological Review, 120(1), 139–154.
2012
Sims, C. R., Jacobs, R. A., & Knill, D. C. (2012). An ideal observer analysis of visual working memory. Psychological Review, 119(4),. 807–830.
Bejjanki, V. R., Sims, C. R., Green, C. S., & Bavelier, D. (2012). Evidence for action video game induced ‘learning to learn’ in a perceptual decision-making task. Journal of Vision, 12 (9), 287-287.
2011
Myers, C. W., Gray, W. D., & Sims, C. R. (2011). The insistence of vision: Why do people look at a salient stimulus when it signals target absence? Visual Cognition, 19(9) 1122–1157.
Sims, C. R., Jacobs, R. A., & Knill, D. C. (2011). Adaptive allocation of vision under competing task demands. Journal of Neuroscience, 31(3), 928–943.
Sims, C. R., Jacobs, R. A., & Knill, D. C. (2011). An ideal observer model of visual short-term memory predicts human capacity–precision tradeoffs. In L. Carlson, C. Hoelscher, & T. F. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 190–195). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Sims, C. R., Jacobs, R. A., & Knill, D. C. (2011). An ideal observer analysis of visual short-term memory: Evidence for flexible resource allocation. Journal of Vision, 11 (11), 1242-1242.
2010
Brudzinski, M., Sims, C. R., Gray, W. D., & Schoelles, M. (2010). Visual similarity is ObViS. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 848–852). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
2009
2008
Sims, C. R., & Gray, W. D. (2008). Adaptation to embodied dynamics: Evidence from Bayes’ Ball. In Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 135–140). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
2007
Sims, C. R. & Fajen, B. F. (2007). A reinforcement learning model of visually guided braking. Journal of Vision, 7 (9), 151-151.
2006
Gray, W. D., Sims, C. R., Fu, W., & Schoelles, M. (2006). The soft constraints hypothesis: A rational analysis approach to resource allocation for interactive behavior. Psychological Review, 113(3), 461–482.
Neth, H., Sims, C. R., & Gray, W. D. (2006). Melioration dominates maximization: Stable suboptimal performance despite global feedback. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 627–632).
2005
Neth, H. & Sims, C. R., & Gray, W. D. (2005). Melioration despite more information: The role of feedback in stable suboptimal performance. In 49th Annual Conference of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (pp. 357–361). Santa Monica, CA: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
Gray, W. D., Schoelles, M., & Sims, C. R. (2005). Adapting to the task environment: Explorations in expected value. Cognitive Systems Research, 6(1), 27–40.
Gray, W. D., Schoelles, M., & Sims, C. R. (2005). Cognitive metrics profiling. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 49(12), 1144-1148.
2004
Neth, H., Sims, C. R., Veksler, V. D., & Gray, W. D. (2004). You can’t play straight TRACS and win: Memory updates in a dynamic task environment. In K. D. Forbus, D. Gentner, & T. Regler (Eds.). Proceedings of the twenty-sixth annual meeting of the cognitive science society (pp. 1017–1022). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Sims, C. R. & Gray, W. D. (2004). Episodic versus semantic memory: An exploration of models of memory decay in the serial attention paradigm. In M. C. Lovett, C. D. Schunn, C. Lebiere, & P. Munro (Eds.). Proceedings of the 6th international conference on cognitive modeling—ICCM 2004 (pp. 279-284). Pittsburgh, PA.
Gray, W. D., Schoelles, M. J., & Sims, C. R.. Learning to choose the most effective strategy: Explorations in expected value. Proceedings of the sixth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, 112-117.