Journal articles

Goldfarb, S., Leonard, N. E., Simen, P., Caicedo-Nunez, C. H. and Holmes, P. (2014). A comparative study of drift diffusion and linear ballistic accumulator models in a reward maximization perceptual choice task. Frontiers in Decision Neuroscience, Research Topic on Speed-Accuracy Tradeoff, 8:148. doi: 10.3389 / fnins.2014.00148 Supplement

Karsilar, H., Simen, P., Papadakis, S. and Balci, F. (2014). Speed-accuracy tradeoff under response deadlines. Frontiers in Decision Neuroscience, Research Topic on Speed-Accuracy Tradeoff, 8:248. doi: 10.3389 / fnins.2014.00248

Balci, F. and Simen, P. (2014). A drift-diffusion account of temporal discrimination. Acta Psychologica, 149:157-168.

Van Vugt, M., Simen, P., Nystrom, L., Holmes, P. and Cohen, J. D. (2014). Lateralized readiness potentials in decision making reveal properties of a neural threshold mechanism. PLoS One, 9(3): e90943.

Teslovich, T., Mulder, M., Franklin, N., Ruberry, E., Millner, A., Somerville, L. H., Simen, P., Durston, S. and Casey, B. J. (2013). Adolescents let sufficient evidence accumulate before making a decision when large incentives are at stake. Developmental Science, 17:59-70.

Simen, P., Rivest, F., Ludvig, E. A., Balci, F. and Killeen, P. (2013). Timescale invariance in the pacemaker-accumulator family of timing models. Timing and Time Perception, 1:159-188.

van Vugt, M., Simen, P., Nystrom, L., Holmes, P. and Cohen, J. D. (2012). EEG oscillations reveal neural correlates of evidence accumulation. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 6:106. doi:10.3389/fnins.2012.00106.

Simen, P. (2012). Evidence accumulator or decision threshold - which cortical mechanism are we observing? Frontiers in Psychology, 3:183. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00183.

Simen, P., Balci, F., deSouza, L., Holmes, P. and Cohen, J. D. (2011). Interval timing by long-range temporal integration. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 5:56. doi:10.3389/fnint.2011.00056.

Simen, P., Balci, F., deSouza, L., Holmes, P. and Cohen, J. D. (2011). A model of interval timing by neural integration. Journal of Neuroscience, 31:9238-9253. Supplement

Simen, P. (2011). Preventing combinatorial explosion in a localist neural network architecture using temporal synchrony. Connection Science, 22:131-144.

McMillen, T., Simen, P. and Behseta, S. (2011). Hebbian learning in linear-nonlinear networks with tuning curves leads to near-optimal, multi-alternative decision making. Neural Networks, 24:417-426.

Balci, F., Simen, P., Niyogi, R., Saxe, A., Hughes, J., Holmes, P. and Cohen, J. D. (2011). Acquisition of decision making criteria: Reward rate ultimately beats accuracy. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 73:640-657.

Mulder, M., Bos, D., Weusten, J., van Belle, J., van Dijk, S., Simen, P., van Engeland, H. and Durston, S. (2010). Basic impairments in regulating the speed-accuracy tradeoff predict symptoms of ADHD. Biological Psychiatry, 68:1114-1119. Supplement.

Simen, P. and Polk, T. (2010). A symbolic/subsymbolic interface protocol for cognitive modeling. Logic Journal of the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logic (IGPL), 18:705-761. Supplement.

Simen, P., Contreras, D., Buck, C., Hu, P., Holmes, P. and Cohen, J. D. (2009). Reward-rate optimization in two-alternative decision making: Empirical tests of theoretical predictions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 35:1865-1897

Simen, P. and Cohen, J. D. (2009). Explicit melioration by a neural diffusion model. Brain Research, 1299:95-117.

Gao, J., Wong-Lin, K.F., Holmes, P., Simen, P. and Cohen, J. D. (2009). Sequential effects in two-choice reaction time tasks: Decomposition and synthesis of mechanisms. Neural Computation, 21:2407-2436.

Simen, P., Cohen, J. D., and Holmes, P (2006). Rapid decision threshold modulation by reward rate in a neural network. Neural Networks, 19:1013-1026.

Polk, T., Simen, P., Lewis, R., and Freedman, E. (2002). A computational approach to control in complex cognition. Cognitive Brain Research, 15:71-83.

Peer-reviewed conference papers

van Vugt, M. K., Simen, P. and Cohen, J. D. (in press). Finding neural correlates of drift diffusion processes in EEG oscillations. Proceedings of the 2011 meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Simen, P., McMillen, T. and Behseta, S. (2010). Hebbian learning for deciding optimally among many alternatives (almost). Proceedings of the 2010 meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 1816-1821.

Simen, P., Van Vugt, M., Balci, F., Freestone, D. and Polk, T. (2010). Toward an analog neural substrate for production systems. Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, 223-228.

Simen, P., Polk, T., Lewis, R., and Freedman, E. (2004). A computational account of latency impairments in problem solving by Parkinson's patients. Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Cognitive Modeling,  590-596.

Simen, P., Polk, T., Lewis, R., and Freedman, E. (2003). Universal computation by networks of model cortical columns. Proceedings of the 2003 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 230-235.

Simen, P., Polk, T., Lewis, R., and Freedman, E. (2002). A recurrent neural network model of goal management. Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Computational Intelligence, 566-569.

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