Publications

In Press or under Review

Zhang, J. (to appear). External representations in problem solving. In A. Kent (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science (Vol. 00, 000-000). New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc.

Zhang, J., & Wang, H. (in review). The effect of external representaitons on numerical tasks. Manuscript submitted for publication.

Zhang, J., & Wang, H. (in review). An exploration of the relations between external representations and working memory. Manuscript submitted for publication.

Chuah, J., Zhang, J., & Johnson, T. R. (in preparation). Distributed Cognition of a Navigational Instrument Display Task. Manuscript to be submitted.

Zhang, J., Johnson, T. R., & Wang, H. (in preparation). Effects of representations on the acquisition and transfer of problem solving strategies. Manuscript to be submitted.

1998

Johnson, T. R., Wang, H., & Zhang, J. (1998). Modeling speed-up and transfer of declarative and procedural knowledge. Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Wang, H., Johnson, T.R., & Zhang, J. (1998). UEcho: A Model of Uncertainty Management in Human Abductive Reasoning. Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. (Wang is the recipient of the Marr Award.)

Zhang, J., Johnson, T. R., & Wang, H. (1998). Isomorphic Representations Lead to the Discovery of Different Forms of a Common Strategy with Different Degrees of Generality. Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Zhang, J. (1998). A distributed representation approach to group problem solving. Journal of American Society of Information Science, 49(9), 801-809.

Zhang, J., Johnson, T. R., & Wang, H. (1998). The relation between order effects and frequency learning in tactical decision making. Thinking & Reasoning, 4 (2), 123-145.

1997

Johnson, T. R., Zhang, J., & Wang, H. (1997). A hybrid learning model of abductive reasoning. In R. Sun & F. Alexandre (Eds.), Connectionist Symbolic Integration (pp. 91-112). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbuam.

Wang, H., Johnson, T. R., & Zhang, J. (1997). UEcho: A model of uncertainty management in human abductive reasoning. Hybrid Technical Report No. 4 (TR-97/ONR-HYBRID-04). The Ohio State University.

Zhang, J. (1997). Distributed representation as a principle for the analysis of cockpit information displays. International Journal of Aviation Psychology, 7(2), 105-121.

Zhang, J. (1997). The nature of external representations in problem solving. Cognitive Science, 21(2), 179-217.

1996

Wang, H., & Zhang, J. (1996). Multiple-level analysis of memory dissociations. In G. Cottrell (Ed.): Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 702-707). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Zhang, J. (1996). A representational analysis of relational information displays. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 45, 59-74.

Zhang, J., Johnson, T. R., & Wang, H. (1996). Order effects and frequency learning in belief updating. In G. Cottrell (Ed.): Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 708-713). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

1995

Zhang, J. & Norman, D. A. (1995). A representational analysis of numeration systems. Cognition, 57, 271-295.

Johnson, T. R., & Zhang, J. (1995). A hybrid learning model of abductive reasoning. Working Notes of the IJCAI-95 Workshop on Connectionist-Symbolic Integration: From Unified to Hybrid Approaches (pp. 12-17), Montreal, Canada, August 1995.

Zhang, J., & Wang, H. (1995). The integration of internal and external information in numerical tasks. Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 791-795). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

1994

Johnson, T. R., Zhang, J., & Wang, H. (1994). Bottom-Up Recognition Learning: A Compilation-Based Model of Limited-Lookahead Learning. Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 469-474). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Zhang, J. & Norman, D. A. (1994). Representations in distributed cognitive tasks. Cognitive Science, 18, 87-122.

Zhang, J., & Norman, D. A. (1994). The representation of relational information. Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 952-957). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

1993

Zhang, J. (1993). External Representation: An Issue for Cognition. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 16(4), 774-775.

Zhang, J. (1993). The interaction between perceptual and cognitive processes in a distributed problem solving task. Games: Planning and Learning. Papers from the 1993 Fall Symposium, (pp. 123-131), AAAI Press Technical Report FS9302, Menlo Park, CA.

Zhang, J. & Norman, D. A. (1993). A Cognitive Taxonomy of Numeration Systems. Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of Cognitive Science Society. (pp. 1098-1103) Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

1984-1992

Zhang, J. (1992). Distributed representation: The interaction between internal and external information. Ph.D. Dissertation. San Diego: University of California, Department of Cognitive Science. (Also available as Technical Report 9201, Department of Cognitive Science, UC San Diego).

Zhang, J. (1991). The interaction of internal and external representations in a problem solving task. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Conference of Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Zhang, J. (1990). The interaction of internal and external information in a problem solving task (Technical Report 9005). San Diego: University of California, Department of Cognitive Science.

Zhang, J. (1987). The Effect of the Timing of Interruption on Human Action. Unpublished report. San Diego: University of California, Institute for Cognitive Science.

Zhang, J., Chen, Z., He, Y., & Xu, X. (1984). Effect of calcium on proteolytic activity and conformation of hemorrhagic toxin I from five pace snake (agkistrodon acutus) venom. Toxicon, 22 (6), 931-935.

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