Education
- Ph.D., Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 2014.
Dissertation title: Noun-noun compound comprehension as self-organization: The representation and processing dynamics of noun-noun compounds
Advisor: Whitney Tabor - M.A., Department of Psychology, Seoul National University, South Korea, 2002.
- B.A., Department of Psychology, Seoul National University, South Korea, 2000.
Professional Experience
- October 13, 2017 - Present. Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan
Supervisor: Richard L. Lewis - September 1, 2014 - October 13, 2017. Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University.
Supervisor: Paul Smolensky
Gradient symbolic computation
Publications
Refereed Journal Articles
- Cho, P. W., Goldrick, M., & Smolensky, P. (2017). Incremental parsing in a continuous dynamical system: Sentence processing in Gradient Symbolic Computation. Linguistics Vanguard, 3. doi: 10.1515/lingvan-2016-0105
- Brentari, D., Coppola, M., Cho, P. W., & Senghas, A. (2017). Handshape complexity as a precursor to phonology: Variation, emergence, and acquisition. Language Acquisition, 24(4), 283-306. doi: 10.1080/10489223.2016.1187614
- Cho, P. W., Szkudlarek, E., & Tabor, W. (2016). Discovery of a recursive principle: An artificial grammar investigation of human learning of a counting recursion language. Frontiers in Psychology, 7:867. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00867
- Kukona, A., Cho, P. W., Magnuson, J. S., & Tabor, W. (2014). Lexical interference effects in sentence processing: Evidence from the visual world paradigm and self-organizing models. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 40(2), 326-347. doi:10.1037/a0034903
- Tabor, W., Cho, P. W., & Szkudlarek, E. (2013). Fractal analysis illuminates the form of connectionist structural gradualness. Topics in Cognitive Science, 5, 634–667. doi:10.1111/tops.12036
- Tabor, W., Cho, P. W., & Dankowicz, H. (2013). Birth of an abstraction: A dynamical systems account of the discovery of an Elsewhere Principle in a category learning task. Cognitive Science, 37, 1193–1227. doi:10.1111/cogs.12072
- Koh, S., Hong, H., Yoon, S., & Cho, P. W. (2008). The word frequency effect in Korean noun eojeols: An eyetracking study. Korean Journal of Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 20, 21–37.
- Cho, P. W., Goldrick, M., Lewis, R., & Smolensky, P. (2017). Dynamic encoding of uncertainty in gradient symbols. To appear in Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL 2018).
- Cho, P. W., & Tabor, W. (2017). Self-organized semantics: Top-down and bottom-up interference effects in noun-noun compound comprehension. Manuscript in preparation.
- Tupper, P., Smolensky, P., & Cho, P. W. (2017). Discrete symbolic optimization by continuous neural dynamics: Gradient Symbolic Computation. Manuscript in preparation.
- Cho, P. W., Goldrick, M., & Smolensky, P. (2017). Dynamic reanalysis in incremental parsing. Manuscript in preparation.
- Cho, P. W., & Smolensky, P. (2016). Bifurcation analysis of a Gradient Symbolic Computation model of incremental processing. In Papafragou, A., Grodner, D., Mirman, D., & Trueswell, J.C. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38 th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1487–1492). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
- Tabor, W., Cho, P. W., & Szkudlarek, E. (2012). Fractal unfolding: A metamorphic approach to learning to parse recursive structure. In R. Levy & D. Reitter (Eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL 2012) (pp. 41–50). Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cho, P. W., Szkudlarek, E., Kukona, A., & Tabor, W. (2011). An artificial grammar investigation into the mental encoding of syntactic structure. In L. Carlson, C. Hoelscher, & T. F. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1679–1684). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
- Tobin, S. J., Cho, P. W., Jennett, P. M., & Magnuson, J. S. (2010). Effects of anticipatory coarticulation on lexical access. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2200–2205). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
- Henin, J., Accorsi, E., Cho, P. W., & Tabor, W. (2009). Extraordinary natural ability: Anagram solution as an extension of normal reading ability. In N. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 905–910). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Conference Presentations
- Cho, P. W., Goldrick, M., & Smolensky, P. (2016, August). Optimal control in a Gradient Symbolic Computation model of incremental processing. Poster presented at the 15th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop (NCPW15), Philadelphia, PA.
- Cho, P. W., Goldrick, M., & Smolensky, P. (2016, March). A Gradient Symbolic Computation model of incremental processing. Poster presented at the 29th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Gainesville, FL.
- Smith, G., Cho, P. W., & Tabor, W. (2015, March). Evidence for dynamic interdependence in learning a recursive artificial language. Poster presented at the 28th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Los Angeles, CA.
- Cho, P. W., & Tabor, W. (2014, October). A single mechanism view of noun-noun compound comprehension. Poster presented at the 4th Mid-Atlantic Colloquium of Studies in Meaning (MACSIM), Rutgers University, NJ.
- Cho, P. W., & Tabor, W. (2014, September). The representation of noun-noun compounds: A single mechanism view. Poster presented at the 9th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Ontario, Canada.
- Tabor, W., Smith, G., & Cho, P. W. (2014, September). Evidence for a phase transition in learning a recursive artificial grammar. Talk presented at the 20th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP), Edinburgh, UK.
- Cho, P. W., Garrett, S. & Tabor, W. (2014, March). Skewed lexical distributions facilitate recursion learning in an artificial grammar task. Poster presented at the 27th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Columbus, OH.
- Cho, P. W., & Tabor, W. (2013, September). Dynamic self-organized semantics: Garden path and local coherence effects in noun-noun compounds. Talk presented at the 19th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP), Marseille, France.
- Tabor, W., Dankowicz, H., Cho, P. W., & Szkudlarek, E. (2013, May). Fractal encoding of recursive dynamics. Talk presented at the 2013 SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Snowbird, Utah.
- Szkudlarek, E., Cho, P. W., & Tabor, W. (2012, March). Mirror recursion learning in the box prediction artificial grammar paradigm. Poster presented at the 25th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, NY.
- Cho, P. W., & Tabor, W. (2011, September). An attractor basin model of looks to blend stimuli in an artificial lexicon paradigm. Talk presented at the 17th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP), Paris, France.
- Kukona, A., Cho, P. W., Magnuson, J. S., & Tabor, W. (2011, March). Local coherences in the visual world paradigm. Poster presented at the 24th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Stanford, CA.
- Tabor, W., Szkudlarek, E., & Cho, P. W. (2011, March). Generalization of recursive structure in an artificial grammar paradigm. Poster presented at the 24th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Stanford, CA.
Campus or Departmental Talks
- Cho, P. W. (2014, November). A dynamical systems account of noun-noun compound comprehension. Poster presented at the Gradient Symbolic Computation Workshop 2014, Baltimore, MD.
- Cho, P. W., & Tabor, W. (2013, August). Dynamic self-organized semantics: garden path and local coherence effects in noun-noun compounds. Talk presented at the the Guy Van Orden UConn Workship on Cognition and Dynamics, VIII, Storrs, CT.
- Cho, P. W., Szkudlarek, E., Kukona, A., & Tabor, W. (2011, August). Learning recursion. Talk presented at the the Guy Van Orden UConn Workship on Cognition and Dynamics, VI, Storrs, CT.
- Cho, P. W., & Tabor, W. (2011, April). Competition and cooperation in the recognition of temporarily and wholly ambiguous words: An artificial lexicon study. Poster presented at the Univeristy of Connecticut Language Fest. Storrs, CT.
- Kukona, A., Cho, P. W., & Tabor, W. (2010, August). A dynamical model of anticipatory looking behavior in sentence processing. Talk presented at the Annual Cognition and Dynamics Workshop, Storrs, CT.
- Cho, P. W. (2010, April). The effect of blends on the recognition of ambiguous words in the visual world paradigm: An artificial lexicon study. Poster presented at the Univeristy of Connecticut Language Fest. Storrs, CT.
- Tabor, W., Cho, P. W., Kukona, A., Coppola, J., Fang, S. Y., Halle, J., Jennett, P., Lucas, J., Madruga, M., McCloskey, B., Noccioli, E., Rodny, J., Szkudlarek, E., & Wantroba, R. (2010, April). Self-organization in language and society. Poster presented at the Univeristy of Connecticut Language Fest. Storrs, CT.
Teaching Experience
- Fall 2015, Neural network modeling of learning, language and cognition, IOR, Johns Hopkins University.
- Spring 2014, Cognitive Psychology, IOR, University of Connecticut.
- Fall 2011, General Psychology I, Lab TA, University of Connecticut.
- Fall 2009, Psycholinguistics Laboratory, Lab TA, University of Connecticut.
- Fall 2008, Psycholinguistics Laboratory, Lab TA, University of Connecticut.
Research Experience
- Fall 2010 – Spring 2014, Research Assistant, University of Connecticut.
- Fall 2009 – Spring 2010, Research Assistant, Haskins Laboratories.
Last updated on 2017-11-15