KEITH HOLYOAK CV

June, 2018

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Keith James Holyoak

Personal Information

Address: University of California, Los Angeles Department of Psychology 405 Hilgard Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90095-1563

E-mail: holyoak@lifesci.ucla.edu Website: http://reasoninglab.psych.ucla.edu/

Citizenship: United States & Canada

Education

University of British Columbia, B.A. (1971) in psychology Stanford University, Ph.D. (1976) in psychology

Academic Appointments

Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 2004-present

Visiting Professor of Psychology (honorary), National University of Singapore, 2014

Professor of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1986-2004

Vice-Chair for Academic Personnel, Dept. of Psychology, UCLA, 2002-2006

Co-Director, Cognitive Science Research Program, 1989-92

Member, Brain Research Institute, 1991-presentProfessor of Psychology, University of Michigan, 1986

Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan, 1981-1986

Visiting Scholar, LRDC, University of Pittsburgh, 1985-1986

Visiting Associate Professor of Psychology, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1984-1985

Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan, 1976-1981

Research Interests

Analogy, induction, and problem solving Computational models of cognition Cognitive neuroscience Educational applications of technology

Awards

UCLA Dept. of Psychology Distinguished Service Award, 2005

James McKeen Cattell Fellow, 1999

John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, 1991

NIMH Research Scientist Development Award, 1981-1986

Rackham Faculty Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1976

Stanford University Fellowship, 1972-1975

British Columbia Psychological Association Gold Medal, 1971

Honorary Fellowships and Elected Offices in Scientific Organizations

Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (from 2003)

Fellow, Cognitive Science Society (from 2006);

Chair of Governing Board, 1994-1995; Member of Governing Board, 1992-1998

Fellow, Association for Psychological Science (from 1993)

Fellow, Society for Experimental Psychology (from 1990)

Nominating committee member, AAAS Section J (2007-2009, 2012-2014

Teaching Experience

University of California, Los Angeles 1986-present

Undergraduate

Psychology 10, Introduction to PsychologyPsychology 120A, Cognitive Psychology, Psychology 121, Laboratory in Cognitive PsychologyPsychology 124F (Psychology Honors Program), ThinkingPsychology 185, Cognitive Science

Graduate

Psychology 264, Thinking, Psychology 269, Analogy in the Mind and BrainPsychology 269, Applications of Technology for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, Psychology 269, Causal Knowledge and Cognitive EvolutionPsychology 269, Induction and Knowledge Acquisition Psychology 269, Metaphor and CognitionPsychology 269, The Adaptive Character of Memory and ThinkingNeuroscience 211A, Mental ImageryAnthropology 297, Cognitive Science & Anthropology of the Supernatural

University of Michigan, 1976-1986

Undergraduate

Psychology 310, Experimental Psychology Lab Psychology 443, Psychology of Thinking, Psychology 447, Psychology of Language Psychology 448, Learning and Memory Psychology 518, Learning and Memory Lab

Graduate

Psychology 646, Pro-Seminar in Cognitive PsychologyP, sychology 745, Psychology of LanguagePsychology 746, Human Learning and MemoryPsychology 908, Seminar on Categorization Psychology 948, Seminar on Language Induction

Stanford University, 1972-1976

Teaching Assistant for introductory psychology and psycholinguistics courses

Former PhD and Post-doctoral Students


Associate and Full Professors

Bruce Burns (Psychology, U. of Sydney, Australia), Richard Catrambone
(Psychology, Georgia Tech), Soohyun Cho (Psychology, Chung-Ang University,
South Korea), Meredith Gattis (Psychology, Cardiff U., UK), Mary Gick
(Psychology, Carleton U., Canada), Dan Krawczyk (Behavioral & Brain
Sciences, U. of Texas at Dallas), Jim Kroger (Psychology, New Mexico State U.),
Heeseung Lee (Education, Yonsei University, South Korea), Robert Morrison
(Psychology & Neuroscience, Loyola U. Chicago), Laura Novick (Psychology &
Human Development, Vanderbilt U.), Lindsey Richland (Education, UC Irvine),
Carol Seeger (Psychology, Colorado State U.), Bobby Spellman (Psychology &
Law, U. of Virginia), Regina Vollmeyer (Psychology, U. of Potsdam, Germany),
Michael Waldmann (Psychology, U. of Goettingen, Germany), James Waltz
(Psychiatry, U. of Maryland)
Research Scientists, Lecturers and Post-doctoral Fellows
Michael Vendetti (Oracle), Melissa DeWolf (Microsoft), Guido Schauer
(Behavioral & Brain Sciences, U. of Texas at Dallas), Derek Powell (Psychology,
Stanford U.), Tage Rai (Management, MIT), Dawn Chen (Google)

Research Scientists, Lecturers and Post-doctoral Fellows
Michael Vendetti (Oracle), Melissa DeWolf (Microsoft), Guido Schauer
(Behavioral & Brain Sciences, U. of Texas at Dallas), Derek Powell (Psychology,
Stanford U.), Tage Rai (Management, MIT), Dawn Chen (Google)

Department and University Service

University of California, Los Angeles: Vice Chair for Academic Personnel Chair, Cognitive Science Development Committee Chair, Cognitive Area Chair, Cognitive Search Committee (multiple times) Co-Chair, Assistant Professor Guidance Committee Psychology Dept. Executive Committee Merit Review Committee Departmental Long-Range Planning Committee Graduate Admissions Committee

University of Michigan:Graduate Studies Committee Experimental Area Graduate Admissions CommitteeSearch Committees in Developmental and Experimental PsychologyHuman Subjects Review Committees (for both College and Psychology Department)Experimental Area Graduate Student Progress CommitteeExperimental/ Mathematical Areas Training Grant CommitteeDepartmental Executive CommitteeCollege Internal Grant Review BoardUndergraduate Academic CounselorCoordinator of Psychology 170 (Introductory Experimental)

Professional Service

Editorships:

Editor, Psychological Review, 2016-

Editor, Cognitive Psychology, 1995-1999

Senior Editor, Cognitive Science, 1990-1992

Associate Editor, Cognitive Psychology, 2000-present

Associate Editor, Psychological Science, 2012-present

Guest Co-editor, Special section on analogy, J. of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2012

Member of Editorial Board:

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 1988-1995; 2007-presentThinking & Reasoning, 1993-presentAdaptive Behavior, 1991-presentCognitive Psychology, 1990-1995American Journal of Psychology, 1988-2008 Psychological Science, 2001Cognitive Science, 1992-2000Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 1984-1987Memory & Cognition, 1977-1990

Ad Hoc Reviewer: Journals

American Psychologist, Applied Cognitive Psychology, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Brain and Cognition, Brain Research, Cerebral Cortex, Child Development, Cognition, Cognition and Instruction, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Systems Research, Developmental Psychology, European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology:Human Perception and Performance, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Journal of General Psychology, Journal of Medical Informatics, Journal of Memory and Language, Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Personality and SocialPsychology, Nature Neuroscience, Neuropsychologia, Perception & Psychophysics, PLoS Computational Biology, Political Psychology, Proceedings of the NationalAcademy of Sciences (USA), Psychological Bulletin, Psychological Review, Psychological Science, Psychology and Aging, Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, Review of General Psychology, Science, Scientific Study of Literature, Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Government & Private Agencies, Conferences, and Publishing Companies

Guggenheim Foundation, National Science Foundation, National Institute ofEducation, National Science and Engineering Council (Canada), Social Science &Humanities Research Council (Canada), Biotechnology & Biological SciencesResearch Council (UK), Australian Research Council, Conferences of CognitiveScience Society, Program Committee, Advanced Computing in the Social Sciences, (Energy Division of Oakridge National Laboratory), Adjudicator: Ontario Premier'sDiscovery Awards Program, MIT Press, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, LawrenceErlbaum Associates, Prentice-Hall, Harvard University Press, Princeton University Press, Oxford University Press, Wiley & Sons

Advisory Panel Memberships and Workshops:

NSF workshop on Higher Cognition in Adolescents, 2008Co-organizer, 2nd International Conference on Analogy, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2009 NIH panel, 2005NSF workshop on Knowledge Transfer, 2002NSF Learning & Intelligent Systems initiative, 1997Co-organizer, 1st International Conference on Analogy, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1998NIMH Subcommittee on Thinking and Communication, 1993International Advisory Board, Dept. of Cognitive Science, New Bulgarian UniversityEditorial Advisory Board, Issues in Thinking and Reasoning, Erlbaum (UK)Editorial Advisory Board, Advances in the Psychology of Thinking, Simon &Schuster NSF Memory and Cognitive Processes Panel, 1980-1981NSF/NIE Program in Science and Mathematics Education, 1978, Member of Advisory Board, Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity (from 2017)

Grants

National Science Foundation (with H. Lu & A. Yuille) Title: Collaborative Research: CompCog: Achieving Analogical Reasoning via Human and
Machine Learning, Dates: August 15, 2018 to July 31, 2021, Amount: $477,000 ($318,113 direct)

Google Faculty Research Award, Title: Human Relational Reasoning and Creativity: Experimental and Computational
Studies, Dates: April 1, 2018 (no end date), Amount: $64,500

UCLA Academic Senate

Intelligence Advanced Research Project Activities (UCLA PI; with Lockheed Martin)Title: FRAMES: Framework for Analogy and Memory Embodied as Spiking NeuronsDates: Dec. 12, 2010 – Dec. 12, 2012Amount: $705140

Institute of Education Sciences (Co-PI; Eva Baker, PI) Title: Center for Advanced Technology in Schools Dates: Sept. 14, 2010 – Sept. 14, 2013 Amount: $592,000

Office of Naval Research Title: Analogical Reasoning: Integration of Neural, Behavioral and Computational Analyses Dates: March 1, 2008 to December 31, 2012 Amount: $927,215

Canon, Inc. Title: Analogical Reasoning and Creative Product Design Dates: Feb. 1, 2010 (no end date) Amount: $87,500 (gift to Holyoak lab)

Air Force Office of Scientific Research (Co-I; Alan Yuille, PI) Title: Hidden Causal Structure for Reasoning and Learning: Human Cognition, Machine Intelligence, and Statistics Dates: October 1, 2008 to Sept 30, 2011 Amount: $900,000

Office of Naval Research (in collaboration with Medantic Technology) Title: Distributed Training for Force Mobilization: CBRNE Dates: December 1, 2006 to August 31, 2007 Amount: $24,998

National Institute of Mental Health 6 Title: Neuroimaging of Analogical Reasoning Dates: July 1, 2005 to June 30, 2008 Amount: $129,976 ($100,000 direct)

National Science Foundation (with D. Simon & S. Read)Title: Coherence-Based Decision Making: A Theoretical Framework and PracticalApplicationsDates: April 15, 2004 to March 31, 2007Amount: $143, 250 ($98,436 direct)

Institute of Education Sciences Title: A Multidisciplinary Study of Analogical Transfer in Children's MathematicsDates: January 1, 2004 to December 31, 2006Amount: $300,715 ($202,195 direct)

Office of Naval Research (in collaboration with Medantic Technology) Title: An Intelligent System for Case-Based Instruction Dates: July 1, 2004 to January 31, 2005 Amount: $29,926 ($19,496 direct)

National Science Foundation (with D. Simon & S. Read)Title: Collaborative Research: Applying Constraint Satisfaction Models to Legal ReasoningDates: August 1, 2000 to June 30, 2004Amount: $178,330

Office of Naval Research (in collaboration with Medantic Technology) Title: Authoring Shell for Case-based Reasoning Dates: January 25, 2002 to July 24, 2002 Amount: $16,191

National Science Foundation (with J. Hummel) Title: Learning and Inference with Schemas and Analogies Dates: February 1, 1998 to January 31, 2001 Amount: $250,000

National Science Foundation (with J. Hummel) Title: Schema Induction in a Structure-Sensitive Connectionist Model Dates: August 15, 1995 to July 31, 1998 Amount: $150,000

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (with J. Grafman & F. Boller)Title: Structure and Functions of the Human Prefrontal Cortex Dates: September 30, 1994 to September 29, 1995Amount: $17,000

National Science Foundation

Title: Mechanisms of Analogical Reminding and Priming Dates: August 15, 1993 to August 14, 1995 Amount: $150,000

Army Research Institute (with P. Thagard) Title: A Cognitive Architecture for Analogy and Problem Solving Dates: September 1, 1989 to August 31, 1992 Amount: $599,793

National Science Foundation (Co-PI; 4 others) Title: Maintenance and Support for Parallel Computation in Cognitive Science and Cognate Areas Dates: August 1, 1991 to July 31, 1994 Amount: $600,000

Biomedical Research Support GrantTitle: Conditioning and Learning Within Rule-based Default HierarchiesDates: June 14, 1989 to June 30, 1990Amount: $15,420

National Science Foundation (Co-PI; 9 others) Title: Center for Research in Computational Neuro-Cognition Dates: July 1, 1987 to June 30, 1988 Amount: $994,700 (plus $300,000 supplement, August 1988)

Keck Foundation (Co-PI; 7 others) Title: Center for Research in Computational Neuro-Cognition Dates July 1, 1988 to June, 30, 1990 Amount: $750,000

Army Research Institute (with P. Thagard) Title: A Cognitive Model for Solving Ill-Defined Problems Dates: September 1, 1986 to August 31, 1989 Amount: $400,840

National Science Foundation (with M. Bassok)Title: Instruction and Transfer Between Isomorphic Topics in Algebra and Physics Dates: September 1, 1986 to August 31, 1989Amount: $106,108

National Science Foundation (with R. Nisbett) Title: Formal versus Pragmatic Approaches to Deductive Reasoning Dates: October 1, 1984 to September 30, 1986 Amount: $45,000

National Science Foundation

Title: Cognitive Processing of Analogy Dates: April 1, 1983 to September 30, 1986 Amount: $118,445

Spencer Foundation (with P. Cheng and R. Nisbett)Title: Influence of Logic Training and Substantive Knowledge on Deductive ReasoningDates: January 1, 1983 to June 1, 1984Amount: $5,000

Systems Development Foundation (with J. Holland, R. Nisbett, and P. Thagard)Title: The Process of Induction Dates: August 1, 1983 to September 30, 1984Amount: $15,500

National Science Foundation (with L. S. Fried) Title: Perceptual Learning with Ill-Defined Categories Dates: June 1, 1979 to January 31, 1984 Amount: $115,247

National Institute of Mental Health Title: Cognitive Processing of Magnitude and Order Information Dates: June 1, 1979 to December 31, 1982 Amount: $120,745

National Science Foundation Title: Decision Processes in Judgments of Order and Relative MagnitudeDates: June 1, 1977 to December 31, 1979Amount: $59,900

Rackham Faculty Grant, University of Michigan Title: Perceptual Learning with Ill-Defined Categories Dates: January 1, 1978 to December 31, 1978 Amount: $5,028

Rackham Faculty Grant, University of MichiganTitle: Decision Processes in Judgments of Order and Relative MagnitudeDates: January 1, 1977 to December 31, 1977Amount: $5,004

Publications

Books

Holyoak, K. (2015). The Gospel According to Judas. Loveland, OH: Dos Madres Press.

Holyoak, K. J., & Morrison, R. G. (Eds.) (2012). The Oxford handbook of thinking and reasoning. New York: Oxford University Press.

Holyoak, K. (2012). Foreigner: New English Poems in Chinese Old Style. Loveland, OH: Dos Madres Press.

Holyoak, K. (2010). My Minotaur: Selected Poems 1998-2006. Loveland, OH: Dos Madres Press.

Kokinov, B., Holyoak, K. J., & Gentner, D. (2009). New frontiers in analogy research: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Analogy. Sofia, Bulgaria: New Bulgarian University Press.

Holyoak, K. (translator) (2007). Facing the Moon: Poems of Li Bai and Du Fu. Durham, NH: Oyster River Press.

Holyoak, K. J., & Morrison, R. G. (Eds.) (2005). The Cambridge handbook of thinking and reasoning. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Gentner, D., Holyoak, K. J., & Kokinov, B. N. (Eds.) (2001). The analogical mind: Perspectives from cognitive science. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Holyoak, K. J., Gentner, D., & Kokinov, B. N. (Eds.) (1998). Advances in analogy research: Integration of theory and data from the cognitive, computational, and neural sciences. Sofia, Bulgaria: New Bulgarian University Press.

Shanks, D. R., Holyoak, K. J., & Medin, D. L. (Eds.) (1996). The psychology of learning and motivation, Vol. 34: Causal learning. San Diego: Academic Press.

Grafman, J., Holyoak, K. J., & Boller, F. (Eds.) (1995). Structure and functions of the human prefrontal cortex. New York: New York Academy of Sciences.

Holyoak, K. J., & Thagard, P. (1995). Mental leaps: Analogy in creative thought. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Paperback edition, 1996. Japanese translation, 1998.

Holyoak, K. J., & Barnden, J. A. (Eds.) (1994). Advances in connectionist and neural computation theory, Vol. 2: Analogical connections. Norwood, N.J.: Ablex.

Barnden, J. A., & Holyoak, K. J. (Eds.) (1994). Advances in connectionist and neural computation theory, Vol. 3: Analogy, reminding, and metaphor. Norwood, N.J.: Ablex.

Holland, J. H., Holyoak, K. J., Nisbett, R. E., & Thagard, P. (1986). Induction: Processes of inference, learning, and discovery. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Paperback edition, 1989. Japanese translation, 1991. Portions of Ch. 4 reprinted in L. Davis (Ed.) (1987), Genetic algorithms and simulated annealing (pp. 116-128). London: Pitman. Portions of Ch. 9 reprinted in A. I. Goldman (Ed.) (1993), Readings in philosophy and cognitive science (pp. 23-41). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Chapter 1 reprinted in N. Lazaric & E. Lorenz (Eds.) (2003), Critical studies in economic institutions: Knowledge, learning and routines (pp. 2556). Camberley, UK: Edward Elgar.

Glass, A. L., & Holyoak, K. J. (1986). Cognition, 2nd edition. New York: Random House.

Glass, A. L., Holyoak, K. J., & Santa, J. L. (1979). Cognition. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.

Individual Papers

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