All our publications are listed in reverse chronological order. Where possible, we've made abstracts or whole articles avilable for you to download in PDF format. If you don't have the right software to read PDF files, you can download it for free here.

In some cases, no PDF link is available. If you would like a hard copy of these publications, please contact Dr. Lovett at lovett@cmu.edu or by writing to the address listed here.

Lovett, M. C. (in press). Modeling selective attention: not just another model of Stroop. Cognitive Systems Research. [special issue printing top papers from International Conference on Cognitive Modeling 2001] (Article)

Lovett, M. C. (in press). Problem Solving. To appear in The Stevens’ Handbook of Psychology. Wiley. (PDF)

Lovett, M. C. (in press). Problem Solving. To appear in Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences. Macmillian. (PDF)

Brown, J., & Lovett, M. (2001). The effects of reducing information on a modified prisoner's dilemma game. In J. D. Moore & K. Stenning (Eds.) Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 162-167). Mahwah, New Jersey: Erlbaum. (Article)

Daily, L. Z., Lovett, M. C., & Reder, L. M. (2001). Modeling individual differences in working memory performance: A source activation account in ACT-R. Cognitive Science, 25, 315-353. [lead article] (Article)

Lovett, M. C. (2001). Cognitive theory, ACT. To appear in The International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. The Netherlands: Elsevier. (PDF)

Lovett, M. C. (2001). A Collaborative convergence on studying reasoning processes: A case study in statistics. In S. Carver, & D. Klahr (Eds.) Cognition and instruction: Twenty-five years of progress (pp. 347-384). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. (Article)

Schunn, C. D., Lovett, M. C., & Reder, L. M. (2001). Awareness and working memory in strategy adaptivity. Memory & Cognition, 29, 254-266. (Abstract)

Lovett, M. C., Daily, L. Z., & Reder, L. M. (2000). A source activation theory of working memory: Cross-task prediction of performance in ACT-R. Cognitive Systems Research, 1, 99-118. (Article)

Lovett, M. C., & Greenhouse, J. B. (2000). Applying cognitive theory to statistics instruction. The American Statistician, 54, 196-206. (Article)

Lovett, M. C., & Schunn, C. D. (2000). The importance of frameworks for directing empirical questions: Reply to Goodie and Fantino (2000). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 129, 453-456. (Abstract)

Lovett, M. C., Reder, L. M., & Lebiere, C. (1999). Modeling working memory in a unified architecture: An ACT-R perspective. In A. Miyake & P. Shah (Eds.) Models of Working Memory. pp. 135-182. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge.(Abstract)

Lovett, M. C., & Schunn, C. D. (1999). Task representations, strategy variability, and base-rate neglect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 128, 107-130. [lead article] (Abstract)

Anderson, J. R., Lebiere, C., Lovett, M. C., & Reder, L. R. (1998). ACT-R: A higher-level account of processing capacity. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21, 831-832.

Gluck, K. A., Shute, V. J., Anderson, J. R., & Lovett, M. C. (1998). Deconstructing a computer-based tutor: Striving for better learning efficiency in Stat Lady. In B. P. Goettl, H. M. Halff, C. L. Redfield, & V. J. Shute (Eds.) Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 1452. New York: Springer. (PDF)

Lovett, M. C. (1998). Cognitive task analysis in service of intelligent tutoring systems design: A case study in statistics. In B. P. Goettl, H. M. Halff, C. L. Redfield, & V. J. Shute (Eds.) Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 1452 pp. 234-243. New York: Springer.

Lovett, M. C. (1997). Modeling individual differences in a digit working memory task. Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. pp. 460-465. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. (PDF)

Lovett, M. C. (1996). Are the new methods better?: A cognitive psychologist’s view on evaluating methods for teaching statistics. In Proceedings of the Joint Statistical Meetings, Section on Education. American Statistical Association: Reston, VA. (PDF)

Lovett, M. C., & Anderson, J. R. (1996). History of success and current context in problem solving: Combined influences on operator selection. Cognitive Psychology, 31, 168-217.

Lovett, M. C., & Anderson, J. R. (1995). Making heads or tails out of selecting problem-solving strategies. In J. D. Moore & J. F. Lehman (Eds.) Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 265-270. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. (PDF)