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Contents

  1. 1 Work Published in Conference Proceedings
  2. 2 Invited Paper Presentations
  3. 3 Paper Presentations
  4. 4 Poster Presentations

Work Published in Conference Proceedings

Ellefson, M.R., Johnstone, E.L., Blagrove, E.L., & Chater, N. (2006, July). Can developmental changes in switch costs be explained by age alone? Poster presented at the 28th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Published in R. Sun (Ed.), The Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 2476). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. 

Johnstone, E.L., Ellefson, M.R., & Chater, N. (2005, July). Young children’s attribution of causality under uncertainty. Poster presented at the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Turin, Italy. Published in B.G. Bara, L.W. Barsalou, & M. Bucciarelli (Eds.), The Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1060-1065). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. 

Conway, C.M., Ellefson, M.R., & Christiansen, M.H. (2003, August). When less is less and when less is more: Starting small with staged input. Paper presented at the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston, MA, USA. Published in R. Alterman & D. Kirsh (Eds.), The Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp.670-675). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. 

Ellefson, M.R. (2001, August). What was the cause? Children’s ability to categorize inferences. Poster presented at the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Edinburgh, Scotland. Published in J.D. Moore & K. Stenning (Eds.), The Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 1212). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. 

Ellefson, M.R., & Christiansen, M.H. (2000, August). Subjacency constraints without universal grammar: Evidence from artificial language learning and connectionist modeling. Poster presented at the 22nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Published in L.R. Gleitman & A.K. Joshi (Eds.), The Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 645-650). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. 

Ellefson, M.R., & Christiansen, M.H. (2000, April). The evolution of subjacency without universal grammar: Evidence from artificial language learning. Paper presented at the Evolution of Language: 3rd International Conference, Paris, France. Published in J.L. Dessalles & L. Ghadakpour (Eds.), The Evolution of Language: 3rd International Conference (pp. 98-101). Paris, France: Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications. 

Ellefson, M.R. (1996, May). Neural correlates of infant memory development: A comparison study of NICU graduates and full-term healthy infants. Paper presented at the 64th annual meeting of the Minnesota Academy of Science, St. Paul, MN, USA. Published in the Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science, 60, 27.

Invited Paper Presentations

Ellefson, M.R., Blagrove, E., Molzhon, A., & Chater, N. (2011, July). Executive functions and school achievement. Paper to-be-presented as part of the invited symposium Executive functioning (Rebecca Bull, convenor) at the 5th International Conference on Memory, University of York, York, UK 

Ellefson, M.R., Abrasheff, R.L., & Schunn, C.D. (2007, August). Children’s reasoning about complex causal interactions: The case of learning genes x environment. Paper presented as part of the invited symposium How inductive reasoning develops: From categories and category relations to scientific reasoning in the classroom (Aidan Feeney & Catherine Wilburn, conveners) at the annual meeting of the British Psychological Society Developmental Psychology Section, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK.

Paper Presentations

Ellefson, M., Khamar, H., & Schunn, C. (2011, April). Are students’ causal models of scientific ideas flexible? Paper to-be-presented as part of the symposium Reasoning and science learning (Michelle Ellefson, chair) at the 74rd biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, QC, Canada. 

Molzhon, A., Ellefson, M., Blagrove, E., & Chater, N. (2011, April). Differential influences of age and executive functions on arithmetic efficiency and achievement. Paper to-be-presented as part of the symposium Executive functions and education (Michelle Ellefson, chair) at the 74rd biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, QC, Canada. 

Ellefson, M., Blagrove, E., & Chater, N. (2010, November). Executive functions and task switching. Paper presented at the 51st annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St. Louis, MO, USA. 

Ellefson, M. (2010, May). Causal reasoning in science learning. Paper presented at CamERA 2010: Making Connections, Cambridge, England. 

Vousden, J. I., Ellefson, M., & Solity, J. (2009, September). The contribution of children’s decoding and vocabulary knowledge to reading irregular words. Paper presented at the annual conference of the British Psychological Society: Developmental Section. 

Ellefson, M., Blagrove, E., Molzhon, A., & Chater, N. (2009, April). Contributions of age and executive functions on task switching performance. Paper presented as part of the symposium Executive functions and task switching (Michelle Ellefson, chair) at the 73rd biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO, USA. 

Ellefson, M.R. (2007, April). Connecting cognitive science and science education: The case for causality. Paper presented as part of the symposium Connecting cognitive science and science education: The case for causality (Michelle Ellefson, chair) at the 72nd biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boson, MA, USA. 

Ellefson, M.R., Treiman, R., Kessler, B. (2007, April). Learning to label letters by names or sounds. Paper presented as part of the symposium Phonics in early literacy education (Michelle Ellefson, convener) at the 72nd biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boson, MA, USA. 

Johnstone, E.L., Ellefson, M.R., & Chater, N. (2005, November). Children’s reasoning under uncertainty: The influence of conditional and unconditional contingencies. Paper presented at the 46th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, ON, Canada. 

Ellefson, M., Shapiro, L., Solity, J., & Seabrook, R. (2004, March). What are the factors that cause reading difficulties? Paper presented at the 6th British Dyslexia Association International Conference, Warwick, UK 

Shapiro, L., Solity, J., Brown, G., Chater, N., Vousden, J., Ellefson, M., & Seabrook, R. (2004, March). A whole-class based intervention can reduce the incidence of reading difficulty. Paper presented at the 6th British Dyslexia Association International Conference, Warwick, UK 

Solity, J., Brown, G., Chater, N., Vousden, J., Ellefson, M., Shapiro, L., & Seabrook, R. (2004, March). Recommended teaching strategies based on principles from cognitive science. Paper presented at the 6th British Dyslexia Association International Conference, Warwick, UK 

Vousden, J., Solity, J., Brown, G., Chater, N., Ellefson, M., Shapiro, L., & Seabrook, R. (2004, March). Real books vs. reading schemes: Why real books could reduce literacy difficulties. Paper presented at the 6th British Dyslexia Association International Conference, Warwick, UK 

Ellefson, M.R., Young, M.E., Christiansen, M.H., Espy, K.A. (2002, May). The use of structural cues to facilitate pattern acquisition in a sequential learning task. Paper presented at the 8th Annual Show-Me Mental State Conference on Cognition, St. Louis, MO, USA. 

Young, M.E., Ellefson, M.R., & Rogers, E.T. (2002, May). The effect of symmetric and asymmetric binary features on category learning. Paper presented at the 8th Annual Show Me Mental State Conference on Cognition, St. Louis, MO, USA. 

Molfese, D.L., & Ellefson, M.R. (1998, July). The use of event-related potentials to study cognitive disorders. Paper presented at United Leukodystrophy Foundation, Springfield, IL, USA.

Poster Presentations

Vousden, J.I., Ellefson, M.R, & Chater, N., & Solity J. (2010, July). Comparing the content of UK reading programs using the simplicity principle. Poster presented at the 17th annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Berlin, Germany. 

Moore, T., Dabney, J., & Ellefson, M. (2010, March). The efficacy of color and font cues in learning hierarchical structures. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, New York, NY, USA 

Goedert, K.M., & Ellefson, M.R. (2009, November).  Mechanism information influences the cell-weight inequality in causal judgment from contingencies. Poster presented at the 50th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA, USA. 

Khamar, H. Ellefson, M., Schunn, C.D. (2009, July). Causal parsimony in learning science. Poster presented at the 31st annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 

Molzhon, A. Ellefson, M., Blagrove, E., & Chater, N. (2009, July). Do executive functions predict performance on all switching tasks? Poster presented at the 31st annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 

Khamar, H.J., Ellefson, M., & Schunn, C.D. (2009, April). Is reasoning about chemistry constrained by causal parsimony? Poster presented at the 73rd biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO, USA. 

Ellefson, M.R., Blagrove, E., Espy, K. A., & Chater, N. (2008, November). Shape school’s asymmetrical switch costs. Poster presented at the 49th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL, USA. 

Vousden, J.I., Ellefson, M.R., & Chater, N. (2008, January). Identifying optimal spelling-to-sound mappings for reading instruction. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the British Psychological Society: Educational and Child Psychology, Bournemouth, UK. 

Ellefson, M.R., & Schunn, C.D. (2007, November). Can domain knowledge improve causal reasoning? Poster to be presented at the 48th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA, USA. 

Clinch, A.L., Crean, J.J., Ellefson, M.R., Carroll, J.M., Chater, N. (2007, March). Can switch training improve arithmetic performance? Poster presented at the 72nd biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA, USA. 

Ellefson, M.R., Chater, N., Blagrove, E., & Johnstone, E. J. (2006, November). Are developmental changes in asymmetrical switch costs domain dependent? Poster presented at the 47th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Houston, TX, USA. 

Ellefson, M.R., & Chater, N. (2005, July). Executive functions, switch costs, and arithmetic achievement in early primary school. Poster presented as part of the poster symposium Neurocognitive bases of mathematics proficiencies in children (Kimberly Andrews Espy, convener) at the International Neuropsychological Society’s Joint Mid-Year Meeting, Dublin, Ireland. 

Ellefson, M.R., Chater, N., & Shapiro, L. (2004, November). Do children's switch costs scale up to more difficult tasks? Poster presented at the 45th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, MN, USA. 

Ellefson, M.R., Chater, N., & Shapiro, L. (2004, April). Do switching costs scale up to mathematics? Poster presented at the 18th Biennial Conference on Human Development, Washington D.C., USA. 

Conway, C.M., Ellefson, M.R., & Christiansen, M.H. (2003, November). Starting small in visual and auditory domains: Differential effects of staged input. Poster presented at the 44th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, BC, Canada. 

Ellefson, M.R., Young, M.E., Christiansen, M.H., & Espy, K.A. (2003, April). The relative benefit of cues for middle school students in a sequential learning task: Educational implications. Poster presented at the 70th biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Tampa, FL, USA. 

Ellefson, M.R., Christiansen, M.H., Young, M.E., & Espy, K.A. (2002, April). The use of parenthetical and spatial cues to facilitate learning in a statistical learning task. Poster presented at the Cornell University Cognitive Studies Symposium: Statistical Learning Across Cognition, Ithaca, NY, USA. 

Young, M.E., Ellefson, M.R., & Wasserman, E.A. (2001, November). Spatial organization and perceived variety. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Orlando, FL, USA. 

Ellefson, M.R., & Young, M.E. (2001, November). Predictive learning of main effects and interactions: A comparison of computational models. Poster presented at the 42nd annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Orlando, FL, USA. 

Narter, D.B., Modglin, A.A., Van Matre, A.J., Ellefson, M.R., Chambers, E., & Molfese, D.L. (1999, May). Event-related potentials to semantic anomalies in twelve-year-old children. Poster presented at Midwest Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, USA. 

Molfese, D.L., Simos, P.G., Narter, D.B., Modglin, A.A., Ellefson, M.R., Van Matre, A.J., & Chambers, E. (1999, April). Developmental changes in event-related potentials to speech and nonspeech stimuli from 3 to 8 years of age. Poster presented at the 68th biennial meeting of the Society of Child Development, Albuquerque, NM, USA. 

Molfese, D.L., Narter, D.B., Ellefson, M.R., Van Matre, A.J., Chambers, E., & Modglin, A.A. (1999, February). Developmental changes in event-related potential peak latencies to speech and nonspeech sounds. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Neurological Society, Boston, MA, USA. 

Narter, D.B., Ellefson, M.R., Van Matre, A.J., Modglin, A.A., & Molfese, D.L. (1998, May). Electrophysiological indices of orthographic and phonological processes in 9- & 10-year-olds. Poster presented at the Midwest Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, USA. 

Molfese, D.L., Narter, D.B., Ellefson, M.R., Van Matre, A.J., & Modglin, A.A. (1998, April). Neuroelectrical processing of pseudowords in children. Poster presented at the Sigma Xi Research Day, Carbondale, IL, USA. 

Narter, D.B., Ellefson, M.R., Van Matre, A.J., & Molfese, D.L. (1998, April). Reading skills in nine- and ten-year -old children: Neurological correlates. Poster presented at the University Women’s Professional Association, Carbondale, IL, USA. 

Ellefson, M.R. (1996, May). Neural correlates of infant memory development: A comparison study of NICU graduates and full-term healthy infants. Poster presented at the 64th annual meeting of the Minnesota Academy of Science, St. Paul, MN, USA. 

Ellefson, M.R. (1996, April). Neural correlates of infant memory development: A comparison study of NICU graduates and full-term healthy infants. Poster presented at the University of Minnesota’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Poster Symposium, Minneapolis, MN, USA.