Gregg Oden

Professor (Ret.) of Computer Science and of Psychology, University of Iowa

Scholarly interests: Computation, meaning, and mind

Teaching interests: Software development; cognitive psychology; artificial intelligence/computational linguistics

Education
B.A. University of South Dakota, 1969
Ph.D. University of California, San Diego, 1974
Academic Positions
University of Wisconsin:
Assistant Professor of Psychology, 1973-1979
Associate Professor of Psychology, 1979-1982
Associate Professor of Psychology and of Computer Sciences, 1982-1985
Professor of Psychology and of Computer Sciences, 1985-1990
University of Iowa:
Professor of Psychology and of Computer Science, 1990-2011
Professor Emeritus of Psychology and of Computer Science, 2011-

Academic career

Phase I [1969-1999]: research focus
Selected publications

Oden, G. C., & Anderson, N. H. (1971). Differential weighting in integration theory. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 89, 152-161.

Oden, G. C., & Anderson, N. H. (1974). Integration of semantic constraints. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 13, 138-148.

Oden, G. C. (1977). Integration of fuzzy logical information. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 4, 565-575.

Oden, G. C. (1977). The generation of continuous semantic constraints from semantic propositions. Proceedings of the fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 120.

Oden, G. C., & Massaro, D. W. (1978). Integration of featural information in speech perception. Psychological Review, 85, 172-191.

Oden, G. C., & Lopes, L. L. (1980). Kin search: Answering questions about relations among relatives. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 6, 479-491.

Oden, G. C. (1983). On the use of semantic constraints in guiding syntactic analysis. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 19, 335-357.

Oden, G. C. (1984). Dependence, independence, and emergence of word features. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 10, 394-405.

Oden, G. C. (1987). Concept, knowledge, and thought. Annual Review of Psychology, 38, 203-227.

Lopes, L. L., & Oden, G. C. (1987). Distinguishing between random and non-random events. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 13, 392-400.

Oden, G. C., Rueckl, J. G., & Sanocki, T. (1991). Making sentences make sense, or words to that effect. In G. B. Simpson (Ed.), Understanding word and sentence. Amsterdam: North-Holland.

Oden, G. C. (1992). Direct, incremental learning of fuzzy propositions. Proceedings of the fourteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 48-53.

Oden, G. C. (1994). Why the difference between connectionism and anything else is more than you might think but less than you might hope. In Honavar, V., & Uhr, L. (Eds.), Artificial intelligence and neural networks: Steps toward principled integration. New York, NY: Academic Press.

Massaro, D. W., & Oden, G. C. (1995). Independence of lexical context and phonological information in speech perception. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 21, 1053-1064.

Oden, G. C., & Lopes, L. L. (1997). Special retrospective review of "Human Information Processing" by P. H. Lindsay and D. A. Norman. American Journal of Psychology, 110, 635-641.

Lopes, L. L., & Oden, G. C. (1999). The role of aspiration level in risky choice: A comparison of Cumulative Prospect Theory and SP/A theory. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 43, 286-313.

Funding

National Science Foundation (Behavioral and Neural Sciences: Human Cognition & Perception/Linguistics Programs), 1977-1986


Phase II [1998-2011]: administration and service focus

Chair, Department of Psychology, 2000-2006

Founding co-editor-in-chief, Cognitive Systems Research, 1999-2011

Chair, Campus Planning Committee, 1998-1999, 2003-2008

Chair, College of Liberal Arts Faculty Assembly, 1998-1999

Co-Chair, UI Flood Mitigation Task Force, 2008-


Phase III [2011- ]: intellectual free agency
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Other interests

The Nature Conservancy

Ruby programming

country road biking

Apple Inc.

cats



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