Wolf Vanpaemel

Contact information

Wolf Vanpaemel
Tiensestraat 102
3000 Leuven


Phone: (+32) 16 326256
Fax: (+32) 16 325993

 

Research interests

• Bayesian statistics
• Psychometrics
• Cognitive modelling
• Cognitive psychometrics

Publications

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International journal articles

• De Deyne, S., Verheyen, S., Ameel, E., Vanpaemel, W., Dry, M., Voorspoels, W., & Storms, G. (2008). Exemplar by feature applicability matrices and other Dutch normative data for semantic concepts. Behavior Research Methods, 40, 1030-1048. doi:10.3758/BRM.40.4.1030
• Lee, M., & Vanpaemel, W. (2008). Exemplars, prototypes, similarities and rules in category representation: An example of hierarchical Bayesian analysis. Cognitive Science, 32, 1403-1424. doi:10.1080/03640210802073697
• Ruts, W., De Deyne, S., Ameel, E., Vanpaemel, W., Verbeemen, T., & Storms, G. (2004). Dutch norm data for 13 semantic categories and 338 exemplars. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 36, 506-515.
• Vanpaemel, W. (2009). BayesGCM: Software for Bayesian inference with the generalized context model. Behavior Research Methods, 41, 1111-1120. doi:10.3758/BRM.41.4.1111
• Vanpaemel, W. (2010). Prior sensitivity in theory testing: An apologia for the Bayes factor. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 54, 491-498. doi:10.1016/j.jmp.2010.07.00
• Vanpaemel, W. (2011). Constructing informative model priors using hierarchical methods. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 55, 106-117. doi:10.1016/j.jmp.2010.08.00
• Vanpaemel, W., & Storms, G. (2008). In search of abstraction: The varying abstraction model of categorization. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15, 732-749. doi:10.3758/PBR.15.4.732
• Vanpaemel, W., & Storms, G. (2010). Abstraction and model evaluation in category learning. Behavior Research Methods, 42, 421-437. doi:10.3758/BRM.42.2.421
• Vanpaemel, W., Verbeemen, T., Dry, M., Verguts, T., & Storms, G. (2010). Geometric and featural representations in semantic concepts. Memory & Cognition, 38, 962-968. doi:10.3758/MC.38.7.962
• Verbeemen, T., Vanpaemel, W., Pattyn, S., Storms, G., & Verguts, T. (2007). Beyond exemplars and prototypes as memory representations of natural concepts: A clustering approach. Journal of Memory and Language, 56, 537-554. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2006.09.006
• Voorspoels, W., Vanpaemel, W., & Storms, G. (2008). Exemplars and prototypes in natural language concepts: A typicality-based evaluation. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15, 630-637. doi:10.3758/PBR.15.3.630
• Voorspoels, W., Vanpaemel, W., & Storms, G. (in press). A formal ideal-based account of typicality. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

Chapters in books

• Vanpaemel, W. (2009). Measuring model complexity with the prior predictive. In Y. Bengio, D. Schuurmans, J. Lafferty, C. K. I. Williams, & A. Culotta (Eds.), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22 (pp. 1919-1927). Red Hook, NY: Curran Associates Inc.
• Vanpaemel, W., & Lee, M. (2007). A model of building representations for category learning. In D. McNamara & J. Trafton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1605-1610). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
• Vanpaemel, W., & Navarro, D. (2007). Representational shifts during category learning. In D. McNamara & J. Trafton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1599-1604). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
• Vanpaemel, W., Pattyn, S., & Storms, G. (2006). Yet another look at thirty categorization results. In R. Sun & N. Miyake (Eds.), Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2299-2304). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
• Vanpaemel, W., Storms, G., & Ons, B. (2005). A varying abstraction model for categorization. In B. Bara, L. Barsalou, & M. Bucciarelli (Eds.), Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2277-2282). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
• Voorspoels, W., Vanpaemel, W., & Storms, G. (2008). Modeling typicality: Extending the prototype view. In B. Love, K. McRae, & V. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 757-762). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
• Voorspoels, W., Vanpaemel, W., & Storms, G. (2009). The role of extensional information in conceptual combination. In N. Taatgen & H. Van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2432-2437). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
• Voorspoels, W., Vanpaemel, W., & Storms, G. (2010). Ideal representations in a similarity space. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2290-2295). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

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