Peer-reviewed

  • Laurent, P. A. (2008). The emergence of saliency and novelty responses from reinforcement learning principles. Neural Networks. (doi:10.1016/j.neunet.2008.09.004)

  • Reichle, E. D., Vanyukov, P.M., Laurent, P.A., & Warren, T. (2008). Serial or parallel? Using depth-of-processing to examine attention allocation during reading. Vision Research, 48: 1831-1836. (doi:10.1016/j.visres.2008.05.007)

  • Reichle, E. D., Laurent, P. A. (2006). Using Reinforcement Learning to understand the emergence of "intelligent" eye-movement behavior during reading. Psychological Review, 113: 390-408. (doi:10.1037/0033-295X.113.2.390)

  • Mitman, K. E., Laurent, P. A., & Levy, W. B (2003). Defining time in a minimal hippocampal CA3 Model by matching time-span of associative synaptic modification and input pattern duration. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN).

Talks / Oral Presentations

  • Laurent, P. A. & Reichle, E. D. (2007). Serial or parallel? Using Reinforcement Learning to examine attention allocation during reading. Symposium on Computational Models of Eye-Movement Control, 14th European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM14), Potsdam, Germany.

  • Laurent, P. A. & Reichle, E. D. (2006). Using Reinforcement Learning to understand eye-movement control during reading. Invited Colloquium, Institute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland.

  • Reichle, E. D. & Laurent, P. A. (2006). Using Reinforcement Learning to understand eye-movement behavior during reading. Invited Colloquium, ECRP Workshop: Eye Movements in Reading: Computational Models & Corpus Analyses, University of Potsdam, Germany.

  • Laurent, P. A. & Reichle, E. D. (2005). The emergence of 'intelligent' eye-movement control in reading: A Reinforcement Learning Model. Invited Colloquium at Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh.

  • Reichle, E. D. & Laurent, P. A. (2005). Using Reinforcement Learning to understand the emergence of 'intelligent' eye-movement behavior during reading. 13th European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM13), Berne, Switzerland.

Posters and Abstracts
  • Laurent, P. A., Reichle, E.D., & Fiez, J.A. (2008, November). Does parallel anatomy translate to parallel computation in the basal ganglia? Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (Washington DC) 680.9.

  • Warren, T., Patson. N. D., Laurent, P. A., & Reichle, E. D. (2008, November). Revisting length and predictability effects on eye movements in reading. Poster presented at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (Chicago, IL).

  • Cole, M. W., Laurent, P. A. (2008, November). Neurevolution: an example of blogging to enhance scientific communication. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (Washington DC) 227.6.

  • Laurent, P. A. (2007). Using reinforcement learning to interpret the non-reward phasic dopamine response. Abstracts of the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (San Diego, CA) 530.10.

  • Vanyukov, P. M., Reichle, E.D., Laurent, P.A., Morales, F.J., & Warren, T. (2007). Serial or parallel? Using depth of processing to examine attention allocation during reading. European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM 14), Potsdam, Germany.

  • Laurent, P. A. & Reichle, E. D. (2006). Using Reinforcement-Learning Agents to Examine the Allocation of Attention During Reading. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP 2006), Nijmegen, Holland.

  • Phillips, J. P., Laurent, P. A., Guediche, S. A., Bolger, D. J., Qin, L., Perfetti, C. A., & Fiez, J. A. (2004). Reliable word identification may modulate the response to visually presented words in the left fusiform gyrus. Abstracts of the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (San Diego, CA) 80.11.

  • Reichle, E. D. & Laurent, P. A. (2004). The emergence of "intelligent" eye-movement control during reading: a computational account. Architectures and Models of Language Processing (AMLaP 2004), Aix-en-Provence, France.