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Invited Talks
Wolff, P. (November, 2009). How absences cause events. Developmental Brown Bag, Yale University, New Haven.
Wolff, P. (June, 2009). Causal composition and the meaning of causal verbs. University of Paris and CNRS, France.
Wolff, P. (June, 2009). Data mining for causal relations. University of Geneva, Switzerland.
Wolff, P. (April, 2009). Absent causes, present effects: How omissions cause events. Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology. One Hundred First Annual Meeting, Savannah, GA.
Wolff, P. (November, 2007). Force dynamics and the semantics of negative causation. Co-hosted by the Stanford Psychology of Language Tea (SPLaT!) and Stanford Linguistic Department’s Semantics Workshop. Stanford University, CA.
Wolff, P. (November, 2007). Constructing causal structure on the fly. Cognitive Science Program, University of California, Merced , CA .
Wolff, P. (October, 2007). Representing causal chains in the mind and in language. Social/cognitive Brownbag series. Department of Psychology, Georgia State, GA.
Wolff, P. (January, 2007). Forces and the perception of causation. Workshop on Causality, Mechanisms, and Psychology. Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh.
Wolff, P. (January, 2007). Representing causation as configurations of force. Psychology research seminar series. Northumberland University, Newcastle, UK.
Wolff, P. (January, 2007). Force dynamics in causal reasoning. Workshop on Forces in Grammatical Structures. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Paris, France.
Wolff, P. (August, 2006). Force dynamics and categories of verbs. Workshop on Structure and Context, The Linguistic Association of Finland. Turku, Finland.
Wolff, P. (March, 2006). Causation as spatial arrangements of force. Symposium on Objects in Motion: How cause is captured in language and thought. 2006 Eastern Psychological Association, Baltimore, MD
Wolff, P. (November, 2005). Inducing causal events from physical and social forces. Symposium on Event Representation. 46th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, Canada.
Wolff, P. (October, 2005). Representing causation. Works in Progress Series, Department of Philosophy, Washington University, St. Louis, MO.
Wolff, P. (November, 2004). Direct causation in the linguistic encoding and
individuation of causal events. Program in Cognitive Science, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA.
Wolff, P. (October, 2004). Causation and configurations of force. Workshop on
Geometrical Structure in Event Concepts. University of Constance, Germany.
Wolff, P. (September, 2004). Causation and the individuation of complex events. Event
representation in mind and language: A research symposium to be held at
University of Oregon Institute for Cognitive and Decision Sciences, University of
Oregon.
Wolff, P. (July, 2004). Causal verbs and reasoning across languages. Symposium:
Language and thought. 26th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society,
Chicago.
Wolff, P. (February, 2004). Causal categories in cognition and language.
Department of Linguistics and Program in Cognitive Science, University of California, Berkeley.
Wolff, P. (February, 2004). Causal categories in cognition and language. Department of
Psychology, Northeastern University.
Wolff, P. (January, 2004). Causal categories in cognition
and language. Department of Psychology, Emory University.
Wolff, P. (December, 2003). Causal
categories in cognition and language. Department of Psychology, Temple University.
Wolff, P. (June 20-21, 2003). Categories
of causation across cultures. Categorization Inside and Outside the
Lab: A Festschrift in Honor of Dr. Douglas Medin. Chicago Botanic Garden,
IL.
Wolff, P. (April, 2003). Physical and psychological causation within a vector semantic
framework. Lehigh University.
Wolff, P. (Feb. 13, 2003). Animation as a tool for
studying cross-linguistic differences in meaning. Max Planck Institute
for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen.
Wolff, P. (Feb. 11, 2003). A force vector approach to causal meaning across
languages. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics,
Nijmegen.
Wolff, P. (Dec. 13, 2002). A force vector model of causal
meaning. Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University.
Wolff, P. (Oct. 31, 2002). Categories of causation and
configurations of force. Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences,
MIT.
Wolff, P. (1999). What language might tell us about the
individuation of complex events. Maryland Linguistics Colloquium,
University of Maryland, College Park
Conference Presentations
Holmes, K. J., Namy, L. L., Wolff, P. (2008). Mechanisms of verbal and non-verbal mediation in object perception. 49 th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Chicago, IL.
Holmes, K. J., Namy, L. L., Wolff, P. (2008). Mechanisms of verbal and non-verbal mediation in object perception. 49 th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Chicago, IL.
Wolff, P., Barbey, A. K., & Vaughan, C. (2007). The semantics of negation in causation. Forty-eighth Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Long Beach, CA.
Barbey, A., K., & Wolff, P. (2007). Learning causal structure from reasoning. Twenty-Ninth Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Nashville, TN.
Wolff, P., Jeon, G. & Yeh, K. (2006). Causal agents and the individuation of events in English, Chinese, and Korean. T he 5th International Conference on Cognitive Science.
Barbey, A., & Wolff, P. (July, 26-29, 2006). Causal Reasoning from Forces. The 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, B.C.
Klettke, B., & Wolff, P. (July, 26-29, 2006). Differences in the Representation of Physical and Social Causation. The 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, B.C.
Wolff, P. (January, 6-9, 2005). Direct causation and configurations of force.
Linguistic Society of America 79th Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA.
Wolff, P. (Nov. 18-21, 2004). Contrasting force dynamic and probabilistic approaches to
causation. Forty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Minneapolis,
Minnesota.
Wolff, P. & Gentner, D. (Nov. 6-9, 2003). Initial symmetry in metaphor processing.
Forty-fourth Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Vancouver, B.C.
Lu, S., Graesser, A. C., & Wolff, P. (Nov. 6-9, 2003). Perceptions and conceptions of
time. Fortieth-fourth Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Vancouver, B.C.
Klettke, B., & Wolff, P. (July 7-12, 2003). How guilty am I? - A new model for the
assignment of blame. APLS/EAPL 2003 Psychology and Law International Interdisciplinary Conference,
Edinburgh, Scotland.
Klettke, B. & Wolff, P. (July 31-August 2, 2003). Differences
in how English and German speakers talk and reason about CAUSE. The 25th
Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston, MA.
Wolff, P., & Wong, D. (Nov. 21-24, 2002). Causation and the
concept of force. 43rd Annual Meeting Of The Psychonomic Society. Kansas
City, KS.
Wolff, P., & Vassilieva, T. (Nov. 1-3, 2002). When
Russians learn English: How the perception of CAUSE may change. Boston
University Conference on Language Development.
Wolff, P., & Song, G. (October 11-14, 2002). Causal events: how perceptual properties
are linked to linguistic expressions. The 6th Conference on Conceptual
Structure, Discourse and Language. Rice University, Houston,
TX.
Wolff, P., & Zettergren, M. (August 8-11, 2002). A vector
model of causal
meaning. The 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive
Science Society,
Washington, DC.
Wolff, P. (June 3-5, 2002).
Object localization under uni- and multi-tasking conditions. Mississippi
Consortium for Military Personnel Research, Memphis, TN.
Wolff, P., & Vassilieva, T., Burgos, F. (May 2 – 4, 2002). Language and mental
rotation in the localization of objects. 2002 Annual Meeting of the
Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
Wolff, P., & Vassilieva, T., Zettergren, M. (May 2 – 4, 2002). Conceptions of CAUSE in
English and Russian mono- and bilinguals. 2002 Annual Meeting of the
Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
Wolff, P., & Klettke, B. (January 3-6, 2002). English and German speakers and the
perception of cause. 2002 Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of
America, San Francisco, CA.
Wolff, P., & Song, G. (November
15-18, 2001). Models of causation and the semantics of causal verbs. The
42th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Orlando, FL.
Wolff,
P. (July 22-27, 2001). Event individuation and the linguistic coding of
causal chains. 7th International Cognitive Linguistics
Conference.
Wolff, P., Song, G., & Driscoll, D. (April 19,
2001). Models of causation and their relationship to causal verbs. Chicago
Linguistics Society, Chicago, IL.
Wolff, P. & Gentner, D.
(1997). Metaphor comprehension as a process of
alignment. The 37th
Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society,
Philadelphia,
PA.
Wolff, P. (1997). What children know about causal verbs.
Society for Research in Child Development, Biennial meeting, Washington,
DC.
Wolff, P. (1996). Developmental change in the lexicalization of
causal events. The 21st Annual Boston University Conference on Language
Development, Boston, MA.
Wolff, P., & Gentner, D. (1996). What
language might tell us about the
perception of cause. The 17th Annual
Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, San Diego,
CA.
Gentner, D., & Wolff, P. (1993). Metaphor comprehension by
comparison. The 33rd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago,
IL.
Wolff, P., & Gentner, D. (1992). The time course of
metaphor comprehension. The 14th Annual Conference of the Cognitive
Science Society, Bloomington, IN.
Wolff, P. M., Zola, D., & McConkie, G. W. (1990). Frequency of refixating words during reading: A
developmental study. Sixty-second Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological
Association, Chicago, IL.
Zola, D., Grimes, J., & Wolff, P.
(1989). Children's word perception: Multiple fixations on a word.
Symposium on the processing of information during fixations in reading:
Eye movement, electrophysiological, and developmental perspectives.
Sixty-first Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago,
IL.
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