| Education |
Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
visiting researcher in Psychology |
Sept 2006 - present
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Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
PhD student in Psychology & the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition |
Sept 2004 - present
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Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, CANADA
B.A. with first class honours in Cognitive Science (GPA: 4.10/4.33) |
Sept 2000 - May 2004
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| Teaching |
The Neural Basis of Cognition: A PDP Approach, teaching assistant
Psychology, Stanford University
Lecturer: Jay McClelland |
Winter quarter, 2007
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Research Methods in Cognitive Psychology, teaching assistant
Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
Lecturer: Margaret Peterson |
Fall semester, 2005
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| Publications |
| Dilkina, K., McClelland, J. L., & Boroditsky, L. (in prep). How language affects thought in a connectionist model. |
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| Dilkina, K., McClelland, J. L., & Plaut, D. C. (2008). A single-system account of semantic and lexical deficits in five semantic dementia patients, Cognitive Neuropsychology, 25(2), 136-164. |
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| Dilkina, K. (2004). The effect of figure-ground ambiguity and the availability of cues on the perception of the meaningful aspect of ambiguous stimuli, Journal of Young Investigators, http://www.jyi.org. |
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| Dilkina, K. (2002). Effect of grammatical categories and semantic relatedness on immediate word pairs recall, Canadian Undergraduate Journal of Cognitive Science, http://www.sfu.ca/cognitive-science/journal/. |
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| Conference Presentations |
| Dilkina, K., McClelland, J. L., & Boroditsky, L. (2007). How language affects thought in a connectionist model, paper presentation, Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Nashville, TN, August 1-4. |
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| Dilkina, K., & McClelland, J. L. (2006). A single system account of the relationship between semantic and lexical deficits in semantic dementia, poster presentation, Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Conference, Houston, TX, November 15-16. |
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| Dilkina, K., & McClelland, J. L. (2006). A connectionist account of the pattern of deficits across semantic and lexical tasks in five semantic dementia patients, poster presentation, Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, BC, July 26-29. |
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| Dilkina, K., & McClelland, J. L. (2006). Semantic impairment with and without surface dyslexia: A single system connectionist account, poster presentation, Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, April 8-11. |
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| Dilkina, K., & McClelland, J. L. (2005). Experience dependence and graded organization of semantic representations: A model of association and dissociation of deficits in semantic dementia, poster presentation, Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Stresa, Italy, July 21-24. |
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| Dilkina, K., & Popowich, F. (2004). An algorithm for anaphora resolution in aviation safety reports, paper presentation, Seventeenth Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AI'2004, London, ON, May 17-19. |
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