Research

Mission Statement

Research in the Structure, Concepts, and Perception Laboratory (SCOPE Lab)  focuses on how context and relational cognition impact a wide variety of psychological phenomena such as concept learning, perception, similarity assessment, judgment and decision making, behavioral economics, social categorization, and learning disorders, among others. We use mathematical and computational modeling, eye tracking technology, and behavioral experiments to achieve our research goals.

Ronaldo Vigo, Ph.D., Director

Upcoming Conferences

Midwestern Psychological Association 2025

The Palmer House Chicago, IL

 

Recent Conferences

Midwestern Cognitive Science 2023

Hosted at Ohio University, Athens, OH

 

University of California Irvine Presentation 2018

Ronaldo Vigo - "An Invariance-based Foundation for Cognition"

 

Midwestern Cognitive Science 2017

Miami University, Oxford, OH

  • Talk: Doan, C.A., Vigo, R., Zhao, L. An investigation on the relationship between supervised and unsupervised learning behavior.
  • Talk: Vigo, R., Doan, C.A., Doan, K.M., Zhao, L., & Carlitz, A. Some new perspectives on the integral dimensions concept learning difficulty ordering.

 

Mathematical Psychology 2016 (Brunswick, NJ)

 

Mathematical Psychology 2015 (Irvine CA)

 

Midwestern Psychological Association 2015

  • Talk: Vigo, R. Towards a systematical mathematical science of cognition: some challenges, candidate mathematical laws, and prospects for unification. 

 

Midwestern Cognitive Science 2014 (Wright State University, Dayton OH)

 

Midwestern Cognitive Science 2013 (The Ohio State University, Columbus OH)

 

Behavior 2013 (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England)

 

Acoustical Society of America 2012 (The Hyatt Regency, Kansas City MO)

  • Talk:  Vigo, R., Zhang, Y., & Barcus, K.M. What is a good musical pattern? On acoustic structure and good musical pattern.

 

Mathematical Psychology 2012 (The Ohio State University, Columbus OH)

  • Talk:  Barcus, K.M., Vigo, R., & Zhang, Y. Auditory Goodness of Pattern Judgments.
  • Talk:  Doan, C., Vigo, R, & Zhao, J. On the Structural Equilibrium of Choice Sets.
  • Talk:  Vigo, R., Basawaraj, B., & Gould, M. How Informative are Concept Cues? Predicting Informativeness Judgments.
  • Poster:  Vigo, R., Zeigler, D., & Halsey, P.A. Gaze and Information Processing During Category Learning: Evidence for an Inverse Law.
  • Poster:  Vigo, R., & Basawaraj, B. Structural Manifold Analysis: A New Nonparametric Framework for Continuous and Dichotomous Multivariate Data Analysis

 

Midwestern Cognitive Science 2012 (Indiana University, Bloomington IN)

  • Talk:  Halsey, P.A., Zeigler, D., & Vigo, R. The Ordering Underneath the Ordering: An Investigation of the Learning Rates of Concept Structures.
  • Talk:  Vigo, R., Doan, C., & Zhao, J. The Structure of Choice.
  • Poster:  Zhang, Y., Vigo, R., & Barcus, K.M. Why Bach is Greater Than The Beatles.

 

CogSci 2011 (Boston, MA)

 

Mathematical Psychology 2010 (Portland, OR)