Birthdate: April 2, 1952
Birthplace: Milwaukee, Wisconsin

 Current address:
 

Department of Psychology University of Hawaii 2430 Campus Road Honolulu, HI 96822 (808) 956-6727 (808) 956-8414 roitblat@hawaii.edu

Education

Teaching and Research Positions

Awards and Honors

Membership in Professional Societies

 International Neural Network Society

 International Society for Adaptive Behavior
    Founding Treasurer
    President

 Society for the Biology of Marine Mammals

 Psychonomic Society
 
 

Grant Support

 Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation: Grant in support of Animal Cognition Conference ($29,811). Conference held June 2-4, 1982
 NSF: Working memory coding. (1982-1985, $80,000)
 NIMH: Acquisition and representation of stimulus sequences (1982-1985, $58,000)
 NSF: The representation of serially structured stimuli (1985-1988, $100,000)
 VA: Cognitive dysfunction in post traumatic stress disorder patients (1987-1990, $156,000) (co-investigator)
 ONR: Dolphin cognition: Memory for serially structured events (1988, $9,500, 1989 $18,000)
 ONR: Animal Language Workshop (1989, $58,500)
 NSF: Sensory Abilities of Cetaceans, Travel Grant (1989, $10,000)
 ONR: Simulation of Adaptive Behavior Conference, 1992 (1992, $12,500)
 DARPA: Simulation of Adaptive Behavior Conference, 1992 (1992, $10,000)
 AFOSR: Simulation of Adaptive Behavior Conference, 1992 (1992, $20,000)
 NIMH HCOP Psychology (1995 1997, $99,000, 1997-2000, $99,000)
 

Community Service

Administrative Experience

 Department Budget and Equipment Committee (UH), Chair (1985-1989, 1992-1994).

 Graduate Studies Chair, Department of Psychology, (1989-1990).

 Department Personnel Committee

 Acting Department Chair

 Ad Hoc Member, Basic Behavioral Processes Initial Review Group, NIMH.

 National Science Foundation/National Research Council Graduate Fellowship Panel, 1990-1992.
 
 

Editorial Experience

 Editor:
Animal Cognition (1984)
Comparative Cognition and Neuroscience Book series for
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior
Processes (Consulting Editor)
Adaptive Behavior (Associate Editor)
Language and communication: Comparative perspectives (1993)
Comparative approaches to cognitive science (1993)
From Animals to Animats 2: Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (1993)

Books

 Roitblat, H.L., Bever, T.G., & Terrace, H.S. (Eds., 1984) Animal Cognition. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

 Roitblat, H.L. (1987) Introduction to Comparative Cognition. New York: Freeman.

 Meyer, J.-A., Roitblat, H. L. & Wilson, S. W. (Eds., 1993) From Animals to Animats 2: Simulation of Adaptive Behavior. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

 Roitblat, H. L., Herman, L. M., & Nachtigall, P. E. (Eds., 1993) Language and communication: Comparative perspectives, Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

 Roitblat, H. L. & Meyer, J.-A. (Eds., 1995) Comparative approaches to cognitive science. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Publications

 Riley, D.A. & Roitblat, H.L. (1978) Selective attention and related cognitive processes in pigeons. In S.H. Hulse, H. Fowler, & W.K. Honig (Eds.) Cognitive Processes in Animal Behavior. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

 Roitblat, H.L. (1980) Codes and coding processes in pigeon short-term memory. Animal Learning and Behavior, 8, 341-351.

 Roitblat, H.L. (1981) Gallistel's metatheory of action. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 4, 637-638.

 Roitblat, H.L., Tham, W., & Golub, L. (1982) Performance of Betta splendens in a radial maze. Animal Learning and Behavior, 10, 108-114.

 Roitblat, H.L. (1982) The meaning of representation in animal memory. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 5, 353-406. Translated in T. Anguera & J.V. Vea (Eds.) Conducta animal y representaciones mentales. Barcelona: Promociones Publicaciones Universitarias.

 Roitblat, H.L. (1982) Decision making, evolution, and cognition. In H.D. Schmidt & G. Tembrock (Eds.), Evolution and the determination of animal and human behavior. Berlin, VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften.

 Roitblat, H.L. & Scopatz, R.A. (1983) Sequential effects in delayed matching-to-sample. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 9, 202-221.

Roitblat, H.L. (1983) Intentions and adaptations. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 6, 375.

 Roitblat, H.L. (1983) Does language training affect the code used by chimpanzees? Some cautions and reservations. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 6, 155-156.

 Roitblat, H.L., Pologe, B. & Scopatz, R.A. (1983) The representation of items in serial position. Animal Learning and Behavior, 11, 489-498.

 Roitblat, H.L. (1984) Representations in pigeon working memory in H.L. Roitblat, T.G. Bever, & H.S. Terrace (Eds.) Animal Cognition. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

 Roitblat, H.L. (1984) Pigeon working memory: Models for delayed matching-to-sample performance. In M.L. Commons, A.R. Wagner, & R.J. Herrnstein (Eds.) Quantitative analyses of behavior: Discrimination Processes (Vol. 4). Cambridge, MA: Ballinger, pp. 161-181.

 Davis, H. & Roitblat, H.L. (1984) Cholinergic pharmacology and age related memory decline. In N. Butters & L.R. Squire (Eds.) Neuropsychology of memory. New York: Guilford Press. pp. 601-607.

 Kamil, A.C. & Roitblat, H.L. (1985) Foraging theory: Implications for animal learning and cognition. Annual Review of Psychology, 36, 141-169.

 Roitblat, H.L. & Weisman, R.G. (1986) Tactics for comparative cognition. In M. Rilling, D. Kendrick, & M.R. Denny (Eds.) Theories of animal memory. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 3-15.

 Roitblat, H.L. (1986) On the circulation as cognition. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 9, 302.

 Roitblat, H. L., Scopatz, R. A. & Bever, T. G. (1987) The hierarchical representation of three-item sequences. Animal Learning and Behavior, 15, 179-192.

 Roitblat, H. L. & Harley, H. E. (1988) Rat spatial delayed matching-to-sample performance: Acquisition and retention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 14, 71-82.

Roitblat, H. L. (1988) Reflections on cognition. Behaviorism, 16, 83-87.

 Roitblat, H. L. (1988) A cognitive action theory of learning. In J. Delacour & J. C. S. Levy (Eds.) Systems with learning and memory abilities. Amsterdam: North Holland. pp. 13-26.

 Chemtob, C., Roitblat, H. L., Hamada, R., Carlson, J., & Twentyman, C. T. (1988) A cognitive action theory of post-traumatic stress disorder. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 2, 253-275.

Roitblat, H. L. (1988). How to build a mind. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 11, 525-526.

 Roitblat, H. L. (1988) Metacomparative psychology. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 11, in press.

 Roitblat, H. L. & Herman, L. M. (1988) Animal Thinking: The development and status of research and theory on animal cognition. In D. Topping, D. Crowell, & V. Kobayashi (Eds.) Proceedings of the Third International Conference On Thinking. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, pp. 269-290.

 Roitblat, H. L., Moore, P. W. B., Nachtigall, P. E., Penner, R. H., & Au, W. W. (1989). Dolphin echolocation: Identification of returning echoes. R. Hecht-Nielsen (Program Chair). Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks--89. pp. 295-300. Washington, DC: Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.

 Roitblat, H. L., Harley, H. E., & Helweg, D. A. (1989). The effects of scopolamine on proactive interference and spatial delayed matching-to-sample performance by rats. Psychobiology, 17, 402-408.

 Roitblat, H. L. (1989) Review of Comparative primate biology: Behavior, cognition, and motivation. Quarterly Review of Biology, 64, 369.

 Roitblat, H. L., Moore, P. W. B., Nachtigall, P. E., Penner, R. H., & Au, W. W. L. (1989). Natural echolocation with an artificial neural network. The International Journal of Neural Networks: Research and Application, 1, 239-248.

 Roitblat, H. L., Penner, R. H., & Nachtigall, P. E. (1990) Matching-to-sample by an echolocating dolphin. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 16, 85-95.

 Roitblat, H. L. & Young, K. N. J. (1990) A comparative analysis of time and order. in R. A. Block (Ed.), Cognitive models of Psychological Time, pp. 119-152. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

 Roitblat, H. L. (1990). Causation, intentionality, and cognitive action theory. Psychological Inquiry 1, 263-265.

Roitblat, H. L., Penner, R. H., & Nachtigall, P. E. (1990). Attention and decision making in echolocation matching-to-sample by a bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus): the microstructure of decision making. In J. Thomas & R. Kastelein (Eds.) Sensory abilities of Cetaceans. pp. 665-676 New York: Plenum Press.

 Roitblat, H. L. (1990). Concluding comments on other sensory abilities. In J. Thomas & R. Kastelein (Eds.) Sensory abilities of Cetaceans. pp. 699-702. New York: Plenum Press.

 Roitblat, H. L., Bever, T. G., Harley, H. E., & Helweg, D. A. (1991) Online choice and the representation of serially structured stimuli. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 17, 55-67.

 Pack, A., Herman, L. M. & Roitblat, H. L. (1991) Generalization of visual matching and delayed matching by a California Sea lion (Zalophus californianus). Animal Learning and Behavior, 19, 37-48.

 Roitblat, H. L., Moore, P. W. B., Nachtigall, P. E., & Penner, R. H., (1991). Biomimetic Sonar Processing: From Dolphin Echolocation to Artificial Neural Networks. In J. A. Meyer & S. Wilson (Eds.) Simulation of Adaptive Behavior. pp. 66-76. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

 Roitblat, H. L. (1991). Cognitive Action Theory as a control architecture. In J. A. Meyer & S. Wilson (Eds.) Simulation of Adaptive Behavior. pp. 444-450. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

 Helweg, D. A. & Roitblat, H. L. (1991). Optimality and constraint. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 14, 222-223..

 Roitblat, H. L., Moore, P. W. B., Nachtigall, P. E. & Penner, R. H., (1991). Natural Dolphin Echo Recognition Using an Integrator Gateway Network. In D. S. Touretsky, & R. Lippman (Eds.), Advances in neural information processing systems 3. (pp. 273-281). San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann.

 Moore, P. W. B., Roitblat, H. L., Penner, R. H., & Nachtigall, P. E. (1991). Recognizing successive dolphin echoes with an integrator gateway network. Neural Networks, 4, 701-709.

Roitblat, H. L. & von Fersen, L. (1992) Comparative cognition: Representations and processes in learning and memory. Annual Review of Psychology, 43, 671-710.

 Roitblat, H. L. (1992). Representations and processes in animal learning and memory. L. R. Squire (Ed.), Encyclopedia of learning and memory (pp. 111-116). New York: Macmillan.

 Adams-Pepper, S., Gagnon, S. Fore, S. & Roitblat, H. L. (1992) Rats remember not wisely but too well. Animal Learning and Behavior, 20, 363-372.

von Fersen, L., Manos, C. S., Goldowsky, B., & Roitblat, H. L. (1992) Dolphin detection and conceptualization of symmetry. In J. Thomas, R. Kastelein, & A. Supin (Eds), Sensory systems of aquatic mammals. New York: Plenum Press.

 Roitblat, H. L. (1992) Animal timing and scalar timing theory. Encyclopedia of time. In press.

 Roitblat, H. L. (1992) Adaptive Networks: Neural and Computational Bases of Learning and Memory: Review of M. Gabriel & J. Moore (Eds.), Learning and computational neuroscience: Foundations of adaptive networks. Contemporary Psychology, .

 Roitblat, H. L. (1993) Representations and processes in working memory. In T. Zentall (Ed.), Animal cognition: A tribute to Donald A. Riley (pp. 175-192). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Roitblat, H. L., Moore, P. W. B., Helweg, D. A., & Nachitgall, P. E. (1993) Representation and processing of acoustic information in a biomimetic neural network. In J.-A. Meyer, S. W. Wilson, & H. L. Roitblat (Eds.) From Animals to Animats 2: Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (pp. 90-99). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press

 Roitblat, H. L., Harley, H. E., & Helweg, D. A. (1993) Cognitive processing in artificial language research. In H. L. Roitblat, L. M. Herman, & P. E. Nachtigall (Eds.) Language and communication: Comparative perspectives (pp. 1-24). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

 O'Connor, K. N., Roitblat, H. L., & Bever, T. G. (1993) Auditory sequence complexity and hemispheric asymmetry of function in rats. In H. L. Roitblat, L. M. Herman, & P. E. Nachtigall (Eds.) Language and communication: Comparative perspectives (pp. 275-292). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

 Roitblat, H. L. (1993) Computational grounding. Think, 2 (June), 63-66

 Roitblat, H. L. (1994) The artificial life is worth examining: A review of Toward a practice of autonomous systems: Proceedings of the first European conference on artificial life. Philosophical Psychology, 7, 139-143.

 Chemtob, C. M., Hamada, R. S., Muraoka, M. Y., & Roitblat, H. L. (1994) Anger, impulsivity, and anger control in combat-related PTSD. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Pschology, 62, 827-832.

 Helweg, D. A., Roitblat, H. L., & Nachtigall, P. E. (1994) Using a biomimetic neural network to model dolphin echolocation. In: N. K. Kasabov (Ed.), Artificial neural networks and expert systems (pp. 247-251). Washington, DC: IEEE Press.

Takahashi, S. & Roitblat, H. L. (1994) Comprehension process of second language indirect requests. Journal of Applied Psycholinguistics, 15, 475-506.

 Au, W. W. L., Andersen, L. N., Rasmussen, A. R., Roitblat, H. L., & Nachtigall, P. E. (1995) Neural network modeling of a dolphin’s sonar discrimination capabilities.  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 98, 43-50.

Roitblat, H. L., Helweg, D. A., & Harley, H. E. (1995) Echolocation and imagery.  In R. Kastelein, J. Thomas, & P. Nachtigall (Eds.) Sensory systems of aquatic mammals.  (171-181). Woerden, The Netherlands: De Spil.

Harley, H. E., Xitco, M., & Roitblat, H. L. (1995) Echolocation cognition, and the dolphin’s world. In R. Kastelein, J. Thomas, & P. Nachtigall (Eds.) Sensory systems of aquatic mammals.  (pp. 515-528).  Woerden, The Netherlands: De Spil.

Helweg, D. A., Roitblat, H. L., Nachtigall, P. E., Au, W. W. L., & Irwin, R. J. (1995) Discrimination of echoes from aspect -dependent targets by a bottlenose dolphin and human listeners. In R. Kastelein, J. Thomas, & P. Nachtigall (Eds.) Sensory systems of aquatic mammals.  (129-136). Woerden, The Netherlands: De Spil.

Roitblat, H. L. & Meyer, J.-A. (1995) Introduction. In H. L. Roitblat, & J.-A. Meyer (Eds.), Comparative Approaches to Cognitive Science.  (pp. 1-9).Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Roitblat, H. L. (1995) Comparative Approaches to Cognitive Science. In H. L. Roitblat, & J.-A. Meyer (Eds.), Comparative Approaches to Cognitive Science.  (pp. 13-26). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Roitblat, H. L., Au, W. W. L., Nachtigall, P. E., Shizumura, R. & Moons, G. (1995) Sonar recognition of targets embedded in sediment. Neural Networks, 8, 1263-1273.

Helweg, D. A., Roitblat, H. L., Nachtigall, P. E., & Hautus, M. J. (1996) Recognition of aspect-dependent three-dimensional objects by an echolocating Atlantic bottlenose dolphin.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 22, 19-31.

Helweg, D. A., Au, W. W. L., Roitblat, H. L., & Nachtigall, P. E. (1996) Acoustic basis for recognition of aspect-dependent targets by an echolocating Atlantic bottlenosed dolphin.  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 99, 2409-2420.

Harley, H. E., Roitblat, H. L., & Nachtigall, P. E. (1996) Object representation in the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus): Integration of visual and echoic information.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 22, 164-174.

Xitco, M. J. Jr. & Roitblat, H. L.  (1996) Passive listening and echolocation in bottlenose dolphins. Animal Learning and Behavior, 24, 355-365.

Chemtob, C. M.., Roitblat, H. L., Hamada, R. M., Carlson, J. G., & Muraoka, M. (1997)  The Honolulu Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Stimulus Set.  In Press. Journal of Traumatic Stress

Roitblat, H. L. (1997) The structure of events.  In S. Fountain (Ed.) Time and serial order.  In press.

Murray, S. O., Mercado, E., & Roitblat, H. L. (1998) Characterizing the graded structure of false killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens) vocalizations. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 104, 1679-1688.

Murray, S. O., Mercado, E., & Roitblat, H. L. (1998) The neural network classification of false killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens) vocalizations. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 104, 3626-3634.

Chemtob, C. M.., Roitblat, H. L.,  & Bauer, G. (1999) Compelled Attention: The Effects of Viewing Trauma-Related Stimuli on Concurrent Task Performance in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Journal of traumatic stress, 12, 309-326.
 
 

Published Abstracts

 Roitblat, H. L. (1988). Cognitive action theory: An action-based paradigm for connectionism. Proceedings of the International Neural Network Society, Boston, 1988, p. 239.

 Recent Papers

 Roitblat, H. L., Moore, P. W. B., Nachtigall, P. E., Penner, R. H., & Au, W. W. (1989). Dolphin echolocation: Identification of returning echoes. Washington, DC: International Joint Conference on Neural Networks--89. June, 1989.

 Roitblat, H. L., Penner, R. H., & Nachtigall, P. E. (1989) Attention and decision making in echolocation matching-to-sample by a bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus): The microstructure of decision making. Rome: NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Sensory Abilities of Cetaceans. August, 1989.

 Roitblat, H. L., Penner, R. A., & Nachtigall, P. E. (1989) Echolocation matching-to-sample by a bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus): The microstructure of decision making. Atlanta, GA: November, 1989.

 Roitblat, H. L., Moore, P. W. B., Penner, R. H., & Nachtigall, P. E. (1989). Clicks, echoes, and decisions: The use of information by a bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). Eighth Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals. Monterey, CA: December, 1989.

 Roitblat, H. L. (1990). Getting and using information: Recognition memory and echolocation in the bottlenose dolphin. Paul Ellen Memorial Lecture, Atlanta, GA: February, 1990.

 Gagnon, S., Adams-Pepper, S., Fore, S., & Roitblat, H. L. (1990). Les Erreurs dan la version spatiale de l'appariement differe de l'echantillon chez le rat: defaillance au niveau de l'encodage. Association Canadienne Francaise pou l'Augucerment de la Science, Quebec: May, 1990.

 Roitblat, H. L. (1990). Biomimetic cognition: perceptual and action mechanisms. IEPENS Workshop, Paris: September, 1990.

 Roitblat, H. L., Moore, P. W. B., Nachtigall, & P. E. Penner, R. H., (1990). Biomimetic Sonar Processing: From Dolphin Echolocation to Artificial Neural Networks. Simulation of adaptive behavior, Paris, September, 1990.

Roitblat, H. L. Cognitive Action Theory as a control architecture. Simulation of adaptive behavior, Paris, September, 1990.

Roitblat, H. L. Processes of dolphin echolocation. Sensor and Navigation Issues for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles. MIT Sea Grant Marine Industry Collegium. Cambridge, MA, January, 1991.

 von Fersen, L., Roitblat, H. L., Goldowsky, B., & Manos, C. Perceptual symmetry recognition by dolphins. Sensory abilities of acquatic mammals. Moscow, USSR, October, 1991.

 Roitblat, H. L. Moore, P. W. B., Helweg, D. A., & Nachtigall, P. E. Material matching by a bottlenosed dolphin. Psychonomic Society, San Francisco, November, 1991.

 Roitblat, H. L., Helweg, D. A., Moore, P. W. B., & Nachtigall, P. E. (1991) Discrimination of Target Composition by an Echolocating Bottlenosed Dolphin. Society for the biology of marine mammals, Chicago, December, 1991.

 Roitblat, H. L. (1992) Comparative approach as a tool in cognitive science. Comparative approaches to cognitive science, Aix-en-Provence, France, July, 1992.

 Roitblat, H. L. (1992) Computational Models of Representation and Recognition. International Congress of Psychology, Brussels, July, 1992.

 Roitblat, H. L. & Henning, M. J. (1992). Connectionist investigations in language. International Congress of Psychology, Brussels, July, 1992.

 Roitblat, H. L. Moore, P. W. B., Helweg, D. A., & Nachtigall, P. E. (1992) Psimulated Psychophysics and Dolphin Echolocation Recognition. Psychonomic Society, St. Louis.

 Roitblat, H. L., Moore, P. W. B., Helweg, D. A., & Nachitgall, P. E. (December, 1992) Representation and Processing of Acoustic Information in a Biomimetic Neural Network. From Animals to Animats 2: Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, Honolulu, HI.

 Roitblat, H. L. (1993) What animals think. The mental lives of animals, Atlanta, GA (April 29-May 1, 1993).

 Takahashi, S. & Roitblat, H. L. (July, 1993). Exploring the comprehension process of L2 indirect requests: The issue of literal versys nonliteral interpretation. 4th International Pragmatics Conference, Kobe, Japan.

 Harley, H., Roitblat, H. L. & Nachtigall, P. E. (November, 1993) Object representation in the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). Tenth Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, Galveston, Texas.

 Helweg, D. H., Roitblat, H. L., & Nachtigall, P. E. (November, 1993) Object constancy in dolphin echolocation. Tenth Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, Galveston, Texas.

Roitblat, H. L., Helweg, D. A., & Harley, H. E. (May, 1994) Echolocation and imagery.  Sensory systems of aquatic mammals.  Hardewijk, The Netherlands.

Harley, H. E., Xitco, M., & Roitblat, H. L. (May, 1994) Echolocation cognition, and the dolphin’s world. Sensory systems of aquatic mammals.  Hardewijk, The Netherlands.

Helweg, D. A., Roitblat, H. L., Nachtigall, P. E., Au, W. W. L., & Irwin, R. J. (May, 1994) Discrimination of echoes from aspect -dependent targets by a bottlenose dolphin and human listeners.  Sensory systems of aquatic mammals.  Hardewijk, The Netherlands.

Roitblat, H. L., Au, W. W. L., Nachtigall, P. E., Shizumura, R. & Moons, G. (1994) Sonar recognition of targets embedded in sediment. Monterey, CA.

Roitblat, H. L. (August, 1994) Mechanism and process in animal behavior:  Models of animals, animals as models.  From Animals to Animats:  Simulation of Adaptive Behavior 3.  Brighton, England.

Roitblat, H. L., Wilson, C., Yamamoto, S., Valdez, S. (1995, November) Implicit vs Explicit Learning of a Phrase-Structure Artificial Grammar.  Los Angeles, Psychonomic Society.

Roitblat, H. L. & Jackson, T. (1995, December) Critical thinking for scientific communication.  Orlando, FL, Marine Mammal Society.

Warschauer, M., Wilson, C., Yamamato, S. & Roitblat, H. (1996, March). Explicit vs. implicit learning of an artificial phrase-structure grammar. Paper presented at the nnual meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Chicago, Illinois (invited).

Roitblat, H. L. (1996, April) The structure of events.  Kent Forum.  Millersberg, OH.

Roitblat, H. L. (1996, August) Why should anyone be interested in comparative psychology?  American Psychological Association.  Toronto, Ont.

Roitblat, H. L. (1997, May) The mind: A view from the foundation.  Invited Address at Franklin and Marshall Symposium on Contrasting Approaches to Mind. Lancaster, PA.