Publications:

Rice, P., & Stocco, A. (2019). The role of dorsal premotor cortex in resolving abstract motor rules: Converging evidence from Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and cognitive modeling. Topics in Cognitive Science.
Stocco, A., Rice, P., Thomson, R., Smith, B. M., Morrison, D., & Lebiere, C. (2023). An Integrated Computational Framework for the Neurobiology of Memory Based on the ACT-R Declarative Memory System. Computational Brain and Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42113-023-00189-y
Xu, Y., Stocco, A. Recovering Reliable Idiographic Biological Parameters from Noisy Behavioral Data: the Case of Basal Ganglia Indices in the Probabilistic Selection Task. Comput Brain Behav (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42113-021-00102-5
Yang, Y. C., Karmol, A. M., & Stocco, A. (2021). Core Cognitive Mechanisms Underlying Syntactic Priming: A Comparison of Three Alternative Models. Frontiers in psychology, 12, 2293.
Smith, B.M., Thomasson, M., Yang, Y.C., Sibert, C., Stocco, A. (2021) When Fear Shrinks the Brain: A Computational Model of the Effects of Posttraumatic Stress on Hippocampal Volume. Topics in Cognitive Science, 13(3), 499–514
Stocco, A., Prat, C. S. Graham, L. K., & (2021). Individual differences in reward learning processes predict fluid reasoning abilities. Cognitive Science, 45(2), e12941.
Ceballos, J. M., Stocco, A., & Prat, C. S. (2020). The role of basal ganglia reinforcement learning in lexical ambiguity resolution. Topics in Cognitive Science, 12(1), 402–416.
Stocco, A. (2018). A Biologically Plausible Action Selection System for Cognitive Architectures: Implications of Basal Ganglia Anatomy for Learning and Decision‐Making Models. Cognitive science, 42(2), 457-490.
Stocco, A. Murray, N. L., Yamasaki, B. L., Renno, T., Nguyen, J., & Prat, C. S. (2017). Individual differences in the Simon effect are underpinned by differences in the competitive dynamics in the basal ganglia: An experimental verification and a computational model. Cognition, 164, 31-45.
Stocco, A., Lebiere, C., O'Reilly, R. C., & Anderson, J. R. (2012). Distinct contributions of the caudate nucleus, rostral prefrontal cortex, and parietal cortex to the execution of instructed tasks. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 12, 611-628.
Stocco, A., Lebiere, C., & Anderson, J. R. (2010). Conditional routing of information to the cortex: A model of the basal ganglia’s role in cognitive coordination. Psychological Review, 117(2), 540-574.
Stocco, A., Lebiere, C., O'Reilly, R. C., & Anderson, J. R. (2010). The role of the anterior prefrontal-basal ganglia circuit as a biological instruction interpreter. In A. V. Samsonovich, K. R. Jóhannsdóttir, A. Chella, & B. Goertzel (Eds.) Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures 2010. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, (pp. 153-162). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: IOS Press.
Borst, J., Taatgen, N. A., van Rijn, H., & Stocco, A. (2010). Testing fMRI predictions of a Cognitive Model of the Problem State Multitasking Bottleneck. Poster presented at the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Portland, OR.
Borst, J.P., Taatgen, N.A., Stocco, A., & Van Rijn, H. (2010). The Neural Correlates of Problem States: Testing fMRI Predictions of a Computational Model of Multitasking. PLoS ONE 5(9): e12966. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0012966.
Reitter, D., Juvina, I., Stocco, A., & Lebiere, C. (2010). Resistance is futile: Winning lemonade market share through metacognitive reasoning in a three-agent cooperative game. In Proceedings of the 19th Conference on Behavioral Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRIMS). Charleston, S.C.
Borst, J. P., Taatgen, N. A., van Rijn , D. H., Stocco, A., & Fincham, J. M. (2009). Testing fMRI predictions of a dual-task interference model. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of Cognitive Modeling (paper 236), Manchester, United Kingdom.
Stocco, A., Lebiere, C., & Anderson, J. R. (2009). Dopamine, learning, and production rules: The basal ganglia and the flexible control of information transfer in the brain. In A. Samsonovich (Ed.) Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures II (pp. 169-175), AAAI Press.
Anderson, J.R., Fincham, J. M., Qin, Y., & Stocco, A. (2008). A Central circuit of the mind. Trends in Cognitive Science. 12(4), 136-143.
Stocco, A. & Anderson, J. R. (2008) Endogenous control and task representation: An fMRI study in algebraic problem solving. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20(7), 1300-1314.
Stocco, A., Lebiere, C., & Anderson, J. R. (2008). Procedural Learning and Sequential Control of Behavior in a Neural Network Model of the Basal Ganglia. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, pp. 210-211.
Borst, J.P., Taatgen, N.A., Stocco, A., & Van Rijn, H. (2008). Locating the Problem Representation Bottleneck in the Brain. In Proceedings of the fourteenth annual ACT-R workshop.
Stocco, A., & Anderson, J. R. (2007). Endogenous control in algebraic problem solving: An fMRI study. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. New York, NY, p. 271.
Stocco, A., & Crescentini, C. (2005). Syntactic comprehension in agrammatism: A computational model. Brain & Language 95(1), 127-128.
Stocco, A., Fum, D., & Zalla, T. (2005). Revising the role of somatic markers in the Gambling Task: A computational account for neuropsychological impairments. In B. Bara, L. Barsalou & M. Bucciarelli (Eds.), Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Stocco, A., & Fum, D., (2005) Somatic markers and memory for outcomes: Computational and experimental evidence. In Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP).
Crescentini, C., & Stocco, A. (2005). Agrammatism as a failure in the lexical activation process. In B. Bara, L. Barsalou & M. Bucciarelli (Eds.), Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Fum, D. & Stocco, A. (2004). Memory, emotion, & rationality: An ACT-R interpretation for gambling task results. In Proceedings of the sixth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (pp. 106-111). Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University/University of Pittsburgh.
Fum, D. & Stocco, A. (2003) Instance vs. rule based learning in controlling a dynamic system. In Proceeedings of the Fifth International Conference on Cognitive Modelling, Bamberg, Germany, 10-12 April 2003.
Fum, D. & Stocco, A. (2003) Outcome Evaluation and Procedural Knowledge in Implicit Learning. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. pg 456-431.

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