Publications by Liane Gabora

• Papers in Peer-reviewed Journals
• Book Chapters
• Papers in Conference and Workshop Proceedings
• Encyclopedia Entries
• Commentaries and Reviews
• Doctoral Dissertation
• Short Stories and Nonacademic Publications

Papers in Peer-reviewed Journals

Aerts, D., Gabora, L., & Sozzo, S. (2013). How concepts combine: A quantum theoretical model. Topics in Cognitive Science.

Gabora, L., Scott, E., & Kauffman, S. (2013). A quantum model of exaptation: Incorporating potentiality into biological theory. Progress in Biophysics & Molecular Biology.

Gabora, L. (2013). An evolutionary framework for culture: Selectionism versus communal exchange. Physics of Life Reviews, 10(2), 117-145. [pdf]

Gabora, L. (2013). Reply to the commentaries on “An evolutionary framework for cultural change: Selectionism versus communal exchange”. Physics of Life Reviews, 10(2), 162-167. [pdf]

Gabora, L., O’Connor, B., & Ranjan, A. (2012). The recognizability of individual creative styles within and across domains. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 6(4), 351-360. [pdf]

Sternberg, R., Bonney, C. R., Gabora, L., & Merrifield, M. (2012). WICS: A model for college and university admissions. Educational Psychologist, 47(1), 30-41. [pdf]

Sternberg, R., Bonney, C. R., & Gabora, L. (2012). Introduction to the special issue on college and university admissions. Educational Psychologist, 47(1), 1-4.

Gabora, L. (2011). An analysis of the Blind Variation and Selective Retention (BVSR) theory of creativity. Creativity Research Journal, 23(2), 155-165. [pdf]

Gabora, L. (2011). Five clarifications about cultural evolution. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 11, 61-83. [pdf]

Aerts, D., Broekaert, J., & Gabora, L. (2011). A case for applying an abstracted quantum formalism to cognition. New Ideas in Psychology, 29(1), 136-146.

Sternberg, R., Bonney, C. R., Gabora, L., Jarvin, L., Karelitz, T. M., & Coffin, L. (2010). Broadening the spectrum of undergraduate admissions. College & University, 86(1), 2-17.

Gabora, L. (2010). Revenge of the 'neurds': Characterizing creative thought in terms of the structure and dynamics of human memory. Creativity Research Journal, 22(1), 1-13. [pdf]

O'Connor, B., & Gabora, L. (2009). Applying complexity theory to a dynamical process model of the development of pathological belief systems. Chaos and Complexity Letters, 4(3), 75-96.

Gabora, L. & Leijnen, S. (2009). How creative should creators be to optimize the evolution of ideas? A computational model. Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, 9, 108-119. [pdf]

Gabora, L., & Aerts, D. (2009). A model of the emergence and evolution of integrated worldviews. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 53, 434-451. [pdf]

Bruza, P., Busemeyer, J., & Gabora, L. (2009). Introduction to the special issue on quantum cognition. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 53, 303-305.

DiPaola, S., & Gabora, L. (2009). Incorporating characteristics of human creativity into an evolutionary art algorithm. Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, 10(2), 97-110. [pdf]

Gabora, L. (2008). The cultural evolution of socially situated cognition. Cognitive Systems Research, 9(1-2), 104-113.

Gabora, L., Rosch, E., & Aerts, D. (2008). Toward an ecological theory of concepts. Ecological Psychology, 20(1), 84-116.

Gabora, L., & Aerts, D. (2007). A cross-disciplinary framework for the description of contextually mediated change. Electronic Journal of Theoretical Physics, 4(15), 1-22. [pdf]

Gabora, L. (2006). The fate of evolutionary archaeology: Survival or extinction? World Archaeology, 38(4), 690-696.

Gabora, L. (2006). Self-other organization: Why early life did not evolve through natural selection. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 241(3), 443-450. [nlin.AO/0512025] [pdf]

Aerts, D., Czachor, M., Gabora L., & Polk, P. (2006). Soliton kinetic equations with non-Kolmogorovian structure: A new tool for biological modeling. Quantum Theory: Reconsideration of Foundations 3, American Institute of Physics Publications, 810, 19–33.

Gabora, L. (2005). Creative thought as a non-Darwinian evolutionary process. Journal of Creative Behavior, 39(4), 262-283. [nlin.AO/0411057] [pdf]

Gabora, L., & Aerts, D. (2005). Evolution as context-driven actualization of potential: Toward an interdisciplinary theory of change of state. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 30(1), 69-88. [q-bio.PE/0511007] [pdf]

Aerts, D., & Gabora, L. (2005). A state-context-property model of concepts and their combinations I: The structure of the sets of contexts and properties. Kybernetes, 34(1&2), 167-191. (Special issue dedicated to Heinz Von Foerster.) [ quant-ph/0402207] [pdf]

Aerts, D., & Gabora, L. (2005). A state-context-property model of concepts and their combinations II: A Hilbert space representation. Kybernetes, 34(1&2), 192-221. (Special issue dedicated to Heinz Von Foerster.) [quant-ph/0402205] [pdf]

Gabora, L. (2004). Ideas are not replicators but minds are. Biology & Philosophy, 19(1), 127-143. [q-bio.PE/0402002] [pdf]

Aerts, D., Czachor, M., Gabora, L., Kuna, M., Posiewnik, A., Pykacz, J., & Syty, M. (2003). Quantum morphogenesis: A variation on Thom's catastrophe theory. Physical Review E, 67(5), 051926. Reprinted in Virtual Journal of Biological Physics, June 2003. [quant-ph/0211105]

Gabora, L., & Aerts, D. (2002). Contextualizing concepts using a mathematical generalization of the quantum formalism. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, 14(4), 327-358. [quant-ph/0205161] [ pdf]

Gabora, L. (2002). Amplifying phenomenal information: Toward a fundamental theory of consciousness. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 9(8), 3-29. [adap-org/9911003] [pdf]

Aerts, D., D'Hondt, E., & Gabora, L. (2000). Why the disjunction in quantum logic is not classical. Foundations of Physics, 30(9), 1473-1480. [quant-ph/0007041] [pdf]

Aerts, D., Aerts, S., Broekaert, J., & Gabora, L. (2000). The violation of Bell inequalities in the macroworld. Foundations of Physics, 30(9), 1387-1414. [quant-ph/0007044]] [pdf]

Gabora, L. (2000). From a double aspect theory of information to human consciousness. Consciousness and Cognition, 9(2), S78.

Gabora, L. (2000). Conceptual closure: Weaving memories into an interconnected worldview. In (G. Van de Vijver & J. Chandler , Eds.) Closure: Emergent Organizations and their Dynamics. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 901, 42-53. [pdf]

Aerts, D., Broekaert, J., & Gabora, L. (1999). Formal and informal representations of science. Foundations of Science, 4(1), 1-3.

Gabora, L. (1999). Weaving, bending, patching, mending the fabric of reality: A cognitive science perspective on worldview inconsistency. Foundations of Science, 3(2), 395-428.

Gabora, L. (1998). Autocatalytic closure in a cognitive system: A tentative scenario for the origin of culture. Psycoloquy, 9(67). [adap-org/9901002]

Gabora, L. (1997). The origin and evolution of culture and creativity. Journal of Memetics: Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission, 1(1).

Gabora, L. (1996). A day in the life of a meme. Philosophica, 57, 901-938. (Special issue on concepts, representations, and dynamical systems.)

Hofstadter, D., & Gabora, L. (1989). Synopsis of a workshop on humor and cognition. Humor, 2(4), 417-440. [pdf]

Book Chapters

Gabora, L. (in prep). Clinical applications of light as a metaphor for cognitive processes. In (S. Tedesco, ed.) Special issue of Aisthesis dedicated to the theme "Giving form through metaphors".

Gabora, L. (invited). Modeling stigmergy in human cultural evolution. In (T. Lewis & L. Marsh, eds.) Human stigmergy.

Gabora, L. (in press). Cultural evolution as distributed human computation. In P. Michelucci (Ed.) Handbook of Human Computation. Springer.

Gabora, L. (in press). The creative process at work in musical composition. In Hans-Joachim Braun (Ed.) Creativity: Technology and the arts. Frankfurt / New York: Peter Lang. [pdf]

Gabora, L., & Ranjan, A. (2013). How insight emerges in distributed, content-addressable memory. In A. Bristol, O. Vartanian, & J. Kaufman (Eds.) The neuroscience of creativity. New York: MIT Press. [pdf]

Gabora, L., & Kitto, K. (2013). Concept combination and the origins of complex cognition. In (E. Swan, Ed.) Origins of mind: Biosemiotics Series, Vol. 8 (pp. 361-382). Berlin: Springer. [pdf]

Gabora, L. & Merrifield, M. (2013). Dynamical disequilibrium, transformation, and the evolution and development of sustainable worldviews. In (F. Orsucci & N. Sala, Eds.) Complexity science, living systems, and reflexing interfaces: New models and perspectives (pp. 69-77). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. [pdf]

Ranjan, A. & Gabora, L. (2012). Creative ideas for actualizing student potential. In (H. Snyder, M. Gregerson, & J. Kaufman, Eds.) Teaching creatively (pp. 119-132). New York: Springer. [pdf]

Gabora, L. (2011). Can an understanding of how culture evolves awaken a sense of meaning in life? In (D. Aerts, B. D'Hooghe, & N. Note, Eds.) Worldviews, science, and us (pp. 37-54). Singapore: World Scientific.

Gabora, L., & O'Connor, B. (2011). A general dynamical process model of the development of pathological belief systems. In F. Orsucci (Ed.) Mind Force (pp. 75-96). Nova Science.

Gabora, L., & Russon, A. (2011). The evolution of human intelligence. In (R. Sternberg & S. Kaufman, Eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence, (pp. 328-350). Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press. [pdf]

Gabora, L., & Kaufman, S. (2010). Evolutionary perspectives on creativity. In (J. Kaufman & R. Sternberg, Eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity (pp. 279-300). Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press. [pdf]

Gabora, L., & Holmes, N. (2010). Dangling from a tassel on the fabric of socially constructed reality: Reflections on the creative writing process. In (A. Cropley, D. Cropley, J. Kaufman, & M. Runco, Eds.) The Dark Side of Creativity (pp. 277-296). Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press. [pdf]

Aerts, D., Aerts, S., & Gabora, L. (2009). Experimental evidence for quantum structure in cognition. In: P. Bruza, W. Lawless, K. van Rijsbergen, & D. Sofge (Eds.) Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Quantum Interaction (pp. 59-79). Berlin: Springer. [pdf]

Gabora, L. (2008). Mind. In (R. A. Bentley, H. D. G. Maschner, & C. Chippindale, Eds.) Handbook of Archaeological Theories. Walnut Creek CA: Altamira Press, (pp. 283-296).

Gabora, L., & Aerts, D. (2008). A cross-disciplinary framework for the description of contextually mediated change. In (I. Licata & A. Sakaji, Eds.) Physics of Emergence and Organization, (pp. 109-134). Singapore: World Scientific.

Gabora, L., & Aerts, D. (2007). A cross-disciplinary framework for the description of contextually mediated change. The Physics of Emergence and Organization (pp. 109-134). London: World Scientific. [pdf]

Aerts, D., Bundervoet, S., Czachor, M., D'Hooghe, B., Gabora L., & Polk, P. (2006). On the foundations of the theory of evolution. In M. Locker (Ed.) Systems Theory in Philosophy and Religion, Vols I & II. Windsor, Canada: IIAS.

Gabora, L. (2002). The beer can theory of creativity. In (P. Bentley & D. Corne, Eds.) Creative Evolutionary Systems, Morgan Kauffman, San Francisco CA, 147-161. [pdf]

Gabora, L. (2000). Toward a theory of creative inklings. In (R. Ascott, Ed.) Art, Technology, and Consciousness, Intellect Press, Bristol, UK, 159-164. [pdf]

Gabora, L. (2000). Conceptual closure: Weaving memories into an interconnected worldview. In (G. Van de Vijver & J. Chandler , Eds.) Closure: Emergent Organizations and their Dynamics. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 901, 42-53. [pdf]

Gabora, L. (1995). Meme and variations: A computer model of cultural evolution. In (L. Nadel & D. Stein, Eds.) 1993 Lectures in Complex Systems (pp. 471-486). Boston: Addison-Wesley. [pdf]

Papers in Conference and Workshop Proceedings

Henderson, M. & Gabora, L. (2013). The recognizability of authenticity. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2524-2529). Held July 31 - Aug. 3, Berlin. Houston TX: Cognitive Science Society. [pdf]

Ranjan, A., Gabora, L., & O'Connor, B. (2013). The Cross-domain re-interpretation of artistic ideas. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 3251-3256). Held July 31 - Aug. 3, Berlin. Houston TX: Cognitive Science Society. [pdf]

Gabora, L., Chia, W. W., & Firouzi, H. (2013). A computational model of two cognitive transitions underlying cultural evolution. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2344-2349). Held July 31 - Aug. 3, Berlin. Houston TX: Cognitive Science Society. [pdf]

Chrusch, C. & Gabora, L. (2013). FOXP2 as the genetic basis for the capacity to shift between analytic and associative modes of thought. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 3905). Held July 31 - Aug. 3, Berlin. Houston TX: Cognitive Science Society. [pdf]

Ranjan, A., Gabora, L., & O'Connor, B. (2013). Evidence that cross-domain re-interpretations of creative ideas are recognizable. Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Spring Symposium. (Creativity and Cognitive Development: A perspective from Artificial Creativity, Developmental Artificial Intelligence, and Robotics.) Stanford University, March 25-27. AAAI Press. [pdf]

Gabora, L., & Firouzi, H. (2012). Society functions best with an intermediate level of creativity. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1578-1583). Held August 1-4, Sapporo Japan. Houston TX: Cognitive Science Society. [pdf]

Veloz, T., Temkin, I., & Gabora, L. (2012). A conceptual network-based approach to inferring cultural phylogenies. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2487-2492). Held August 1-4, Sapporo Japan. Houston TX: Cognitive Science Society. [pdf]

Riley, S. & Gabora, L. (2012). Evidence that threatening situations enhance creativity. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2234-2239). Held August 1-4, Sapporo Japan. Houston TX: Cognitive Science Society. [pdf]

Gabora, L. & Kitto, K. (2012). How a quantum approach to memory incorporates contextuality and potentiality. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2674). Held August 1-4, Sapporo Japan. Houston TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Aerts, D., Broekaert, J. Gabora, L., & Veloz, T. (2012). The guppy effect as interference. Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Quantum Interaction. June 27-29, Paris. [pdf]

Kitto, K., Bruza, P., & Gabora, L. (2012). A quantum information retrieval approach to memory. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, (pp. 932-939). June 10-15, Brisbane, Australia, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. [pdf]

Gabora, L., & DiPaola, S. (2012). How did humans become so creative? Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Creativity (pp. 203-210). May 31 - June 1, Dublin, Ireland. [pdf]

Gabora, L. & Saberi, M. (2011). How did human creativity arise? An agent-based model of the origin of cumulative open-ended cultural evolution. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Cognition & Creativity (pp. 299-306). Nov 3-6. Atlanta, GA. [pdf]

Aerts, D., Gabora, L., Sozzo, S., & Veloz, T. (2011). Quantum structure in cognition: Fundamentals and applications. Proceedings of The Fifth International Conference on Quantum, Nano and Micro Technologies (ICQNM 2011), August 21-27, French Riviera, France.

Gabora, L., & Saab, A. (2011). Creative interference and states of potentiality in analogy problem solving. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 3506-3511). July 20-23, Boston MA. [pdf]

Gabora, L., Leijnen, S., Veloz, T., & Lipo, C. (2011). A non-phylogenetic conceptual network architecture for organizing classes of material artifacts into cultural lineages. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2923-2928). July 20-23, Boston MA. [pdf]

Veloz, T., & Gabora, L. (2011). Toward a formal model of the shifting relationship between concepts and contexts in associative thought. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 827). July 20-23, Boston MA.

Veloz, T., Gabora, L., Eyjolfson, M., & Aerts, D. (2011). A model of the shifting relationship between concepts and contexts in different modes of thought. Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Quantum Interaction. June 27-29, Aberdeen, UK.

Mithani, M., Veloz, T., & Gabora, L. (2010). An analysis of context dependency in the recognition and manifestation of entrepreneurial opportunity. In: P. Bruza, W. Lawless, K. van Rijsbergen, D. Sofge, & D. Widdows (Eds.) Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Fall Symposium on Quantum Informatics for Cognitive, Social, and Semantic Processes. November 11-13, Washington DC.

Ranjan, A. Gabora, L., & O'Connor, B. (2010). The recognizability of individual style in musical interpretation. International Conference on Cognition, Experience, and Creativity. October 29-31, Ahmedabad, India.

Leijnen, S., & Gabora, L. (2010). An agent-based simulation of the effectiveness of creative leadership. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 955-960). August 11-14, Portland, Oregon. [pdf]

Gabora, L. (2010). Recognizability of creative style within and across domains: Preliminary studies. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2350-2355). August 11-14, Portland, OR. [pdf]

O’Connor, B., & Gabora, L. (2010). Studies of the effects on creativity of having very different parents. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2432). August 11-14, Portland, OR.

Leijnen, S. & Gabora, L. (2009). The tradeoff between degree of creativity and number of creators in a computational model of society. In B. Cooper & V. Danos (Eds.) Proceedings of Developments in Computational Models: Computational Models from Nature (DCM 09) -- A workshop in association with the 36th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP). July 11, Rhodes, Greece.

Leijnen, S., & Gabora, L. (2009). The artist loft effect in the clustering of ‘creative types’: A computer simulation. In N. Bryans-Kins (Ed.) Proceedings of the 7th Creativity and Cognition Conference, Hosted by the University of California, Berkeley and Berkeley Art Museum, Oct 27-30, Berkeley, CA (pp. 389-390). New York NY: ACM Press. [pdf]

Aerts, D., Aerts, S., & Gabora, L. (2009). Experimental evidence for quantum structure in cognition. In: P. Bruza, W. Lawless, K. van Rijsbergen, & D. Sofge (Eds.) Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Quantum Interaction, (pp. 59-70). German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Saarbruken, Germany. [pdf]

Gabora, L. (2008). Modeling cultural dynamics. Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Fall Symposium 1: Adaptive Agents in a Cultural Context,. Nov 7-9, The Westin Arlington Gateway, Arlington VA, (pp. 18-25). Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press. [pdf]

Gabora, L. (2008). EVOC: A computer model of the evolution of culture. In V. Sloutsky, B. Love & K. McRae (Eds.), 30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. July 23-26, Washington DC (pp. 1466-1471). North Salt Lake, UT: Sheridan Publishing. [pdf] [See the poster]

DiPaola, S., & Gabora, L. (2007). Incorporating characteristics of human creativity into an evolutionary art algorithm. In (D. Thierens, Ed.), Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computing Conference (GECCO) (pp. 2442-2449), July 7-11, University College London, England. [pdf]

Gabora, L. (2007). Cultural evolution entails (creativity entails (concept combination entails quantum structure)). In: P. Bruza, W. Lawless, K. van Rijsbergen, & D. Sofge (Eds.) Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Spring Symposium 8: Quantum Interaction, March 26-28, Stanford University, pp. 106-113.

Aerts, D., Czachor, M., Gabora, L., & Polk, P. (2005). Application of quantum formalisms to biological rhythms. In (G. Adenier, Ed.) Proc. Third International Conference on Quantum Theory: Reconsiderations of Foundations, June 7-12, Vaxjo, Sweden.

Aerts, D., Bundervoet, S., Czachor, M., & Gabora, L. (2005). On the foundations of the theory of evolution. In (G. E. Lasker, Ed.) Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics: Second Symposium on Systems Theory in Religion and Philosophy, August 3, Baden-Baden, Germany.

Gabora, L., & Aerts, D. (2005). Distilling the essence of an evolutionary process, and implications for a formal description of culture. In (W. Kistler, Ed.) Proceedings of the Center for Human Evolution: Workshop 4 on Cultural Evolution, Foundation for the Future, Belmont WA.

Gabora, L. (2004). Two transitions in the evolution of human consciousness. In (M. Zussman, Ed.) Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness, Berkeley, CA, 24-28 March.

Gabora, L. (2003). Contextual focus: A cognitive explanation for the cultural transition of the Middle/Upper Paleolithic. In (R. Alterman & D. Hirsch, Eds.) Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 432-437), Boston MA, July 31-August 2. Hillsdale NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Gabora, L. (2002). Cognitive mechanisms underlying the creative process. In (T. Hewett and T. Kavanagh, Eds.) Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Creativity and Cognition (pp. 126-133), October 13-16, Loughborough University, UK.

Gabora, L., & Aerts, D. (2002). Contextualizing concepts. Proceedings of the 15th International FLAIRS Conference (Special Track 'Categorization and Concept Representation: Models and Implications') (pp. 148-152), Pensacola Florida, May 14-17, American Association for Artificial Intelligence.

Gabora, L. (2000). Linkage disequilibrium in human creativity. In (R. Ascott, Ed.) Proceedings of the Third International CAiiA-STAR Conference, Consciousness Reframed, August, Newport, Whales.

Gabora, L. (2000). From a double aspect theory of information to human consciousness. In (Cleeremans, A., Ed.) Proceedings of ASSC4, An international conference on The Unity of Consciousness: Binding, Unity, and Dissociation, June 29-July 2, Brussels, Belgium.

Aerts, D., Broekaert, J., & Gabora, L. (2000). Intrinsic contextuality as the crux of consciousness. In (K. Yasue, Ed.) Proceedings of Fundamental Approaches to Consciousness, Tokyo '99. John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Gabora, L. (1999). Conceptual closure: Weaving memories into an interconnected worldview. In (G. Van de Vijver & J. Chandler, Eds.) Proceedings of Closure: an International Conference on Emergent Organizations and their Dynamics, held by the Research Community on Evolution and Complexity and the Washington Evolutionary Systems Society, May 3-5, Gent, Belgium.

Aerts, D., Broekaert, J., & Gabora, L. (1999). Nonclassical contextuality in cognition: Borrowing from quantum mechanical approaches to indeterminism and observer dependence. In (R. Campbell, Ed.) Dialogues: Proceedings of Mind IV Conference, Dublin, Ireland.

Gabora, L. (1996). Culture, evolution, and computation. In (T. Furuhashi, Ed.) Proceedings of the Second Online Workshop on Evolutionary Computation. Society of Fuzzy Theory and Systems.

Gabora, L. (1992). Should I stay or should I go: Coordinating biological needs with continuously-updated assessments of the environment. (A computer model.) In (S. Wilson, J. A. Mayer & H. Roitblat, Eds.) Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (pp. 156-162), Cambridge MA: MIT Press. [pdf]

Gabora, L., & Colgan, P. (1990). A model of the mechanisms underlying exploratory behavior. In (S. Wilson & J. A. Mayer, Eds.) Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (pp. 475-484) Cambridge MA: MIT Press. [pdf]

Commentaries and Reviews

Aerts, D., Gabora, L. & Sozzo, S. (in press). Quantum structure and human thought. Commentary on Can quantum probability provide a new direction for cognitive modeling?' by E. M. Pothos & J. R. Busemeyer Behavioral & Brain Sciences.

Gabora, L. & Lipo, C. (2012). Review of E. Cochrane & A. Gardner (eds.) Evolutionary and Interpretive Archaeologies: A Dialogue. KIVA: The Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History, 87(1), 103–108.

Gabora, L. & Ranjan, A. (2011). Nuancing the neuron: A review of ‘The Memory Process: Neuroscientific and Humanistic Perspectives’. PsycCritiques: Contemporary Psychology APA Review of Books, 56(39).

Gabora, L. (2010). Why Blind-Variation-Selective-Attention is inappropriate as an explanatory framework for creativity. Physics of Life Reviews, 7(2), 190-194.

Gabora, L. (2009). Review of 'Epigenetic principles of evolution' by Nelson R. Cabej. Quarterly Review of Biology, 84(2), p. 193. [pdf]

Gabora, L. (2007). Why the creative process is not Darwinian. Commentary on 'The creative process in Picasso's Guernica sketches: Monotonic improvements versus nonmonotonic variants' by D. K. Simonton. Creativity Research Journal, 19(4), 361-365.

Gabora, L. (2007). Epigenetic and cultural evolution are not Darwinian. Commentary on E. Jablonka & M. J. Lamb, Synopsis of 'Evolution in Four Dimensions'. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 30(4), p. 371.

Provencal, A. & Gabora, L. (2007). A compelling overview of art therapy techniques and outcomes. Review of 'Art Therapy has Many Faces' by J. A. Rubin. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 1(4), 255-256.

Gabora, L. (2007). Perspectives on artistic creativity. A Review of M. Turner (Ed.) 'The Artful Mind: Cognitive Science and the Riddle of Human Creativity'. Philosophical Psychology, 20(5), 669-674.

Gabora, L. (2004). GAS doesn't 'turn the engine' when states are sequential or context-dependent. Commentary on D. L. Hull, R. E. Langman & S. S. Glenn (2001).  A general account of selection: Biology, immunology, and behavior. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27(6), 901-902. [pdf]

Gabora, L. (2000). Nonlinear science and the psyche. Review of (Franco Orsucci, Ed.) 'The Complex Matters of the Mind'. Foundations of Science, 5(3), 391-393.

Gabora, L. (1999). To imitate is human: A review of 'The Meme Machine' by Susan Blackmore. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Systems 2(2). Reprinted with permission in Journal of Consciousness Studies, 6(5), 77-81.

Gabora, L. (1999). The interwoven conceptual matrix of the cultural replicator. Commentary on 'Niche construction, biological evolution, and cultural change' by K. N. Laland et al. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23(1), 152-153.

Gabora, L. (1999). Complexity in the abstract and the concrete: An interview with Bruce Sawhill. Foundations of Science, 4(1), 95-105.

Gabora, L. (1999). Grounded in perception yet transformed into amodal symbols. Commentary on 'Perceptual symbol systems' by L. W. Barsalou. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22(4), 577-660.

Gabora, L. (1999). Consciousness and dynamical, holographic models of memory: Reply to Combs on Gabora on Origin-Culture, Psycoloquy, 10(43) Origin Culture (12).

Gabora, L. (1999). Motivation and the origin of culture: Reply to Prudkov on Gabora on Origin-Culture, Psycoloquy, 10(42) Origin Culture (11).

Gabora, L. (1999). Potential Refutations of the Autocatalytic Mind Hypothesis: Replies to Edmonds, Dewitte, Orsucci, and Preti on Gabora on Origin-Culture , Psycoloquy, 10(20) Origin Culture (8).

Gabora, L. (1994). The birth of a creative idea. Commentary on The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms by Margaret Boden. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 17(3), 543.

Gabora, L. (1993). Cultural transitions occur when mind parasites Learn new tricks. Commentary on Origins of the Modern Mind by Merlin Donald. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 16(4), 761-762.

Gabora, L. (1993). Cultural learning as the transition mechanism in an evolutionary process. Commentary on Cultural Learning by Tomasello et al. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 16(3), 519.

Doctoral Dissertation

Gabora, L. (2001). Cognitive mechanisms underlying the origin and evolution of culture.

Short Stories and Nonacademic Publications

Gabora, L. (2004). The Glory of Groove, SoMa Literary Review.

Gabora, L. (2003). Veils, SoMa Literary Review. [as published: condensed version] [complete version]

Gabora, L. (2003). Violation, Fiction, 18(2), 121-134.