Research

A slice of my brain, courtesy of Royal Holloway's fMRI scanner.

My research interests include evolutionary programming and cognitive modelling.

Publications

R.Ll. Smith, F. Gobet, and P.C.R. Lane. Checking Chess Checks with Chunks: A Model of Simple Check Detection. In Proceedings of The Ninth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, 2009. [preprint pdf] [poster ppt].
R.Ll. Smith, P.C.R. Lane, and F. Gobet. Modelling the Relationship between Visual Short-Term Memory Capacity and Recall Ability. In Proceedings of The Second European Modelling Symposium, 2008. [preprint pdf]
P.C.R. Lane, F. Gobet and R.Ll. Smith. Attention mechanisms in the CHREST cognitive architecture. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Attention in Cognitive Systems, 2008. [abstract html] [paper url (paywall)]
R.Ll. Smith, F. Gobet, and P.C.R. Lane. An Investigation into the Effect of Ageing on Expert Memory with CHREST. In Proceedings of The Seventh UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence, 2007. [preprint pdf]
R.Ll. Smith. Genetic Programming and Domain Knowledge in Hierarchical Multi-Classification. PhD thesis, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 2006. [full text ps]

I was working on the CHREST cognitive architecture (Chunk Hierarchy and REtrieval STructures) as a Research Fellow in the Psychology Department at Brunel University between 2007 and 2009. For more details, see the official CHREST website (which I was previously the webmaster for) or the Wikipedia entry.