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Xiangen Hu Associate Professor Experimental (Cognitive) Psychology Building, Room 432 FedEx Institute of Technology, Room 436 901.678.3608 (telephone) 901.678.5736 (telephone) 901.678.2579 (fax) xhu@memphis.edu website

Education

Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
M.S., Huazhong University of Science and Technology
B.A., Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Research Interests

• Human Learning and Memory
• Mathematical Modeling
• Statistical Analysis

• Hu, X., Cai, Z., Wiemer-Hasting, P., Graesser, A., & McNamara, D. S. (2007).  Strengths, limitations, and extensions of LSA. In T. Landauer, D. S., McNamara, S. Dennis, & W. Kintsch (Eds.), Handbook of Latent Semantic Analysis. Mahwah.
• Woodward, T. S., Menon, M., Hu, X., & Keefe, R. S. E. (2006). Optimization of a multinomial model for investigations of hallucinations and delusions with source monitoring. Schizophrenia Research.
• Louwerse, M. M., Cai, Z., Hu, X., Ventura, M., & Jeuniaux, P. (2006). Cognitively inspired natural language based knowledge representations: Further explorations of Latent Semantic Analysis. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Tools.
• Penumatsa, P., Ventura, M., Graesser, A. C., Franceschetti, D. R., Louwerse, M., Hu, X., Cai, Z., & the Tutoring Research Group (2006). The right threshold value: What is the right threshold of cosine measure when using latent semantic analysis for evaluating student answers? International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Tools, 15, 767-777.