• Ron Sun and Todd Peterson. Learning in reactive sequential decision tasks: the CLARION model. Proceedings of International Conference on Neural Networks (ICNN'96), (1987):1073–1078, 1994. (doi:10.1109/ICNN.1996.549047)
• Ron Sun, Todd Peterson, and Edward Merrill. Bottom-Up Skill Learning in Reactive Sequential Decision Tasks. In Proceedings of 18th cognitive science society conferenc, pages 684–689, 1996.
• Ron Sun and Todd Peterson. Autonomous learning of sequential tasks: Experiments and analyzes. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 9(6):1217–1234, 1998. (doi:10.1109/72.728364)
• Ron Sun and Todd Peterson. Some experiments with a hybrid model for learning sequential decision making. Information Sciences, 111(1-4):83–107, 1998. (doi:10.1016/S0020-0255(98)00007-3)
• Ron Sun, Edward Merrill, and Todd Peterson. A bottom-up model of skill learning. Proceedings of 20th Cognitive Science Society Conference, pages 1037–1042, 1998.
• Ron Sun, Todd Peterson, and Edward Merrill. A Hybrid Architecture for Situated Learning of Reactive Sequential Decision Making. Applied Intelligence, 11:109–127, 1999.
• Paul Slusarz and Ron Sun. The Interaction of Explicit and Implicit Learning: An Integrated Model. In Proceedings of the 23rd cognitive science society conference, pages 952–957, 2001.
• Ron Sun. Artificial intelligence: Connectionist and symbolic approaches, 2001. (doi:10.1016/B0-08-043076-7/00553-2)
• Ron Sun, Edward Merrill, and Todd Peterson. From implicit skills to explicit knowledge: A bottom-up model of skill learning. Cognitive Science, 25(2):203–244, 2001. (doi:10.1016/S0364-0213(01)00035-0)
• Ron Sun and Xi Zhang. Top-Down versus Bottom-Up Learning in Skill Acquisition. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2002.
• Ron Sun. CLARION technical specification, 2003.
• Ron Sun and Xi Zhang. Accessibility versus Action-Centeredness in the Representation of Cognitive Skills. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, 2003.
• L. Andrew Coward and Ron Sun. Criteria for an effective theory of consciousness and some preliminary attempts. Consciousness and Cognition, 13(2):268–301, 2004. (doi:10.1016/j.concog.2003.09.002)
• Ron Sun. Desiderata for cognitive architectures. Philosophical Psychology, 17(3):341–373, 2004. (doi:10.1080/0951508042000286721)
• Ron Sun and Isaac Naveh. Simulating organizational decision-making using a cognitively realistic agent model. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 7(3), 2004.
• Ron Sun and Xi Zhang. Accounting for Similarity-Based Reasoning within a Cognitive Architecture. In Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2004.
• Isaac Naveh and Ron Sun. A Cognitively Based Simulation of Simple Organizations. In Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2005.
• Ron Sun. Cognitive architectures and multi-agent social simulation. Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents, pages 7–21, 2005. (doi:10.1007/978-3-642-03339-1_2)
• Ron Sun. Questions and Answers. 2005.
• Ron Sun and Robert C. Mathews. Exploring the interaction of implicit and explicit processes to facilitate individual skill learning. Technical Report TR-1162, (May), 2005.
• Ron Sun. The CLARION cognitive architecture: Extending cognitive modeling to social simulation. In Ron Sun, editor, Cognition and MultiAgent Interaction, pages 79–99. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2006. (doi:10.1017/CBO9780511610721.005)
• Ron Sun and Isaac Naveh. Social Institution, Cognition, and Survival: A Cognitive-Social Simulation. Mind and Society, 6(2):1–49, 2006.
• Ron Sun and Xi Zhang. Accounting for a variety of reasoning data within a cognitive architecture.. Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, 18(2):169–191, 2006. (doi:10.1080/09528130600557713)
• Ron Sun, Xi Zhang, and Robert Mathews. Modeling meta-cognition in a cognitive architecture. Cognitive Systems Research, 7(4):327–338, 2006. (doi:10.1016/j.cogsys.2005.09.001)
• Ron Sun. The challenges of building computational cognitive architectures. In Wlodzislaw Duch and Jacek Mandziuk, editors, Challenges for Computational Intelligence, volume 63, pages 37–60. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007. (doi:10.1007/978-3-540-71984-7_3)
• Ron Sun, Xi Zhang, Paul Slusarz, and Robert Mathews. The interaction of implicit learning, explicit hypothesis testing learning and implicit-to-explicit knowledge extraction. Neural Networks, 20(1):34–47, 2007. (doi:10.1016/j.neunet.2006.07.002)
• Sébastien Hélie, Ron Sun, and Liling Xiong. Mixed effects of distractor tasks on incubation. In Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of …, pages 1251–1256, 2008.
• Shane N. Phillipson and Ron Sun. Modeling mathematical Actiotopes: The potential role of CLARION. Talent Development and Excellence, 1(1):27–43, 2009.
• Ron Sun. Motivational representations within a computational cognitive architecture. Cognitive Computation, 1(1):91–103, 2009. (doi:10.1007/s12559-009-9005-z)
• Ron Sun. Theoretical status of computational cognitive modeling. Cognitive Systems Research, 10(2):124–140, 2009. (doi:10.1016/j.cogsys.2008.07.002)
• Ron Sun and Isaac Naveh. Cognitive simulation of academic science. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, pages 3011–3017, 2009. (doi:10.1109/IJCNN.2009.5178638)
• Nicholas R. Wilson, Ron Sun, and Robert C. Mathews. A motivationally-based simulation of performance degradation under pressure. Neural Networks, 22(5-6):502–508, 2009. (doi:10.1016/j.neunet.2009.06.022)
• Sebastien Helie and Ron Sun. Creative problem solving: A CLARION theory. In The 2010 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2010. (doi:10.1109/IJCNN.2010.5596891)
• Nicholas R. Wilson, Ron Sun, and Robert C. Mathews. A Motivationally Based Computational Interpretation of Social Anxiety Induced Stereotype Bias. In Proceedings of the 2010 cognitive science society conference, pages 1750–1755, 2010.
• Ron Sun, Nick Wilson, and Robert Mathews. Accounting for Certain Mental Disorders Within a Comprehensive Cognitive Architecture. In Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2011. (doi:10.1007/s12559-011-9099-y)
• James D. Brooks, Nicholas Wilson, and Ron Sun. The effects of performance motivation: A computational exploration of a dynamic decision making task. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Brain-Mind, pages 7–14, 2012.
• Ron Sun. Memory systems within a cognitive architecture. New Ideas in Psychology, 30(2):227–240, 2012. (doi:10.1016/j.newideapsych.2011.11.003)
• Ron Sun and Pierson Fleischer. A Cognitive Social Simulation of Tribal Survival Strategies: The Importance of Cognitive and Motivational Factors, volume 12. 2012. (doi:10.1163/15685373-12342077)
• Ron Sun and Sébastien Hélie. Psychologically realistic cognitive agents: taking human cognition seriously, volume 25. 2012. (doi:10.1080/0952813X.2012.661236)
• Ron Sun. Autonomous generation of symbolic representations through subsymbolic activities. Philosophical Psychology, 26(6):888–912, 2013. (doi:10.1080/09515089.2012.711035)
• Ron Sun. Dual-Process Theories and Cognitive Architectures. Ninth International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning, pages 2003–2007, 2013.
• Sebastien Helie and Ron Sun. An integrative account of memory and reasoning phenomena. New Ideas in Psychology, 35(1):36–52, 2014. (doi:10.1016/j.newideapsych.2014.06.004)
• John Licato, Ron Sun, and Selmer Bringsjord. Using a Hybrid Cognitive Architecture to Model Children's Errors in an Analogy Task. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2014), pages 857–862, 2014.
• Ron Sun and Nick Wilson. Roles of implicit processes: instinct, intuition, and personality. Mind and Society, 13(1):109–134, 2014. (doi:10.1007/s11299-013-0134-4)
• Sebastien Hélie and Ron Sun. Cognitive architectures and agents. In Springer Handbook of Computational Intelligence, pages 683–696. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2015. (doi:10.1007/978-3-662-43505-2_36)
• Ron Sun and Sebastien Helie. Accounting for creativity within a psychologically realistic cognitive architecture. Computational Creativity Research: Towards Creative Machines, 7:3–36, 2015. (doi:10.2991/978-94-6239-085-0)
• Ron Sun, Nick Wilson, and Michael Lynch. Emotion: A Unified Mechanistic Interpretation from a Cognitive Architecture. Cognitive Computation, 8(1):1–14, 2016. (doi:10.1007/s12559-015-9374-4)