Karl presented ch. 3 of Cooper’s textbook (cognitive models for multicolumn addition and subtraction) on Oct. 17. Those slides and the slides for our broader discussion of cognitive modeling (we talked about Marr’s levels of analysis and ACT-R) are available here:

Last Thur (Oct. 24), Adrian presented ch. 4 of Cooper’s textbook (cognitive models of problem solving). The slides are available here:

Adrian will present ch. 6 of Cooper’s textbook (models of decision making) and talk about ‘rational’ vs. ‘mechanistic’ approaches to cognitive modeling this coming Thur (Oct. 31). The two sets of slides are already available:

Karl will take over again for the last couple of meetings. He’ll discuss ch. 7 of Cooper’s textbook (cognitive models of language processing, syntactic parsing in particular) and related papers if time allows, e.g., Jurafski (1996) and Hale (2011). Slides will be posted here if / when they are available.


Plan for Fall 2013

Fri 23 August 2013 by Karl DeVries and Adrian Brasoveanu

LaLoCo will meet more or less weekly in the fall 2013 quarter. The meetings will take place on Thursdays, 12pm—1pm, Meeting & Analysis room (Stevenson 217).

Karl and Adrian are going to work through and present the textbook Modelling High-Level Cognitive Processes, by Richard P. Cooper (with contributions from Peter …

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