The third and final LaLoCo meeting this quarter took place today (Tue, March 17), from 2 pm to about 3 pm in the Cave. We discussed the Python ACT-R code Adrian and Jakub Dotlačil are putting together to implement a left-corner ACT-R parser (in the style of Vasishth …

The second LaLoCo meeting this quarter took place yesterday (Th, Feb. 26), from 11 am to about 12 pm in the Cave. We discussed the Python ACT-R code Jakub Dotlačil put together to replicate some of the simulations in Vasishth and Lewis (2005). For example, reimplementing the subject-gap vs …

The first LaLoCo meeting this quarter will take place this coming Tue, Jan. 27, from 12:00 pm to about 1:15/1:30 pm in the Cave (same place as last quarter). We will continue where we left off last quarter, i.e., implementing parsers for English fragments in …

The last three meetings of the quarter were dedicated to designing and implementing a basic parser in Python ACT-R, thus putting together the theoretical ACT-R framework, the psycholinguistic literature that takes advantage of it, and the computational tools we started to become familiar with.

We already have a …

Our meeting today was very lively and useful. Deniz led a very enlightening discussion of the activation equations in chapter 3 of Anderson (2009), and Nate and Karl contributed extensive and very helpful clarifications.

For our next meeting (the 5th one this quarter, on Nov. 4), we decided to read …

Karl introduced the basics of Python ACT-R in our third meeting (Oct. 21).

Next time (Oct. 28), Deniz will briefly talk about the activation equations in chapter 3 of Anderson (2009), and then we’ll take a close look at these equations based on the notes in this pdf …

The first meeting on Oct. 7 was dedicated to a broad discussion of cognitive architectures and ACT-R, with a focus on the first 2 chapters of:

• Anderson, John R. 2009. How Can the Human Mind Occur in the Physical Universe?

In the second meeting (today, Oct. 14), Deniz led …

The four of us (and some other email-silent partners :-)) hatched a plan to have an ACT-R centered series of meetings this fall. The plan is to start by reading Anderson’s most recent book:

• Anderson, John R. 2009. How Can the Human Mind Occur in the Physical Universe?

and …

Quantitative Methods in Linguistics (spring 2014; upper div. undergraduate course, UCSC Linguistics) provided an introduction to data analysis for linguistics focusing on categorical data and continuous data, and using R. The overarching goal of the course was to give participants the tools and insight to perform data analysis on a …

The 6th and final meeting of the quarter will take place next Thur, June 5 (the last week of classes). Meetings 4-5 (May 22, and May 29) discussed Bayesian inference in more detail (e.g., how to do model comparison with Bayes factors), and introduced MCMC estimation and the way …