Fall 2013: Meetings 3 and 4 (Oct. 24, Oct. 31)

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:

• marr_levels_and_ACTR.pdf
• cooper_ch3_arithmetic.pdf

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

• cooper_ch4_models_of_problem_solving.pdf

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:

• rational_vs_mechanistic_analysis.pdf
• cooper_ch6_decision_making.pdf

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.