NAOMI FELDMAN
Brown University
Cog. and Ling. Sci., Box 1978
Providence, RI 02912
(401) 863-1528
naomi_feldman (at) brown (dot) edu



Education: Brown University, Providence, RI
Graduate student in the Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
Advisor: Dr. James Morgan

University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Mag.Phil. in Linguistics, November 2005
Thesis title: Learning and overgeneralization patterns in a connectionist model of the German plural
Supervised by Dr. Georg Dorffner and Dr. Wolfgang Dressler

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
B.A. in Biological Sciences and Linguistics with General Honors, June 2003


Fellowships and Awards: Brain Science Program Graduate Fellowship, Brown University, 2008
Cognitive Science Society Conference Student Travel Award, 2007
Phi Beta Kappa, 2003
University Scholar, University of Chicago, 1999-2003
National Merit Scholar, 1999-2003


Publications: Feldman, N. H., Griffiths, T. L., and Morgan, J. L. (under revision). "The influence of categories on perception: Explaining the perceptual magnet effect as optimal statistical inference."

Shi, L., Feldman, N. H., and Griffiths, T. L. (in press). "Performing Bayesian inference with exemplar models." Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Feldman, N. H. and Griffiths, T. L. (2007). "A rational account of the perceptual magnet effect." Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.


Teaching Experience: Northeastern University Department of Psychology, Boston, MA
Guest Lecturer, PSY U466: Cognition, Spring 2008

Brown University Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Providence, RI
Teaching Assistant, CG 009: Quantitative Methods in Psychology, Autumn 2006

Bundesgymnasium and Bundesrealgymnasium, 11th District, Vienna, Austria
English Foreign Language Assistant, October 2003-May 2005

University of Vienna Institute for Romance Languages, Vienna, Austria
Teaching Assistant, Linguistics Proseminar I - Spanish, Autumn 2003

University of Chicago Biological Sciences Division, Chicago, IL
Laboratory Teaching Assistant, BIOL 20193: Developmental Biology, Spring 2002, 2003
Laboratory Teaching Assistant, BIOL 20192: Genetics, Winter 2002, 2003
Laboratory Teaching Assistant, BIOL 20191: Cell and Molecular Biology, Autumn 2002


Certifications and Courses: IPAM Graduate Summer School: Probabilistic Models of Cognition, UCLA, July 2007
Sheridan Center Teaching Certificate I, Brown University, May 2007
Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (level 4 certification), University of Cambridge, July 2003


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