Computational Modeling Reading Group

Meetings: Alternate Mondays, 2 PM in Metcalf Research 125

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For additional information email one of the organizers: Naomi Feldman or Phil Fernbach

Schedule:

Date Reading Discussion Leaders
Spring 2008
Mon, May 5, 2 PM Quantum dynamics of human decision-making Adam Darlow
Mon, Apr 7, 2 PM Survey of Decision Field Theory Adam Darlow
Mon, Mar 17, 2 PM Learning Systems of Concepts with an Infinite Relational Model Dave Buchanan
Fri, Feb 15, 4 PM Continuous attraction toward phonological competitors
Adam Darlow
Fri, Feb 1, 3 PM Planning Meeting  
Fall 2007
Wed, Nov 28, 3 PM Learning phonology with substantive bias: an experimental and computational study of velar palatalization Naomi Feldman
Wed, Nov 14, 3 PM CMDG  
Wed, Oct 31, 3 PM

Streak biases in decision making: Data and a memory model

Primer Reading on ACT-R

Giorgio Gronchi
Wed, Oct 17, 3 PM Acquisition and Extinction in Autoshaping Phil Fernbach
Wednesday, Oct 3, 3 PM

Using Domain General Principles to Explain Children's Causal Reasoning abilities

Dave Buchanan, Adam Darlow
Monday, Sept. 17th, 3 PM Introductory Planning Meeting  
Spring 2007
Thursday, June 28th 2 PM Spontaneous Evolution of Linguistic Structure: An Iterated Learning Model of the Emergence of Regularity and Irregularity TBD
Thursday, June 14th 2 PM Color Naming Reflects Optimal Partitions of Color Space TBD
Tuesday May 29th, 2 PM Using Dynamic Field Theory to Rethink Infant Habituation Dave Buchanan and TBD
Friday, May 11, 2007 A more rational model of categorization Dave Buchanan and Adam Darlow
Wednesday, April 25, 2007 Decision by sampling Naomi Feldman , Phil Fernbach (special guest Nick Chater)
Friday, April 6, 2007

Noisy Neurons can Certainly Compute

Bayesian Inference with Probabilistic Population Codes

Joe Austerweil, Socrates Dimitriadis
Friday, March 16, 2007

Lost in Virtual Space: Studies in Human and Ideal Spatial Navigation

Liz Chrastil, TBD
Friday, March 2, 2007 Finding Useful Questions: On Bayesian Diagnosticity, Probability, Impact, and Information Gain Phil Fernbach, TBD
Friday, February 16, 2007 Learning phonetic categories by tracking movements

Naomi Feldman, Micha Elsner

Wedneseday, February 7, 2007 Introductory Planning Meeting  

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Machine Learning Reading Group