Computer Models of "The Mind" (SS2012)

Organisational matters

• News

  2012-07-13: Registration for the second and third exam dates

  • The dates of the second exam and the third exam have been entered on med.campus and will become available for registration as soon as the availability of the location has been confirmed by the staff in charge.
    In case of problems registering, please send an email to the compmind2012 address. Due apologies for any inconveniences caused.

  2012-06-25: Registration for the exam

  • Registration for the first exam date should be open on med.campus.
    In case of problems registering, please send an email to the compmind2012 address. Due apologies for any inconveniences caused.

  2012-05-02: Discussants assignments, draft slides are available through this website.

  2012-03-02: Registration Modalities

  1. All students are required to (co-)register with the Medical University
     See: "MUW:Mitbelegung" -- there is a short information in English ("Co-Registration") at the very bottom of that page.
     Hard deadline: Monday, April 30, 2012
  2. Use your student identification/login to register for the courses on Med.Campus.
  3. Access to materials offered on this web site

     Credentials for access to the materials offered via this website are sent to the email addresses of registered participants (see previous items) with the Medical University of Vienna (i.e., typically: n<immatriculation number>@students.meduniwien.ac.at).

     You should receive access credentials within 72 hours of registering for the courses on Med.Campus (the list of students registered for the course is scanned daily).

     Please do get in touch directly in case of any issues with the previous steps.

   

• VO Examinations

  1. First exam: 2012-06-27 (see the related "News" note regarding online registration for the exam)

   

• SE Meetings and Deadlines:

  • Seed material for the selection of seminar work will be made available at the beginning of the course.
  • Formatting:Annotated bibliography, short draft paper, and final papers should comply with the ACM SIG Proceedings format.
  • 2012-03-21: Discussion of SE candidate topics
  • 2012-03-28: Discussion and assignment of SE topics
  • Deadlines and Example time allocation (3 ECTS = 75 working hours):

    Author/8hrs

    Area identification: Suggest an area and obtain clearance;

    Author/8hrs

    Topic identification: Specify a research question to be addressed;

    Author/16hrs

    Literature research producing an annotated bibliography (formatted according to the formatting guidelines);

    2012-04-18: Submission of question to be addressed in the talk and key references (bibliographical records and short descriptions of the relevance of the content for the talk)

    Author/12hrs

    Authoring of a commented draft presentation (sketched slides with annotations and display materials);

    2012-05-02: Submission of commented draft presentation to the discussant (feedback within 1 week)

    Discussant/2hrs

    Commenting the draft of the assigned presentation;

    2012-05-09: Submission of feedback to commented draft presentation

    Author/16hrs+1hrs

    Preparation, rehearsal and delivery of the presentation;

    Authoring of draft writeup (Title, abstract, section structure with sketch of planned content, updated/selected formatted bibliography;

    Discussant

    • Introduction of the speaker
    • timekeeping
    • first comments on formal and content aspects of the presentation
    • chairing and note-taking of open discussion (notes to be handed to presenter)

    Author/12hrs (after the presentation)

    Authoring of final writeup, considering the feedback from the presentation.

     

    Presentation Schedule

     

    2012-05-16: Presentations+draft papers I

    Khosravipour, Soheil: Computational models of theories of mind (Draft Slides)

    Discussant: Samer Schaat (Feedback to draft slides)

    Lechner, Stephan: Information integration theory (non-REM sleep/wakefulness) (Draft Slides)

    Discussant: Jinook Oh (Feedback to draft slides)

    Schöberl, Tobias Manfred: Evaluations of neural models of Baars' Global Workspace Theory (Draft Slides)

    Discussant: Kristof Anetta

    2012-05-23: Presentations+draft papers II

    Strekhnina, Daria: Logic-based cognitive models in cognitive architectures (Draft Slides)

    Discussant: Katharina Rötzer

    Krendl, Michael: NPC-Characters in games: anticipation (Draft Slides)

    Discussant: Tobias Schöberl (Feedback to draft slides)

    2012-05-30: Presentations+draft papers III, Final Papers I

    Anetta, Kristof: Narrative intelligence - models of storytelling (Draft Slides)

    Discussant: Soheil Khosravipour (Feedback to draft slides)

    Oh, Jinook: Machine interpretation of visual information for animal cognition experiments (Draft Slides)

    Discussant: Daria Strekhnina

    2012-06-06: Presentations+draft papers IV, Final Papers II

    Schaat, Samer: semantic categorization of objects vs. needs/prior knowledge (Draft Slides: PDF, PPTX)

    Discussant: Stephan Lechner

    Rötzer, Katharina: Emotions/aesthetics - computational humour, semiotic models of aesthetics (Draft Slides: ODP, PPT)

    Discussant: Michael Krendl

    2012-06-13: Final Papers III

    2012-06-20: Final Papers IV

Materials

Presentation materials

(made available during the course)

2012-03-07: Preliminary discussion on logistics (VO+SE), Introduction: Scoping "Mind"

• When: 14:00 (c.t.)
• Where: Seminar Room of IAI
• Includes SE introduction
• SE Choice of topics: see e.g. [Sun 2008], [Langley et al. 2009], [Garis&Goertzel 2010], 10 classics from Cognitive Science, nature: Turing centenary assessments, EUCog Debates, CogArch Survey, BICA cognitive architectures table
• Presentation slides PDF (497KiB)

 

2012-03-14: Computational Cognitive Modeling

Presentation materials:

PDF (287KiB, updated 2012-03-28)

References:

Fum et al. 2007, Braitenberg 1984, Marr 1982

 

2012-03-21: Computational cognitive modelling

Presentation materials: see 2012-03-14

SE: Discussion of candidate areas

 

2012-03-28: Computational cognitive modelling, levels of (process) models

Presentation materials: see 2012-03-14

SE: Discussion of candidate topics, scheduling of tasks: see Seminar section of the webpage

 

 

2012-03-28: Discussion and assignment of Seminar topics

 

(Easter break)

 

2012-04-18: Model types

Presentation Materials:

PDF (240KiB)

SE: Discussion of candidate topics, assignment of presentations: see Seminar section of the webpage

References:

Fitts' Law: Fitts 1954, Grosjean et al. 2007, Dedicated session at HCI 2008

 

2012-05-02: Early Computational Cognitive Systems

Presentation Materials:

see 2012-04-18

References:

GPS: NewellSimon 1963

 

2012-05-09: Cognitive Architectures, Modelling Approaches/Paradigms of Cognition

References:

Cognitive Architectures

Byrne 2002, Anderson&Lebiere 2003,Lehman et al. 2006

Short videoclip

Newell 1991

Example Programme:

Nilsson: Teleo-Reactive Towers (Java, ZIP archive, 537KB), see:
Nilsson's A Web Page for Teleo-Reactive Programs, [Nilsson 2001]

 

2012-05-16 - 2012-06-06: Seminar Presentations

 

2012-06-13: Cognitive Architectures: Modelling Approaches/Paradigms of Cognition

Presentation Materials:

PDF (366 KiB)

References:

Cognitive Architectures

Vernon et at. 2007

 

2012-06-20: Cognitive Architectures: Modelling Approaches/Paradigms of Cognition

Presentation Materials:

See previous unit.

References:

Cognitive Architectures

Vernon et at. 2007

 

 

2012-06-27: First exam

Location: IAI, Seminar room

Time: 14-15 (c.t.)

Registration: via med.campus (see also the related "News" entry)

Modality:

• Written exam
• Language: English
• Use of supportive information materials is not allowed.
• You only need to bring a pen (use of pencils is NOT allowed, there must be a "permanent" record!) and your Student ID.

 

Fri 2012-07-27: Second exam

Location: IAI, Seminar room

Time: 10-11 (c.t.)

Registration: via med.campus (see also the related "News" entry)

Modality:

• Written exam
• Language: English
• Use of supportive information materials is not allowed.
• You only need to bring a pen (use of pencils is NOT allowed, there must be a "permanent" record!) and your Student ID.

 

Mon 2012-09-03: Third exam

Location: IAI, Seminar room

Time: 14-15 (c.t.)

Registration: via med.campus (see also the related "News" entry)

Modality:

• Written exam
• Language: English
• Use of supportive information materials is not allowed.
• You only need to bring a pen (use of pencils is NOT allowed, there must be a "permanent" record!) and your Student ID.

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• Vernon D., Metta G., Sandini G. (2007)
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Other relevant web sites

Suggestions for additions are always welcome!

• EUCog III: 3rd European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems, Interaction and Robotics
  • Explore the Debates in the Cognitive Systems community
• Interdisciplinary College 2012 (IK 2012)
• MIT Intelligence Initiative
  • MIT150 Symposium: Brains, Minds and Machines
• AAAI Topics
  • Cognitive Science
  • Mind/Philosophy
• Cognitive Science Society
• Controversies in Cognitive Systems Research (UKCRC - UK Computing Research Committee - Grand Challenges)
• KLI Theory Lab - COGS

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Classics in the History of Psychology

• Journals:
  • Cognitive Science
    • 10 Classics from Cognitive Science
  • Journal of Cognitive Systems Research
  • IEEE Spectrum
    • The Singularity
  • Minds and Machines
  • nature
    • nature News Special: Alan Turing at 100
    • Turing centenary: Is the brain a good model for machine intelligence?
  • Science Magazine
    • Science Magazine, 306(5695), 2004: Cognition and Behavior
    • Science Magazine, 314(5796), 2006: Modeling the Mind

• Cognitive Architectures Surveys:
  • The Cognitive Architectures Page maintained by Ron Sun
  • Comparative Table of Cognitive Architectures (Biologically inspired cognitive architectures society)
  • A survey of cognitive and agent architectures (Bob Marinier and Nate Derbinsky)
• Cognitive Architectures:
  • ACT-R home page
  • SOAR home page

• Association for Rational Psychology
• BR Alpha: Geist und Gehirn (in German language)
• PBS NOVA | Tech & Engineering

• Predicting Cognitive Performance in Open-ended Dynamic Tasks: A Modeling Comparison Challenge, Dynamics Stocks and Flows (DSF) scenario, ICCM 2009

• Literature/Scientific Web Portals:
  • ACM Digital Library
  • arXiv.org e-Print archive
  • Cogprints
  • informaworld
  • iCogSci
  • ingentaconnect
  • JournalSeek
  • SAGE journals online
  • Scaruffi, Piero: Annotated Bibliography of Mind-related Topics
  • ScienceDirect
  • Scopus abstract and citation database
  • Wiley (including acquired Blackwell Synergy)

• Videos...
  • Intute
  • ScienceHack

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