VO 501.023, SE 501.027: Computer Models of "The Mind" (SS2008)

Index

• Organisational matters (last change: 2008-06-25)
• Materials
  • Presentation materials
  • Background literature (local copies)
• Other relevant web sites

Organisational matters

• VO Units:
  1. 20080402, 10 c.t.-12:30
  2. 20080423, 10:30-12:30
  3. 20080430, 10:30-12:30
  4. 20080521, 10:30-12:30
  5. 20080528, 10:30-12:30
  6. 20080625, 10:30-12:00 (oral exam)

  Seminar Room, IMKAI

   

• SE Meetings and Deadlines:
  • 20080416, 10-12, OFAI: Materials collection report
  • 20080507, 10-12, OFAI: Presentation and discussion of topics
  • 20080521, delivery of Presentation draft (including bibliography)
  • 20080611, 10-12:30 (!), Seminar Presentations (30 mins): Eichhorn, Konicar, Reisinger
  • 20080618, 10-12:30 (!), Seminar Presentations (30 mins): Huber, Pilz
  • 20080627, delivery of write-ups
     
• Access to materials offered on this web site

  To obtain access to the materials for this course, a personal application for permission is required.
  This should state full name, Studienkennzahl and immatriculation number (Matrikelnummer).
  Please address requests to: Paolo.Petta (AT( meduniwien.ac.at.

   

Materials

Presentation materials

(made available during the course)

20080305: Preliminary discussion

• When: 14:00 (c.t.)
• Where: Seminar Room of IMKAI

 

20080402: Part 1

Presentation Materials:

PDF (948 KiB) (updated 2008-06-04)

References:

Theory of Mind, Theory Theory, Simulation

Leslie et al. 2004, Grush 2004, Heit 2005, Adolphs 2006

Cognitive Architecture

NewellSimon 1963, Byrne 2002, Lehman et al. 2006, Minsky et al. 2004

20080423: Part 2

References:

Fitts' Law: Dedicated session at HCI 2008

20080430: Part 3

20080521: Part 4

References:

Survey Paper

Vernon et al. 2007

Early Embodiment

Dewey 1896 (cf. Pfeifer 2000)

Hybrid Designs

Gat 1997,Nilsson 1994,Nilsson 2001

Demos:

N.Nilsson: Teleo-Reactive Towers (Java Applet ZIP, 540KB)

20080528: Part 5

References:

Survey Paper

Vernon et al. 2007, Dewey 1896

Embodied Cognition:

Anderson 2003,Chrisley 2003;

Grounding:

Roy 2005;

Cognitive Architectures, SOAR:

Agre 1995b,Byrne 2002,Lehman et al. 2006, SOAR.

20080611: Presentations I

Presenters:

Eichhorn D.: Machinetta; Presentation Slides (PDF)

Konicar G.: BRAHMS; Presentation Slides (PDF)

 

20080618 Presentations II

Presenters:

Reisinger P.: The interplay between art and cognition Presentation Slides (PDF)

Huber A.: MultiMind Presentation Slides (PDF)

Pilz W.

 

20080625: oral exam

 

Seminar Candidate Topics

• Unified Theory of Cognition: SOAR
• Unified Theory of Cognition: ACT-R
• The CLARION architecture
• Cerebus (I. Horswill)
• Cognitive Modeling of Social Behaviour: Brahms
• Teamwork Modeling: STEAM and Machinetta
• Emulator Theory of Cognition (Rick Grush)
• Attention and Cognitive Control
• Theory of Mind (Pynadath et al., Cog)
• A Survey of Neural Models
• CoSy: Cognitive Systems for Cognitive Assistants

Background literature (local copies)

• Adolphs R. (2006).
  How do we know the minds of others? Domain-specificity, simulation, and enactive social cognition,
  Brain Research, 1079(1):25-35.
  (PDF (190KiB))

• Anderson M.L. (2003).
  Embodied Cognition: A field guide.
  Artificial Intelligence, 149:91-130, 2003.
  (PDF (301KiB))

• Agre P. (1995)
  Computation and Embodied Agency
  Informatica, special issue on computational theories of mind, Gams M. (ed.), 19(4):527-535
  (HTML (39KiB))

• Agre P. (1995b)
  Computational Research on Interaction and Agency
  Artifcial Intelligence 72(1-2):1-52
  (HTML (188KiB))

• Bargh J.A., Chartrand T.L. (1999).
  The Unbearable Automaticity of Being,
  American Psychologist, 54(7):462-479
  (PDF (245KiB))

• Byrne, M.D. (2002).
  Cognitive Architecture,
  in: Jacko J.A., Sears A. (eds.): The human-computer interaction handbook: fundamentals, evolving technologies and emerging applications, Mahwah, NJ, USA:Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  (PDF (174 KiB))

• Chrisley R.: (2003).
  Embodied Artificial Intelligence.
  Artificial Intelligence, 149:131-150.
  (PDF (168KiB))

• Clancey W.J., Sierhuis M., Damer B., Brodsky B. (2006).
  Cognitive Modeling of Social Behaviors,
  in Sun R. (ed.), Cognition and Multi-Agent Interaction,
  Cambridge University Press, New York/Melbourne/Madrid, 151-185.
  (PDF (5.3 MiB))

• Dewey J. (1896).
  The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology
  (First published in Psychological Review, 3:357-370)
  (HTML (35KB))

• Gat E. (1997):
  On Three-Layer Architectures.
  In Kortenkamp D., Bonasso R.P., Murphy R. (eds.):
  Artificial Intelligence and Mobile Robots, MIT/AAAI Press.
  (PDF (112KiB))

• Georgeff M., Pell B., Pollack M., Tambe M., Wooldridge M.J. (1999):
  The Belief-Desire-Intention Model of Agency
  In Müller J.P., Singh M.P., Rao A.S. (eds.):
  Intelligent Agents V. Agent Theories, Architectures and Languages, 5th International Workshop, ATAL'98, Paris, France, July 4-7, 1998, Proceedings, LNApdfI 1555, Springer-Verlag Berlin/Heidelberg.
  (PDF (84KiB))

• Granger R. (2006).
  Engines of the Brain: The Computational Instruction Set of Human Cognition,
  AI Magazine, 27(2):15-32
  (PDF (874KiB))

• Grush R. (2004).
  The emulation theory of representation: Motor control, imagery, and perception,
  Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27(3):377-396
  (PDF (160KiB))

• Heit E. (2005)
  Should we abandon the theory theory?
  Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9(5):215-216. (PDF (70KiB))

• Johnson-Laird P.N. (1980)
  Mental Models in Cognitive Science
  Cognitive Science, 4(1):71-115.
  (PDF (5.7MiB))

• Lehman J.F., Laird J., Rosenbloom P. (2006)
  A gentle introduction to SOAR, an architecture for human cognition: 2006 update,
  University of Michigan
  (PDF (171KiB))

• Leslie A.M., Friedman O., German T.P. (2004).
  Core mechanisms in 'theory of mind',
  Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8(12):528-533.
  (PDF (181KiB))

• Minsky M., Singh P., Sloman A. (2004).
  The St. Thomas Common Sense Symposium: Designing Architectures for Human-Level Intelligence,
  AI Magazine, 25(2):113-124.
  (PDF (140KiB))

• Newell, A., Simon, H. A. (1963).
  GPS, a program that simulates human thought.
  In Feigenbaum E.A., Feldman J. (eds.): Computers and thought, pp. 279-293.
  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  (PDF (381KiB))

• Nilsson N.J. (1994).
  Teleo-Reactive Programs for Agent Control,
  Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2:139-158.
  (PDF (259KiB))

• Nilsson N.J. (2001).
  Teleo-Reactive Programs and the Triple-Tower Architecture,
  Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 5 (2001), Section B, pp. 99-110.
  (PDF (321KiB))

• Niedenthal P.M., Barsalou L.W., Winkielman P., Krauth-Gruber S., Ric F. (2005):
  Embodiment in Attitudes, Social Perception, and Emotion.
  Personality and Social Psychology Review, 9(3):184-211
  (PDF (178KiB))

• Pfeifer R. (2000).
  On the role of embodiment in the emergence of cognition and emotion.
  13th Toyota Conference, Affective Minds, November/December 1999
  revised version, January 2, 2000.
  (PDF (1095KiB))

• Roy D. (2005)
  Grounding words in perception and action: computational insights,
  Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9(8):389-396.
  (PDF (387KiB))

• Schurr N., Okamoto S., Maheswaran R.T., Scerri P., Tambe M. (2006).
  Evolution of a Teamwork Model,
  In Sun R. (ed.): Cognition and Multi-Agent Interaction: From Cognitive Modeling to Social Simulation.
  Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, USA, 397-327.
  (PDF (433 KiB))

• Vernon D., Metta G., Sandini G. (2007).
  A Survey of Artificial Cognitive Systems - Implications For The Autonomous Development of Mental Capabilities in Computational Agents,
  IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 11(2):151-180.
  (PDF (1.6 MiB))

Other relevant web sites

Suggestions for additions are always welcome!

• 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
   
• Science Magazine, 306(5695), 2004: Cognition and Behavior
• Science Magazine, 314(5796), 2006: Modeling the Mind
   
• IEEE Spectrum: The Singularity
• ACT-R home page
• SOAR home page
   
• Association for Rational Psychology
• BR Alpha: Geist und Gehirn
• PBS Scientific American Frontiers
   
• Literature/Scientific Web Portals:
  • ACM Digital Library
  • arXiv.org e-Print archive
  • Blackwell Synergy (acquired by Wiley)
  • Cogprints
  • informaworld
  • iCogSci
  • ingentaconnect
  • JournalSeek
  • Scaruffi, Piero: Annotated Bibliography of Mind-related Topics
  • ScienceDirect
     
• Videos...
  • Intute
  • ScienceHack

Paolo.Petta (AT( OFAI.at Last modified: Wed Jun 25 18:02:21 CEST 2008