VO 501.041, SE 501.045: Computer Models of "The Mind" (SS2010)

Index

• Organisational matters (last change: 2010-06-24)
• Materials
  • Presentation materials
  • Background literature (local copies)
• Other relevant web sites

Organisational matters

• All students are required to 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: Friday, April 30, 2009
   

• VO:

  Units:

  1. 20100310, 14-16 c.t.
  2. 20100317, 14-16 c.t.
  3. 20100324, 14-16 c.t.
  4. 20100421, 14-16 c.t.
  5. 20100505, 14-16 c.t.
  6. 20100512, 14-16 c.t.
  7. 20100609, 14-16 c.t.
  8. 20100616, 14-15 c.t.
  9. 20100623, 14-15 c.t. at OFAI

  Exams:

  • 20100630 (first exam date)

    Confirmed registrations:

     0326517

     0403645

     0602712

     0905868

    a0949063

    
     

   

• SE Meetings and Deadlines:

  • This edition of the SE will use [Sun R. 2008] as one reference
  • 2010-03-10: Discussion of SE candidate topics
  • 2010-03-24: Assignment of SE topics and presentation dates completed
  • 2010-04-16: 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)
  • Short draft and final papers should comply with the ACM SIG Proceedings format.
  • 2010-05-19: Short draft papers and presentations (25mins):
    1. Matthias Bernhard: Computational Models of Attention (Chapter 15)
    2. Martin Kysel: Perceptual Processing (Chapter 23)
    3. Simon Danner: Models of biological neural systems
    4. Christian Papauschek: Memory prediction models
  • 2010-05-26: Short draft papers and presentations (25mins):
    1. Simon Mayr: Models of Morality
    2. Tamas Madl: (Deductive) Reasoning (Chapter 12)
    3. Christoph Huber: Models of scientific explanation (Chapter 20)
    4. Roberto Cruz Murcia: Computational Cognitive Models of Consciousness
  • 2010-06-02: Short draft papers and presentations (25mins):
    1. Ilaria Dalvit: A Gentle Introduction to Soar
  • Final write-ups due:
    • 2010-06-16: Christian Papauschek: Memory prediction models
    • 2010-07-05: Roberto Cruz Murcia: Computational Cognitive Models of Consciousness
    • 2010-07-05: Christoph Huber: Models of scientific explanation (Chapter 20)
    • 2010-07-14: Simon Mayr: Models of Morality
    • 2010-07-16: Ilaria Dalvit: A Gentle Introduction to Soar
    • 2010-07-30: Matthias Bernhard: Computational Models of Attention
    • 2010-07-30: Simon Danner: Models of biological neural systems
    • 2010-07-30: Martin Kysel: Perceptual Processing (Chapter 23)
    • 2010-07-30: Tamas Madl: (Deductive) Reasoning (Chapter 12)

• 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: compmind2010 (AT( ofai.at (email address verified 20100310).

   

Materials

Presentation materials

(made available during the course)

20100310: Preliminary discussion on logistics, Introduction

• When: 14:00 (c.t.)
• Where: Seminar Room of IAI
• SE introduction follows immediately at 15:00 (c.t.)

Presentation Materials:

PDF (1,2 MiB)

References:

Theory of Mind, Theory Theory, Simulation

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

 

20100317: Seminar assignments, Computational cognitive modelling

Presentation Materials:

see 20100310

References:

Computational cognitive modelling

Fum et al. 2007

 

20100324: Seminar assignments, Computational cognitive modelling

Presentation Materials:

20100310

References:

Chappell et al. 2010

 

20100421: Model types, Cognitive architecture, GPS

Presentation Materials:

see 20100310

PDF (150KiB)

References:

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

GPS: NewellSimon 1963

 

20100505: Early Computational Cognitive Systems

Presentation Materials:

PDF (179KiB)

References:

Cognitive Architectures

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

Short videoclip

Newell 1991

 

20100512: Cognitive Architectures: Modelling Approaches/Paradigms of Cognition

Presentation Materials:

PDF (2.2 MiB)

References:

Cognitive Architectures

Vernon et at. 2007

Example Programme:

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

 

20100609: VO: Paradigms of Cognition (ctd.)

Presentation Materials:

see 20100512

Recommended Reading (re: Cognitivism, PSS):

Lehman et al. 2006

 

20100616: VO: Paradigms of Cognition (ctd.)

Presentation Materials:

see 20100512

Pointers:

iCub: an open source humanoid robotic platform

MIT / Deb Roy:

Ripley: Grounding language in perception and action

BBC NEWS short article covering the Human Speechome project

Deb Roy's research page at MIT Media Lab's Cognitive Machines group

 

20100623, OFAI: VO: Paradigms of Cognition, discussion of examination modalities, wrap-up

Location: seminar room at OFAI, Freyung 6/6, third floor

Presentation Materials:

see 20100512

 

20100630: First exam

Location: IAI, Seminar room

Time: 14-15 (c.t.)

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.

 

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))

• 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))

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

• Anderson J.R., Lebiere C. (2003)
  The Newell Test for a theory of cognition
  Behavioral and Brain Sciences 26(05), 587-601
  (and Open Peer Commentary and authors' response, 601-639)
  (PDF (935KiB))

• 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 (174KiB))

• Chappell J., Thorpe S., Hawes N., Sloman A. (2010).
  Preface to The AIIB 2010 Symposium: AI-Inspired Biology,
  in: Proceedings of the AIIB 2010 Symposium: AI-Inspired Biology, AISB 2010 Convention, AISB.
  (PDF (60KiB))

• 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))

• Fitts P.M. (1954).
  The Information Capacity of the Human Motor System in Controlling the Amplitude of Movement
  (First published in Journal of Experimental Psychology 47:381-391)
  (PDF (1.132 MiB))

• Fum D., Missier F.D., Stocco A. (2007).
  The cognitive modeling of human behavior:
  Why a model is (sometimes) better than 10,000 words,
  Cognitive Systems Research, 8(3), pp.135-142 (Editorial).
  (PDF (152 KiB))

• 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))

• Grosjean, M., Shiffrar, M., and Knoblich, G. (2007).
  Fitts's Law Holds for Action Perception.
  Psychological Science, 18(2), 95-99.
  (PDF (168KiB))

• 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))

• Newell, A. (December 4, 1991).
  Cognitive architectures as way to answer the scientific question, "How can the human mind occur in the physical universe?"
  Published on an ACT-R page at CMU (last access: 2010-05-06)
  (FLV videoclip (19MiB))

• 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))

• Sun R. (ed.) (2008).
  The Cambridge Handbook of Computational Psychology.
  Cambridge University Press, New York / Melbourne / Madrid.
  (PDF)

• 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!

• EUCog II: 2nd European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems, Interaction and Robotics
  • AIIB Symposium 2010: AI-inspired Biology
  
   
• AAAI Topics: Cognitive Science, Mind/Philosophy
• Cognitive Science Society
• Journal of Cognitive Systems Research
• 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
   
• Science Magazine, 306(5695), 2004: Cognition and Behavior
• Science Magazine, 314(5796), 2006: Modeling the Mind
   
• IEEE Spectrum: The Singularity

• The Cognitive Architectures Page maintained by Ron Sun
• ACT-R home page
• SOAR home page
   
• Predicting Cognitive Performance in Open-ended Dynamic Tasks: A Modeling Comparison Challenge, Dynamics Stocks and Flows (DSF) scenario, ICCM 2009

• Association for Rational Psychology
• BR Alpha: Geist und Gehirn
• PBS Scientific American Frontiers
   
• Volterra replication prize of the ESSA in social simulation

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

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