| Sept. 5 | Zenon Pylyshyn: What's in your mind?
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| - What's in your mind? (ch.1, text)
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| Sept. 12 | Zenon Pylyshyn (continued)
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| Sept. 19 | Karin Stromswold:
Acquisition of language and its dysfunctions
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| - Cognitive and neural aspects of language acquisition
(ch. 13, text and 4 page handout)
| | - Pinker, Language acquisition (recommended)
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| Sept. 26 | Alan Prince: Optimality Theory
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| - Prince, A. and Smolensky, P. 1997.
Optimality: from neural networks to universal grammar,
Science 275, 1604-1610.
| | - Linguistic and cognitive explanation in optimality theory
(ch. 10, text)
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| Oct. 3 | Lila Gleitman: The problem of word learning
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| - L. Gleitman (1990),
The structural sources of verb meanings.
Language Acquisition 1(1) 3 - 55
| | - E. Markman and G. Wachtel (1988),
Children's use of mutual exclusivity to constrain the meanings of words.
Cognitive Psychology 20, 121-157.
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| Oct. 10 | Matthew Stone:
Conversational process and communicative intent
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| - Thomason: Accommodation, Meaning and Implicature
| | - Clark & Wilkes-Gibbs: Referring as a collaborative process
| | - Stone: Towards a computational account of knowledge,
action and inference in instructions
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| Oct. 17 | Alan Leslie: Modularity in infant's and children's cognition
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| - ‘Theory of mind’ as a mechanism of selective attention
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| Oct. 24 | Vidal Annan, Jr.:
The role of immediate past experience on the perceived lightness of surfaces
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| - Dinnerstein, D.(1965)
Previous and Concurrent Visual Experience as
determinants of Phenomenal Shape. American Journal of Psychology, 78,
235-242.
| | - Shimozaki, S.S., Eckstein, M.P., & Thomas, J.P. (1999)
The Maintenance of Apparent Luminance of an Object.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 25(5), 1433-1453.
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| Oct. 31 | Rochel Gelman:
Cognitive Development - Domain Specificity
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| - Domain specificity in cognitive development:
universals and nonuniversals
| | - Nonverbal counting in humans:
The psychophysics of number representation
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| Nov. 7 | Randy Gallistel:
The computational basis of modularity
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| - The replacement of general-purpose learning models
with adaptively specialized learning modules
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| Nov. 14 | Steve Hanson:
Neural Computation: Foundations and Key Problems
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| - Connectionist neuroscience: Representational and learning
issues for neuroscience (ch. 14, text)
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| Nov. 21 | - no class (Tuesday is Thursday class)
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| Nov. 28 | Doug DeCarlo:
Applications of computer vision to HCI
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| - Non-verbal vision-based interfaces
| | - Emancipated pixels: Real-world graphics in the luminous room
| | - Visual sensing of humans for active public interfaces
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| Dec. 5 | Ilona Kovács: Brain and vision
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| - Gestalten of today:
Early processing of visual contours and surfaces
| | - When the brain changes its mind:
Interocular grouping during binocular rivalry
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| Dec. 12 | Thomas V. Papathomas:
Interaction of top-down and bottom-up processes in vision
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| - See how they turn:
False depth and motion in Hughes's reverspectives
| | - The brain as a hypothesis-constructing-and-testing agent
(ch. 7, text)
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Attendance is mandatory - no more than 2 excused absences (submit a letter from your doctor or dean) will be permitted (no unexcused absences). Additional absences will result in reduction of 1/2 grade per absence.
Content/topic of papers to be determined upon consultation with Prof. Pylyshyn or Lepore.