85-412/712 Cognitive Modeling Readings, Notes, and Software
Current Environment
Installation information and system requirements for the Environment are
available in the manual available as either a
Microsoft Word
document or a
pdf file.
The Environment now includes the Tcl/Tk side of the Environment as an
executable for each system (see the manual for more information), and here are
the downloads:
The unit and assignment for the week will be discussed in class each Tuesday. The paper will be discussed in class
on
Thursday. Students will be expected to email the instructors (John
Anderson - ja@cmu.edu and Phil Pavlik - ppavlik@andrew.cmu.edu) one question
based on either that week's assignment or that week's reading before the
Thursday class by 11pm on Wednesday.
Below you will find pointers to the pdf texts of the notes and readings
(where available). The notes are also available in Microsoft Word
format and html. We also included pointers to the files containing
the models discussed in class.
Week |
Date |
Unit |
Description |
Slides |
Models |
Papers |
1 |
Jan 14 |
Understanding Production Systems
html
doc
pdf |
|
|
Windows Mac OS
Unix |
Anderson, Bothell, Byrne, and Lebiere.
An Integrated Theory of Mind. |
2 |
Jan 21 |
Perception and Motor Actions in ACT-R
html
doc
pdf |
html
doc
pdf |
Slides |
Windows Mac OS
Unix |
Anderson, J.R., Lebiere, C.
The
Newell Test for a Theory of Mind. |
3 |
Jan 27 |
Attention
htm
doc
pdf |
html doc
pdf |
|
Windows Mac OS
Unix |
Kieras, D., Meyer D. An
Overview of the EPIC Architecture for Cognition and Performance with
Application to Human-Computer Interaction. |
4 |
Feb 4 |
Complex Processing
html
doc
pdf |
html
doc
pdf |
|
Windows Mac OS
Unix |
Anderson, J.R., Qin, Y., Stenger,
V. A., and Carter, C. S. Use of a Cognitive Architecture and fMRI to Mutually
inform Each Other |
5 |
Feb 11 |
Activation and Latency
html
doc
pdf |
html doc
pdf |
Slides
Demo1
Demo 2 |
Windows Mac OS
Unix |
Just, M.A., Carpenter, P.A., Varma, S. Computational Modeling of High-Level
Cognition and Brain Function. |
6 |
Feb 18 |
Activation and Probability of Recall
html
doc
pdf |
html doc
pdf |
|
Windows Mac OS
Unix |
Anderson and Schooler
Reflections on the Environment of Memory |
7 |
Feb 25 |
Base-level Learning and Accuracy
html
doc
pdf |
html doc
pdf |
Slides
Demo 1 |
Windows Mac OS
Unix |
Young and Lewis The Soar Cognitive
Architecture and Human Working Memory |
8 |
Mar 4 |
Selecting Productions on the Basis of Their
Utilities and Learning these Utilities
html
doc
pdf |
|
html doc
pdf |
|
Windows Mac OS
Unix |
None |
9 |
Mar 13 |
Production Rule Learning
html
doc
pdf |
|
|
Windows Mac OS
Unix |
Taatgen and Anderson Why do
children learn to say “Broke”? A model of learning the past tense without
feedback |
ppavlik@andrew.cmu.edu
|