85-412/712 Cognitive Modeling Schedule

  • Lectures are Tuesdays and Thursdays 10:30-11:50 in Baker Hall 340A.
  • The schedule is subjected to change throughout the semester.
  • The lecture on Thursday Jan 16 is in the Psychology Computer Lab (332P).
Date Lecture Speaker(s)

Tue Jan 14 Organizational Class.
Introduction to ACT-R 5.0.
John Anderson

Thu Jan 16 Introduction to software.
Understanding production systems.
Dan Bothell
John Anderson

Tue Jan 21 Perception and Motor Action. John Anderson

Thu Jan 23 Discussion of Newell paper. Phil Pavlik

Tue Jan 28 Attention. John Anderson

Thu Jan 30 Discussion of Epic paper. John Anderson

Tue Feb 4 Complex Processing John Anderson

Thu Feb 6 Discussion of fMRI paper. John Anderson

Tue Feb 11 Activation and Latency Phil Pavlik

Thu Feb 13 Discussion of Just and Carpenter  paper. John Anderson

Tue Feb 18 Activation and Probability of Recall John Anderson

Thu Feb 20 Discussion of Anderson and Schooler John Anderson

Tue Feb 25 Activation and Learning and Accuracy Phil Pavlik

Thu Feb 27 Discussion of Soar Paper. John Anderson

Tue Mar 4 Utility Learning  John Anderson

Thu Mar 6 No Class John Anderson

Tues Mar 11 Production Rule Learning John Anderson

Thu Mar 13 Discussion of Taatgen Past Tense paper John Anderson

Tues Mar 18 Discuss exam and Project Preliminary due -- submit a 1 page description plus a document (most likely a journal article) describing the task you are going to model John Anderson

Thu Mar 20 Exam John Anderson



ppavlik@andrew.cmu.edu