CS319 - Cognitive Modeling
Readings in Research on Cognitive Modeling
- Monday, September 20
- Searle, J. R. (1990, January). Is the brain's mind a computer program?
Scientific American, pp. 26-31.
- Churchland, P. M., & Churchland, P. S. (1990, January).
Could a machine think?
- Discussion leader: John Jones
- Monday, October 4
- Neches, R., Langley, P., & Klahr, D. (1987). Learning, development, and
production systems. In D. Klahr, P. Langley, & R. Neches (Eds.),
Production systems models of learning and development. Cambridge,
MA: MIT Press.
- Anderson, J. R. (1998). Production systems and the ACT-R theory.
In P. Thagard (Ed.), Mind readings: Introductory selections on cognitive
science (pp. 59-76). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Discussion leader: Randy Jones
- Wednesday, October 13
- Altmann, E. M., & Trafton, J. G. (2002). Memory for goals: An
activation-based model. Cognitive Science, 25(1), 39-83.
- Discussion leader: Russ Spitler
- Monday, October 25
- Langley, P. (1982). Language acquisition through error recovery.
Cognition and Brain Theory, 5, 211-255.
- Discussion leader: Noah Smith
- Monday, November 8
- Jones, R. M., & VanLehn, K. (1994). Acquisition of children's
addition strategies: A model of impasse-free, knowledge-level
learning.
Machine Learning, 16, 11-36.
- Discussion leader: Margaret Trzyna
- Monday, November 15
- Brown, J. S., & VanLehn, K. (1980). Repair theory: A generative
theory of bugs in procedural skills.
Cognitive Science, 1, 193-215.
- Discussion leader: Courtney Goodie
- Monday, November 22
- VanLehn, K., Jones, R. M., & Chi, M. T. H. (1992). A model of the
self-explanation effect.
The Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2, 1-59.
- Discussion leader: Chris Duncombe
- Monday, November 29
- Jones, R. M., & Fleischman, E. S. (2001). Cascade explains and informs
the utility of fading examples to problems.
Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Conference of the Cognitive
Science Society, 459-464. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
- Fleischman, E. S., & Jones, R. M. (2002). Why example fading works: A
qualitative analysis using Cascade.
Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Conference of the Cognitive
Science Society, 298-303. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
- Discussion leader: Chris Ries
- Wednesday, December 1
- Jones, R. M., & Laird, J. E. (1997). Constraints on the design of
a high-level model of cognition.
Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive
Science Society. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
- Ohlsson, S., & Jewett, J. J. (1997). Simulation models and the
power law of learning.
Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive
Science Society. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
- Discussion leader: Randy Jones
Randolph M. Jones
(rjones@colby.edu)