CS397 - Introduction to Cognitive Science and Cognitive Modeling

Reading for student-led discussions

• Simon, H. A. (1998). What is an ``explanation'' of behavior?. In P. Thagard (Ed.), Mind readings: Introductory selections on cognitive science (pp. 1-28). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• 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? Scientific American, pp. 31-37.
• Johnson-Laird, P. N., & Byrne, R. M. J. (1998). The cognitive science of deduction. In P. Thagard (Ed.), Mind readings: Introductory selections on cognitive science (pp. 29-58). 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.
• Brown, J. S., & VanLehn, K. (1980). Repair theory: A generative theory of bugs in procedural skills. Cognitive Science, 1, 193-215.
• Jones, R. M., & VanLehn, K. (1994). Acquisition of children's addition strategies: A model of impasse-fee, knowledge-level learning. Machine Learning, 16, 11-36.
• Gentner, D., & Markman, A. B. (1998). Structure mapping in analogy and similarity. In P. Thagard (Ed.), Mind readings: Introductory selections on cognitive science (pp. 127-156). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Langley, P. (1982). Language acquisition through error recovery. Cognition and Brain Theory, 5, 211-255.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.