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This is a list of the readings and topics. The complete citations for the readings are given below. *=short week.

Area	Date	Topic	Readings	Lab
Introduction	Aug 18	What is cognitive modeling? W: Guest lecture, Prof. Ashok Goel.	Schunn, Crowley, & Okada (1998).	No lab.
Representation	Aug 25	What does a representation do?	Markman, Ch. 1-4; Markman & Dietrich (2000).	Introduce lab, prepare interest groups. Ontology exercise.
	Sep 3*	Subsymbolic representations. Neural nets.	Markman, p 46-58 (review)	Neural net modeling lab
Problem Solving	Sep 8	ACT-R Model	Anderson, Ch. 1-4	ACT-R exercise
	Sep 15	ACT-R Model	Anderson, Ch. 3-4	ACT-R exercise
	Sep 22	ACT-R/Bayesian Networks	Anderson, Ch.6, Bayesian networks without tears.	Bayesian Networks Lab
Problem-Solving, part 2	Sep 29	ACT-R models	Anderson, Ch. 7,8,11	Group planning session
	Oct 6	ACT-R models	Anderson, Ch. 12, Peterson & Simon article on subitization	In-lab demonstration
	Oct 15*	Discussion of project papers		No lab
Project Papers	Oct 20	Visual Search	Wolfe, Heinke & Humphreys, Zandt
	Oct 27	ACT-R/PM	Byrne & Anderson, Byrne	ACT-R/PM Lab
	Nov 3	Preattentive Factors	Treisman & Gelade, Schneider & Shiffrin
	Nov 10	ACT-R/PM & Eye Movements, CaMEra	Rayner, Salvucci
Ron's Choice	Nov 17	Analogy & Similarity	Structure-Mapping Theory, MAC/FAC	No Lab
	Nov 24*	Symmetry	Ferguson	No Lab or Class on Wednesday
Projects	Dec 1	Final presentations
	Dec 8	Finals Week. Reports due.

 

References

Anderson, J. R. (1993). Rules of the Mind. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Byrne, M. D. (2001). ACT-R/PM and menu selection: applying a cognitive architecture to HCI. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. 55, 41-84. pdf

Byrne, M. D. & Anderson, J. R. (1998). Perception and Action. In J. R. Anderson & C. Lebiere, Eds. The Atomic Components of Thought, pp. 143-168. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Charniak, E. (1991). Bayesian networks without tears. AI Magazine , 12(4), 50-63.pdf

Gentner, D. (1983). Structure-Mapping: A Theoretical Framework for Analogy. Cognitive Science, 7, 155-170. pdf

Gentner, D. (1989). The mechanisms of analogical learning. In S. Vosniadou & A. Ortony (Eds.), Similarity and Analogical Reasoning (pp. 199-241). London: Cambridge University Press.

Gentner, D. and Forbus, K. (1991). A model of similarity-based retrieval. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society. pdf

Heinke, D. & Humphreys, G. Computational Models of Visual Selective Attention: a Review. In Connectionist Models in Psychology, Psychology Press, G. Houghton (Ed.) in press.

Holyoak, K. J., & Thagard, P. (1989). Analogical mapping by constraint satisfaction. Cognitive Science, 13, 295-355.

Hummel, J. E., & Holyoak, K. J. (1997). Distributed representations of structure: A theory of analogical access and mapping. Psychological Review, 104(3), 427-466.

Markman, A. B. (1999). Knowledge Representation. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Markman, A. B., & Dietrich, E. (2000). In defense of representation. Cognitive Psychology, 40, 138-171.PDF

Peterson, S. A. & T. J. Simon (2000). Computational Evidence for the Subitizing Phenomenon as an Emergent Property of the Human Cognitive Architecture. Cognitive Science, 24(1), 93-122.

Rayner, K. (1998). Eye movements in reading and information processing: 20 years of research. Psychological Bulletin, 124(3), 372-422.

Salvucci, D. D. (2002?). A model of eye movements and visual attention.

Schneider, W., & Shiffrin, R. M. (1977). Controlled and automatic human information processing: I. Detection, search, and attention. Psychological Review, 84(1), 1-66.

Schun, C. D., Crowley, K., & Okada, T. (1998). The growth of multidisciplinarity in the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science, 22(1), 107-130.PDF

Treisman, A. M., & Gelade, G. (1980). A feature-integration theory of attention. Cognitive Psychology, 12, 97-136.

Tversky, A. (1977). Features of similarity. Psychological Review, 84(4), 327-352.

Wolfe, J. M. (2001). Asymmetries in visual search: An introduction. Perception & Psychophysics, 63(3), 381-389.

Zandt, T.V., Colonius, H. & Proctor, R. W. (2000). A comparison of two response time models applied to perceptual matching. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 7(2), 208-256.