Animal communication

The readings for this week are here

https://umdrive.memphis.edu/aolney/internal/cogsci_readings/griebel_readings.zip

Representations in voles

Three papers this week. You probably want to start with the 2011 paper, which is an overview without the technical details.

https://umdrive.memphis.edu/aolney/internal/cogsci_readings/ferkin_readings.zip

Animal cognition

Stephan Blatti will start the animal section next week.

He's proposed 2 readings. Since one is really long, I suggest you just read it and consider the second on optional.

https://umdrive.memphis.edu/aolney/internal/cogsci_readings/blatti_readings.zip

That means read the BBS article :)

Markov logic

Next week, Pedro Domingos will visit to talk about MLN.

He gave me a lot of readings for you :)

My suggestion is that you read the long paper first, but focus particularly on the structure of MLN, rather than the proofy bits. So maybe skip 10-17 and read over the applications as thoroughly as you like.

Then please read the other 2 papers carefully :)

https://umdrive.memphis.edu/aolney/internal/cogsci_readings/pedro_readings.zip

Logic

The reading for next week is

https://umdrive.memphis.edu/aolney/internal/cogsci_readings/bos2011.pdf

The goal of language understanding

The reading for next week is here

https://umdrive.memphis.edu/aolney/internal/cogsci_readings/sowa_readings.zip

Meaning representations (logic like)

The readings for this week are here

https://umdrive.memphis.edu/aolney/internal/cogsci_readings/rus_reading.zip

Read up to page 39 in the chapter and all of the conf paper

Perceptual and Linguistic Information in Models of Semantic Representation

The readings for this week are

Read these two for sure:

Johns, B. T., & Jones, M. N. (to appear). Perceptual inference from global lexical structure. Topics in Cognitive Science.

Riordan, B., & Jones, M. N. (2011). Redundancy in linguistic and perceptual experience: Comparing distributional and feature-based models of semantic representation. Topics in Cognitive Science, 3:2, 303-345.

This one is optional:

Johns, B. T., & Jones, M. N. (2010). Evaluating the random representation assumption of lexical semantics in cognitive models. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 17, 662-672.

Latent semantic analysis and Neighborhoods

The reading for this week is:

Read this carefully:

https://umdrive.memphis.edu/aolney/internal/cogsci_readings/dp1.LSAintro.pdf

Read this, skip the math if you want:

https://umdrive.memphis.edu/aolney/internal/cogsci_readings/p995.pdf

Read these if you are interested (optional):

https://umdrive.memphis.edu/aolney/internal/cogsci_readings/xhu1.pdf
https://umdrive.memphis.edu/aolney/internal/cogsci_readings/xhu2.pdf

Metaphor

The readings for this week are here:

https://umdrive.memphis.edu/aolney/internal/cogsci_readings/kreuz_readings.zip

There are 2 papers from 2 different perspectives :)

Concepts

The reading for this week is

https://umdrive.memphis.edu/aolney/internal/cogsci_readings/bb_concepts.pdf

It's a little long, but good :)

Welcome!

This is the blog for the Cognitive Science Seminar (COMP/PHIL/PSYC 7514/8514) at the University of Memphis, fall 2011.

On this blog you can post your responses to readings, which will also be distributed on the blog.

The first reading (for Sept 7th, responses due by noon Sept 6th) is here:

https://umdrive.memphis.edu/aolney/internal/cogsci_readings/Blei2011.pdf

You will need your email uid and password to access this and other readings.

Don't forget to sign up for a day to present on the doodle poll (url is on the syllabus)

The slides for the first talk (my intro talk) are here

https://umdrive.memphis.edu/aolney/internal/cogsci_readings/introduction.pptx

Optional reading (psych applications of topic models)

http://psiexp.ss.uci.edu/research/papers/Griffiths_Steyvers_Tenenbaum_2007.pdf