Wednesday, August 31, 2011

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