Course Title: Human concepts and knowledge representations: The impact of language, memory, and decision making, PSYC689-602Class Website:http://www.tamu.edu/classes/psyc/takashi/psyc689/psyc689.htmMain Theme/Key WordsLanguage, cognition, embodiment, embodied mind, symbol system, neural network, evolutionary psychology, computational modelingTentative reading listMany of the readings can be retrieved from the class website.Aug. 30Organizational meetingSome intro.Sep. 1 & 6 & 8 & 13: Foundations:Marr, D. (1982). Vision. New York: W. H. Freeman and Company. pp. 3-38Newell, A., & Simon, H. A. (1976). Computer Science as Empirical Inquiry: Symbols and Search, Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery, 19, 113-126.Simon, H. A. (1990). Invariants of human behavior. Annual Review of Psychology, 41, 1-19.Marcus, G. F. (2001). The algebraic mind. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 1-34Title: The Embodied Mind : Cognitive Science and Human Experience (eBook) by Varela, Francisco J.; Thompson, Evan.; Rosch, Eleanor. Publication: Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press, 1993.Read: pp. 35-59, pp. 85-100Embodiment: Vera:Cosmides, L., Tooby, J., & Barkow, J. H. (1992). Introduction: Evolutionary psychology and conceptual integration. In J. H. Barkow, L. Cosmides, & J. Tooby (Eds.), (pp. 3-15), The Adaptive Mind. New York: Oxford University Press.Rules of Attraction – LA TimesSep. 15 & 20 (language & brain)Warrington & Shallice (1984) Category specific semantic impairments. Brain 107, 829-854Damasio, A. R., & Damasio, H. (1992). Brain and language. Scientific American, September, 89-95.Damasio, A. (1989). The brain binds entities and events by multiregional activation from convergent zone. Neural Computation, 1, 123-132.Farah, M. J., & McClelland, J. L. (1991). A computational model of semantic memory impairment: Modality specificity and emergent category specificity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 120(4), 339-357.Sep. 22 & 27 & 29 (representation & brain)Kosslyn, S. M., Koening, O., Barrett, A., Cave, C., B., Tang, J., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (1989). Evidence for two types of spatial representations: Hemispheric specialization for categorical and coordinate relations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 15, 723-735.Barsalou, L. W. (1999). Perceptual symbol systems. Behavioral Brain Sciences, 22, 577-660.Miyashita, Y. (1995). How the brain creates imagery: Projection to primary visual cortex. Sciencem, 268 (5218, Jun., 23), 1719-1720.Oct. 4 & 6: (symbols, language, neural network)Vygotsky, L. (1978). Mind in Society. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (ch 6 p. 79-91))Saffran, J.R., Aslin, R.N., Newport, E.L., (1996). Statistical learning by 8-month-old infants. Science 274,1926–1928Available at:http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/274/5294/1926?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=saffran&searchid=1124826879402_8498&stored_search=&FIRSTINDEX=0McClelland, J. L., & Plaut, D. C. (1999). Does generalization in infant learning implicate abstract algegra-like rules? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 3, 166-168.Marcus, G. F. (1999). Connectionism: With or without rules? Response to J. L. McClelland and D. C. Plaut. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 3, 168-170Fodor, J. A., & Pylyshyn, Z. W. (1988). Connectionism and cognitive architecture: A critical analysis. Cognition, 28. 3-71.Oct 11 & 13Midterm (Take Home exam)Discussion and term projectOct. 18 & 20: (inductive inference & category membership)Gelman, S. & Markman, E. M. (1986). Categories and induction in young children. Cognition, 23, 183-209.Brown, R. (1957). Linguistic determinism and the part of speech. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 55, 1-5.Markman, E. M., & Hutchinson, J. E. (1984). Children's sensitivity to constraints on word meaning: Taxonomic versus thematic relations. Cognitive Psychology, 16, 1-27.Oct. 25 & 27: (symbol system, language and culture)Tomasello, M. (1999). The cultural Origins of Human Cognition. (pp. 1-55). Cambridge: Harvard University Press.Deacon, T. W. (1997). The symbolic species. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. (ch. 2&3) pp. 47-101Nov. 1 & 3: (inductive reasoning)Sloman, S. A. (1996). The empirical case for two systems of reasoning. Psychological Bulletin, 119, 3-22.Gelman, S., & Heyman, G. D. (1999). Carrot-eaters and creature-believers: The effects of lexicalization on children’s inferences about social categories. Psychological Science, 10, 489-493.Yamauchi, T. (2005). Labeling bias and categorical induction: Generative aspects of category information. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 31, 538-553.Walton, G. W., & Banaji, M. R. (2004). Being what you say: The effect of essentialist linguistic labels on preferences. Social Cognition, 22, 193-213.Nov. 8 & 10 (memory & brain)Sherry, D. F., & Schacter, D. L. (1987). The evolution of multiple memory systems. Psychological Review, Vol. 94, 439-454.Ungerleider, L. (1995). Functional brain imaging studies of cortical mechanisms for memory. Science, 270, 769-775.Poldrack, R. A., Clark, J., Pare-Blagoev, E. J., Shohamay, D., Creso Moyano, J., Myers, C., & Gluck, M. A. (2001). Interactive memory systems in the human brain. Nature, 414, 546-550.Nov. 15 & 17 (computational modeling)McClelland, J. L., McNaughton, B. L., & O'Reilly, R. C. (1995). Why there are complementary learning systems in the hippocampus and neocortex: Insights from the successes and failures of connectionist models of learning and memory. Psychological Review, 102, 419-457.Myung, I. J., & Pitt, M. (2004). Mathematical Modeling. In H. Pashler & J. Wixted (Eds.), Stevens' Handbook of Experimental Psychology (Vol. 4, pp. 429-460). New York: John Wiley & Sons.Rumelhart, D. E. (1990). Brain style computation: Learning and generalization. In S. F. Zornetzer, J. L. Davis, & C. Lau (Eds.), An introduction to neural and electronic networks (pp. 405-420). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.Nov 22.Class: Discussion on term projectsNov. 29 & Dec 1: (decision making & evolution)Gigerenzer, G., & Goldstone, D. G. (1996). Reasoning the fast and frugal way: Models of bounded rationality. Psychological Review, 103, 650-669.Todd, P. M., & Gigerenzer, G. (2003). Bounding rationality to the world. Journal of Economic Psychology, 24, 143-165.Dec. 6:Dead day; No classDec 12.Deadline: Class project reportAmericans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Policy StatementAcademic Integrity StatementCourse Title: Human concepts and
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