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Dynamics of Language and Cognition University
of Connecticut Psychology Instructor: Whitney Tabor |
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Syllabus |
Address of this page: http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~ps300vc/Dl/syll.html
Last update:
April 24, 2006
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Week (approx.) |
Topic |
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Introduction |
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1
(Jan 17) – 2
(Jan 24) |
Definition
of self-organization |
Johnson
(2002) Chapter 1 excerpt [Photocopy] von
Foerster (1960) [Photocopy] Lendaris
(1964) [Online] Maree & Hogeweg (2001) [Online] |
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Detecting
Self-Organization: |
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3
(Jan 31) |
Architectural
considerations |
Kelso et al. (1984) [Photocopy] |
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4
(Feb 7) |
Kelso
continued and
1/f noise |
van Orden et al. (2003) [Online] Wagenmakers, Farrell, & Ratcliff (2005)
[Online] van Orden
et al. (2005) [Online] |
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5
(Feb 14) |
1/f
noise continued And
Examples of Self-Organization |
10-15
minute presentation of each example |
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Self-organized
grammar from the top down: SOPARSE |
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6
(Feb 21) |
Finish
Examples of SO |
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7 (Feb 28) |
Structure
in sentences |
Fromkin & Rodman, Chapter 5, pp. 162-189
[Photocopy] |
8 (Mar 14)
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Standard
models of sentence processing |
Fodor
& Frazier, 1978; Jurafsky, 1996 |
9 (Mar 23)
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SOPARSE |
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10 (Mar 28)
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SOPARSE;
interference effects |
Tabor,
Galantucci, & Richardson (2004) |
11 (April 4)
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ACT-R
model of interference effects; 1/f
phenomena in Tiernet, a model related to SOPARSE |
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Creating self-organized
grammar from the bottom up: Fractal
Grammars |
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12 |
Introduction
to Neural Networks; Neural Networks
that Learn Sentence Structure |
McClelland, Rumelhart, & Hinton (1986) [handout] Elman
(1990), [Online] Elman (1991)
[Online] |
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13 |
Work
week |
Meet
to talk about papers |
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Conclusions |
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15
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Fractal
grammars inside and outside the skin |
Optional
additional readings: Tabor (2006) Dynamical Insight… [sent by
email], Hutchins (1995) Chapter 5 [handout] |