Dynamics of Language and Cognition

University of Connecticut Psychology
Spring Semester, 2006
Course Number: PSYC 364

Instructor: Whitney Tabor


 

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Last update:  April 24, 2006


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 Week

(approx.)

Topic

Reading

Introduction

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]

Detecting Self-Organization:

 

3 (Jan 31)

Architectural considerations

Kelso et al. (1984) [Photocopy]

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]

 

5 (Feb 14)

1/f noise continued

And Examples of Self-Organization

10-15 minute presentation of each example

 

Self-organized grammar from the top down:  SOPARSE

6 (Feb 21)

Finish Examples of SO

 

 

7 (Feb 28)

Structure in sentences

 

Fromkin & Rodman, Chapter 5, pp. 162-189 [Photocopy]

 

8 (Mar 14)

Standard models of sentence processing

Fodor & Frazier, 1978;  Jurafsky, 1996

 

9 (Mar 23)

SOPARSE

 

Tabor & Hutchins (2004)

10 (Mar 28)

SOPARSE; interference effects

Tabor, Galantucci, & Richardson (2004)

 

11 (April 4)

ACT-R model of interference effects;

1/f phenomena in Tiernet, a model related to SOPARSE

Lewis & Vasishth (2005)

Creating self-organized grammar from the bottom up:  Fractal Grammars

12

Introduction to Neural Networks;  Neural Networks that Learn Sentence Structure

McClelland, Rumelhart, & Hinton (1986) [handout]

Elman (1990), [Online] Elman (1991) [Online]

13

Work week

Meet to talk about papers

Conclusions

15

Fractal grammars inside and outside the skin

Tabor (2002)

Optional additional readings:  Tabor (2006) Dynamical Insight… [sent by email], Hutchins (1995) Chapter 5 [handout]