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Probabilistic Models of Cognition: The Mathematics of Mind

January 24 - 28, 2005

IPAM Building
Room 1200

Printable Version

Monday, January 24, 2005

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:00 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks

Vision

9:30 - 10:30

Dan Kersten (University of Minnesota)

"Human Object Perception as Bayesian Inference"
Presentation Files (Zip Archive)

10:30 - 10:45 Discussion
10:45 - 11:15 Break
11:15 - 12:15

Paul Schrater (University of Minnesota)

"Natural cost functions for contact point selection in grasping"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

12:15 - 12:30 Discussion
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Memory/Cognitive Architecture

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Rich Shiffrin (University of Indiana)

"Bayesian-based models for perception and memory: ROUSE and REM"

2:00 - 3:00

David Huber (University of Maryland)

"Bayesian-based models for perception and memory: ROUSE and REM"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

3:00 - 3:15 Discussion
3:15 - 3:45 Break
3:45 - 4:45

Mark Steyvers (University of California at Irvine)

"Probabilistic topic models and associative memory"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

4:45 - 5:00 Discussion
5:00 - 5:30 Break

Associative Learning

5:30 - 6:30

Peter Dayan (Gatsby)

"(Approximately) Optimal Models of Animal Conditioning"
Presentation Files (Zip Archive)

6:30 - 6:45 Discussion
6:45 - 7:45 Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, January 25, 2005

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:00 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)

From Associative Learning to Causal Inference

9:00 - 10:00

Aaron Courville (Carnegie Mellon University)

"A latent variable account of configural conditioning"
Presentation (PDF File)

10:00 - 10:15 Discussion
10:15 - 10:45 Break
10:45 - 11:45

Judea Pearl (UCLA)

"The Mathematics of Causal Modeling"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

11:45 - 12:00 Discussion
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

1:30 - 2:30

Patricia Cheng (UCLA)

"A Probabilistic Representation of Causation: Some Implications"

2:30 - 2:45 Discussion
2:45 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 4:15

Alan Yuille (UCLA)

"Image Parsing and DDMCMC"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

4:15 - 4:30 Discussion
4:30 - 5:00 Break
5:00 - 6:00

Tom Griffiths (Brown University)

"Theory-Based Causal Induction"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

6:00 - 6:15 Discussion

Wednesday, January 26, 2005

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:00 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)

Concepts and Categorization

9:00 - 10:00

Jacob Feldman (Rutgers University)

"Detecting simple patterns in featural data"

10:00 - 10:15 Discussion
10:15 - 10:45 Break
10:45 - 11:45

Josh Tenenbaum (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

 

11:45 - 12:00 Discussion
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

1:30 - 2:30

David Danks (Carnegie Mellon University)

"Graphical Models for Psychological Categorization"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

2:30 - 2:45 Discussion
2:45 - 3:15 Break

Structure in Probabilistic Models

3:15 - 4:15

Eric Mjolsness (University of California at Irvine)

"Variable-Structure Probabilistic Models"

4:15 - 4:30 Discussion
4:30 - 5:00 Break
5:00 - 6:00

Stuart Russell (University of California at Berkeley)

"Uncertainty in an unknown world"
Presentation (PDF File)

6:00 - 6:15 Discussion
6:15 - 7:30 Dinner (Hosted by IPAM)

Thursday, January 27, 2005

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:00 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)

Motor Systems

9:00 - 10:00

Daniel Wolpert (Sobell Dept. of Motor Neuroscience)

"Probabilistic mechanisms in sensorimotor control"
Presentation (PDF File)

10:00 - 10:15 Discussion
10:15 - 10:45 Break
10:45 - 11:45

Emanuel Todorov (University of California at San Diego)

"On the interplay of noise and redundancy in the motor system"

11:45 - 12:00 Discussion
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Planning, Decision Making, and Imitation

Afternoon Session

1:30 - 2:30

Brian Stankiewicz (University of Texas, Austin)

"The role of belief updating in human sequential decision making with uncertainty"
Presentation (PDF File)

2:30 - 2:45 Discussion
2:45 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 4:15

Michael Lee (University of Adelaide)

"A generative model of human performance on an optimal stopping problem"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

4:15 - 4:30 Discussion
4:30 - 5:00 Break
5:00 - 6:00

Rajesh Rao (University of Washington)

"A Bayesian Model of Sensorimotor Learning and Imitation in Infants and Robots"

6:00 - 6:15 Discussion

Friday, January 28, 2005

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:00 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)

Language

9:00 - 10:00

Nick Chater (University of Warwick)

"Statistical Language Learning: Analysis of an 'Ideal' Language Learner"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

10:00 - 10:15 Discussion
10:15 - 10:45 Break
10:45 - 11:45

Chris Manning (Stanford University)

"Learning the Structure of Human Languages"

11:45 - 12:00 Discussion
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

1:30 - 2:30

Frank Keller (University of Edinburgh)

"Probabilistic Models of Human Sentence Processing"
Presentation (PDF File)

2:30 - 2:45 Discussion
2:45 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 4:15

Adam Albright (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

"Modeling competition and uncertainty in word class decisions"
Presentation (PDF File)

4:15 - 4:30 Discussion
4:30 - 5:00 Break
5:00 - 6:00 Summary Discussion

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