Architectures for Intelligence 2004


Teacher: Niels Taatgen Teaching assistant: Lisette Mol

Course schedule:

Date Subject Files Literature
7 sep Introduction to cognitive modeling. lecture1.pdf Architectures of Cognition
10 sep Overview of modeling techniques, symbolic ACT-R An Integrated theory of Mind, tutorial unit 1
14 sep Models of problem solving, Soar Newell, Shaw & Simon article, Soar overview
17 sep Structure of a model. Perception and Action Tutorial units 2 and 3, Hornof & Kieras article on EPIC
21 sep ACT-R: declarative memory Tutorial units 4-5
24 sep Working memory Capacity Lovett, Daily & Reder paper
28 sep ACT-R: procedural memory Tutorial unit 6
1 oct Rule learning 1 Learning Rules and Productions, tutorial unit 7, Taatgen & Anderson article
5 oct Gastcollege Hedderik van Rijn: Cognitive Development
8 oct Rule learning 2 Taatgen & Lee
12 oct Mapping cognitive models onto the brain An Integrated theory of Mind
15 oct Applications of cognitive modeling and validity of the modeling approach Roberts & Pashler


Literature

Reader: Architecturen voor Cognitie (KIB.AVI03). This reader contains two parts (numbered 1 and 2), one part with articles and one with the ACT-R tutorial.

Website: http://www.ai.rug.nl/avi/

Assignments

There will be three assigments:

Assignment 1: Introduction ACT-R & Multi-column addition. Due: 24 September 2004

Assignment 2: Subitizing. Due: 8 October 2004

Assignment 3: Alphabet-Arithmetic. Due: 22 October 2004

A link with results will appear here in due time

Place

There are two scheduled lab sessions: Thursday 13-16 and Friday 13-16. We will start in the second week. You only need to attend one lab session: two sessions are scheduled because of the size of the group. All lab sessions are in the Muntinggebouw (Grote Kruisstraat 2), room 229.

Do the assignments at home?

The software you need to do the assignments can be obtained from the CMU website. Make sure to follow the ACT-R 5.0 links.

Old exams

Note that the course materials change each year, so old exams only give an approximate idea.

Exams of two years ago

How is the final degree calculated?

Your final degree based on your assignments (25%) and the exam (75%). However, for both the exam and the assignments you have to have at least a 5.5 to pass. Also, you have to do all the assignments to pass.

Information for international students


Results of the assignments (2003)
Assigment results (2002-2003)

Results of the assignments (2001-2002)

Results from the assignments (2000-2001)


(Old) Results of protocol analysis


Old Exams

Note on old exams: As the material for the course gradually changes over the years, an old exam may not be fully representative for the current year. Newer exams are of course more representative than old ones.

21 mar 2000

26 apr 2000

23 mar 99

27 apr 99

18 mar 98
22 apr 98
25 aug 97
25 mrt 97
26 mrt 96


Links:


Information from previous years

Results of the assignments 1999-2000

Results of the assignments 1998-1999

Results of the assignments 1997-1998

Results of the assignments 1996-1997


Last change on: donderdag, 9 september 2004