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85-412/712 Cognitive Modeling Syllabus
The goal of this course is to teach cognitive modeling techniques. These techniques have been used to model human performance in a wide range of complex tasks like air-traffic control or game playing and we will talk about such applications. However, for purposes of tractability, we will focus on modeling simple laboratory tasks from cognitive psychology. The first 9 weeks will involve doing a sequence of assignments to familiarize everyone with the functionality of ACT-R, a fairly widely used modeling system. Each week we will develop a cognitive model for an experiment and as we progress through the models we will develop some degree of mastery in the modeling system. In the second part of the course each student will develop their proposal to model some laboratory task in the literature and develop their own model. You can find course materials at http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/85-412/. Weeks 1-9: (January 14th—March 13th): Assignments Each Tuesday we will discuss the week's assignment and the new constructs that it involves. This assignment will be due by Monday 11 PM of the subsequent week, We will also hand out (on the website) a reading for that week which will be discussed on Thursday. Students will be expected to email the instructor (Dr. John Anderson or Phil Pavlik) one question based on either that week’s assignment or that week's reading before the Thursday class. Each assignment is worth 10 points. Class participation during this portion of the course will be worth 15 points Week 10: (March 18th—March 20th) : Transition March 18th—Each student should submit a paper describing the task they are going to model (5 points). We will discuss the forthcoming exam. March 20th—Exam on class readings (30 points). Weeks 11-15: (March 25th—May 1st): Final Projects The first half of this period will be given over to guest lectures describing applications of cognition modeling. The second half of this period will be given over to student progress reports. The two due dates for all the class are: March 28th—A written proposal (10 points) May 5th—The final project report (35 points for this and in-class report). The class participation points for this portion of the course will be 15 points. The readings during the first portion of the course will be research papers in the field. We will be working with a version of ACT-R called 5.0 that enables students to write experiments that will either interact with a subject or with ACT-R. The first week’s reading gives an overview of the current state of ACT-R 5.0. This is all implemented in LISP and it is essential that students have at least the proficiency with LISP that they would acquire in 85-213.
Grade: Assignments 90 Project 50 Final 30 Participation 30
Total 200 Grading: A: > 160 for undergraduates > 170 for graduates B: > 130 for undergraduates > 140 for graduates C: > 100 for undergraduates
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