From cl at cmu.edu Mon Feb 6 12:10:18 2023 From: cl at cmu.edu (Christian Lebiere) Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2023 12:10:18 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Carnegie Bosch Fellowship Message-ID: The Carnegie Bosch Institute funds 2-year postdoctoral fellowships at Carnegie Mellon University: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/index.html Feel free to contact me if you are interested in a postdoctoral fellowship using cognitive modeling techniques for human-machine teaming and/or cybersecurity/privacy. Specific technical areas include but are not limited to the integration of cognitive models/architectures with large knowledge bases and/or deep learning techniques. The application deadline is February 28. Christian -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From s.k.mehlhorn at rug.nl Thu Feb 16 06:12:50 2023 From: s.k.mehlhorn at rug.nl (Katja Mehlhorn) Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 12:12:50 +0100 Subject: [ACT-R-users] REMINDER: the early registration deadline of the Groningen Spring School on Cognitive Modeling ends on February 25 Message-ID: ____________________ Sixth Groningen Spring School on Cognitive Modeling ? ACT-R, Nengo, PRIMs ? Date: 27-31 March 2023 Location: Groningen, the Netherlands Fee: ? 305 (late fee after February 26 will be ? 355) More information and registration: www.cognitive-modeling.com/springschool ____________________ Dear colleagues and students, This is a reminder that the early registration deadline for the sixth Spring School on Cognitive Modeling in Groningen (27-31 March 2023) ends on February 25! As announced earlier, the Spring School will cover three different modeling paradigms: ACT-R, Nengo, and PRIMs (see below for a brief explanation of each). Past years have shown that students get most out of the spring school if they really emerge themselves into a modeling paradigm. We therefore planned more time for actually working on the hands-on exercises this year. We recommend you choose one topic for which you will attend both the lectures as well as do the exercises (tutorials). In addition, you can select a second paradigm, for which you attend the lectures only. To give students a broader picture of cognitive modeling, there will be three additional guest lectures throughout the week. These lectures each give an introduction to yet another modeling paradigm: accumulator models (Leendert van Maanen), error-driven learning models (Jacolien van Rij), and dynamical systems (Herbert J?ger). All students are encouraged to attend those lectures. To round of the program, there will be a poster session, where students present themselves and their research, as well as a city tour, and our (in)famous spring school dinner. Registration closes on March 19. The early registration deadline ends February 25. Please feel free to forward the information to anyone who might be interested in the Spring School. We are looking forward to welcoming you (again) in Groningen, The Spring School team springschool at rug.nl ______________ ACT-R Teachers: Jelmer Borst, Stephen Jones, & Katja Mehlhorn (University of Groningen) Website: http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu ACT-R is a high-level cognitive theory and simulation system for developing cognitive models for tasks that vary from simple reaction time experiments to driving a car, learning algebra, and air traffic control. ACT-R can be used to develop process models of a task at a symbolic level. Participants will follow a compressed five-day version of the traditional summer school curriculum. We will also cover the connection between ACT-R and fMRI. Nengo Teacher: Terry Stewart and Andreas St?ckel (University of Waterloo) Website: http://www.nengo.ca Nengo is a toolkit for converting high-level cognitive theories into low-level spiking neuron implementations. In this way, aspects of model performance such as response accuracy and reaction times emerge as a consequence of neural parameters such as the neurotransmitter time constants. It has been used to model adaptive motor control, visual attention, serial list memory, reinforcement learning, Tower of Hanoi, and fluid intelligence. Participants will learn to construct these kinds of models, starting with generic tasks like representing values and positions, and ending with full production-like systems. There will also be special emphasis on extracting various forms of data out of a model, such that it can be compared to experimental data. PRIMs Teacher: Niels Taatgen (University of Groningen) Website: https://www.ai.rug.nl/~niels/prims/index.html How do people handle and prioritize multiple tasks? How can we learn something in the context of one task, and partially benefit from it in another task? The goal of PRIMs is to cross the artificial boundary that most cognitive architectures have imposed on themselves by studying single tasks. It has mechanisms to model transfer of cognitive skills, and the competition between multiple goals. In the tutorial we will look at how PRIMs can model phenomena of cognitive transfer and cognitive training, and how multiple goals compete for priority in models of distraction. ??? ????????????????????? Katja Mehlhorn, Docent University of Groningen http://www.ai.rug.nl/~katja/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cl at cmu.edu Fri Feb 17 11:24:58 2023 From: cl at cmu.edu (Christian Lebiere) Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2023 11:24:58 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Call for Abstracts: MathPsych / ICCM / EMPG 2023, University of Amsterdam, July 18 - 21 Message-ID: Note: the ACT-R Workshop will take place on July 18 in its usual association with the conference. Feel free to email me at any time with presentation titles or suggestions for session topics. Best, Christian --- Dear colleagues, The MathPsych / ICCM / EMPG 2023 organizing committee invites abstracts for talks, posters, and symposia to be presented at the 56th Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology (MathPsych) and the 21st International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM) at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The conference showcases leading research on mathematical and computational theories of human cognition. We welcome contributions from the complete spectrum of formal approaches to modeling cognition, including connectionism, symbolic modeling, dynamical systems, Bayesian modeling, and cognitive architectures. Abstracts can be submitted via the conference website at https://mathpsych.org/conference/12/. The submission deadline is March 15 23.59 CET. Decisions will be made by May 1, 2023. The following types of submissions will be considered: *MathPsych/EMPG Talk* In-person MathPsych Talks are spoken presentations accompanied by a slide deck. Each speaker is assigned a 20-minute presentation slot, which is typically divided into 15 minutes for presenting and 5 minutes of question time. *MathPsych/EMPG Poster* In-person MathPsych Poster dimensions will be announced in early May after acceptance. Presenters will be given a time and place to mount their poster, as well as a time during which the poster is "attended" -- meaning that you should be there for people to ask you questions. *ICCM Full Paper + Talk* Full ICCM papers can be up to six pages in length, and will be evaluated by peer review. Papers accepted as talks will be in-person spoken presentations accompanied by a slide deck. Each speaker is assigned a 20-minute presentation slot, which is typically divided into 15 minutes for presenting and 5 minutes of question time. Papers not accepted as talks may be accepted as posters. If you are interested in acting as a reviewer for ICCM, please let us know by filling out the survey at https://forms.gle/C38sMCwFU8FKuWcw7. *ICCM Poster* As an alternative to full paper submissions, a two-page abstract may be submitted as a poster only. In-person ICCM Poster dimensions will be announced in early May after acceptance. Presenters will be given a time and place to mount their poster, as well as a time during which the poster is "attended" -- meaning that you should be there for people to ask you questions. *Talk in a Symposium* Symposia are blocks of four to eight regular-length talks on a relatively narrow topic. Below the talk abstract, please indicate the proposed symposium title along with an (approximate) list of speakers that have already agreed to participate in the symposium along with your talk. Those speakers should also submit their own talk abstracts with the same symposium title and (approximate) list of speakers below their abstracts. Symposium submissions that are not accepted will be reviewed for regular MathPsych/EMPG Talks. The MathPsych / ICCM / EMPG 2023 conference organizing committee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: