From reitter at cmu.edu Mon Sep 5 08:58:45 2011 From: reitter at cmu.edu (David Reitter) Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 08:58:45 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] CFP: Interpretable Decoding of Higher Cognitive States Message-ID: Call for Papers :: NIPS 2011 Workshop on Interpretable Decoding of Higher Cognitive States from Neural Data Interpretable Decoding of Higher Cognitive States from Neural Data NIPS 2011 Workshop, Dec 16 or 17, 2011, Granada, Spain Overview Over recent years, machine learning methods have become a crucial analytical tool in cognitive neuroscience (see reviews by Formisano et al., 2008; Pereira et al., 2009). Decoding techniques have dramatically increased the sensitivity of experiments, and so also the subtlety of cognitive questions that can be asked. At the same time the mental phenomena being studied are moving beyond lower-level perceptual and motor processes which are directly grounded in external measurable realities. Decoding higher cognition and interpreting the learned behaviour of the classifiers used pose unique challenges, as these psychological states are complex, fast-changing and often ill-defined. Contemporary machine learning methods deal well with the small numbers of cases, and high numbers of co-linear dimensions typical of neural data, and are generally optimized to maximize classification performance, rather than to enable meaningful interpretation of the features they learn from. And indeed recent work has succeeded to decode psychological phenomena including visual object recognition (e.g. Kriegeskorte et al., 2008; Connolly et al., 2011), perceptual interpretation of sounds (Staeren et al., 2009), lexical semantics (Mitchell et al., 2008; Simanova et al., 2010; Devereux et al., 2010; Murphy et al., 2011), decision making during game playing (Xiang et al., 2009) and the process of mental arithmetic (Anderson et al., 2008). But for the cognitive scientists who use these methods, the primary question is often not "how much" but rather "how" and "why" the patterns of neural activity identified by a machine learning algorithm encode particular cognitive processes. The aim of this workshop is therefore to 1) discuss the achievements and problems of the decoding of high-level cognitive states, and 2) explore the use of machine learning methodologies and other computational models that enable such cognitive interpretation of neural recordings of different modalities. Advances in this field require close collaboration between machine learning experts, neuroscientists and cognitive scientists. Thus, this workshop is highly interdisciplinary and will aim to attract submissions also from outside the existing NIPS community. By stimulating discussions among experts in the different fields, the workshop seeks to generate novel insights and new directions for research. Topics of interest The field requires techniques that are capable of taking advantage of spatially distributed patterns in the brain, that are separated in space but coordinated in their activity. Methods should also be sensitive to the fine-grained temporal patterns of multiple processes - which may proceed in a serial fashion, overlapping or in parallel with each-other, or in multiple passes with bidirectional information flows. Different recording modalities have distinctive advantages: fMRI provides very fine millimetre-level localisation in the brain but poor temporal resolution, while EEG and MEG have millisecond temporal resolution at the cost of spatial resolution. Ideally machine learning methods would be able to meaningfully combine complementary information from these different neuroimaging techniques (see e.g. De Martino et al., 2010). Moreover, as the processes underlying higher cognition are so complex, methods should be able to disentangle even tightly linked and confounded subprocesses. Finally, general use algorithms that could induce latent dimensions from neural data, and so reveal the "hidden" psychological states, would be a dramatic advance on current hypothesis-driven analytical paradigms. Originality of approach is encouraged and submissions on any related methodological approach are welcomed, such as: - Interpreting spatial and temporal location of selected features and their weights - Discovering "hidden" or "latent" cognitive representations - Disentangling confounded processes and representations - Comparing or combining data from recording modalities (e.g. fMRI, EEG, structural MRI, DTI, MEG, NIRS, EcOG, single cell recordings) - Fuzzy and partial classifications - Unaligned or incommensurate feature spaces and data representation As noted above, the complexity of higher cognition poses challenges. To take language comprehension as an example, speech is received at 3-4 words; acoustic, semantic and syntactic processing can occur in parallel; and the form of underlying representations (sentence structures, conceptual descriptions) remains controversial. We welcome submissions dealing with any high-level cognitive functions that exhibit similar complexity, for instance: - Knowledge representation and concepts - Language and communication - Understanding visual and auditory experience - Memory and learning - Reasoning and problem solving - Decision making and executive control Submissions Authors are invited to submit full papers on original, unpublished work in the topic area of this workshop via the NIPS 2011 submission site at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/NIPS2011/Default.aspx. Submissions should be formatted using the NIPS 2011 stylefiles, with blind review and not exceeding 8 pages plus an extra page for references. Author and submission information can be found athttp://nips.cc/PaperInformation/AuthorSubmissionInstructions. The stylefiles are available at http://nips.cc/PaperInformation/StyleFiles. Each submission will be reviewed at least by two members of the programme committee. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Dual submissions to the main NIPS 2011 conference and this workshop are allowed; if you submit to the main session, indicate this when you submit to the workshop. If your paper is accepted for the main session, you should withdraw your paper from the workshop upon notification by the main session. Important Dates - Aug 30, 2011: Call for papers - Sep 23, 2011: Deadline for submission of workshop papers - Oct 15, 2011: Notification of acceptance - Oct 31, 2011: Camera-ready papers due - Dec 16 or 17, 2011: Workshop date Organisers The organizing committee are researchers who are all directly involved in machine learning of higher cognitive states, and have previous experience running similarly themed interdisciplinary workshops, including the NAACL Workshop on Computational Neurolinguistics (2010), ICCS Symposium on Neural Decoding of Higher Cognitive States (2010), the CAOS Special Session on Computational Approaches to the Neuroscience of Concepts (2010). - Kai-min Kevin Chang, Language Technologies Institute & Centre for Cognitive Brain Imaging, Carnegie Mellon University - Anna Korhonen, Computer Laboratory & Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge - Brian Murphy, Computation, Language and Interaction Group, Centre for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento - Irina Simanova, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics & Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen Invited speakers - Elia Formisano, Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands - Francisco Pereira, Princeton University, USA (provisional) Programme committee The preliminary programme comittee listing is given below, and includes leading researchers in a range of fields covering machine learning, neuroscience and wider cognitive sciences: - John Anderson, Carnegie Mellon University, USA - Yi Chen, Max-Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Leipzig, Germany - Mark Cohen, University of California Los Angeles, USA - Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Microsoft Research, USA - Andy Connolly, Dartmouth College, USA - Jack Gallant, University of California Berkeley, USA - Marcel van Gerven, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands - Michael Hanke, Dartmouth College, USA - Jim Haxby, Dartmouth College, USA & University of Trento, Italy - Tom Heskes, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands - Mark Johnson, Macquarie University, Australia - Marius Peelen, University of Trento, Italy - Francisco Pereira, Princeton University, USA - Russ Poldrack, University of Texas Austin, USA - Dean Pomerleau, Intel Labs Pittsburgh, USA - Diego Sona, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy References - Anderson, J. R., Carter, C. S., Fincham, J. M., Qin,. Y., Ravizza, S. M., and Rosenberg-Lee, M. (2008). Using fMRI to Test Models of Complex Cognition. Cognitive Science, 32, 1323-1348. - Connolly, A. C., Guntupalli, J. S., Gors, J., Hanke, M., Halchenko, Y. O., Wu, Y., Abdi, H. and Haxby, J. V. (Submitted). Representation of biological classes in the human brain. - De Martino F., Valente G., de Borst A. W., Esposito F., Roebroeck A., Goebel R., Formisano E. (2010). Multimodal imaging: an evaluation of univariate and multivariate methods for simultaneous EEG/fMRI. Magn Reson Imaging. 28(8), 1104-12. - Devereux, B., Kelly, C., and Korhonen, A. (2010). Using fMRI Activation to Conceptual Stimuli to Evaluate Methods for Extracting Conceptual Representations from Corpora. Proceedings of the NAACL-HLT Workshop on Computational Neurolinguistics. - Formisano E., De Martino F., Valente G. (2008). Multivariate analysis of fMRI time series: classification and regression of brain responses using machine learning. Magn Reson Imaging, 26(7), 921-34. - Kriegeskorte, N., Mur, M., Ruff, D., Kiani, R., Bodurka, J., Esteky, H., Tanaka, K., and Bandettini, P. (2008). Matching categorical object representations in inferior temporal cortex of man and monkey. Neuron, 60(6), 1126-1141. - Mitchell, T. M., Shinkareva, S. V., Carlson, A., Chang, K. M., Malave, V. L., Mason, R. A., and Just, M. A. (2008). Predicting Human Brain Activity Associated with the Meanings of Nouns. Science, 320, 1191-1195. - Murphy, B., Poesio, M., Bovolo, F., Bruzzone, L., Dalponte, M., and Lakany, H. (2011). EEG decoding of semantic category reveals distributed representations for single concepts. Brain and Language, 117, 12-22. - Pereira F., Mitchell T., Botvinick M. (2009). Machine learning classifiers and fMRI: a tutorial overview. Neuroimage. 45(1 Suppl) S199-209. - Simanova, I., Van Gerven, M., Oostenveld, R., and Hagoort, P. (2010). Identifying object categories from event-related EEG: Toward decoding of conceptual representations. Plos One, 512, E14465. - Staeren N., Renvall H., De Martino F., Goebel R., Formisano E. (2009). Sound categories are represented as distributed patterns in the human auditory cortex. Curr Biol, 19(6), 498-502. - Xiang, J. and Chen, J. and Zhou, H. and Qin, Y. and Li, K. and Zhong, N. 2009: Using SVM to predict high-level cognition from fMRI data: a case study of 4* 4 Sudoku solving. Brain Informatics, 171-181. Links - NIPS 2011 website: http://nips.cc/Conferences/2011/ - Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/site/decodehighcogstate - Call for Papers: https://sites.google.com/site/decodehighcogstate/cfp/ (Please feel free to distribute the CFP to all the interested persons and groups.) From frank.ritter at psu.edu Fri Sep 9 09:48:23 2011 From: frank.ritter at psu.edu (Frank Ritter) Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 09:48:23 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Fwd: ANNOUNCING: 1-year Post PhD position with DoD's DTRA for graduates in Cognitive and Information Sciences (Thrust Area 2) Message-ID: please share this as appropriate. the application deadline is a start date something like 23oct11 (!). details from Jan Mahar in the first case, or from me. cheers, Frank >From: Jan Mahar Sturdevant >CC: "'Caramanica, Janet L. CIV'" , > "Meghan Hayes > (mkf11 at arl.psu.edu)" >Subject: ANNOUNCING: 1-year Post PhD position with DoD's DTRA for graduates > in Cognitive and Information Sciences (Thrust Area 2) >Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 04:38:27 +0000 > >Fellow Researchers, > >We are looking for Post PhD whose expertise in in the following area: > Cognitive and Information Science: The basic >science of cognitive and information science >results from the convergence of computer, >information, mathematical, network, cognitive, >and social science. This research thrust expands >our understanding of physical and social >networks and advances knowledge of adversarial >intent with respect to the acquisition, >proliferation, and potential use of WMD. The >methods may include analytical, computational or >numerical, or experimental means to integrate >knowledge across disciplines and improve rapid >processing of intelligence and dissemination of >information. > >Attached are the Recruitment Letter and the >Application that I ask you forward onto whomever >you feel would be interested. > >Further Detail >For qualified candidate, this opportunity would >provide the following to a US citizen, capable >of obtaining a security clearance at the Secret >level, to spend one year working at DTRA (Fort >Belvior): > >? $71,663 annual salary >? $1,000 monthly living allowance >? Domestic Travel allowance >? Potential funding for additional academic degrees > >Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship Program > >The objective of this fellowship program is to >establish and sustain a long-term process >through which the University Strategic Partners >(USP) will develop and execute a Post- Doctoral >Research Fellowship Program to address critical >scientific, technology and engineering needs for >reducing the threat from Weapons of Mass >Destruction (WMD). This project will enable >DTRA to utilize mission-critical expertise >possessed by highly qualified faculty and >graduate students (nearing completion of their >degree) who hold doctoral or terminal >professional degrees in relevant scientific, >technical and engineering disciplines. >Post-Doctoral / Masters Fellows will be selected >based upon their responsive ability to enhance >the joint DTRA-Strategic Partnership mission >requirements. Key science and technology skills >include: nuclear and radiation physics; weapons >engineering; structural, electrical and >mechanical engineering; broad-based >nano-technological engineering and applications; >weapons effects and system response >technologies; physics, chemistry and biological >sciences related to detection, characterization >and destruction of WMD materials; medical and >pharmaceutical sciences; information technology, >modeling, data visualization and advanced >computational sciences; social, adversarial and >behavioral modeling, science and analysis. >Post-Doctoral / Masters Research Fellows will be >assigned to DTRA's Research and Development and >subsequently detailed to perform such duties as >may be required among the various agency >Enterprises, Directorates and Offices which are >typically reviewing research proposals and white >papers. > >=========================================================================================== > >Looking forward to your sharing this opportunity, >Jan Mahar Sturdevant > >Professor of Practice >College of Information Science and Technology >Penn State University From marewski at mpib-berlin.mpg.de Tue Sep 13 03:24:47 2011 From: marewski at mpib-berlin.mpg.de (Marewski, Julian) Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:24:47 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] doctoral student position (decision sciences and bounded rationality) at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland Message-ID: Dear all: Apologies for cross-postings. Please pass this on to potentially interested candidates and/or corresponding mailing lists. Candidates interested in a different arrangement (e.g., visiting position with a limited time range) are invited to contact me directly. Many thanks and best wishes, Julian The Department of Organizational Behavior of the Faculty for Business and Economics at the University of Lausanne seeks applicants for Doctoral Student Fellowship in Decision Sciences and Bounded Rationality The position (60%) is to begin October 1st, 2011 or on a later date to be mutually agreed upon. The contract is limited to 1 year, and can be prolonged for 2x2 years. The maximum funding period is 5 years. Successful candidates will obtain a Ph.D. in Management. The work location is Lausanne Dorigny. Job description We seek applicants to work on the cognitive modeling of decision making processes and bounded rationality. We expect Ph.D. candidates to publish their research in top-tier journals. Requirements Applicants should be interested in the mathematical or computational modeling of human cognitive decision processes as well as in the cognitive mechanisms underlying bounded rationality. Knowledge of quantitative research methods, and ideally, programming skills (e.g., MATLAB, R, ACT-R) is helpful but not required. A university degree in psychology, business, economics, mathematics, computer sciences, physics, biology, or another quantitatively-oriented discipline as well as very good English skills are required. Research on bounded rationality addresses a key question: How do humans (and other animals) make decisions under uncertainty, that is, when time and information are limited and the future is unknown? In an uncertain world, humans often rely on simple cognitive strategies, that is, heuristics, when making decisions. The research on bounded rationality is concerned with designing models of these heuristics and with investigating the environments in which they are successful. Using human subject experiments, computer simulations, and mathematical analyses, these heuristics can be tested, and questions addressed such as when and why heuristics perform well. The descriptive question of how humans make decisions in an uncertain world is thereby extended to a normative question: How should we make decisions (e.g., in businesses) if an optimal decision is out of reach? Application materials and deadline Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Applications include a cover letter describing research interests and a potential thesis project, curriculum vitae, university transcripts, two letters of recommendation, previous work transcripts (if available), and up to two publications (if available). The preferred method of submission are PDF files e-mailed to the responsible professor, Julian Marewski (marewski at mpib-berlin.mpg.de ). The Department of Organizational Behavior and Lausanne The Department of Organizational Behavior of the Faculty for Business and Economics at the University of Lausanne provides a stimulating, interdisciplinary research environment. We value the diversity of the expertise of the members of the department (we have Ph.D.s in business, management, psychology, and economics) as well as the diversity of the departments at the Faculty of Business and Economics. We publish in top-tier journals in different disciplines, including Science, Psychological Review, and the American Economic Review. Our department's members come from different countries, and the working language of the department is English. Located near Lake Geneva and surrounded by the Jura Mountains and the French Alps, Lausanne is a beautiful and cosmopolitan spot to live and work. We have a collegial atmosphere that makes it easy for us to carry out our research. Information about the Department of Organizational Behavior is available at http://www.hec.unil.ch/hec/recherche/unite?set_language=en&unite_id=239& cl=en . Information about the University of Lausanne's Ph.D. program can be found at http://www.hec.unil.ch/hec/doctorats/phdmanagement/why/welcome . Information about Julian Marewski's research can be found at http://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/en/staff/julian-marewski . More information about the position can be inquired directly from Julian Marewski (marewski at mpib-berlin.mpg.de ). Disclaimer: This is not an official job ad from the University of Lausanne. The official ad will be posted shortly. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Major tourist spots in and near Chongqing include Dazu Grottoes (rock carvings began in the Tang Dynasty 650 A.D.), Three Gorges, Jinyun Mountain Natural Reserve, Hongya Cave, Shibaozhai, Wulong Karst, etc.. All papers in the conference proceedings will be indexed by both EI Compendex and ISTP as with the past ICNC-FSKD conferences. Extended versions of selected best papers will appear in an ICNC-FSKD special issue of an SCI-indexed journal. ICNC'12-FSKD'12 is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. ICNC-FSKD is a premier international forum for scientists and researchers to present the state of the art of data mining and intelligent methods inspired from nature, particularly biological, linguistic, and physical systems, with applications to computers, circuits, systems, control, communications, and more. This is an exciting and emerging interdisciplinary area in which a wide range of theory and methodologies are being investigated and developed to tackle complex and challenging problems. The registration fee of US-D400 includes proceedings, lunches, dinners, banquet, coffee breaks, and all technical sessions. To promote international participation of researchers from outside the country/region where the conference is held (i.e., China?s mainland), researchers outside of China?s mainland are encouraged to propose invited sessions. An honorarium of US-D400 will be enjoyed by the organizer(s) for each completed (with at least 6 registered papers) invited session. The first author of each paper in an invited session must not be affiliated with an organization in China?s mainland. "(Invited Paper)" may be added below the title of each paper in the invited sessions. Invited session organizers will solicit submissions, conduct reviews and recommend accept/reject decisions on the submitted papers. Invited session organizers will be able to set their own submission and review schedules, as long as a set of recommended papers is determined by 21 March 2012. Each invited session proposal should include: (1) the name, bio, and contact information of each organizer of the invited session; (2) the title and a short synopsis of the invited session. Please send your proposal to icnc-fskd at cqupt.edu.cn For more information, visit the conference web page: http://icnc-fskd.cqupt.edu.cn If you have any questions after visiting the conference web page, please email the secretariat at icnc-fskd at cqupt.edu.cn Join us at this major event in beautiful Chongqing !!! Organizing Committee icnc-fskd at cqupt.edu.cn P.S.: Kindly forward to your colleagues and students in your school/department. 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Our research on these issues addresses a set of unifying questions, such as: What are the biological bases of individual differences in cognitive capabilities? What are the neural mechanisms underpinning cognitive flexibility? The CCDL utilizes multiple methods and approaches including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), biologically constrained computational modeling, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), and individual differences research to collect converging evidence about the biological nature of human thought. We are currently actively investigating the neural bases of the following phenomena: individual differences in language comprehension abilities, improved executive functioning in bilinguals, and rapid task (rule) learning. Candidates with previous experience and/or knowledge of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), bilingualism, and/or computational modeling are especially encouraged to apply. Candidates are expected to have a demonstrated record of excellent research and scientific writing skills. Please address questions or send CV, letter of application with research interests, and contact information for three references to . Applications will be considered on a rolling basis with a flexible start date. Andrea Stocco Cognition and Cortical Dynamics Laboratory Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 From wangjunchao at yahoo.com Sun Sep 18 23:02:47 2011 From: wangjunchao at yahoo.com (Wang Junchao) Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 20:02:47 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [ACT-R-users] Designing agents to play chess with each other Message-ID: <1316401367.37833.YahooMailNeo@web121703.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Hello, every one. These days work involved in AI has been puzzling me a lot. I always thought of the question "What I have lived for?". A lot of ideas came to my mind. I try to design an agent to play with human beings. 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ICCM is a forum for presenting, discussing, and evaluating the complete spectrum of cognitive modeling approaches, including connectionism, symbolic modeling, dynamical systems, Bayesian modeling, and cognitive architectures. ICCM includes basic and applied research, across a wide variety of domains, ranging from low-level perception and attention to higher-level problem-solving and learning. ICCM 2012 will be held in Berlin, Germany, on the campus of Technische Universit?t Berlin. The main conference will be held April 13-15, 2012. 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Major tourist spots in and near Chongqing include Dazu Grottoes (rock carvings began in the Tang Dynasty 650 A.D.), Three Gorges, Jinyun Mountain Natural Reserve, Hongya Cave, Shibaozhai, Wulong Karst, etc.. All papers in the conference proceedings will be indexed by both EI Compendex and ISTP as with the past ICNC-FSKD conferences. Extended versions of selected best papers will appear in an ICNC-FSKD special issue of an SCI-indexed journal. ICNC'12-FSKD'12 is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. ICNC-FSKD is a premier international forum for scientists and researchers to present the state of the art of data mining and intelligent methods inspired from nature, particularly biological, linguistic, and physical systems, with applications to computers, circuits, systems, control, communications, and more. This is an exciting and emerging interdisciplinary area in which a wide range of theory and methodologies are being investigated and developed to tackle complex and challenging problems. The registration fee of US-D400 includes proceedings, lunches, dinners, banquet, coffee breaks, and all technical sessions. To promote international participation of researchers from outside the country/region where the conference is held (i.e., China?s mainland), researchers outside of China?s mainland are encouraged to propose invited sessions. An honorarium of US-D400 will be enjoyed by the organizer(s) for each completed (with at least 6 registered papers) invited session. The first author of each paper in an invited session must not be affiliated with an organization in China?s mainland. "(Invited Paper)" may be added below the title of each paper in the invited sessions. Invited session organizers will solicit submissions, conduct reviews and recommend accept/reject decisions on the submitted papers. Invited session organizers will be able to set their own submission and review schedules, as long as a set of recommended papers is determined by 21 March 2012. Each invited session proposal should include: (1) the name, bio, and contact information of each organizer of the invited session; (2) the title and a short synopsis of the invited session. Please send your proposal to icnc-fskd at cqupt.edu.cn For more information, visit the conference web page: http://icnc-fskd.cqupt.edu.cn If you have any questions after visiting the conference web page, please email the secretariat at icnc-fskd at cqupt.edu.cn Join us at this major event in beautiful Chongqing !!! Organizing Committee icnc-fskd at cqupt.edu.cn P.S.: Kindly forward to your colleagues and students in your school/department. 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