Computational Cognition and Learning Lab

Modeling of Development and Learning (Spring 2006)

Dates	Topics	Experimental Papers	Modeling Papers
1/10	Introduction and Organization
1/17	speech segmentation	Statistical Learning by 8-Month-old Infants Computations of Conditional Probability Statistics by 8-month-old Infants	Probability/Bayes Classifier lecture notes
1/24	speech/phonetic processing	Foreign-Language Experience in Infancy: Effects of short-term exposure and social interaction on phonetic learning	Eigenfaces for Recognition
1/31	statistical learning	Guest Speaker: Chris Conway Modality-Constrained Statistical Learning of Tactile, Visual, and Auditory Sequences	Signal-Driven Computations in Speech Processing
2/07	Syntax and Semantic Learning	Unsupervised learning of natural languages	Simulating Brain Damage
2/14	Social Interaction Syntax Learning	Social interaction shapes babbling: Testing parallels between birdsong and speech	Grammatical Subjects in home sign: Abstract linguistic structure in adult primary gesture systems without linguistic input
2/21	Concept Learning Category Learning	Minimization of Boolean complexity in human concept learning	Learning to recognize objects
2/28	Spatial Cognition Object Learning	Parallels between Spatial Cognition and Spatial Language:Evidence from Williams syndrome	Computational theories of object recognition
3/07	Spatial Language Object Learning	Modeling Language Acquisition in Atypical Phenotypes	Reinforcement learning