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Institute for Mathematical Behavioral
Sciences
WORKSHOP ON "THE
EVOLUTION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL
CATEGORIES"
MARCH 14-16 ,
2008
LOCATION: Luce Conference Room, SSPA
2112 |
FRIDAY, MARCH 14
WELCOME
PAUL KAY, Linguistics, UCB
and TERRY REGIER, Psychology, University
of Chicago
�Relativity
vs. universals: an obsolete dichotomy"
10 minutes of questions
GREG ASHBY,
Psychology, UCSB
�The
neurobiology of perceptual categorization: From learning to
automaticity"
10 minutes of questions
BREAK IN SSPA
2142
TOM GRIFFITHS,
Psychology, UCB �Analyzing
cultural evolution by iterated
learning�
10 minutes of questions
SATURDAY, MARCH 15
PARTHA NIYOGI,
Computer Science, University of
Chicago
"The Computational Nature of Language Learning and Evolution"
10 minutes of questions
LUC STEELS,
SONY, Paris
"Multi-Agent Models of Category Formation"
10 minutes of questions
BREAK IN SSPA 2142
JAY McCLELLAND, Psychology, Stanford �Representation,
Development and Disintegration of Conceptual Knowledge: A
Parallel-Distributed Processing Approach�
10 minutes of questions
LUNCH
BREAK
KIMBERLY JAMESON, Mathematical Behavioral
Sciences,
UCI and NATALIA KOMAROVA, Mathematics, UCI "Agent-based
color categorization: the role of population and color-stimulus
heterogeneities"
10 minutes of questions
BREAK IN SSPA
2142
ANDREA BARONCHELLI,
Universitat
Polit�cnica de Catalunya
�Cultural
route to the emergence of linguistic categories�
(Baronchelli)"
10 minutes of questions
SUNDAY, MARCH 16
LISA PEARL, Cognitive
Sciences,
UCI "Learning-driven
linguistic evolution"
10 minutes of questions
RORY SMEAD, Logic and Philosophy of Science, UCI
"Indirect
Reciprocity and the Evolution of 'Moral Signals"
10 minutes of questions
BREAK IN SSPA
2142
MICHAEL LEE, Cognitive Sciences, UCI (co-author Wolf
Vanpaemel, University of Leuven) �Using
hierarchical Bayesian modeling to help understand the generation
and representation of
categories�
10 minutes of questions
GROUP DISCUSSION LEAD BY DON SAARI AND
OTHERS
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