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Cognitive Science

Cognitive science is the integrative study of mind and intelligence. This field draws heavily from a variety of disciplines, including artificial intelligence, neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, , linguistics, and anthropology, among others. The origins of cognitive science can be traced back to the 1950s when researchers began to develop theories of mind based on complex representations and computational procedures.

This directory offers a variety of educational and research-related resources on concentrations in the field of cognitive science.

 

Artificial Intelligence

AI on the Web
From the University of California Berkeley, this website. This page links to 820 pages around the web with information on Artificial Intelligence.

AI in the News
The University of California Berkeley maintains this website with the latest Artificial Intelligence news, trends, and developments.

Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Founded in 1979, the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) is a nonprofit scientific society devoted to advancing the scientific understanding of the mechanisms underlying thought and intelligent behavior.

Intelligent Support for Knowledge Capture and Construction
This thesis develops the theoretical framework required for a “topic suggester” to aid information search in the context of a knowledge model under construction.

Looking for a Haystack: Selecting Data Sources in a Distributed Retrieval System
This dissertation develops a framework for automatic selection of search engines and analyzes each search engine  in order to determine how properties such as central topic, size, and degree of focus affect retrieval performance.

 

Attention

Attentional Enhancement During Multiple Object Tracking
This thesis examines the role of attention in multiple-object tracking and analyzes whether attention enhances target representations or suppresses them.

Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention
This publication analyzes the research related to cognitive control of motor behavior.

Human Variation on Overriding Attentional Capture
This publication analyzes the results of a study conducted on attentional abilities associated with low memory capacity.

 

Learning and Developmental Psychology

Developmental Psychology
Developmental Psychologypublishes articles that advance knowledge and theory about development across the life span.

Society for Personality and Social Psychology
The Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) was founded in 1974 and woks to support the advancement of personality and social psychology.

Society of Experimental Social Psychology
The Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP) is a scientific organization dedicated to the advancement of social psychology.

 

Linguistics

The LINGUIST List
The LINGUIST List is dedicated to providing information on language and language analysis, and to providing the discipline of linguistics with the infrastructure necessary to function in the digital world

Linguistic Society of America
The Linguistic Society of America (LSA) was founded in 1924 to advance the scientific study of language. LSA plays a critical role in supporting and disseminating linguistic scholarship both to professional linguists and to the general public

The Harmonic Mind: From Neural Computation to Optimality-Theoretic Grammar
This publication outlines and analyzes Optimality Theory and grammar-processing problems.

The World Atlas of Language Structures Online
The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) is a large database of structural (phonological, grammatical, lexical) properties of languages gathered from descriptive materials (such as reference grammars) by a team of 55 authors.

The LaTeX for Linguists Homepage
These pages provide information on how to use LaTeX for writing Linguistics papers.

Lambda Tutorial
These web pages provide a practical introduction to lambda reduction.

Tools for Optimality Theory
OTKit is a set of tools for Optimality Theory, a linguistic model widely used today.

 

Memory

Cognitive Neuroscience of Emotional Memory
This publication analyzes the current and recent advances which reveal insights into the reactivation of latent emotional associations and the recollection of personal episodes from the remote past.

A Rose by Any Other Name: Long Term Memory Structure and Sentence Processing
This dissertation examines patterns in memory structure and sentence processing.

The Cognitive Neuroscience of Constructive Memory
This paper examines the scientific patterns and processes of constructive memory.

 

Neuroscience

The Emergence of Social Cognitive Neuroscience
This publication examines the recent trends and developments in the new field of social cognitive neuroscience.

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience investigates brain-behavior interaction and promotes lively interchange among the mind sciences.

Society for Neuroscience
The Society for Neuroscience(SfN) is a nonprofit membership organization of scientists and physicians who study the brain and nervous system.

Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience
This publication presents a historical survey of the philosophical roots of neuroscience.

The Status of Cognitive Neuroscience
This dissertation covers the current state and status of the field of cognitive neuroscience.

 

Psychology

An Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
This guide provides a comprehensive introduction to the cognitive psychology as well as links to key figures, research centers, and further resources.

History of Cognitive Psychology
This website features influential psychologists who contributed significantly to this field.

The Seven Sins of Memory: Insights from Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience
This dissertation combines research from psychology and cognitive neuroscience in order to shed light upon recent research into memory.

Psychology and Neurobiology of Simple Decisions
The process of simple decision making is linked to research in the fields of psychology and neurobiology.

 

Research Centers and Projects

USCD Distributed Cognition Human Computer Interaction
Members of the Dcog-HCI lab are dedicated to developing the theoretical and methodological foundations engendered by this broader view of cognition and interaction.

Center for Integrative and Cognitive Neuroscience
The Center for Integrative and Cognitive Neuroscience at Vanderbilt University sustains programs of research to elucidate how normal and abnormal behavior and cognition arise from the function of the brain.

Geneva Emotion Research Group
The Geneva Emotion Research Group, co-directed by Professors Klaus Scherer, David Sander, and Didier Grandjean is part of an multidisciplinary center for the affective science.

Institute for Research in Cognitive Science
The Institute for Research in Cognitive Science at the University of Pennsylvania fosters the development of a science of the human mind through the interaction of investigators from the disciplines of Linguistics, Mathematical Logic, Philosophy, Computer Science, and Neuroscience.

Chinese Language Processing at Penn
The Chinese Treebank project, initiated in 1998, aims to build a large-scale Chinese corpus annotated with syntactic structures.

Penn Discourse Treebank Project
The goal of the Penn Discourse TreeBank project is to annotate the argument structure and semantics of low-level discourse relations in texts of the Wall Street Journal Corpus.

Korean NLP at the University of Pennsylvania
Korean NLP research at UPenn consists of several projects, which focus on building Korean natural language resources and developing applications

 

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