Cognitive Modelling

• You can use AI techniques to build models of lots of things.
• The one intelligent thing is people, so you'd like to build models of people thinking.
• We do.
• However, it's hard to say how people think. Fortunately Psychologists have been working on it for a long time and have made some pretty good progress.
• There are a lot of models for a lot of thought processes.
• AI is one of the cognitive sciences.
• One big are is Cognitive Architectures: Soar, ART and others.
• The idea here is that there is an architecture that provides everything you need for a cognitive system. All hat is needed is the program. That's a bit of a stretch for the current architectures.
• ART in paticular has 100s of cognitive models implemented in it for a variety of tasks.
• Cognitive modellers at MDX are Roman and Chris.
• I'm particularly interested in cognitive models implemented in simulated neurons. (I have the best neuro-cognitive model for natural language parsing.)