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Copyright 2008 Clark Elliott
CSC587 Cognitive Science
• Professor Clark Elliott
• Winter Quarter 2008
• Monday Evening
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Overview
• Study the human brain as a computational device
• Some lectures on the basics,• Much reading and discussion – hot
newsgroups!• Suitable for ALL CDM graduate students
capable of 500-level work.• Traditionally strong, interesting, peers in
this course.
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Did you know…?
• By some estimates, processing power of a 3-year-old human is equivalent to that of all computers in the world put together.
• 100 billion neurons, average 7,000 connections, many types of neurons, many types of connections.
• Highly parallel design
• Specialized architecture
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Example topic: Categorization
• Important to human intelligence
• Humans categorize faster and more accurately than any current software models can support – even theoretically
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Why study Categorization?
• One pillar of abstract thinking
• Gateway between perception and cognition: DOG has meaning to us without manipulating details of visual / auditory energy waves
• May be a fundamental unit of cognitive processing.
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So – how do we do it? We use at least…
• Classical rules• Prototypes• Exemplars• Attribute weighting• Correlated attributes• Base rates• Competitive Learning• Expectation• Spreading activation
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We use Classical Rules
• Speak French is sufficient to indicate category human
• Single adult human male is definition of category bachelor
• Human is necessary for category bachelor
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We store Exemplars
• We simply store all the exemplars, and the search them in parallel looking for matches
• So, store all bachelors, compare new input for similarity
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We use Prototypes
• Create a prototype
• Every successfully categorized new bachelor input tweaks the prototype -- we extract relevant features and save them
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Pre-categorize with Expectations
• We often pre-categorize input artifacts before we notice them based on expectations:– Current environment– Activation networks– Scripts
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We use Attribute Weighting
• Some features are more important than others, so we use them first and give them more weight when we categorize an item.
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We use Correlations
• Sometimes the presence of two or more features indicates, or inhibits, a categorization, but the feature alone does not.
• Puffy eyes in the morning suggest allergy, but not in the presence of empty beer cans
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We use Base Rates
• Was the animal that ran across your lawn last night…– A squirrel?– A dog?– A platypus?
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So, for categorization…
• The brain has built-in brain hardware and software for each of the above.
• …takes place at the level of single lines in single letters when reading (vertical, straight, bold)
• … helps us analyze philosophical theories (dialectical materialism)
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Memory
• What color was the door of your house when you were five years old?
• Hinges on left, or right? Open in or out?
• We do not know the limit of human memory.
• Example: we make use of exemplars stored for categorization even though we cannot “remember” them!
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Did you know…
• 20 percent of the processing through the eyes is non-visual through the retinohypothalamic tract?
• This non-visual pathway processes irradiance but does not use visual images.
• It is spatial and affects balance, posture, motor function, sensory integration, reasoning, hearing, visualization, symbolic processing, sleep and emotion centers.
• It functions almost the same with the eyes closed!
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Did you know…
• That Radin and May, in a very highly controlled experiment repeated the results of Klintman giving evidence that people regularly exhibit sub-second precognition?
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Sort of like this…
• Flash a color word in B&W (e.g., red, green)
• Flash a color bar that matches the word or not.
• Press a button that matches the color bar.
• If the two match, response times are lower for pressing the button.
• Stroop test, showing interference.
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~Future Stroop Test
• Flash color word
• Press button that matches word
• Flash a color bar that matches the word or not
• If the colors match, the response times are lower for pressing the button.
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Future Stroop…
• But… subject has not yet seen the color bar at the time of the response…!
• True even when the data is collected before a random number generator selects the color bar to be displayed.
• Thus evidence of human pre-cognition, and may help explain results measuring top fighter pilots.
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In CSC587, CogSci, we will…
• Learn basics of concepts like categorization, memory, representation, language, symbolic reasoning, perception, visual processing, spreading activation, and modeling of emotions, from the brain science perspective.
• No programming unless you want to• Reading suitable for 500-level course• Much discussion, including newsgroups• Interesting peers!
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Clark Elliott is…
• PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Institute for the Learning Sciences, Northwestern
• Full-time professor number ten at CDM
• Research area is Cognitive Models of Emotion, Personality, and the Representation of Stories.