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AIList Digest Volume 5 Issue 274
AIList Digest Wednesday, 25 Nov 1987 Volume 5 : Issue 274
Today's Topics:
Psychology - Mental Models Summary,
Conference - Int. Neural Network Society
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Date: 22 Nov 87 10:08:22 GMT
From: cunyvm!byuvax!fordjm@psuvm.bitnet
Subject: Mental Models Summary (long)
The following is a summary of the references
I have received from the net in response to
my request for information on mental models
from a cognitive psychology perspective. I
appreciate the help and look forward to
commenting on these sources as I read them.
In some cases more than one person suggested the
same source. In such cases I have only included
comments from the first person to mention each
source.
If anyone would like to comment on these
references, or has additional comments on
research in this area, please contact me.
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stever@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Steve Robbins) suggests
that the literature on Neurolinguistic Programming
might be useful:
>For information on the cognitive psych slant of NLP,
>I'd recommend "NLP I" by Dilts et al., Meta Publications, 1979.
>A book I'm in the middle of is "Meta-cation: Prescriptions for
>Some Ailing Educational Processes" by Sid Jacobson, also available
>from Meta Publications (Cupertino, CA). META-Cation is written n
>a very "casual" style, but it's easy to read and seems to have some
>good material.
>For information about the technology in general, the "standard"
>books are "Frogs into Princes," "Reframing," and "Using Your Brain",
>by Bandler and Grinder. The main problem with these books is that
>they're all transcripts of training workshops. As such, the material
>isn't organized particularly well for presentation through writing.
Stephen Smoliar <smoliar@vaxa.isi.edu> suggests the following:
>...Chapters 12 and 13 of Alvin Goldman's EPISTEMOLOGY AND
>COGNITION...
>..."Mental Muddles" by Lance Rips. It was supposed to be published
>in the book THE REPRESENTATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND BELIEF, edited
>by Myles Brand and Robert Harnish. I do not know if this book is out
>yet.
(I have not yet been able to locate the second book.)
Robert Virzi <rv01%gte-labs.csnet@RELAY.CS.NET> writes:
>I am interested in mental models of everyday appliances. Things like
>VCRs and telephones, stuff like that. In fact, I am about to start a
>series of experiments on peoples mental models of their TV/cable/VCR
>setups. (This sounds very interesting!--JMF)
He suggests:
>1986 IEEE Conf. on Systems, Man & Cybernetics has a couple of sessions
>on Mental Models. One paper by Gentner and Schumacher and another by
>Sebrechts & DuMont seem pretty good.
>ACM CHI'83 has one of the better papers I've seen on the topic written
>by Halasz and Moran. The look at the effect of mental models on
>subjects use of an Reverse Polish Notation calculator.
>Harvard U. Press has a book out by Johnson-Laird called Mental models.
>I don't have it yet but it looked promising from what I could glean from
>reviews.
(I mentioned the Johnson-Laird book in my original posting. I have read
it and find it to be a refreshing alternative to much of the earlier
logic-based explanations of human reasoning.)
Rich Sutton <rich%gte-labs.csnet@RELAY.CS.NET> supplies:
>R.~Sutton \& A.~Barto, ``An adaptive network that constructs and uses
>an internal model of its environment," {\it Cognition and Brain Theory
>Quarterly}, {\sl 4}, 1981, pp.~217--246.
>R.~Sutton \& B.~Pinette, ``The learning of world models by
>connectionist networks," {\it Proceedings of the Seventh Annual
>Conf.~of the Cognitive Science Society}, 1985, pp.~54--64.
"Brad Erlwein Of. (814) 863-4356" <ET2@PSUVM> suggests:
>a good book that you might find helpful is Gardner (1985) The Mind's
>New Science.
( I have also read this book and find it enjoyable, but it is more of
an historical overview of the field of cognitive science than a
research review or integration. The latter is more my interest
at present.)
munnari!gitte%humsun.@husc6.BITNET (Gitte Lingarrd) responds:
>Rouse, W.B., and Morris, N.M. (1986). On Looking Into the Black Box:
>Prospects and Limits in the Search for Mental Models, Psychological
>Bulletin, 100, (3), 349-363.
>
>Lindgaard, G. (1987). Who Needs What Information About Computer Systems:
>Some Notes on Mental Models, Metaphpors and Expertise, Customer Services
>and Systems Branch Paper No. 126, Telecom Australia Research Laboratories,
>Clayton, Australia.
>
>Copies of the latter may be obtained from me if wanted.
Bob Weissman <decwrl!acornrc!bob@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> writes:
>Suggest you pick up a copy of ``The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction''
>by Card, Moran, and Newell. Aside from being a wonderful book (probably
the
>definitive work in its field), it has an extensive bibliography.
>Published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Hillsdale, NJ., 1983.
>ISBN 0-89859-243-7
lambert@cod.nosc.mil (David Lambert) responds:
>Personnel and Training Research Programs
>Office of Naval Research (Code 1142 PT) (Dr. Susan Chipman (202) 696-4318
)
>Arlington, VA 22217-5000
>has been funding work in mental models. One recent report funded by them,
>which contains references and a distribution list, is:
>
>Jeremy Roschelle and James G. Greeno, Mental Models in Expert Physics
>Reasoning; University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720; Report No. GK-2,
>July 1987.
Jane Malin <malin%nasa-jsc.csnet@RELAY.CS.NET> comments:
>Dedre Gentner gave an outstanding invited survey at AAAI-87 on
>mental models and
>analogy. Hopefully some written version would be available soon.
Thad.Polk@centro.soar.cs.cmu.edu (Thad Polk) responds:
>I'm currently doing research in the area of mental models (of the
>Johnson-Laird variety). Specifically, I'm trying to revise and implement
>his theory of syllogisms within Soar (Laird, Newell, & Rosenbloom, AI
>Journal Sept. 1987).
He recommends the following references:
>A paper by Johnson-Laird & Bruno Bara that appears in Cognition, 16
>(1984) 1-61.
>Revlin, R. & Mayer, R., Human Reasoning, V.H. Winston & Sons,
>Washington D.C., 1978.
>Falmagne, R. (ed.), Reasoning: Representation and Process, Lawrence
>Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale N.J., 1975.
>A paper by Robert Inder in "Artificial Intelligence and its Applications"
>by A.G. Cohn and J.R. Thomas, John Wiley & Sons, 1986.
meulen@sunybcs.BITNET (Alice ter Meulen) suggests:
>E. Traugott, A. ter Meulen, C. Ferguson and J. Reilly, (eds.)
>On Conditionals
>Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (Engl.) 1986.
which contains a chapter by Johnson-Laird entitled
'Conditionals and mental models'
GA3182@SIUCVMB (John Dinsmore) comments:
>There seem to be two currents of activity in research in mental models:
> 1. work on the contents of the models, i.e., what knowledge they contain.
> This includes work in naive physics and is the main thrust of the
> Gentner and Stevens book.
> 2. work on general mechanisms of knowledge representation and inference.
> This is the thrust of Johnson-Laird's work.
>I'm not sure where your interests lie, but I can offer two references con-
>cerning the second current:
>
> John Dinsmore. 1987. Mental Spaces from a Functional Perspective.
> Cognitive Science 11: 1-21.
> Gille Fauconnier. 1985. Mental Spaces. MIT/Bradford.
_________
Once again, thanks to all. I will communicate more to the net
on this topic as it seems appropriate.
John M. Ford fordjm@byuvax.bitnet
(*Not* the "John M. Ford" that writes science fiction.)
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Date: Fri, 20 Nov 87 12:28:33 est
From: mike@bucasb.bu.edu (Michael Cohen)
Subject: Conference - Int. Neural Network Society
November 16, 1987
-----CALL FOR PAPERS-----
INTERNATIONAL NEURAL NETWORK SOCIETY
1988 ANNUAL MEETING
September 6--10, 1988
Boston, Massachusetts
The International Neural Network Society (INNS) invites all
those interested in the exciting and rapidly expanding field of
neural networks to attend its 1988 Annual Meeting. The meeting
includes plenary lectures, symposia, contributed oral and poster
presentations, tutorials, commercial and publishing exhibits, a
placement service for employers and educational institutions,
government agency presentations, and social events.
---INNS OFFICERS AND GOVERNING BOARD---
Stephen Grossberg, President; Demetri Psaltis, Vice-President;
Harold Szu, Secretary/Treasurer.
Shun-ichi Amari, James Anderson, Gail Carpenter, Walter Freeman, Kunihiko
Fukushima, Lee Giles, Teuvo Kohonen, Christoph von der Malsburg, Carver Mead,
David Rumelhart, Terrence Sejnowski, George Sperling, Bernard Widrow.
---MEETING ORGANIZERS---
General Meeting Chairman: Bernard Widrow
Technical Program Co-Chairmen: Dana Anderson and James Anderson
Organization Chairman: Gail Carpenter
Tutorial Program Co-Chairmen: Walter Freeman and Harold Szu
Conference Coordinator: Maureen Caudill
---SPEAKERS---
Plenary:
Stephen Grossberg
Carver Mead
Terrence Sejnowski
Nobuo Suga
Bernard Widrow
Cognitive and Neural Systems:
James Anderson
Walter Freeman
Christoph von der Malsburg
David Rumelhart
Allen Selverston
Vision and Pattern Recognition:
Gail Carpenter
Max Cynader
John Daugman
Kunihiko Fukushima
Teuvo Kohonen
Ennio Mingolla
Eric Schwartz
George Sperling
Steven Zucker
Combinatorial Optimization and Content Addressable Memory:
Daniel Amit
Stuart Geman
Geoffrey Hinton
Bart Kosko
Applications and Implementations:
Dana Anderson
Michael Buffa
Lee Giles
Robert Hecht-Nielsen
Demetri Psaltis
Thomas Ryan
Bernard Soffer
Harold Szu
Wilfrid Veldkamp
Motor Control and Robotics:
Jacob Barhen
Daniel Bullock
James Houk
Scott Kelso
Lance Optican
---ABSTRACTS---
Submit abstracts for oral and poster presentation on biological and
technological models of:
--Vision and image processing
--Local circuit neurobiology
--Speech and language
--Analysis of network dynamics
--Sensory-motor control and robotics
--Combinatorial optimization
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--Electronic implementation (VLSI)
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Request abstracts from: INNS Conference, 16776 Bernardo Center Drive,
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----------ABSTRACT DEADLINE: MARCH 31, 1988----------
Acceptance notifications will be mailed in June, 1988. Accepted abstracts
will be published as a supplement to the INNS journal, Neural Networks,
and mailed to meeting registrants and Neural Networks subscribers in
August, 1988.
---PROGRAM COMMITTEE---
Joshua Alspector Teuvo Kohonen
Shun-ichi Amari Bart Kosko
Dana Anderson Daniel Levine
James Anderson Richard Lyon
Jacob Barhen Ennio Mingolla
Michael Buffa Paul Mueller
Daniel Bullock Lance Optican
Terry Caelli David Parker
Gail Carpenter Demetri Psaltis
Michael Cohen Adam Reeves
Max Cynader Thomas Ryan
John Daugman Jay Sage
David van Essen Eric Schwartz
Federico Faggin Allen Selverston
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---PARTICIPATING SOCIETIES---
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---TUTORIALS---
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3. Cognitive psychology for information processing
4. Local circuit neurobiology
5. Adaptive filters
6. Nonlinear dynamics for brain theory (competition, cooperation, equilibria,
oscillations, and chaos)
7. Applications and combinatorial optimization
8. Implementations (electronic, VLSI, and optical neurocomputers)
Tutorials will be held on Tuesday, September 6, 1988, from 8AM to 6PM. The
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conference opening and a plenary lecture.
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