Events

• Augmented Cognition'2005

  • First annual Augmented Cognition International conference
  • 22 - 27 Jul 2005, Las Vegas, Nevada.

• IWINAC-2005

  • International Work-conference on the Interplay between Natural and Artificial Computation
  • Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands (Spain), June 15-18, 2005
  • Final Date for Submission: February 15, 2005

• Creativity & Cognition 2005

  • 5th Creativity and Cognition Conference
  • Creative Process and Artefact Creation: Practice, Digital Media and Support Tools
  • Hosted by Goldsmiths College, London, April 12-15th 2005
  • Submission Deadline: 1st October 2004.

• CELDA 2004

  • Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age
  • Lisbon, Portugal, 15-17 December 2004
  • ADIS CELDA 2004 conference aims to address the main issues concerning with the evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in digital age.

• The second annual workshop on Cognitive Systems

  • Santa Fe, New Mexico / June 29th - July 1st, 2004
  • Cognitive Systems: Human Cognitive Models in System Design

• CogSci 2004

  • 26th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
  • August 5-7, Chicago, US.
  • Theme: higher-order cognition

• CT2001

  • The Fourth International Conference on Cognitive Technology
  • University of Warwick (UK)
  • Monday 6th - Thursday 9th August, 2001
  • The conference will focus on the core question of how technology contributes to the making of meaning. 'The making of meaning' is to be broadly interpreted as referring to all the activities by which significance is attached to the actions of people and machines engaging with a technology.

• ICCM-2000

  • Third International Conference on Cognitive Modeling
  • Groningen, Netherlands, 23-25 March 2000
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Interesting articles

Discussions

• sci.cognitive
• fr.sci.cogni

• CogSci

  • The CogSci-list supports the Cognitive and Psychological Sciences which focuses on Cognitive Psychology and other related areas of Cognitive Science.

Starting Points

• Cognitive Science

  • in AI Topics (a dynamic library of introductory information about Artificial Intelligence)

• The BrainWaves Centre

  • research on brain.

• MIT CogNet

  • The Brain Sciences Connection, MIT
• KurzweilAI.net
• Gender and the Brain

• cognitivetools.net

  • This site uses a ( Tiki) Wiki in order to be a portal for people, who are interested in cognitive tools of all kinds.
• Factbites: Cognition
• --- obsolete
• Cognitive Science

Journal, magazines, etc.

• Cognitive Science

• Social Cognition

  • A Journal of Social, Personality, and Developmental Psychology

Articles

• Guard families cope in two dimensions (`Flat Daddy' cutouts ease longing)

  • By Brian MacQuarrie, Globe Staff, August 30, 2006
  • The Guard has provided more than 100 of the cutouts to families of deployed service members as a way to ease the pain of separation.

• This is your brain on a microchip

  • by Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com, May 11, 2006
  • Despite the false starts, many high-profile neuroscientists and bioengineers gathered this week at IBM to talk about how and why cognitive computing research is finally bearing fruit. Scientists from around the world talked about projects ranging from digitally mapping the human brain to developing microcircuits that can repair brain damage.

• MIT explains why bad habits are hard to break

  • By Michael Kanellos, CNET News.com, October 19, 2005
  • "It is as though, somehow, the brain retains a memory of the habit context, and this pattern can be triggered if the right habit cues come back," Ann Graybiel, the Walter A. Rosenblith Professor of Neuroscience in MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, said in a prepared statement.

• Newsmaker: Are we getting smarter or dumber?

  • By Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com, September 21, 2005
  • Merzenich, who has a doctorate in neuroscience from Johns Hopkins, runs a think tank of scientists developing programs to keep your brain in shape.

• Intelligence in the Internet age

  • By Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com, September 19, 2005
  • It's a question older than the Parthenon: Do innovations and new technologies make us more intelligent?

• Podcasts and E-Learning: Cognitive Theories of Multimedia vs. Actual Practice

  • by Susan Smith Nash, Online Learning, August 8, 2005

• The Love Machine (Building computers that care)

  • By David Diamond, Wired, December 2003
  • Laura, an animated software agent with bobbed chestnut hair and a flinty voice, has been designed to remember what we talk about, then use that information in subsequent conversations.

• Getting intelligent about the brain

  • by Richard Shim and Ina Fried, Cnet News.com, October 27, 2004
  • There's no mistaking what they study at the Redwood Neuroscience Institute. There are brains all over the place.

• "Should Mathematicians and Mathematics Educators be listening to Cognitive Psychologists?"

  • by Annie and John Selden
  • Teaching and learning mathematics, february 28, 1997
  • Situated Cognition, etc.

• Cognitive Agents in 3D Virtual Worlds

  • ML Maher, JS Gero, G Smith, N Gu, IJDC 2003
• ...

Books, documents, etc.

• Persuasion : Psychological Insights and Perspectives

  • by Timothy C., Ph.D. Brock (Editor), Melanie C. Green (Editor), Sage Publications, Second Edition, 2005
  • Includes up-to-date coverage of key topics that are authored by leading psychology-of-persuasion researchers, making this the most comprehensive and authoritative textbook on persuasion

• Cognition

  • by Margaret Matlin, John Wiley & Sons; 6 edition (July 23, 2004)
  • Provides an overview of the field, with chapters detailing perception, memory, imagery, general knowledge, language, problem solving and creativity, reasoning and decision making, and cognitive development.

• The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (MITECS)

  • Edited by Robert A. Wilson and Frank C. Keil, September 2001

• "Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies"

  • Douglas Hofstadter and the Fluid Analogies Research Group, 1995
  • (the book)

• Dissertation Proposal: "Natural Language Sensing and Metacognition Modeling in Software Agents"

  • by Zhaohua Zhang, November, 1997.
  • This proposal discusses the theory of metacognition, and proposes a general architecture and its underlying suitable mechanism for building metacognition in software agents. A discussion of possible applications of the theory and architecture is given for Conscious Matte and Tutor, and a detailed design and possible implementation are expected to be given in the final version of this dissertation.

People and organizations

Societies, organizations

• The Cognitive Science Society, Inc.

• the Cognitive Technology Society

  • The Cognitive Technology Society aims to put concern for humans at the centre of technological development.

• ESGS

  • European Society for General Semantics

• COGNIVENCE

  • Association Des Étudiants en Sciences Cognitives d'Île de France
• Augmented Cognition International Society

Labs, groups, etc.

• Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition

  • at Indiana University

• The Redwood Neuroscience Institute (RNI)

  • (RNI) is a nonprofit scientific research organization studying and promoting biologically accurate mathematical models of memory and cognition. Stated very simply, they are working on theories of how the human brain works.

• EURISCO

  • ONERA/CERT (Toulouse)
  • Institut de recherche Sciences cognitives
• Institut des Sciences Cognitives, LYON
• RISC Relais d'Information sur les Sciences de la Cognition

• The ACT group

  • The goal of this research group is to understand how people acquire and organize knowledge and produce intelligent behavior.

• UCSD Cognitive Computer Science Research Group

  • Focused on a cognitive perspective on both artificial and natural systems.
• The Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC)
• MIT Cognobotics Group
• The Johns Hopkins University Department of Cognitive Science
• the Visual Cognition and Performance Lab at UCR
• Laboratory of Personality & Cognition
• Groupe Langage et Cognition
• Psycholinguistics & Computational Cognition Lab
• Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition

• The Centre for HCI Design

  • at City University

• PPIG

  • the Psychology of Programming Interest Group
  • The Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG) was established in order to bring together people from diverse communities to explore common interests in the psychological aspects of programming and/or in computational aspects of psychology.

• CENECC

  • CENtre d'Etudes des systemes Complexes et de la Cognition
• INRIA Research Theme : Cognitive systems

• Cognitive Science Program

  • at the University of Queensland, Australia

• IMSS

  • Intelligent Media Systems & Services Laboratory, at University of Reading

• Koch research

  • the laboratory of Christof Koch at CalTech?
• The Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at the University of California, Berkeley

People

• Christian Balkenius

  • neural network modelling of various forms of cognitive processes.

• Leora Morgenstern

  • from Stanford
  • Leora works in the area of formal knowledge representation.
• H. A. Simon (bounded rationality)

• Marvin Minsky

  • Computational linguistics, cognitive psychology, etc.

• Aaron Sloman

  • Architectures for Human like systems

• Peter Sandman

  • Risk Communication (and bias)
• ... (to be completed)

Projects and initiatives

Projects

• --- Calls for project proposals

• Call for Proposal: IST-2004-2.4.8 - Cognitive Systems

  • 4th Call FP6-2004-IST-4 for the FP6 programme of the European commission.
  • Closing Date(s): 22 March 2005 at 17h00 (Brussels local time)
  • Budget (Cognition): 45 MEuros
  • Instruments: IP, NoE, STREP, CA
  • Focus is on research into ways of endowing artificial systems with high-level cognitive capabilities, typically perception, understanding, learning, knowledge representation and deliberation, thus advancing enabling technologies for scene interpretation, natural language understanding, automated reasoning and problemsolving, robotics and automation, that are relevant for dealing with complex realworld systems.
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• Cognition projects funded by the EC

• COGNIRON, The Cognitive Robot Companion

  • Integrated project funded under the European Union's Sixth Framework Programme (FP6)
  • The overall objectives of this project are to study the perceptual, representational, reasoning and learning capabilities of embodied robots in human centered environments.

• CoSy

  • Cognitive Systems for Cognitive Assistants
  • Integrated project funded under the European Union's Sixth Framework Programme (FP6)

Cognitive psychology

• Cognitive Psychology -- Eye Movement Lab

  • Dept. of Psychology, Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, US
  • A description of the graduate program in cognitive psychology at Michigan State University. Included is information about primary faculty, associated faculty, facilities, areas of research specialty, and financial aid. Click here for information on the Psycholinguistics and Visual Cognition Laboratory.

Semantic Networks

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Other references

Cognitive biaises

• Wikipedia: List of cognitive biases
• Loss aversion
• Attributional bias

• "A Cognitive Model of Agents in a Commons Dilemma"

  • by Nerb, J., Spada H., & Ernst A. M.
• Motivated Interactions in Multi-Agent Systems

• "Cognitive Learning for Practical Solution of the Frame Problem"

  • by Atsushi Ueno
• Human Cognition in the Human brain.
• learning and cognition
• Georgia Tech's Cognitive Science Program
• Situated Learning & Situated Cognition: A Brief Summary of WWW-based Resources