Master's Program in Cognitive Science, Univ. Bratislava
The goal of the course is to formulate questions and provide views from literature helping to understand how cognitive systems manipulate with meanings. Also, to present cognitive theories of representation bridging the gaps between brain, language and culture.
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Date
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Topic
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Seminar Readings
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Moderated by
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Supplementary Resources
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1.
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23.9
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Introduction & basic terminology
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(none)
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2.
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30.9
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Semiotics and enactive approach
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3.
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7.10
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Meaning in animal world: evolutionary view
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- Gärdenfors, P.: Cued and detached representations in animal cognition", Behavioural Processes 36, 1996, pp. 263-273.
- Gärdenfors, P.: "Language and the evolution of cognition", in Penser l'esprit: Des sciences de la cognition à une philosophie cognitive, ed. by V. Rialle and D. Fisette, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, Grenoble, 1996, pp. 151-172.
- Gärdenfors, P.: Cooperation and the Evolution of Symbolic Communication. In D. Kimbrough Oller and Ulrike Griebel, editors, Evolution of Communication Systems: A Comparative Approach, (2004), pages 237-256. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
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4.
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14.10
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Biologically motivated semantics of distinguishing criteria
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- Šefránek, J.: Knowledge Representation for Animal Reasoning. In: Honkela, T., Pöllä, M., Paukkeri, M., Simula, O. (eds.): Proceedings of AKRR '08, the 2nd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Adaptive Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Espoo, Finland, 2008, pp. 65-72.
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- Takáč, M.: mindmap for Šefránek, J.: Cognition without mental processes
- Takáč, M.: Cognitive Semantics for Dynamic Environments. In: Hitzler, P., Schärfe, H., P. Øhrstrøm (eds.): Contribution to ICCS 2006 - 14th International Conference on Conceptual Structures. Aalborg University Press, Aalborg, Denmark, 2006, pp. 202-215.
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5.
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21.10
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Cognitive semantics of Lakoff
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- Lakoff, George (1987). Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, Foreward and chap. 1 and 4-6.
- Love metaphors
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- Šefránek, J.: slide notes for Lakoff's Women, Fire and Dangerous Things
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6.
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28.10
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Conceptual spaces
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- Gärdenfors, P.: Concept representations and nonmonotonic inferences. pp. 25-39 in Logic for a Change: Essays dedicated to Sten Lindström on the occasion of his fiftieth birthday, Uppsala Prints and Preprints in Philosophy 1995:9, Uppsala. Revised version in Mathware & Soft Computing 3, pp. 17-31.
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- Gärdenfors, P.: "Symbolic, conceptual and subconceptual representations", pp. 255-270 in Human and Machine Perception: Information Fusion, ed. by V. Cantoni, V. di Gesù, A. Setti and D. Tegolo, Plenum Press, New York, 1997.
- Gärdenfors, P.: 1996i "Conceptual spaces as a basis for cognitive semantics", in Philosophy and Cognitive Science, ed. by A. Clark et al., Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1996, pp. 159-180.
- Gärdenfors, P.:"Meanings as conceptual structures", in Mindscapes: Philosophy, Science, and the Mind, ed. by M. Carrier and P. Machamer, Pittsburgh University Press, Pittsburgh, 1997, pp. 61-86.
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7.
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4.11
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Brain related semantics
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- Barsalou, L.W., Yeh, W., Luka, B.J., Olseth, K.L., Mix, K.S., & Wu, L. (1993). Concepts and meaning. In K. Beals, G. Cooke, D. Kathman, K.E. McCullough, S. Kita, & D. Testen (Eds.), Chicago Linguistics Society 29: Papers from the parasession on conceptual representations (pp. 23-61). University of Chicago: Chicago Linguistics Society.
- Neural Basis of Language 2004, ICSI U Berkeley (local copy)
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8.
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Toward grammar
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9.
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11.11
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Meaning in Artificial Systems: Basic Problems
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- Turing, A. M., 1950. Computing machinery and intelligence. Mind 59, 433–460.
- Searle, J. R., 1980. Minds, brains, and programs. Behavioural and Brain Sciences 3, 417–457.
- Newell, A., Simon, H. A., 1976. Computer science as empirical inquiry: Symbols and search. Commun. ACM 19 (3), 113–126.
- Fodor J. A. and Pylyshyn Z. W.: Connectionism and Cognitive Architecture: A Critical Analysis. In: Connections and symbols. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 3–71. 1988.
- Ziemke: Construction
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10.
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18.11
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Meaning in Artificial Systems: Case Studies
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(one of):
- Wiedermann, J: HUGO: A Cognitive Architecture with an Incorporated World Model,
Technical report CSAV No. 966, April 2006
- Deb Roy. (2008, in press). A Mechanistic Model of Three Facets of Meaning. Chapter to appear in Symbols, Embodiment, and Meaning, de Vega, Glenberg, and Graesser, eds. pdf
- Brooks, R: Intelligence without representation. Artificial Intelligence, Vol.47, 1991, pp.139-159.
- survey of chatbots
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- Vernon D., Metta G., Sandini G.: A Survey of Artificial Cognitive Systems: Implications for the Autonomous Development of Mental Capabilities in Computational Agents. Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on, Vol. 11, No. 2. (2007), pp. 151-180.
- Takáč, M.: Construction of Meanings in Living and Artificial Agents. dissertation thesis, Comenius University, Bratislava, submitted in August 2007, Chapter 4.
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11.
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25.11
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Constructivist Approach
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- L.Smith and M. Gasser [2005]. The Development of Embodied Cognition: Six Lessons from Babies Artificial Life. Vol. 11, Issues 1-2, pp. 13 - 30
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- Takáč, M.: Construction of Meanings in Biological and Artificial Agents. In: Trajkovski, G., Collins, S. G. (eds.): Agent-Based Societies: Social and Cultural Interactions, IGI Global, Hershey, PA, in press.
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12.
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2.12
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Closing & Exam
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