Cognitive Science
Cognitive Science attempts to build computational models of human (and animal) cognitive processes in order to improve our understanding of natural intelligent systems. It is closely tied to research in cognitive psychology.
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Nora E. Aguirre-Celis Ph.D. Alumni naguirre [at] cs utexas edu
James A. Bednar Postdoctoral Alumni jbednar [at] inf ed ac uk
Shlomo Bentin Formerly affiliated Collaborator shlomo bentin [at] huji ac il
Dennis J. A. Bijwaard Formerly affiliated Visitor
Bobby D. Bryant Ph.D. Alumni bdbryant [at] cse unr edu
Harold H. Chaput Ph.D. Alumni hchaput [at] ea com
Harold H. Chaput Ph.D. Alumni hchaput [at] ea com
Chloe Chen Ph.D. Student
Yoonsuck Choe Ph.D. Alumni choe [at] tamu edu
Judah De Paula Ph.D. Alumni
Igor Farkas Postdoctoral Alumni farkas [at] fmph uniba sk
Eliana Feasley Formerly affiliated Ph.D. Student elie [at] cs utexas edu
Peggy Fidelman Formerly affiliated Ph.D. Student peggyf [at] cs utexas edu
Wilson S. Geisler Formerly affiliated Collaborator geisler [at] psy utexas edu
Uli Grasemann Postdoctoral Alumni uli [at] cs utexas edu
Patrick Haley Undergraduate Alumni
Ralph E. Hoffman Formerly affiliated Collaborator ralph hoffman [at] yale edu
Kay E. Holekamp Formerly affiliated Collaborator holekamp [at] msu edu
Leif Johnson Ph.D. Alumni leif [at] cs utexas edu
Lisa C. Kaczmarczyk Ph.D. Alumni lisakacz [at] gmail com
Igor V. Karpov Masters Alumni ikarpov [at] gmail com
Leslie M. Kay Formerly affiliated Collaborator
Swathi Kiran Collaborator kirans [at] bu edu
Dmitry Kit Ph.D. Alumni dkit [at] cs utexas edu
Joel Lehman Postdoctoral Alumni joel [at] cs utexas edu
Wee Kheng Leow Ph.D. Alumni leowwk [at] comp nus edu sg
Xun Li Ph.D. Alumni xun bhsfer [at] cs utexas edu
Elad Liebman Ph.D. Student eladlieb [at] cs utexas edu
Marshall R. Mayberry III Ph.D. Alumni marty mayberry [at] gmail com
Elliot Meyerson Ph.D. Alumni ekm [at] cs utexas edu
Risto Miikkulainen Faculty risto [at] cs utexas edu
Claudia Penaloza Collaborator claudia_penaloza [at] ub edu
Jefferson Provost Ph.D. Alumni jefferson provost [at] gmail com
Jefferson Provost Ph.D. Alumni jefferson provost [at] gmail com
Manish Saggar Ph.D. Alumni saggar [at] stanford edu
Clifford Saron Formerly affiliated Collaborator cdsaron [at] ucdavis edu
Yaron Silberman Ph.D. Alumni yarons [at] alice nc huji ac il
Joseph Sirosh Ph.D. Alumni joseph sirosh [at] gmail com
Rick Tanney Masters Alumni
Tal Tversky Ph.D. Alumni tal [at] cs utexas edu
Vinod Valsalam Ph.D. Alumni vkv [at] alumni utexas net
Jamieson Warner Ph.D. Student jamiesonwarner [at] utexas edu
Gert Westermann Formerly affiliated Visitor gwestermann [at] brookes ac uk
Paul Williams Undergraduate Alumni pwilly [at] cs utexas edu
Dasa Zeithamova Formerly affiliated Collaborator zeithamova [at] mail utexas edu
Ruohan Zhang Ph.D. Student zharu [at] utexas edu
Publications
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Modeling Bilingualism as a Dynamic Phenomenon in Healthy and Neurologically Affected Speakers Across the Lifespan (Commentary) 2023
Claudia Penaloza, Uli Grasemann, Risto Miikkulainen, Swathi Kiran, Language Learning, Vol. . (2023). https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12566.
What AI Can Do for Neuroscience: Understanding How the Brain Represents Word Meanings 2023
Nora Aguirre-Celis and Risto Miikkulainen, In What AI Can Do: Strengths and Limitations of Artificial Intelligence, Manuel Cebral-Loureda, Elvira G. Rincon-Flores, and Gildardo Sanchez-Ante (Eds.), pp. 401-417, 2023. CRC Press.
Constructing Individualized Computational Models for Dementia Patients 2022
Peggy Fidelman, Uli Grasemann, Claudia Penaloza, Michael Scimeca, Yakeel T. Quiroz, Swathi Kiran, Risto Miikkulainen, In Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022.
How the Brain Dynamically Constructs Sentence-Level Meanings From Word-Level Features 2022
Nora Aguirre-Celis and Risto Miikkulainen, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence (2022).
From Words to Sentences and Back: Characterizing Context-dependent Meaning Representations in the Brain 2021
Nora Aguirre-Celis a.k.a. Nora E. Aguirre Sampayo, PhD Thesis, Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey.
Improving Neural Network Learning Through Dual Variable Learning Rates 2021
Elizabeth Liner, Risto Miikkulainen, In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2021.
Predicting language treatment response in bilingual aphasia using neural network-based patient models 2021
Uli Grasemann, Claudia Peñaloza, Maria Dekhtyar, Risto Miikkulainen, and Swathi Kiran , Scientific Reports, Vol. 11, 10497 (2021), pp. 1-11.
Understanding the Semantic Space: How Word Meanings Dynamically Adapt in the Context of a Sentence 2021
Nora Aguirre-Celis and Risto Miikkulainen, In Proceedings of the Workshop on Semantic Spaces at the Intersection of NLP, Physics, and Cognitive Science , Groningen, Netherlands, June 2021.
Characterizing Dynamic Word Meaning Representations in the Brain 2020
Nora Aguirre-Celis and Risto Miikkulainen, In Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex-VI), Barcelona, ES, December 2020.
Characterizing the Effect of Sentence Context on Word Meanings: Mapping Brain to Behavior 2020
Nora Aguirre-Celis and Risto Miikkulainen, arXiv:2007.13840 (2020).
Evolution of Complex Coordinated Behavior 2020
Padmini Rajagopalan, Kay E. Holekamp and Risto Miikkulainen, In 2020 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), July 2020.
BiLex: A computational approach to the effects of age of acquisition and language exposure on bilingual lexical access 2019
Claudia Peñaloza, Uli Grasemann, Maria Dekhtyar, Risto Miikkulainen, and Swathi Kiran, Brain and Language, Vol. 195, 104643 (2019).
Evolutionary Optimization of Neural-Network Models of Human Behavior 2019
Uli Grasemann, Risto Miikkulainen, Claudia Peñaloza, Maria Dekhtyar, and Swathi Kiran, Proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (2019).
Factors that Affect the Evolution of Complex Cooperative Behavior 2019
Padmini Rajagopalan, Kay E. Holekamp and Risto Miikkulainen, In The 2019 Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE 2019), pp. 333--340, July 2019.
Quantifying the Conceptual Combination Effect on Word Meanings 2019
Nora Aguirre-Celis and Risto Miikkulainen, In Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Montreal, CA, July 2019.
Combining fMRI Data and Neural Networks to Quantify Contextual Effects in the Brain 2018
Nora Aguirre-Celis and Risto Miikkulainen, In Brain Informatics. BI 2018. Lectures Notes in Computer Sciences, Shouyi Wang, Vicky Yamamoto, Jianzhong Su, Yang Yang, Eric Jones, Leon Iasemidis, Tom Mitchell (Eds.), Vol. 11309, pp. 129-14...
From Words to Sentences & Back: Characterizing Context-dependent Meaning Representations in the Brain 2017
Nora Aguirre-Celis, Manuel Valenzuela, and Risto Miikkulainen, In Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, London, UK, July 2017.
Evolving Artificial Language Through Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning 2016
Xun Li and Risto Miikkulainen, In Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Cambridge, MA, 2016. MIT Press.
Evolving Deep LSTM-based Memory networks using an Information Maximization Objective 2016
Aditya Rawal and Risto Miikkulainen, To Appear In Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2016), Colorado, USA 2016.
Reuse of Neural Modules for General Video Game Playing 2016
Alexander Braylan, Mark Hollenbeck, Elliot Meyerson and Risto Miikkulainen, To Appear In Proceedings of the 30th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-16) 2016.
The Evolution of Language Groups among Cooperating Digital Predators 2016
Patrick Haley, Technical Report HR-16-06, Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin.
Mean-field thalamocortical modeling of longitudinal EEG acquired during intensive meditation training 2015
Manish Saggar, Anthony P. Zanesco, Brandon G. King, David A. Bridwell, Katherine A. MacLean, Stephen R. Aichele, Tonya L. Jacobs, B. Alan Wallace, Clifford D. Saron, Risto Miikkulainen, NeuroImage, Vol. 114 (2015), pp. 88-104. Elsevier.
General Intelligence through Prolonged Evolution of Densely Connected Neural Networks 2014
Padmini Rajagopalan, Aditya Rawal, Kay E. Holekamp and Risto Miikkulainen, In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2014), Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 2014.
The Evolution of General Intelligence 2014
Padmini Rajagopalan, Kay E. Holekamp and Risto Miikkulainen, In Proceedings of The Fourteenth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ALIFE 14), New York, NY 2014.
A Computational Account of Bilingual Aphasia Rehabilitation 2013
Swathi Kiran, Uli Grasemann, Chaleece Sandberg, and Risto Miikkulainen, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, Vol. 16 (2013), pp. 325-342.
Believable Bot Navigation via Playback of Human Traces 2012
Igor V. Karpov, Jacob Schrum, Risto Miikkulainen, In Believable Bots, Philip F. Hingston (Eds.), pp. 151--170 2012. Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
Intensive training induces longitudinal changes in meditation state-related EEG oscillatory activity 2012
Manish Saggar, Brandon G King, Anthony P Zanesco, Katherine A MacLean, Stephen R Aichele, Tonya L Jacobs, David A Bridwell, Phillip R Shaver, Erika L Rosenberg, Baljinder K Sahdra, Emilio Ferrer, Akaysha C Tang, George R Mangun, B Alan Wallace, Risto Miikkulainen, and Clifford D Saron, Frontiers in Human NeuroscienceAmishi P Jha (Eds.), Vol. 6, 00256 (2012).
Latent Variable Models of Distributional Lexical Semantics 2012
Joseph Reisinger, PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin.
The role of uncertainty and reward on eye movements in a virtual driving task 2012
Brian Sullivan, Leif Johnson, Constantin Rothkopf, Mary Hayhoe and Dana Ballard, Journal of Vision, Vol. 12, 9 (2012).
A modular reinforcement learning model for human visuomotor behavior in a driving task 2011
Brian Sullivan, Leif Johnson, Dana Ballard and Mary Hayhoe, Proceedings of the AISB 2011 Symposium on Architectures for Active Vision. (2011), pp. 33-40.
Computational Analysis of Meditation 2011
Manish Saggar, PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin.
Impairment and Rehabilitation in Bilingual Aphasia: A SOM-Based Model 2011
Uli Grasemann, Swathi Kiran, Chaleece Sandberg and Risto Miikkulainen, In Proceedings of WSOM11, 8th Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps, LNCS 6731, J Laaksonen and T. Honkela (Eds.), pp. 207--217, Espoo, Finland 2011. Springer Verlag.
Modeling Acute and Compensated Language Disturbance in Schizophrenia 2011
Uli Grasemann, Ralph Hoffman and Risto Miikkulainen, In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 2011.
Using Computational Patients to Evaluate Illness Mechanisms in Schizophrenia 2011
Ralph E. Hoffman, Uli Grasemann, Ralitza Gueorguieva, Donald Quinlan, Douglas Lane, and Risto Miikkulainen, Biological Psychiatry, Vol. 69 (2011), pp. 997--1005.
Using visuo-spatial memory for novelty detection 2011
Dmitry Kit, Brian Sullivan and Dana Ballard, Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (2011).
A Computational Model of Language Pathology in Schizophrenia 2010
Uli Grasemann, PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin. 147 pages. Technical report TR-11-11.
Behavioral, neuroimaging, and computational evidence for perceptual caching in repetition priming 2010
Manish Saggar, Risto Miikkulainen, David Schnyer, Journal of Brain Research, Vol. 1315 (2010), pp. 75--91.
Computational models inform clinical science and assessment: An application to category learning in striatal-damaged patients 2010
W. Todd Maddox, J. Vincent Filoteo and Dagmar Zeithamova, Journal of Mathematical Psychology, Vol. 54, 1 (2010), pp. 109-122.
A Population Gain Control Model of Spatiotemporal Responses in the Visual Cortex 2009
Yiu Fai Sit, PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin. Technical Report AI09-06.
Modeling the Bilingual Lexicon of an Individual Subject 2009
Risto Miikkulainen and Swathi Kiran, In Proceedings of the Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps (WSOM'09), Berlin 2009. Springer.
Category Learning Systems 2008
Dagmar Zeithamova, PhD Thesis, Institute for Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin.
Dissociable prototype learning systems: Evidence from brain imaging and behavior 2008
Dagmar Zeithamova, W. Todd Maddox and David M. Schnyer, Journal of Neuroscience, Vol. 28, 49 (2008), pp. 13194-13201.
Incremental Nonmonotonic Sentence Interpretation through Semantic Self-Organization 2008
Marshall R. Mayberry III and Risto Miikkulainen, Technical Report AI08-12, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin.
Memory Processes in Perceptual Decision Making 2008
Manish Saggar, Risto Miikkulainen, David M Schnyer, In Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Nashville, TN 2008.
Motion Perception and the Scene Statistics of Motion 2008
Tal Tversky, PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin.
A computational model of the motivation-learning interface 2007
Manish Saggar, Arthur B Markman, W Todd Maddox, Risto Miikkulainen, In Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Nashville, TN 2007.
A Subsymbolic Model of Language Pathology in Schizophrenia 2007
Uli Grasemann, Risto Miikkulainen, Ralph Hoffman, In Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 311-316, Hillsdale, NJ 2007. Erlbaum.
Developing Complex Systems Using Evolved Pattern Generators 2007
Vinod K. Valsalam, James A. Bednar and Risto Miikkulainen, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (2007), pp. 181-198.
Semantic Boost on Episodic Associations: An Empirically Based Computational Model 2007
Yaron Silberman, Shlomo Bentin, and Risto Miikkulainen, Cognitive Science, Vol. 31 (2007), pp. 645--671.
Establishing an Appropriate Learning Bias Through Development 2006
Vinod K. Valsalam, James A. Bednar, and Risto Miikkulainen, In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL-2006) 2006.
Grounding Language in Descriptions of Scenes 2006
Paul Williams and Risto Miikkulainen, In Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 2006.
The Effect of Delivery Method on Conceptual and Strategy Development 2006
Lisa C. Kaczmarczyk, Mary Z. Last, Risto Miikkulainen, In Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society 2006.
A Subsymbolic Model of Complex Story Understanding 2005
Peggy Fidelman, Risto Miikkulainen and Ralph Hoffman, In Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 2005.
Associating Unseen Events: Semantically Mediated Formation of Episodic Associations 2005
Yaron Silberman, Risto Miikkulainen, and Shlomo Bentin, Psychological Science, Vol. 16 (2005), pp. 161-166.
Broad-Coverage Parsing with Neural Networks 2005
Marshall R. Mayberry III and Risto Miikkulainen, Neural Processing Letters, Vol. 21 (2005), pp. 121--143.
Constructing Good Learners Using Evolved Pattern Generators 2005
Vinod K. Valsalam, James A. Bednar, and Risto Miikkulainen, In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO-2005, H.-G. Beyer and others (Eds.), pp. 11-18 2005.
Constructing Visual Function Through Prenatal and Postnatal Learning 2005
James A. Bednar and Risto Miikkulainen, In Neuroconstructivism, Vol. 2: Perspectives and Prospects, Denis Mareschal and Mark H. Johnson and Sylvain Sirois and Michael Spratling and Michael S. C. Thomas and Gert Westermann (Eds.), pp....
Learning Visual Scene Descriptions: An Approach to Symbol Grounding 2005
Paul Williams, Technical Report TR-06-01, Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin.
The Acquisition of Intellectual Expertise: A Computational and Empirical Theory 2005
Elizabeth C. Kaczmarczyk, PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin.
Characteristics of Forming Episodic Associations Between Words 2004
Yaron Silberman, PhD Thesis, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Contour grouping: closure effects are explained by good continuation and proximity 2004
Tal Tversky, Wilson S. Geisler and Jeffrey S. Perry, Vision Research, Vol. 44, 24 (2004), pp. 2769--2777.
Contour Integration and Segmentation with Self-Organized Lateral Connections 2004
Yoonsuck Choe and Risto Miikkulainen, Biological Cybernetics 90:75-88
The Acquisition of Intellectual Expertise: A Computational Model 2004
Elizabeth C. Kaczmarczyk, Risto Miikkulainen, In Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society 2004.
The Constructivist Learning Architecture: A Model of Cognitive Development for Robust Autonomous Robots 2004
Harold H. Chaput, PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin. Also Technical Report TR-04-34.
Constructivist Learning: A Neural Implementation of the Schema Mechanism 2003
Harold H. Chaput, Benjamin Kuipers and Risto Miikkulainen, In Proceedings of WSOM '03: Workshop for Self-Organizing Maps, Kitakyushu, Japan 2003.
Incremental Nonmonotonic Parsing through Semantic Self-Organization 2003
Marshall R. Mayberry III, PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Sciences, the University of Texas at Austin. Technical Report AI-TR-04-310.
Incremental Nonmonotonic Parsing through SemanticSelf-Organization 2003
Marshall R. Mayberry III and Risto Miikkulainen, In Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society 2003.
Learning Innate Face Preferences 2003
James A. Bednar and Risto Miikkulainen, Neural Computation, Vol. 15, 7 (2003), pp. 1525-1557.
The Role of Internally Generated Neural Activity in Newborn and Infant Face Preferences 2003
James A. Bednar, In Face Perception in Infancy and Early Childhood, Olivier Pascalis and Alan Slater (Eds.), pp. 133-142, New York 2003. NOVA Science Publishers.
Learning to See: Genetic and Environmental Influences on Visual Development 2002
James A. Bednar, PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin. Also Technical Report AI-TR-02-294.
Neonatal Learning Of Faces: Environmental And Genetic Influences 2002
James A. Bednar and Risto Miikkulainen, In Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 107-112 2002.
Text and Discourse Understanding: The DISCERN System 2002
Risto Miikkulainen, In A Handbook of Natural Language Processing: Techniques and Applications for the Processing of Language as Text, R. Dale, H. Moisl and H. Somers (Eds.), pp. 905--919, New York 2002.
A Model Of Infant Causal Perception And Its Development 2001
Harold H. Chaput and Leslie B. Cohen, In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 182-187 2001.
Abrupt And Gradual Sound Change In An Expanding Lexicon 2001
Melissa A. Redford and Risto Miikkulainen, Technical Report AI01-289, Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin.
Constrained Emergence Of Universals And Variation In Syllable Systems 2001
Melissa A. Redford, Chun Chi Chen, and Risto Miikkulainen, Language and Speech (2001), pp. 27-56. Manuscript.
From Word Stream To Gestalt: A Direct Semantic Parse For Complex Sentences 2001
Bobby D. Bryant and Risto Miikkulainen, Technical Report AI98-274, AI Lab, University of Texas at Austin.
Perceptual Grouping In A Self-Organizing Map Of Spiking Neurons 2001
Yoonsuck Choe, PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin. 133. Technical Report AI01-292.
Post-Piagetian constructivism for grounded knowledge acquisition 2001
Harold H. Chaput, In Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium Series on Grounded Knoweldge, Palo Alto, CA 2001.
Semantic Effect On Episodic Associations 2001
Yaron Silberman, Risto Miikkulainen, and Shlomo Bentin, In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 934-939 2001.
Toward Learning the Causal Layer of the Spatial Semantic Hierarchy using SOMs 2001
Jefferson Provost, Patrick Beeson, and Benjamin J. Kuipers, In AAAI Spring Symposium Series, Learning Grounded Representations 2001.
A Self-Organizing Neural Network For Contour Integration Through Synchronized Firing 2000
Yoonsuck Choe and Risto Miikkulainen, Proceedings of the 17th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2000, Austin, TX), 123-128. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000
Hebbian Learning And Temporary Storage In The Convergence-Zone Model Of Episodic Memory 2000
Michael Howe and Risto Miikkulainen, Neurocomputing, Vol. 32--33 (2000), pp. 817--821. Also J. M. Bower (editor), Computational Neuroscience: Trends in Research, 2000 (CNS*99, Pittsburgh, PA). New York: Plenum Press..
Internally-Generated Activity, Non-Episodic Memory, and Emotional Salience in Sleep 2000
James A. Bednar, Behavioral and Brain SciencesS. Harnad and E. Pace-Schott and M. Blagrove and M. Solms (Eds.) (2000), pp. 119-120. Cambridge University Press. Commentary on the 'Sleep and Dreaming' issue..
Neuro-Evolution And Natural Deduction 2000
Nirav S. Desai and Risto Miikkulainen, In Proceedings of The First {IEEE} Symposium on Combinations of Evolutionary Computation and Neural Networks, pp. 64-69, Piscataway, NJ 2000. IEEE.
Self-Organization Of Innate Face Preferences: Could Genetics Be Expressed Through Learning? 2000
James A. Bednar and Risto Miikkulainen, In Proceedings of the 17th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 12th Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, pp. 117-122 2000.
Tilt Aftereffects In A Self-Organizing Model Of The Primary Visual Cortex 2000
James A. Bednar and Risto Miikkulainen, Neural Computation, Vol. 12 (2000), pp. 1721-1740.
Disambiguation And Grammar As Emergent Soft Constraints 1999
Risto Miikkulainen and Marshall R. Mayberry III, In Workshop on Thought and Language, Brian J. MacWhinney (Eds.), pp. 20-31, Iizuka, Japan 1999. Department of Artificial Intelligence, Kyushu Institute of Technology.
SARDSRN: A Neural Network Shift-Reduce Parser 1999
Marshall R. Mayberry III and Risto Miikkulainen, In Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-99), pp. 820-825, Stockholm, Sweden 1999. San Francisco, CA: Kaufmann.
Using a Sequential SOM to Parse Long-Term Dependencies 1999
Marshall R. Mayberry III and Risto Miikkulainen, In Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Martin Hahn and Scott C. Stoness (Eds.), pp. 367-372 1999. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Modeling The Emergence Of Syllable Systems 1998
Melissa A. Redford, Chun Chi Chen, and Risto Miikkulainen, In Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Morton Ann Gernsbacher and Sharon J. Derry (Eds.), pp. 882-886 1998. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Pattern-Generator-Driven Development In Self-Organizing Models 1998
James A. Bednar and Risto Miikkulainen, In Computational Neuroscience: Trends in Research, 1998, pp. 317-323 1998.
Self-Organization And Segmentation In A Laterally Connected Orientation Map Of Spiking Neurons 1998
Yoonsuck Choe and Risto Miikkulainen, Neurocomputing (1998), pp. 139-157.
Convergence-Zone Episodic Memory: Analysis And Simulations 1997
Mark Moll and Risto Miikkulainen, Neural Networks, Vol. 10 (1997), pp. 1017--1036.
Dyslexic and Category-Specific Aphasic Impairments in a Self-Organizing Feature Map Model of the Lexicon 1997
Risto Miikkulainen, Brain and Language (1997), pp. 334-366.
Natural Language Processing With Subsymbolic Neural Networks 1997
Risto Miikkulainen, In Neural Network Perspectives on Cognition and Adaptive Robotics, Antony Browne (Eds.), pp. 120-139, Bristol, UK; Philadelphia, PA 1997. Institute of Physics Publishing.
Reflections in Silicon: Artificial and Natural Neural Networks 1997
Rick W. Tanney, Masters Thesis, Department of Philosophy, the University of Texas at Austin.
Self-Organization And Segmentation With Laterally Connected Spiking Neurons 1997
Yoonsuck Choe and Risto Miikkulainen, In Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-97), pp. 1120-1125, Nagoya, Japan 1997. San Francisco: Kaufmann.
Self-Organization, Plasticity, and Low-Level Visual Phenomena in a Laterally Connected Map Model of the Primary Visual Cortex 1997
Risto Miikkulainen, James A. Bednar, Yoonsuck Choe, and Joseph Sirosh, In Perceptual Learning, R. L. Goldstone and P. G. Schyns and D. L. Medin (Eds.), pp. 257-308 1997.
Tilt Aftereffects in a Self-Organizing Model of the Primary Visual Cortex 1997
James A. Bednar, Masters Thesis, Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin. Technical Report AI97-259.
Visual Schemas In Neural Networks For Object Recognition And Scene Analysis 1997
Wee Kheng Leow, Risto Miikkulainen, Connection ScienceMichael A. Arbib (Eds.) (1997), pp. 1029-1031. MIT Press.
Introduction: The Emerging Understanding of Lateral Interactions in the Cortex 1996
Risto Miikkulainen and Joseph Sirosh, In Lateral Interactions in the Cortex: Structure and Function, Sirosh, J., Miikkulainen, R., and Choe, Y. (Eds.) 1996. Electronic book, http://nn.cs.utexas.edu/web-pubs/htmlbook96.
Lateral Interactions In The Cortex: Structure And Function 1996
Joseph Sirosh, Risto Miikkulainen, and Yoonsuck Choe (editors), Electronic book, ISBN 0-9647060-0-8, http://nn.cs.utexas.edu/web-pubs/htmlbook96/. Austin, TX: The UTCS Neural Networks Research Group
Subsymbolic Case-Role Analysis Of Sentences With Embedded Clauses 1996
Risto Miikkulainen, Cognitive Science, Vol. 20 (1996), pp. 47-73.
A Self-Organizing Neural Network Model Of The Primary Visual Cortex 1995
Joseph Sirosh, PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin. Technical Report AI95-237.
Modeling Cortical Plasticity Based On Adapting Lateral Interaction 1995
Joseph Sirosh and Risto Miikkulainen, In The Neurobiology of Computation: {T}he Proceedings of the Third Annual Computation and Neural Systems Conference, James M. Bower (Eds.), pp. 305-310 1995.
Script-Based Inference And Memory Retrieval In Subsymbolic Story Processing 1995
Risto Miikkulainen, Applied Intelligence (1995), pp. 137-163.
Visual Schemas In Object Recognition And Scene Analysis 1995
Risto Miikkulainen and Wee Kheng Leow, In The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks, M. A. Arbib (Eds.), pp. 1029--1031, Cambridge, MA 1995. MIT Press.
Visualizing High-Dimensional Structure With The Incremental Grid Growing Neural Network 1995
Justine Blackmore and Risto Miikkulainen, In Machine Learning: Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference, Armand Prieditis and Stuart Russell (Eds.), pp. 55-63, Austin, TX 1995. San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann. 55-63. Technical Repo...
A Connectionist Corpus-Based Approach to the Building of Word Representations 1994
Rupert L. Tang, Technical Report HR-94-01, Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin.
Integrated Connectionist Models: Building AI Systems on Subsymbolic Foundations 1994
Risto Miikkulainen, Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks: Steps Toward Principled IntegrationHonavar, V., and Uhr, L. (Eds.) (1994), pp. 483--508.
Lexical Disambiguation Based on Distributed Representations of Context Frequency 1994
Marshall R. Mayberry III and Risto Miikkulainen, In Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Ashwin Ram and Kurt Eiselt (Eds.), pp. 601-606 1994. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Parsing Embedded Clauses with Distributed Neural Networks 1994
Risto Miikkulainen and Dennis Bijwaard, In Proceedings of the Twelfth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 858-864, January 1994.
Parsing Embedded Clauses with Distributed Neural Networks 1994
Risto Miikkulainen and Dennis Bijwaard, In Proceedings of the Twelfth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 858-864, January 1994.
Priming, Perceptual Reversal, And Circular Reaction In A Neural Network Model Of Schema-Based Vision 1994
Wee Kheng Leow and Risto Miikkulainen, In Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Ashwin Ram and Kurt Eiselt (Eds.), pp. 560-565 1994. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Representing And Learning Visual Schemas In Neural Networks For Scene Analysis 1994
Wee Kheng Leow and Risto Miikkulainen, In Proceedings of the Workshop on Neural Architectures and Distributed {AI}: {F}rom Schema Assemblages to Neural Networks, pp. 35-40, Los Angeles 1994. Center for Neural Engineering, Universit...
Searle, Subsymbolic Functionalism And Synthetic Intelligence 1994
Diane Law, Technical Report, Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin. Technical Report AI94-222.
The Capacity Of Convergence-Zone Episodic Memory 1994
Mark Moll, Risto Miikkulainen, Jonathan Abbey, In Proceedings of the Twelfth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-94), pp. 68-73, Seattle, WA 1994. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Verb Inflections in German Child Language: A Connectionist Account 1994
Gert Westermann and Risto Miikkulainen, In Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Ashwin Ram and Kurt Eiselt (Eds.), pp. 928-933 1994. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
VISOR: Learning Visual Schemas In Neural Networks For Object Recognition And Scene Analysis 1994
Wee Kheng Leow, PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin. 198 pages. Technical Report AI-94-219.
VISOR: Schema-Based Scene Analysis With Structured Neural Networks 1994
Wee Kheng Leow and Risto Miikkulainen, Neural Processing Letters, Vol. 1 (1994), pp. 18--23.
Induction Over the Unexplained: Using Overly-General Domain Theories to Aid Concept Learning 1993
Raymond J. Mooney, Machine Learning, Vol. 10 (1993), pp. 79-110.
Integrating Theory and Data in Category Learning 1993
Raymond J. Mooney, In Categorization by Humans and Machines, G. V. Nakamura and D. L. Medin and R. Taraban (Eds.), pp. 189-218 1993.
Multi-Level Neural Network Language Translator 1993
James A. Bednar, Technical Report HR-93-01, Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin.
Representing Visual Schemas in Neural Networks for Scene Analysis 1993
Wee Kheng Leow and Risto Miikkulainen, In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Neural Networks (ICNN-93), pp. 1612-1617, San Francisco, CA 1993. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE.
Subsymbolic Natural Language Processing: An Integrated Model Of Scripts, Lexicon, And Memory 1993
Risto Miikkulainen, , MIT Press, Cambridge, MA 1993. MIT Press.
Schema acquisition from a single example 1992
W. Ahn, W. F. Brewer and Raymond J. Mooney, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, Vol. 18 (1992), pp. 391-412.
Trace Feature Map: A Model Of Episodic Associative Memory 1992
Risto Miikkulainen, Biological Cybernetics, Vol. 66 (1992), pp. 273--282.
A Neural Network For Attentional Spotlight 1991
Wee Kheng Leow and Risto Miikkulainen, In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (Singapore), AI91-165, pp. 436-441 1991. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE.
Natural Language Processing With Modular PDP Networks And Distributed Lexicon 1991
Risto Miikkulainen and Michael G. Dyer, Cognitive Science, Vol. 15 (1991), pp. 343-399.
A PDP Architecture For Processing Sentences With Relative Clauses 1990
Risto Miikkulainen, In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-90), pp. 201--206, Helsinki, Finland: Yliopistopaino 1990.
DISCERN: A Distributed Artificial Neural Network Model Of Script Processing And Memory 1990
Risto Miikkulainen, PhD Thesis, University of California. 334.
Distributed Connectionist Knowledge Representations in Script/Goal-Based Story Understanding 1990
Geunbae Lee and Risto Miikkulainen, In Proceedings of Seoul International Conference on Natural Language Processing (SICONLP-90), pp. 339-350, Seoul, Korea 1990. Seoul National University Language Research Institute.
Learning Plan Schemata From Observation: Explanation-Based Learning for Plan Recognition 1990
Raymond J. Mooney, Cognitive Science, Vol. 14, 4 (1990), pp. 483-509.
Script Recognition With Hierarchical Feature Maps 1990
Risto Miikkulainen, Connection Science, Vol. 2 (1990), pp. 83-101.
Integrated Learning of Words and their Underlying Concepts 1987
Raymond J. Mooney, In Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 947-978, Seattle, WA, July 1987.
Schema Acquisition from One Example: Psychological Evidence for Explanation-Based Learning 1987
W. Ahn, Raymond J. Mooney, W.F. Brewer and G.F. DeJong, In Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 50-57, Seattle, WA, July 1987.
Projects
Computational modeling of language impairment and control in bilingual individuals with post-stroke aphasia and neurodegenerative disorders 2023 - 2028
Predicting Rehabilitation Outcomes In Bilingual Aphasia Using Computational Modeling 2016 - 2022
The Role of Emotion and Communication in Cooperative Behavior 2013 - 2016
Teaching an Agent Manually via Evaluative Reinforcement (TAMER) 2008 - Present
A computational analysis of meditation 2005 - Present
Neural Network Models of Schizophrenic Language 2003 - Present
Acquisition of Intellectual Expertise 2000 - 2004
CLA: The Constructivist Learning Architecture 1998 - 2004
Software/Data
BiLex Download at GitHub.

A self-organizing map model of bilingual aphasia. ...

2021
LISSOM

The LISSOM package contains the C++, Python, and Scheme source code and examples for training and testing firing-rate...

2004
PGLISSOM This package is a simulator for the PGLISSOM model of perceptual grouping and self-organization in the visual cortex. Th... 2002
MIR Sentence Processing Package The MIR Sentence Processing package contains the C source code for the MIR system, as well as a selection of scripts wi... 1998
DISLEX

This package contains the C-code and data for training and testing the DISLEX model of the lexicon, which is also par...

1994
FGREPNET The FGREPNET package contains the C-code and data for training and testing an FGREP network in developing distributed re... 1994
HFM The HFM package contains the C-code and data for training and testing the HFM memory organization and hierarchical class... 1994
PROC The PROC package contains the C-code and data for training and testing the story processing modules of the DISCERN syste... 1994
SPEC The SPEC package contains the C-code and data for training and testing the SPEC system for processing complex sentences ... 1994
DISCERN DISCERN is a large, modular neural network system for reading, paraphrasing and answering questions about stereotypical ... 1993
Demos
Cooperation to Overcome a More Powerful AdversaryKay Holekamp2012
A Subsymbolic Model of Schizophrenic LanguageUli Grasemann2010
Handwritten Digit Recognition Utilizing Evolved Pattern GeneratorsVinod Valsalam2007
Labs
Neural Networks Machine Learning Embodied Cognition Lab