Cognitive Science 200 Seminar
Summaries of Talks & Readings

The following summaries have been prepared (or are in preparation) by students attending the Spring 1997 Cognitive Science 200 Seminar. Some of these documents summarize talks given during the seminar. Others summarize readings. Unless specified otherwise, readings listed here are from the book, Mind as Motion: Explorations in the Dynamics of Cognition.

• Week 01 - April 4th - Situated Cognition
  Talk by Philip E. Agre
  Talk Summary by by William N. Grundy (comment on summary by speaker)
  Summary of Chapter 1 by Dan Clouse
  Summary of Chapter 5 (not available)

• Week 02 - April 11th - Dynamics & Audition
  Talk by Robert F. Port
  Talk Summary by Michael Gray
  Summary of Chapter 2 by Luis Saldanha
  Summary of Chapter 12 by Kara Federmeier

• Week 03 - April 18th - Computation & Action
  Talk by David Kirsh
  Talk Summary by Jay Moody
  Summary of Chapter 4 (not available)
  Summary of Chapter 13 by Eric Thomson

• Week 04 - April 25th - Dynamics In The Visual System
  Talk by Martin I. Sereno
  Talk Summary by Eric C. Welton
  Summary of Chapter 14 by Karen Gunther
  Summary of Chapter 15 by Matthew N. Dailey

• Week 05 - May 2nd - Language Learning
  Talk by Jeffrey L. Elman
  Talk Summary by Jamal Bernhard
  Summary of Chapter 8 by Lukman Ramsey
  Summary of Chapter 9 by Adrian Robert

• Week 06 - May 9th - Development
  Talk by Elizabeth A. Bates
  Talk Summary by Susan Nickerson
  Summary of Chapter 3 (not available)
  Summary of Chapter 11 by Jeanne C. Milostan

• Week 07 - May 16th - Articulation & Speech
  Talk by Kathleen A. Hubbard
  Talk Summary by Dan Jackson
  Summary of Chapter 6 by Matthew Walenski
  Summary of Chapter 7 by Ezra Van Everbroeck

• Week 08 - May 23rd - Artificial Intelligence
  Talk by Charles P. Elkan
  Talk Summary by Randall Rose
  Summary of Chapter 16 by Willie Wheeler
  Summary of Chapter 17 by Taylor Hinshaw

• Week 09 - May 30th - Connectionist Dynamics
  Talk by Garrison W. Cottrell
  Talk Summary by Michael Hayward (comment on summary by speaker)
  Summary of Chapter 10 by Adam L. Taylor

• Week 10 - June 6th - Philosophical Issues
  Talk by Timothy van Gelder
  Talk Summary by David Leland
  Summary of Chapter 18 by Melissa Mellissinos