Computational Modeling of CognitionThis group, consisting primarily of faculty members in the Department of Computer and Information Science, is composed of faculty working in natural language processing and computational linguistics, including applications involving interaction with graphical information, knowledge representation, and natural language generation to aid the disabled. It also has a faculty member working on visual and spatial perception especially for mobile robots and one interested in computer graphical, real-time tracking of the human tongue during speech. Furthermore, there is a faculty member researching artificially intelligent agents which search the Web and these interests include applications of social psychology. There is a faculty member interested in formal grammars for natural languages. Lastly, there is a faculty member working on various theoretical/mathematical areas of computer science, including with applications for self-reflecting machines, machines which learn, and inductive inference machines. These three topics provide theorems and insights re cognitive science, including linguistics, and the last one, additionally, theorems and insights for philosophy of science.
There are clear connections between the computational group and the psychologists interested in spatial relations (on the one hand) and the linguists concerned with the structure and development of human language (on the other hand). The program hopes in the future to initiate new opportunities for interaction among these groups.
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