Relevant Links Cognitive Science Links Survey of Cognitive and Agent Architectures Very well done hypertext document from the University of Michigan. A Computational Foundation for the Study of Cognition Paper by University of California Prof. David J. Chalmers. Excellent introduction to computation in the context of cognition and AI. Brain Processing Dynamics Lay-oriented site focussing on the emerging dynamical approach to the study of mind/brain/consciousness, from science writer John McCrone. Human Cognition in the Human Brain Paper by Yehouda Harpaz, who works at the UK AI firm Harlequin. Argues that current computational models of human thinking not only ignore neurobiology but also are neurobiologically implausible. Presents a model he claims is neurobiologocally plausible. Amsterdam - Alfa-Informatica / Computational Linguistics Research on computational linguistics, musicology, music cognition, and the formalisation of representations in science, graphics and art. Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI) - Neural Networks Includes research and publications in cognitive modelling with neural networks. Austrian Society for Cognitive Science (ASoCS) An interdisciplinary scientific forum for research, talks, & other academic events in Cognitive Science in Austria. Birmingham - Cognition and Affect Directory Research papers by Aaron Sloman, Louise Pryor, Luc Beaudoin and others. Birmingham - Speech and Natural Language Research papers by Jon Iles, William Edmondson. Bonn - Insitute of Psychology Clinical and applied, developmental, organizational. Research methodology and statistics. Lists of conferences, departments and institutes, global online publications with search facility, other useful external links. Boston - Cognitive and Neural Systems (CNS) / Center for Adaptive Systems (CAS) Includes list of technical reports and online publications. Stephen Grossberg and others. Brandeis - Neuroscience Molecular neurobiology, developmental neurobiology, behavioral genetics, physiology and biophysics of single nerve cells, learning/memory, computational neurobiology, integration of neural function, cognitive neuroscience, human motor control, neurolinguistics, psychophysics. California-Irvine (UCI) - Cognitive Sciences Research on language, thought, memory, learning and perception, in the fields of visual and auditory perception, experimental psychology, and mathematical psychology. Links to related groups. California-Los Angeles (UCLA) - Life Sciences Cognitive science, computer science, linguistics, psychology, artificial life, molecular, cell and developmental biology. California-Santa Cruz (UCSC) - Perceptual Science Laboratory (PSL) Experimental and theoretical inquiries in perception and cognition. Research in speech perception by ear and eye, facial animation, reading. General fuzzy logical model of perception in several domains, including perception and understanding of language, memory, object, shape and depth perception, learning, and decision making. California-San Diego (UCSD) - Cognitive Science Jeff Elman, Jean Mandler, David Kirsh and others. Carnegie Mellon - Artificial Intelligence Repository Public domain and freely distributable software, information about events, conferences and publications. AI Software Packages subdirectories for knowledge representation, machine learning, natural language processing, speech recognition and synthesis, vision, and many others. Carnegie Mellon/Pittsburgh - Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC) and Neural Processes in Cognition Training Program (NPC) The neural basis of cognitive processes, including learning and memory, language and thought, perception, attention, and planning. Colorado - Institute of Cognitive Science (ICS) Research and references on HCI, education, judgement and decision-making, social cognition, psycholinguistics, semantics, text comprehension, and other topics. Order form for publications. Computation and Language E-Print Archive (CMP-LG) Papers on computational linguistics, natural-language processing, speech processing, and related fields. European Network in Language and Speech (ELSNET) Links together almost 100 European academic and industrial laboratories doing R&D in natural language and speech processing. European Society for Developmental Psychology (ESDP) Current and previous newsletters, index of book reviews. FISC (Financement Insertion en Sciences Cognitives) Mailing List - Englishor French International jobs, post-doctoral fellowships, and grants in cognitive science. Most recent vacancies. Geneva - Institut Dalle Molle pour les Etudes Semantiques et Cognitives (ISSCO) Research in AI and computational linguistics. Georgia Tech - Learning, Language, and Cognitive Science (IGOR) Research and publications on goal-driven learning, multistrategy learning, robot learning, natural language, case-based reasoning, creative conceptual change, abductive explanation, and cognitive multimedia. Directed by Ashwin Ram. Hamburg - Kognitionswissenschaft / Cognitive Science Research and publications on acquisition, representation and use of knowledge, spatial and temporal representations, visual perception and attention, language development and developmental impairments, language production and comprehension, and concepts, attitudes and information. Helsinki - Cognitive Science Research on cognitive psychophysiology, construction of representations from perception, and cognitive musicology. Archive of introductory texts, selected articles, book reviews. Illinois - Artificial Intelligence Group Computer and robot vision, navigational schemes, knowledge representation, automated decision systems, deductive and inductive reasoning methods, analysis and generation of natural language, cognitive modelling and simulation, robotic motion, task planning, and plan execution/error recovery schemes. Indiana - Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior Research in sensory physiology, behavioral ecology, evolutionary biology, developmental psychobiology, animal learning, behavioral neuroscience. Analyses of neuronal function and connections, modelling of behavior in terms of optimization and dynamical systems, field experiments on the behavior of free-living animals. Indiana - Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition (CRCC) Emergent computational models of creative analogical thinking and its subcognitive substrate -- fluid concepts. Headed by D. Hofstadter, author of Gödel, Escher, Bach. Innsbruck - Mathematics - Artificial Intelligence and Rational Aesthetics System theory, Walsh functions, differential equations, pilgrim step transformation, logic, geometry, didactics, theory of harmony of colours, artificial intelligence and rational aesthetics. Roman Rudolf Liedl. Institut Dalle Molle d'Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive (IDIAP), Valais Neural networks, computer vision, logic programming, optical character recognition, speaker verification and identification, speech recognition, uncertainty management in expert systems and other areas. International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) AI applications of massive parallelism, emphasis on structured connectionism. Applications in vision, geometric structures and algorithms, speech, knowledge representation and learning. Iowa - Artificial Intelligence Research Group Vasant Honavar and others, principally on symbolic/connectionist systems. Research papers available online. Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale (IDSIA), Lugano AI tools, robotics (execution, planning and learning of sensor-based activities), knowledge discovery, artificial life, linguistics and second language learning, reinforcement learning, evolutionary computation, neural networks. Kaiserslautern - Algorithmic Learning Group Algorithmic learning, computational learning, inductive inference, AI. Karlsruhe/Pittsburgh - Interactive Systems Laboratories Human-machine and human-human communication, with projects on speech translation, spelling recognition, face tracking, focus of attention, lip reading, sound localization and enhancement, gesture-speech integration, eye-gaze tracking, and on-line cursive handwriting recognition. Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique (LSCP) Linguistic and numerical abilities in neonates and adults, through experimental psychology and neuropsychology. Jacques Mehler. Leibniz Laboratory - Systèmes Cognitifs / Cognitive Systems Investigation, modelling and implementation of cognitive abilities such as knowledge representation, reasoning, perception, action, learning and language. Interdisciplinary research on neural networks, probabilistic models and genetic algorithms in robotics and AI, multi-agent systems. Leeds - Psychology - Speech Laboratory Speech recognition, speech synthesis and speech production modelling, speech corpora, machine-readable dictionaries, auditory grouping. FTP access to the MAchine Readable Spoken English Corpus (MARSEC). Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) Open consortium of universities, companies, and government research laboratories which creates, collects and distributes speech and text databases, lexicons, and other resources for research and development purposes. London-School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) - Linguistics Working papers in linguistics and phonetics. London-University College (UCL) - Centre for Cognitive Science Resources include an introductory textbook written by members of the teaching staff. London-University College (UCL) - Human Communication Science Speech and language. London-University College (UCL) - Survey of English Usage An international corpus of English, patterns of clause relationships in spoken English, hypertext help for corpus annotation, and software development. Lund - Cognitive Science (LUCS) Evolutionary processes, conceptual spaces, robots with autonomous spatial learning, conceptual engineering and focus movements, vision and discourse, neural vision, categorization and recognition of biological motion, natural intelligence in artificial creatures, category learning and other topics. Peter Gardenfors, Christian Balkenius and others. Manchester - Artificial Intelligence Group Knowledge representation, reasoning, natural language, memory, learning, and neural networks. Massachusetts (UMass) - Natural Language Processing Laboratory Sentence analysis, discourse analysis, corpus-driven text comprehension and information extraction. NLP software available. McDonnell-Pew Program in Cognitive Neuroscience International research funding program established jointly by the James S. McDonnell Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts. McGill - Laboratory for Natural and Simulated Cognition Connectionist modelling of cognitive development, interactions between knowledge and learning, techniques for analyzing knowledge representations in neural nets, and cognitive consistency phenomena in social psychology. Thomas Shultz. MIT - Brain and Cognitive Sciences Molecular and cellular neurobiology, systems neuroscience, cognitive science, computation, and cognitive neuroscience. MIT - Brain and Cognitive Sciences - Cognitive Science Psycholinguistics, visual perception and cognition, concepts and reasoning, cognitive development, and neurological impairment. Robert Berwick, Susan Carey, Michael Jordan, Steven Pinker and others. MIT - Brain and Cognitive Sciences - Perceptual Science Group Human visual perception, machine vision, image processing, motion analysis, stereopsis, perceptual organization, and perceptual similarity. Natural Language Software Registry (NLSR) Concise summary of the capabilities and sources of academic, commercial and proprietary language processing software available to researchers. New Mexico - Computing Research Laboratory Papers and other resources in computational linguistics and natural language processing. New South Wales - Artificial Intelligence Cognitive science, control applications, knowledge acquisition, machine learning, multi-agent problem solving, natural language understanding, neural networks, qualitative methods, robotics, vision, and pattern recognition. North Carolina-Chapel Hill - Computer Science - Neural Networks and Vision Neural network models of visual perception. Northeastern - Psychology Behavioral neuroscience, language and cognition, personality and social psychology, sensation and perception. Nottingham - Artificial Intelligence Research Group Knowledge-based systems, knowledge acquisition, autonomous agents, intelligent tutoring systems, planning, natural language understanding, cognitive modelling and associated tools, evolutionary simulation, adaptive behavior, and artificial life. Open University - Human Cognition Research Laboratory Basic and applied research in AI, knowledge engineering, cognitive science, and HCI (particularly program visualization). Oregon - Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences Cognitive neuroscience, emotion, language, attention, sound and visual perception, human performance and motor control, conceptual and linguistic representation, cognitive and linguistic development, first and second language acquisition, discourse processing, social cognition and decision making. Oregon - Psychology Cognitive neuroscience, attention, motor control, computational and neural models of visual perception, language and cognitive development, memory, social psychology, affective disorders, theory of mind. Oregon Graduate Institute (OGI) - Center for Spoken Language Understanding (CSLU) Signal processing, telephony, speech and hearing science, speech recognition, pattern classification, combinatorial search, linguistics, natural language understanding and dialogue modelling. Online speech tools and speech corpora. Oxford - McDonnell-Pew Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience Sensory representation, memory formation, motor programming, language and attention, philosophical approaches to cognition. Organises seminars, workshops, summer schools and conferences. Pearl Street : Cognitive Science Course Materials Undergraduate and graduate course materials, and a cognitive science dictionary . Maintained by Mike Dawson and David Medler at the University of Alberta. Pennsylvania - Institute for Research in Cognitive Science (IRCS) U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Science and Technology Center for Research in Cognitive Science. Interdisciplinary research linking computer and information science, linguistics, mathematical logic, neuroscience, philosophy and psychology. Main focus on language structure, processing and acquisition, perception and action, logic and computation. Positions in Psychology Worldwide register of academic jobs. Princeton - Cognitive Science Laboratory Includes link to WordNet, an online lexical database. Philip Johnson-Laird, George Miller. Queensland (UQ) - Cognitive Science Research Group Cognitive science, optimization, learning dynamics, cognitive neuropsychology, pattern representations, learning and systematicity, game playing, and connectionist methodology. RELATOR - Natural Language Processing Resources Internal and external NLP resources, including speech and text corpora, lexicons, NLP programs and tools, and related databases and systems. Rochester - Brain and Cognitive Sciences Brain changes during sensitive periods for learning, neurotransmitters and the developing nervous system, hormonal influences on the development of the nervous system, experience and the development of perceptual-motor systems, mechanisms underlying the acquisition of language, mechanisms underlying the comprehension of language, modularity in cognitive function and the brain, electrophysiological indicators of cognitive function, sensory and perceptual modulation of reflexive behaviours, fundamental limits to vision, serial organization of vision, and modularity in visual function. Rochester - Center for Visual Science Brain and cognitive sciences, computer science, neurobiology and anatomy, neurology and ophthalmology. Rochester - Computer Science (URCS) - Artificial Intelligence Natural language dialogue and interactive planning, speech and dialogue, and knowledge representation tools. Rochester - Computer Science (URCS) - AI Technical Reports Planning, knowledge representation, temporal reasoning, discourse, natural language processing, cognitive modelling, genetic algorithms, reinforcement learning, vision, speech recognition, neural networks, supervised and unsupervised learning, embodiment, object recognition and other topics. James Allen, Dana Ballard, Graeme Hirst et al. Rutgers - Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS) Cognitive development, visual perception, visual attention, linguistic theory, language processing, language and cognition. Rutgers - Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience (CMBN) Neural basis of language development, visual perception and related topics. Rutgers - Cognitive Development Laboratory Cognitive capacities and development of infants, preschool children, and children with neurodevelopmental disorders such as Down's syndrome and autism. Alan Leslie. Rutgers - Vision Research Laboratory Stereoscopic and occlusion perception, apparent motion, texture segregation and modelling, the role of attention in visual tasks, models for spacial and motion perception, human factors, learning processes for perception tasks, sharpness perception in color, and image compression based on human visual performance. Sheffield - Institute for Language, Speech and Hearing (ILASH) Information extraction, information retrieval, natural language processing, auditory modelling, artificial intelligence, linguistics, speech science, speech technology, computational psychology and neural networks. Sheffield - Psychology Learning (especially dyslexia), tactile maps, AI vision, and social and applied psychology. Southampton - Image, Speech and Intelligent Systems (ISIS) Research Group Control and intelligent systems, neural networks and neurofuzzy systems (learning laws, network construction algorithms, data pre-processing techniques), speech processing and speech acoustics (speech recognition, speech synthesis, auditory modelling), and computer vision and image processing (feature extraction, face recognition). SRI International - Artificial Intelligence Center (AIC) Natural language, perception, representation, and reasoning. Stirling - Centre for Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience (CCCN) Cognitive neuropsychology, genetic algorithms, neural networks, artificial life, visual and auditory perception, perception of music, synaesthesia, and computer vision. Stuttgart - Institute for Natural Language Processing Syntax, semantics, logic, computational linguistics, experimental phonetics. SUNY Buffalo - Center for Cognitive Science (CCS) Discourse and narrative, spoken language, semantic networks, vision, cognitive neurosciences and neurolinguistics, conceptual structure. University of Surrey - Vision, Speech and Signal Processing Group (CVSSP) Computer vision, image analysis, image communication, multimedia systems, speech processing, and signal detection. University of Sussex - Computing and Cognitive Sciences (COGS) AI, philosophy, psychology and linguistics. ThoughtTreasure Artificial intelligence program consisting of an English and French lexicon, ontology database, syntactic parser, surface semantic parser, anaphoric parser, text agents, planning agents, understanding agents, learning, tools/utilities, and applications. ANSI C source code and online book available. Erik Mueller. Tilburg - Institute for Language Technology and Artificial Intelligence (ITK) Research projects, papers. Toronto - Cognitive Robotics Yves Lesperance, Hector Levesque Trieste - Psychology Perception and cognition, especially occlusion and lightness. Twente - Parlevink Linguistic Engineering Group Prototype dialogue system, language specification, parsing, semantics, pragmatics, the use of neural networks, genetic algorithms, cellular automata and fuzzy logic in language and information engineering. Wales-Bangor - Electronic Engineering and Computer Systems - Cognition as Compression Computing and cognition as forms of information compression. Gerry Wolff. Wales-Bangor - Electronic Engineering and Computer Systems - Language Learning as Compression Computational modelling of first language acquisition as a form of information compression. Gerry Wolff. Washington - Philosophy/Neuroscience/Psychology Cognitive science, connectionism, representation, learning, language, consiousness, philosophy of science. Western Australia - Centre for Intelligent Information Processing Systems (CIIPS) Artificial neural networks, syntactic pattern recognition, biomedical engineering, image/speech processing. Western Ontario - Cognitive Modelling and Machine Learning Symbolic modelling of cognitive tasks, inductive logic programming (ILP), and other topics in machine learning. Charles Ling. York - Psychology Behavioral neuroscience, cognitive neuropsychology , developmental psychology, sensory and perceptual-motor processes. Zurich (UNIZH) - Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Intelligence in natural and artificial systems, specialising in situated design and autonomous agent design. Neural network-based, biologically inspired robots. Rolf Pfeifer. 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