Vasishth in linguistics colloquium Friday 9/25 at 3:30

Shravan Vasishth (Potsdom) will give a colloquium talk in linguistics on 9/25 at 3:30. Below is the abstract and zoom information.

———— Abstract————
Twenty years of retrieval models
Shravan Vasishth (vasishth.github.io)

After Newell wrote his 1973 article, “You can’t play twenty questions
with nature and win”, several important cognitive architectures
emerged for modeling human cognitive processes across a wide range of
phenomena. One of these, ACT-R, has played an important role in the
study of memory processes in sentence processing. In this talk, I
will talk about some important lessons I have learnt over the last 20
years while trying to evaluate ACT-R based computational models of
sentence comprehension. In this connection, I will present some new
results from a recent set of sentence processing studies on Eastern
Armenian.

Reference:
Shravan Vasishth and Felix Engelmann. Sentence comprehension as a
cognitive process: A computational approach. 2021. Cambridge
University Press.
https://vasishth.github.io/RetrievalModels/

———-Zoom Invitation—————
Sep 25, 2020 03:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUldemurz4oGdAo6hV69nh4k3y82zRiLVZB