Rational analysis
- Ten years of the rational analysis of cognition
- The philosophy and the approach
- Introduction to "The Adaptive Character of Thought"
Probabilistic models of cognition
- Pure reasoning in 12-month-old infants as probabilistic inference
- How to grow a mind: statistics, structure, and abstraction
- Bayesian learning theory applied to human cognition
- The discovery of structural form
- Probabilistic models of cognition: exploring representations and inductive biases
- Optimal predictions in everyday cognition
- Generalization, similarity, and Bayesian inference
Probabilistic models of perception
- Humans integrate visual and haptic information in a statistically optimal fashion
- Bayesian integration in sensorimotor learning
- Demo: Motion illusions as optimal percepts
- Motion illusions as optimal percepts
Analysis by synthesis
- Speech recognition: a model and a program for research
- Analysis by synthesis: A (re-)emerging program of research for language and vision
- Vision as Bayesian inference: analysis by synthesis?
Generative models
- On discriminative vs. generative classifiers: a comparison of logistic regression and naive Bayes
- Whatever next? Predictive brains, situated agents, and the future of cognitive science
- The role of generative knowledge in object perception
- The Helmholtz machine
- Concerning the perceptions in general
- Hypothesis on the nature of thought
Planning and decision making
- Model-based Bayesian reinforcement learning in large structured domains
- Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
- Demo: Bayes-Adaptive Monte-Carlo Tree Search
- Scalable and efficient Bayes-adaptive reinforcement learning based on Monte-Carlo tree search
- Model based Bayesian exploration
- A survey of Monte Carlo Tree Search methods
Mental models
- Kinematic mental simulations in abduction and deduction
- Inference with mental models
- Qualitative modeling
- Qualitative simulation
- Mental models
Physical reasoning with dynamics models
- The scope and limits of simulation in automated reasoning
- Model-based reinforcement learning with parametrized physical models and optimism-driven exploration
- Physics-based trajectory optimization for grasping in cluttered environments
- Detecting potential falling objects by inferring human action and natural disturbance
- Tracking deformable objects with point clouds
- Model learning for robot control: a survey
- Robust physics-based locomotion using low-dimensional planning
- Seeing physics, or: physics is for prediction
Physical reasoning without dynamics models
- Model-free probabilistic movement primitives for physical interaction
- Stabilizing novel objects by learning to predict tactile slip
- Learning force-based manipulations of deformable objects from multiple demonstrations
- Learning from demonstrations through the use of non-rigid registration
Planning under uncertain dynamics
- Learning compound multi-step controllers under unknown dynamics
- Learning contact-rich manipulation skills with guided policy search
- Robust Adaptive Markov Decision Processes
Mental imagery
- Are things that are hard to physically move also hard to imagine moving?
- The emulation theory of representation: motor control, imagery, and perception
- Explorations of a creative visual synthesis in mental imagery
- Aspects of a cognitive neuroscience of mental imagery
- Eye fixations and cognitive processes
- Mental rotation of three-dimensional objects
Memory and imagination
- The simulation heuristic
- The future of memory: remembering, imagining, and the brain
Embodied language
- Embodied language: a review of the role of the motor system in language comprehension
- Spatial and linguistic aspects of visual imagery in sentence comprehension
- Fictive motion as cognitive simulation
Motor control and action
- The experience of force: the role of haptic experience of forces in visual perception of object motion and interactions, mental simulation, and motion-related judgments
- Prediction precedes control in motor learning
- Internal models for motor control and trajectory planning
- Temporal and kinematic properties of motor behavior reflected in mentally simulated action
Physical reasoning
- Visual perception and interception of falling objects: a review of evidence for an internal model of gravity
- Physical imagery: kinematic versus dynamic models
- Representing statics as forces in equilibrium
Representational momentum
- Representational momentum and related displacements in spatial memory: a review of the findings
- Representational momentum
Theory of mind
- Against simulation: the argument from error
- Why the child's theory of mind really is a theory
- In defense of the simulation theory
- Folk psychology: simulation or tacit theory?
- The simulation theory: objections and misconceptions
Thought experiments
- Thought experiments
- The role of imagistic simulation in scientific thought experiments
- "What if...": The use of conceptual simulations in scientific reasoning
- Galileo and the indispensability of scientific thought experiment
Theory learning
- Theory learning as a stochastic search in a language of thought
- A probabilistic model of theory formation
- Theory-based causal induction
- Learning overhypotheses with hierarchical Bayesian models
Challenges for probabilistic models of cognition
- Bayesian fundamentalism or enlightenment? On the explanatory status and theoretical contributions of Bayesian models of cognition
- Unfalsifiability and mutual translatability of major modeling schemes in choice reaction time
- Optimal predictions in everyday cognition: the wisdom of individuals or crowds?
- Judgment under uncertainty: heuristics and biases
- On the psychology of prediction
Rational process models
- Rational use of cognitive resources: levels of analysis between the computational and the algorithmic
- Selecting computations: theory and applications
Physically-based animation
- Evaluation of real-time physics simulation systems
- Physically based deformable models in computer graphics
- Particle-based fluid simulation for interactive applications
- Simulation of clothing with folds and wrinkles
- Nonconvex rigid bodies with stacking
- Stable real-time deformations
- Stable fluids
Probabilistic simulation
- Demo: The unscented particle filter
- The unscented particle filter
General
- Qualifying exam written responses