A computational and experimental examination of learning, memory, and language

我的研究计划的目的是(A)研究和理解人类和其他动物是如何学习、记忆、思考和知道的，(B)基于这种理解建立数学模型，以及(C)将这些模型应用于认知技术的设计和开发(例如，心理上有效的认知搜索引擎)。我把这个问题分解成三个相互关联的目标。其中一项工作使用实验方法来理解人们如何直觉地判断一个句子是否符合语法，并使用这些数据来推导出元语言直觉的计算模型。另一项工作使用实验方法来研究人们直觉推理的模式，并使用这些数据来开发潜在认知过程的计算模型。第三项工作使用元语言直觉和直觉推理的分析来设计和开发认知搜索引擎，该引擎解释一个人的搜索查询的含义，并找到与预期含义匹配的文档。在我的实验室进行的培训让学生们获得了实验科学和计算科学的协调知识，这样他们就可以将实验科学的智慧运用到认知计算和机器学习的学科中。该实验室的工作包括与加拿大、美国、西班牙和澳大利亚的研究实验室合作。

The aim of my research program is to (a) study and understand how people and other animals learn, remember, think, and know, (b) to develop mathematical models based on that understanding, and (c) to apply those models to the design and development of cognitive technologies (e.g., psychologically valid cognitive search engines). I have broken the problem into three interlinking goals. One line of work uses experimental methods to understand how people intuit that a sentence is grammatical or not and uses those data to derive a computational model of meta-linguistic intuition. Another line of work uses experimental methods to study patterns in peoples' intuitive reasoning and uses those data to develop a computational model of the underlying cognitive processes. A third line of work uses the analyses of meta-linguistic intuition and intuitive reasoning to design and develop cognitive search engines that interpret the meaning of a person's search query and find documents that match the intended meaning. Training in my lab gives students a coordinated knowledge of experimental and computational science so they can bring the wisdom of experimental science to bear on the disciplines of cognitive computing and machine learning. Work in the lab includes collaborations with research laboratories in Canada, America, Spain, and Australia.