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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Cognitive modeling"”.
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Cognitive Modeling and conceptual complexity in translation, multimodal communication, and constructionalization
This PhD dissertation explores cognitive modeling applied to three different areas of analysis: constructionalization, translation, and multimodality. Its aim is to account for the great potential of cognitive models and cognitive operations in the conceptualization and understanding of both …
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Narrative comprehension through analogy: A study in cognitive modeling and narrative clustering
The student, Sean Wilner, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2019-06-27 at 16:29.
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COGNITIVE MODELING FOR HUMAN FACTORS TESTING: DEVELOPING A STRUCTURED TASK ANALYSIS FRAMEWORK FOR DESIGNERS
… of human performance, both psychomotor and cognitive activities in the use of medical devices. Traditional human factors evaluations emphasize psychomotor activities, limiting the ability to identify cognitive root causes of use error. Existing Cognitive Task Analysis (CTA) methods offer …
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Cognitive modeling analysis of decision-making processes in young adults at-risk and not at-risk for alcohol dependence
… Learning model, a mathematical cognitive model, to dissect young adult performance on the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT). Drinking behavior and monetary incentive were examined as predictors of performance on the IGT. No differences were found among groups when data were analyzed using …
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The Influence of Direct Versus Indirect Observation, Candidate Report Format, and Assessor Training on the Accuracy of Assessor Ratings
… In addition, the present study investigated cognitive modeling as an assessor training strategy, and its impact on rating accuracy. Seventy-three undergraduates majoring in business administration were either trained or not trained, and either observed and rated nine videotapes depicting …
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Accuracy of Performance Measurement: An Investigation of Training Method and Amount of Practice
… method was comprised of frame-of-reference, cognitive modeling, and a no-training control group. Practice-and-feedback consisted of 0, 1, and 3 practice trials. Undergraduates (N = 99) were randomly assigned to one of nine experimental conditions. Each participant viewed and rated 7 …
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A Computational Model of Jetliner Taxiing
… testing to ensure safety and reliability. Cognitive modeling is able to uniquely address these issues in a compromise between costly human-in-the-loop simulations and deterministic computer simulations. In this thesis, I present an ACT-R cognitive model to emulate pilot taxiing behavior in …
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A Handbook for Parents of Children with Problem Behaviors Based on a Descriptive Study of Treatment Strategies
… are: contracts, peer teaching, token systems, modeling, cognitive modeling, assertive discipline, time out, and self-management. The resulting handbook describes these strategies', their rationales, advantages, disadvantages, implementations, and examples. These strategies are presented in …
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Not All Who Wander are Lost: An Ethnographic Study of Individual Knowledge Construction within a Community of Practice
… nested in hiking pods, to be critical sites for cognitive modeling and informal scaffolding between experts and novices. The situated encounters and developmental support of these nomadic pods were found to facilitate individuals' construction of community-based knowledge.
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Neural architectures for database query processing, syntax analysis, knowledge representation, and inference
… artificial intelligence, robotics, and cognitive modeling. Despite the success in the application of ANN to a broad range of numeric tasks in pattern classification, control, function approximation, and system identification, the integration of ANN and symbolic computing is only …
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Robots as language users: a computational model for pragmatic word learning
… for decades. More recent frameworks, such as Cognitive Robotics, have been able to make progress on many long-standing problems in computational modeling of language acquisition -- like that of symbol grounding -- through the application of the principles of embodied cognition. Many of these …
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Modeling the mechanisms of verb bias learning
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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Sifting customers from the clickstream : behavior pattern discovery in a virtual shopping environment
… to present based on inferences made from cognitively-grounded models of the customer, calibrated according to an analysis of what behaviors can be observed during the online shopping experience (e.g., clickstream produced by mouse clicks and typing). As a step in achieving this objective, …
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Improving and Extending Behavioral Animation Through Machine Learning
… (1) deliberative behavioral models (i.e., <em>cognitive models</em>) are slow to execute; (2) interactive virtual characters cannot adapt online due to interaction with a human user; (3) programming of behavioral models is a difficult and time-intensive process. This dissertation presents a …
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Working memory and prediction in human sentence parsing
… processing system is located within a general cognitive architecture, with a general-purpose content-addressable working memory system operating on linguistic expressions. Finally, two experiments (self-paced reading and eye-tracking) using Chinese relative clauses were conducted to determine …
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Cognitive and Behavioral Model Ensembles for Autonomous Virtual Characters
Cognitive and behavioral models have become popular methods to create autonomous self-animating characters. Creating these models presents the following challenges: (1) Creating a cognitive or behavioral model is a time intensive and complex process that must be done by an expert programmer (2) The …
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Toward an integrated model of sentence processing in reading
… are the result of an interaction of multiple cognitive levels and processing strategies and thus are only indirect indicators of processing difficulty. In order to properly interpret an eye movement response, one has to understand the underlying principles of adaptive processing such as …
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Mechanisms of Value-Biased Prioritization in Fast Sensorimotor Decision Making
<p>In dynamic environments, split-second sensorimotor decisions must be prioritized according to potential payoffs to maximize overall rewards. The impact of relative value on deliberative perceptual judgments has been examined extensively, but relatively little is known about value-biasing …