Tutorials and Workshops

General Information

The Tutorials and Workshops program at Cognitive Science 2008 allow participants to gain new insights, knowledge, and skills from a broad range of areas in the field of cognitive science.

Attending any tutorial or workshop session requires conference registration, but there are no additional fees associated with these sessions; participation is included with your conference registration. Below are the titles, duration and locations for each of the sessions offered this year. Click on the session title to view the abstract for that session in a new window (abstracts are in .pdf format).

Computational Modeling of Spoken Language Processing: A hands-on tutorial
Ted Strauss
Governor's Boardroom
¾ day tutorial

ACT-R
Niels A. Taatgen
Forum Room
½ day morning tutorial

Recording Infants' Eye Movements
Scott Johnson
Forum Room
½ day afternoon tutorial

Preparing Research Grant Proposals for the Institute of Education Sciences: Bringing Cognitive Science to Education Research
Elizabeth Albro
Capitol Room
½ day morning workshop

Embodied Cognition and Robotics
Chen Yu
Capitol Room
½ day afternoon tutorial

Polyscheme Cognitive Architecture
Nick Cassimatis
Council Room
Full day tutorial

The Use of Event-Related Potentials to Study the Development and Decline of Cognitive Function
Debra Mills
Executive Room
Full day tutorial

Bayesian models of inductive learning
Tom Griffiths
Congressional A & B
Full day tutorial

Psychocomputational Models of Human Language Acquisition
William Sakas
Diplomat Ballroom
Full day workshop

The CLARION Cognitive Architecture
Sebastien Helie
Cabinet Room
Full day tutorial

Quantum Information Processing Theory
Jerome Busemeyer
Senate Room
Full day tutorial

Dynamic Field Theory: Conceptual Foundations and Applications in the Cognitive and Developmental Sciences
John Spencer
Calvert Room
Full day tutorial

For your reference, we have archived of the calls for workshops and for tutorials.