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Matt Goldrick, "Gradient Symbolic Structure in Cognition"

October 10, 2014
All Day
035 Psychology Building

Event Host: Department of Psychology


Matt Goldrick, PhD, Northwestern University, presents "Gradient Symbolic Structure in Cognition."

Across many domains, human behavior exhibits rich variation, suggesting that gradient, stochastic process play a key role in cognition. But to what extent does gradience extend to the building blocks of cognition--representations themselves? He'll review recent experimental data from speech errors that suggest gradience pervades all aspects of mental representations. To account for such data, he'll introduce the Gradient Symbolic Computation (GSC) framework (developed in collaboration with Paul Smolensky and colleagues at Johns Hopkins). This framework integrates the structured, systematic and combinatorial representational structures that form the backbone of symbolic theories with gradient, dynamic computation. He'll discuss how GSC not only provides insight into gradient experimental data but also potential new perspectives on the structure of linguistic knowledge in monolingual and bilingual speakers.

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