Multitasking - Intro to Cognitive Science: Cognitive Modeling - Fall 2009

Contents

Slides

Overview of Today's Class [1/5, 2009/10/29]

• Project 3 questions?
• Leftover from last time
• Multitasking
• What you found
• Looking ahead

P3 questions? [2/5, 2009/10/29]

Description

Leftover from last time [3/5, 2009/10/29]

• Relation to Analogies
• Abtract similarity?
• Other questions about MIPS, MOPS, SIAM?

Multitasking [4/5, 2009/10/29]

• Think You're Multitasking? Think Again (8 mins)
• Multitasking Teens May Be Muddling Their Brains (7.5 mins)
• Talk of the Nation (30 mins), Morning Edition (9 mins)
• Multitasking: good news and bad news ("'Internal Chatter' Limits Multitasking As People Age")

Other Links

• A test
• A game

For next time [5/5, 2009/10/29]

• Topic: Emotions. Can they be modeled in computers?
• Readings from a panel discussion at Univ of Edinburgh
• Read panelists' position statements
• Also read the "Key questions and possible answers"
• Introduction to Project 4