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ICDL-2008 Conference Program

 

Saturday, August 9th

 

Time

Activity

6:00-7:00

Dinner

7:00-7:15

Welcome

Jay McClelland & Juyang Weng, General Chairs

Gedeon Deak & Brian Scassellati, Program Chairs

7:15-8:15

Keynote Presentation:

Structural imaging reveals neurobiological responses
to experience and other environmental factors

Terry Jernigan, University of California San Diego

8:15-10:00

Welcome Reception (Patio Party)

 

Sunday, August 10th

 

Time

Activity

7:30-8:30

Breakfast

9:00-10:00

Paper Session:

Intention and Causality

Parental Action Modification Highlighting the Goal versus the Means

Yukie Nagai, Katharina Rohlfing

Ockham's razor as inductive bias in preschooler's causal explanations

Liz Bonawitz, Isabel Chang, Catherine Clark, Tania Lombrozo

Inferring Narrative and Intention from Playground Games

Christopher Crick, Brian Scassellati

10:00-10:30

Break

10:30-12:00

Special Session:

Bayesian and Connectionist Approaches to Learning

Participants:

Tom Griffiths (Berkeley)

Jay McClelland (Stanford)

Alison Gopnik (Berkeley)

Mark Seidenberg (Wisconsin)

12:00-1:00

Lunch

1:00-2:00

Keynote Presentation

Unsupervised learning of distributional patterns by adults and infants: Empirical findings and ideal-learner models

Richard Aslin, University of Rochester

2:00-3:00

Paper Session:

Learning Linguistic and Perceptual Categories

Acquisition of Semantics through Unsupervised
Discovery of Associations between Perceptual Symbols

Tuna Oezer

Modeling Unsupervised Perceptual Category Learning

Brenden Lake, Gautam Vallabha, Jay McClelland

A self-referential childlike model to acquire phones,
syllables and words from acoustic speech

Holger Brandl, Britta Wrede, Frank Joublin, Christian Goerick

3:00-3:30

Break

3:30-5:00

Poster Teasers

(25 x 3 min. each)

5:00-5:30

Break

5:30-7:00

BBQ Dinner

7:30-10:00

Poster Session #1:

Full Papers

 

Monday, August 11

 

Time

Activity

7:30-8:30

Breakfast

9:00-10:00

Paper Session:

Language Learning Principles

Input Affects Uptake: How Language Experience Influences
Processing Efficiency and Vocabulary Learning

Anne Fernald, Virginia Marchman, Nereyda Hurtado

Acquiring Linguistic Argument Structure from
Multimodal Input using Attentive Focus

G. Satish, Amitabha Mukerjee

Caregiver's Sensorimotor Magnets Lead Infant's
Vowel Acquisition through Auto Mirroring

Hisashi Ishihara, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Katsushi Miura, Minoru Asada

10:00-10:30

Break

10:30-12:00

Special Session:

Visual Attention and Recognition

What Roles can Attention Play in Recognition?

John Tsotsos

Where-What Network 1: "Where'' and "What'' Assist
Each Other Through Top-down Connections

Zhengping Ji, John Weng, Prokhorov Danil

The Effects of Neuromodulation on Attention and Action-Selection

Jeffrey Krichmar

Motor Aspect of Understanding, Development, and Recognition in Vision

Yoonsuck Choe, Huei-Fang Yang, Navendu Misra

12:00-1:00

Lunch

1:00-2:00

Keynote Presentation

Unsupervised discovery of structure via
neuroscience inspired learning algorithms

Andrew Ng, Stanford University

2:00-3:30

Paper Session:

Autism

Autism, Eye-Tracking, Entropy

Frederick Shic, Katarzyna Chawarska, Jessie Bradshaw, Brian Scassellati

Modeling the Development of Overselectivity in Autism

Trent Kriete, David Noelle

Paper Session:

Spatial Learning and Manipulation

Adaptive Temporal Difference Learning of Spatial Memory
in the Water Maze Task

Erik Stone, Marjorie Skubic, James Keller

Detecting the Functional Similarities Between Tools Using
a Hierarchical Representation of Outcomes

Jivko Sinapov, Alexander Stoytchev

3:30-4:00

Break

4:00-5:30

Paper Session:

Architectures and Principles

Embodied Solution: The World from a Toddler's Point of View

Chen Yu, Linda Smith, Alfredo Pereira

From Pixels to Policies: A Bootstrapping Agent

Jeremy Stober, Benjamin Kuipers

Internal State Predictability as an Evolutionary
Precursor of Self-Awareness and Agency

Jaerock Kwon, Yoonsuck Choe

Motor Initiated Expectation through Top-Down Connections
as Abstract Context in a Physical World

Matt Luciw, John Weng, Shuqing Zeng

5:30-6:00

Break

6:00-7:30

Dinner

7:30-10:00

Poster Session #2:

1-page submissions

 

Tuesday, August 12th

 

Time

Activity

7:30-8:30

Breakfast

9:00-10:00

Paper Session:

Dynamical Systems and Neural Fields

Homeostatic Development of Dynamic Neural Fields

Claudius Gläser, Frank Joublin, Christian Goerick

A Dynamic Systems Approach to Usage-based Model:
From the Results of Robotic Learning Experiments

Yuuya Sugita, Jun Tani

Dynamic Field Theory of Sequential Action:
A Model and its Implementation on an Embodied Agent

Yulia Sandamirskaya, Gregor Schöner

10:00-10:30

Break

10:30-12:00

Paper Session:

Sensorimotor Control and Representation

I-POMDP: An Infomax Model of Eye Movement

Nicholas Butko, Javier Movellan

VIP neuron model: Head-centered cross-modal
representation of the peri-personal space around the face

Sawa Fuke, Masaki Ogino, Minoru Asada

Sensorimotor Abstraction Selection for Efficient,
Autonomous Robot Skill Acquisition

George Konidaris, Andrew Barto

Visual attention by saliency leads cross-modal body representation

Mai Hikita, Sawa Fuke, Masaki Ogino, Takashi Minato, Minoru Asada

12:00-1:00

Lunch