ICDL-2008
Conference Program
Saturday,
August 9th
Time |
Activity |
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Dinner |
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Welcome Jay McClelland & Juyang Weng, General Chairs Gedeon Deak & Brian Scassellati, Program Chairs |
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Keynote Presentation: Structural imaging reveals neurobiological
responses Terry Jernigan, |
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Welcome Reception (Patio Party) |
Sunday, August
10th
Time |
Activity |
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Breakfast |
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Paper Session: Intention and Causality |
Parental Action
Modification Highlighting the Goal versus the Means Yukie Nagai, Katharina Rohlfing |
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Ockham's razor as
inductive bias in preschooler's causal explanations Liz Bonawitz, Isabel Chang,
Catherine Clark, Tania Lombrozo |
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Inferring Narrative and
Intention from Playground Games Christopher Crick, Brian
Scassellati |
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Break |
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Special Session: Bayesian and
Connectionist Approaches to Learning |
Participants: Tom Griffiths
(Berkeley) Jay
McClelland (Stanford) Alison Gopnik
(Berkeley) Mark
Seidenberg (Wisconsin) |
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Lunch |
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Keynote Presentation Unsupervised learning
of distributional patterns by adults and infants: Empirical findings and
ideal-learner models Richard Aslin, |
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Paper Session: Learning Linguistic and Perceptual Categories |
Acquisition of Semantics
through Unsupervised Tuna Oezer |
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Modeling Unsupervised
Perceptual Category Learning Brenden Lake,
Gautam Vallabha, Jay McClelland |
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A self-referential childlike
model to acquire phones, Holger Brandl, Britta Wrede, Frank
Joublin, Christian Goerick |
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Break |
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Poster Teasers (25 x 3 min. each) |
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Break |
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BBQ Dinner |
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Poster Session #1: Full Papers |
Monday, August 11
Time |
Activity |
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Breakfast |
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Paper Session: Language Learning Principles |
Anne Fernald, Virginia Marchman,
Nereyda Hurtado |
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Acquiring Linguistic Argument Structure from G. Satish, Amitabha Mukerjee |
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Caregiver's Sensorimotor Magnets Lead Infant's Hisashi Ishihara, Yuichiro
Yoshikawa, Katsushi Miura, Minoru Asada |
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Break |
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Special Session: Visual Attention and Recognition |
What Roles can Attention Play in Recognition? John Tsotsos |
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Where-What Network 1: "Where'' and
"What'' Assist Zhengping
Ji, John Weng, Prokhorov Danil |
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The Effects of Neuromodulation on Attention and
Action-Selection Jeffrey Krichmar |
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Motor Aspect of Understanding, Development,
and Recognition in Vision Yoonsuck
Choe, Huei-Fang Yang, Navendu Misra |
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Lunch |
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Keynote Presentation Unsupervised discovery of structure via Andrew Ng, |
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Paper Session: Autism |
Frederick Shic, Katarzyna
Chawarska, Jessie Bradshaw, Brian Scassellati |
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Modeling the Development of Overselectivity in Autism Trent Kriete, David Noelle |
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Paper Session: Spatial Learning and Manipulation |
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Adaptive Temporal Difference Learning of Spatial Memory Erik Stone,
Marjorie Skubic, James Keller |
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Detecting the Functional Similarities Between Tools Using Jivko Sinapov, Alexander Stoytchev |
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Break |
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Paper Session: Architectures and Principles |
Embodied Solution: The World from a Toddler's Point of
View Chen Yu, Linda Smith, Alfredo
Pereira |
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From Pixels to Policies: A Bootstrapping Agent Jeremy Stober, Benjamin Kuipers |
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Internal State Predictability as an Evolutionary Jaerock Kwon, Yoonsuck Choe |
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Motor Initiated Expectation through Top-Down Connections Matt Luciw, John Weng, Shuqing
Zeng |
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Break |
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Dinner |
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Poster Session #2: 1-page submissions |
Tuesday, August 12th