Tutorials

The tutorial program of the conference allows participants to gain new insights, knowledge, and skills from a broad range of topics in the field of cognitive science. Tutorials cover a well-established and recognized topic in cognitive science, and are delivered by an authoritative figure in the area. Tutorials are held on Wednesday, July 20, 2011, which is the day before the main program begins. For more details, see schedule. To see abstracts for all the workshops and tutorials at CogSci 2011, download PDF.

T1. ACT-R Tutorial
Niels Taatgen & Jelmer Borst
13:30 - 17:00

T2. Tutorial: Doing Bayesian Data Analysis with R and BUGS
John Kruschke
9:00 - 17:00
Supplemental Webpage

T3. Doing Cognitive Science by Hand: A Tutorial on Computer Mouse-Tracking
Jonathan Freeman, Rick Dale, & Michael Spivey
13:30 - 17:00

T4. How to use Mechanical Turk for Cognitive Science Research
Winter Mason & Siddharth Suri
13:30 - 17:00

T5. Nengo and the Neural Engineering Framework: Connecting Cognitive Theory to Neuroscience
Chris Eliasmith & Terrence Stewart
9:00 - 17:00

T6. Preparing and Presenting Complex Images for Perceptual Cognitive Studies
Javid Sadr
13:30 - 17:00

T7. Tutorial on the Icarus Cognitive Architecture
Pat Langley & Dongkyu Choi
9:00 - 12:30

T8. Tutorial on using the Psychology Experiment Building Language (PEBL) in the Laboratory, the Field, and the Classroom
Shane Mueller
13:30 - 17:00

T9. Tutorial on Model Comparison Methods
Jay Myung & Mark Pitt
9:00 - 12:30
Supplemental Webpage

For further questions, please contact the Tutorial Chair, Duncan Brumby.