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PHD Studentship in Interacting Cognitive Subsystems - Sheffield
Deadline: 23 May 2002
Source: UN, 22 April 2002
Submitted by
Ann Light
An EPSRC studentship is available at the University of Sheffield in Computational Modelling of the Interacting Mind with Dr Jon May as supervisor.
Interacting Cognitive Susbsystems, or ICS (Barnard, 1985, May & Barnard in press) is a process-based model of cognitive activity that is being applied by researchers in computer science and human computer interaction. The current form of the theory is essentially verbal, supporting reasoning about cognition, but it has also been represented within a series of expert systems (Barnard & May, 1999), an abstract quasi-formal mathematical language (Duke, Barnard, May & Duce, 1998), and in process algebra (Barnard & Bowman, in press). ICS models thought as the flow of information between nine different levels of mental representation. Processes at each level store, revive, combine and transform representations according to a number of principles. These are based on phenomena analogous to those seen in neural networks and procedural rule systems, such as the emergence of associations between input and output structures, and 'winner takes all' contention between different associations or rules. To date no computational simulation of ICS has been attempted which includes a network based implementation.
The studentship would allow the development of such a simulation, providing the basis for a computational model of high level cognitive activity based on network architectures. It would suit a candidate with an interest in neural networks and cognitive psychology, with a first degree in either Computer Science, Cognitive Science or Psychology.
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