Achievement

Our efforts to provide students with computational modeling skills to enhance their experimental research has begun to yield concrete results in this year of the project. This was a major objective of our IGERT. In 2009-10 we made new faculty appointments to support this goal, and this allowed us to offer new foundational courses in computational modeling in 2010-2011. Now, in 2012 we see a sharp change in students’ use of computational models in support of their experimental studies. Annie Gagliardi and Yakov Kronrod have written papers on learning models that will be presented at the 2012 Cognitive Science Society conference. Pedro Alcocer has written a paper on computational models of memory access that will appear in the journal Topics in Cognitive Science. Many other students are now using computational tools in ways that would not have been possible in our program two years ago.