“Symbolic Control with Adaptation through Grammatical Inference”        

                        This talk will describe an interdisciplinary research effort that brings together symbolic control for dynamical systems with computational linguistic approaches to learning languages that are based on inference on grammars.  The common underlying theoretical framework of formal languages makes it possible to transfer ideas and tools from one knowledge domain into the other, and enables the creation of new tools and concepts for control, coordination, and planning in multi-agent systems. Specifically, the marriage of discrete abstractions for hybrid dynamical systems with grammatical inference gives rise to methods for system identification of discrete models of computation, which can begin to address current challenges in control and decision making in multi-agent systems, and find potential applications in areas of coordination of systems for emergency response, to military applications, healthcare, intelligent manufacturing, all the way to the emerging ‘internet-of-things’.

12:30–2:45pm  Poster Session:

·         Cordelia Aitkin and John Wilder.  “Saccadic Timing is Determined by Both Accumulated Evidence and the Passage of Time”.

·         Michelle Cheng, Lu Wang and Alan Leslie.  “Can Preschoolers Solve the Binding Problem in Social Cognition? – Working Memory in Theory of Mind.”

·         Nathan Destler, Jacob Feldman, Manish Singh and Vicky Froyen.  “Examining Visual Shape Categorization Judgments Based on Exemplar Differences”.

·         Tarek El-Gaaly, Vicky Froyen, Ahmed Elgammal, Jacob Feldman, and Manish Singh.  “Back to the Future:  3D Object Recognition-by-Parts Revisited”.

·         Vicky Froyen, Jacob Feldman and Manish Singh.  “Bayesian Hierarchical Grouping: perceptual grouping as mixture estimation”.

·         Nora Isacoff, Jackenzie Stabile and Karin Stromswold.  “Concept Formation in Autistic Specturm Disorders”.

·         Marley D. Kass, Michelle C. Rosenthal, Joseph Pottackal, Margueritte Wreiole and John P. McGann.  “Stimulus-Specific Enhancement of Primary Sensory Input to the Brain After Olfactory Fear Learning”.

·         Gaurav Kharkwal and Karin Stromswold.  “Morphology Aids Syntax in Noisy Sentence Processing”.

·         Seha Kim, Shaheera Sarwar, Manish Singh and Jacob Feldman.  “Local and Global Cues to Depth in Line Drawings”.

·         Nicholas Kleene and Melchi Michel.  "Estimating Transsaccadic Memory Capacity Using Visual Search".

·         Brian McMahan and Matthew Stone.  “A Bayesian Approach to Grounding Color Vocabulary”.

·         Jillian Nguyen, Jay Ravaliya, Ushma Majmudar, Thomas Papathomas and Elizabeth Torres.  “Blind Prediction of Perceptual States Using Patterns of Motor Variability”.

·         Kimele Persaud and Pernille Hemmer.  “The Influence of Knowledge and Expectations for Color on Episodic Memory”.

·         M. L. Phan, S. C. Tsoi, U. V. Aiya, M. L. Pierce, D. S. Vicario and C. L. Pytte.  “Hemispheric Asymmetry in New Neurons in Adulthood is Associated with Vocal Learning and Auditory Memory”.

·         G. Rehrig, C. Abraham, A. Espinosa, C. Patel and K. Stromswold.  Components of Drawing Ability:  A cross-sectional study”.

·         Nicholas M. Ross.  “Examining Decision Heuristics in a Timed Visuomotor Task”.

·         Babak Saleh, Ali Farhadi, Jacob Feldman and Ahmed Elgammal.  “Estimation of Typicality of Images via Attribute-based Reasoning”.

·         Kevin Sanik and Manish Singh.  “The Relative Effectiveness of Different Line Drawing Algorithms at Conveying 3D Shape”.

·         Elio M. Santos.  “Anticipatory Smooth Eye Movements Elicited by Symbolic Cues”.

·         Yelda Semizer and Melchi M. Michel.  “The Role of Peripheral Position Uncertainty in