Building Bridges Between AI and Cognitive Psychology

Building Bridges Between Convex Regions

In the Euclidean traveling salesman and buyers problem (TSBP), we are given a set of convex regions in d-dimensional space, and we wish to nd a minimum-cost tour that visits all the regions. The cost of a tour depends on the length of the tour itself and on the distance that buyers within each region need to travel to meet the salesman. We show that constantfactor approximations to the TSBP and...

Mental balance and well-being: building bridges between Buddhism and Western psychology.

Clinical psychology has focused primarily on the diagnosis and treatment of mental disease, and only recently has scientific attention turned to understanding and cultivating positive mental health. The Buddhist tradition, on the other hand, has focused for over 2,500 years on cultivating exceptional states of mental well-being as well as identifying and treating psychological problems. This ar...

Building Bridges between Neural Models

Building Bridges: Slavic Linguistics Going Cognitive

Steven Franks (1996) in his Reflections piece from the Journal of Slavic Linguistics made a comment that “...the walls that divide us [linguists] are coming down all over. What’s next?”, he asked. “Cognitive Science?” I think the answer to this question is a definite yes. The ability to produce and comprehend language is crucial for functioning in our society, and for the past two decades, ling...

Neither Here nor There: Inference Research Bridges the Gaps between Cognitive Science and AI

Cognitive Science (CogSci) and AI are addressed from the perspective of inductive inference research, specifically as applied to language learning. Language so represents intelligence that results bridge gaps between the fields. We give examples of rigorous results intractable for AI machines and humans; AI results humans find satisfactory; and AI-Hard problems with “good enough” solutions, ada...