Mental and Other Representations

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Mental and Other Representations

• Teacher/Tutor Esko Marjomaa
• Tutors Roman Bednarik, Gaetano La Russa
• Researcher Anu Haapala
• e-mail MRtutors_at_joensuu.fi

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Proceeding of the Course 1

• Course Official Home Page
• http//cs.joensuu.fi/pages/marjomaa/mentrepr/
• for CS students
• Connet version
• http//cs.joensuu.fi/marjomaa/tr/tr/connet.htm

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Proceeding of the Course 2

• Lectures
• Demonstrations
• Distant exam
• Practical part's kick off lecture in the
  beginning of January.
• Video-conference in April.

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What to Do First?!

• Read all the materials gathered in the initial
  mind maps and get acquainted with the recommended
  literature!

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Demonstrations

• All the students will be organised into couples.
• The couples should create their own mind map.
• The couples should publish their mind maps in the
  net and send the address to the course's mailing
  list.
• The tutors will tell to each couple what are the
  two other couples the mind maps of which should
  be evaluated.
• The couples should send written comments to two
  other couples obligatory.
• The couples should send the URL of their improved
  new mind map to MRtutors_at_cs.joensuu.fi

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Distant Exam

• From 2 to 3 tasks such as draw a mind map on,
  write an essay on, describe
• December 10 to 12

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Grading 1

• Demos (10 times) max 10 points
• 2 evaluations (obligatory) 2 points
• Exam max 18 points
• some extra work some extra points

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Grading 2

• 0-13 Fail
• 14 1-
• 15 1
• 16 1
• 17 2-
• 18-19 2
• 20-21 2
• 22-23 3-
• 24-30 3

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The Proper Stuff
word
concept
thing
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Theories of Representation
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General introduction
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Classifications of models
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What is a representation?

• - a model?
• - a word?
• - a picture?
• - a sentence?
• - a book?
• - a thought?
• - a thing?

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Special theories of representation
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On representations
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Classification of representations

• External Knowledge Representation
• Inner ("Mental") Representations
• Mediating ("Conceptual") Representations
• Multiperspective Representations

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External Knowledge Representation

• Ideal science
• Systems theory
• Reasoning
• Logic and Mathematics
• Structural writing

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Inner ("Mental") Representations

• Analogical representations
• Propositional representations
• Distributed representations
• Structural and functional mental models

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Mediating ("Conceptual") Representations

• Peirce, Popper, Damasio, Wilson, ...
• Conceptual aspects of semantic webs, schemes,
  scripts

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Multiperspective Representations

• Feynman
• Saja
• Toppano
• Multimedia
• Ethnocomputing