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The lecture schedule is subject to change. Updated slides will generally be posted after class. See the reading list for links to papers.

No.	Week	Date	Lecturer	Topic	Reading
1	1	2019-09-17	Lucas	Introduction	F&L ch. 1
2	1	2019-09-19	Lucas	Basic Model Building	F&L ch. 2
3	2	2019-09-24	Lucas	Parameter Estimation	F&L ch. 3
4	2	2019-09-26	Lucas	Parameters and probabilities	F&L ch. 4, F&L ch. 6
5	3	2019-10-01	Lucas	Parameters and probabilities 2	F&L ch. 6
6	3	2019-10-03	Lucas	Aggregation and individual differences	F&L ch. 5
7	4	2019-10-08	Lucas	Model comparison	F&L ch. 10, Ockhams razor and Bayesian Analysis
8	4	2019-10-10	Lucas	Model comparison 2	F&L ch. 10, F&L ch. 11
9	5	2019-10-15	Lucas	A Bayesian model of concept learning	Rules and similarity in concept learning (Tenenbaum, 2000)
10	5	2019-10-17	Lucas	Models in psychology	F&L ch. 12
11	6	2019-10-22	Matusevych	Concepts and Language	Cibelli et al.
12	6	2019-10-24	Frank	Language Acquisition	Early Cross-Situational Word Learning (M Frank et al., 2009) (Supp.Mat.) Tutorial Introduction (Perfors et al. 2011)
13	7	2019-10-29	Frank	Word Learning	Early Cross-Situational Word Learning (M Frank et al., 2009); Tutorial Introduction (Perfors et al. 2011)
14	7	2019-10-31	Frank	Hierarchical Bayesian Models	Tutorial Introduction (Perfors et al. 2011); Learning overhypotheses (Kemp et al., 2007)
15	8	2019-10-05	Frank	Hierarchical Bayesian Models; Dirichlets	Tutorial Introduction (Perfors et al. 2011); Learning overhypotheses (Kemp et al., 2007) Dir-Cat derivation;
16	8	2019-11-07	Frank	Learning linguistic structure	Learnability of Abstract Syntactic Structures (Perfors et al. 2011)
17	9	2019-11-12	Frank	Representations in the Mental Lexicon	OPTIONAL: Explaining human performance (Mandera et al., 2017)
18	9	2019-11-14	Frank	Modelling the Mental Lexicon
19	10	2019-11-19	Lucas	Visual saliency	Itti, Koch, and Niebur (1998)
20	10	2019-11-21	Lucas	Visual context	Torralba, Castelhano, Henderson (2006)