Lee receives grant from NSF to develop cognitive models for categorization
Lee receives grant from NSF to develop cognitive models for categorization
- May 6, 2013
- Funding period runs from March 2013-February 2016
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Michael Lee, cognitive sciences professor, has received a $182,362 grant from the
National Science Foundation to develop cognitive models that will help scientists
understand the processes involved in how people learn categories. In the last 10 years,
new behavioral and brain imaging data has led to a diversification in theories of
category learning, and the idea that people have multiple learning systems has become
prominent. Lee’s work aims to try and rein in this diversity, using statistical methods
to identify how many category learning processes are fundamentally important, and
then developing cognitive models that include these processes. Working with him will
be a cognitive sciences graduate student who specializes in cognitive modeling.
The grant is a subcontract to a larger study in progress at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Lee’s portion is funded from March 2013-February 2016.
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