Robert Goldstone

Robert Goldstone is a modern distinguished professor of psychological and brain sciences at Indiana University.. Robert Goldstone is a Distinguished Professor and Chancellor's Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University in Bloomington. Typically, complex adaptive system models are applied to natural phenomena, such as the pattern of stripes on zebras or seeds on sunflowers. Our research goal is to apply these models to understanding on individual people learn and perceive, and how groups of people organize themselves into emergent structures which none of the individuals in the group may understand or even perceive. Our laboratory is currently exploring interactions between perceptual and conceptual learning, methods for learning abstract concepts using computer simulations, the perception of similarity and analogy, and group behavior from a complex systems perspective. Our typical modus operandi is to simultaneously conduct psychological experiments on humans and develop computational models of the observed behavior. The results from the experiments help to constrain and inform our computational models, and the computational models serve to organize and explain our empirical results.

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• Theiner, Allen, and Goldstone (2010): Allen, Colin; Theiner, Georg and Goldstone, Robert. (2010) Recognizing Group Cognition. Cognitive Systems Research 11, 378-395.

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