lauren a. schmidt

email: lschmidt@mit.edu

I'm a graduate of the MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences department. I did my PhD work in the Computational Cognitive Science Lab with Josh Tenenbaum. Visit my new website here.

papers

[PDF] Schmidt, L.A. (2009). Meaning and compositionality as statistical induction of categories and constraints. PhD Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.

[PDF] Schmidt, L.A., Goodman, N.D., Barner, D. & Tenenbaum, J.B. (2009). How Tall Is Tall? Compositionality, Statistics, and Gradable Adjectives. Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Amsterdam.

[PDF] Savova, V., Roy, D., Schmidt, L., & Tenenbaum, J.B. (2007). Discovering Syntactic Hierarchies. Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Nashville, TN.

[PDF] Schmidt, L.A., Kemp, C., & Tenenbaum, J.B. (2006). Nonsense and Sensibility: Inferring Unseen Possibilities. Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, BC.

[PDF] Boroditsky, L., Schmidt, L.A., & Phillips, W. (2003). Sex, Syntax, and Semantics. In Gentner & Goldin-Meadow (Eds.,) Language in Mind: Advances in the study of Language and Thought. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

[PDF] Boroditsky, L. & Schmidt, L.A. (2000). Sex, Syntax, and Semantics. Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Philadelphia, PA.

teaching

Fall 2006: TA for 9.63, Lab in Cognitive Science
Spring 2006: TA for 9.012, Cognitive Science
Fall 2004: TA for 9.00, Introduction to Psychology