Plaut Lab - Carnegie Mellon University

Resources


Lens simulator

Lens (Light Efficient Network Simulator) is a neural network simulation software package developed by Doug Rohde when he was a graduate student in Computer Science at CMU. An extended version is used for much of the simulation work in the Plaut lab. Source code and binary executables for Windows, OSX, and Linux can be downloaded here.

Xerion simulator

Xerion is a simulator written originaly by Tony Plate at the University of Toronto. It was in many ways a precurser to Lens and was used to run the simulations reported in Plaut, McClelland, Seidenberg and Patterson (1996, Psychological Review). Performance measures for the networks reported in Plaut et al. (1996) can be found here.

SOS

SOS (Stochastic Optimization of Stimuli) is a software package developed by former graduate students Blair Armstrong and Christine Watson. The package rapidly and reliably finds stimuli that optimally satisfy the constraints imposed by an experimenter. This allows the experimenter to focus on selecting an optimization problem that suits their theoretical question and not on the tedious task of manually selecting stimuli. The software implementation of SOS and a user manual are provided free of charge for academic purposes as compiled binaries and as MATLAB source files.

eDom

eDom is a software package that was developed to facilitate the collection of dominance ratings (i.e., the proportion of times each meaning of a word is encountered) for ambiguous words like <river/money> BANK. In its current form, eDom presents participants with the dictionary definitions of homonyms and collects subjective estimates of how often each meaning is encountered. It also allows participants to enter additional definitions. The full source code is available under the GPL licensing scheme and could be readily extended for a variety of other norming tasks. Currently, eDom norms are available for download from the main site for American English and for two Spanish dialects.