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AI assistance was used in preparing parts of this site. Tools including Anthropic's Claude models (Claude Opus and Claude Fable 5.1) and editor code-completion tools in VS Code helped design figures, build interactive components, draft equations, and write or revise some text elements. All content was reviewed and edited by the author, and full responsibility for the material, including any errors, rests with the author.

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If you use or refer to this material, please cite the site as a whole:

Gureckis, T. M. (2026). Computational Cognitive Modeling: Course notes, slides, and interactive tools. New York University. https://teaching.gureckislab.org/ccm

To cite an individual chapter or reading, use the chapter title and the URL of the page, and include the date you accessed it, since the material is revised over time. For example:

Gureckis, T. M. (2026). Minds and Machines. In Computational Cognitive Modeling: Course notes, slides, and interactive tools. New York University. https://teaching.gureckislab.org/ccm/readings/minds-and-machines (accessed September 13, 2026)

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BibTeX for the site:

@misc{gureckis2026ccm,
  author       = {Gureckis, Todd M.},
  title        = {Computational Cognitive Modeling: Course notes, slides, and interactive tools},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {New York University},
  howpublished = {\url{https://teaching.gureckislab.org/ccm}},
  note         = {Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0}
}