COGS/PHIL/PSYC 2120 - Introduction to Cognitive Science
Spring 2013
Schedule
| Date | Topic | Reading | Presentation | Assignments |
| January 24 | Introduction | Cognitive Science | ||
| January 28 | The Mind-Body Problem | Mind-Body Problem | ||
| January 31 | From Behaviorism to Computionalism | Chapter 1 (Abrahamsen and Bechtel) | ||
| February 4 | Computationalism | Computationalism | ||
February 7 |
The Turing Test | Turing | The Turing Test | |
| February 11 | The Chinese Room | Searle | The Chinese Room | Chinese Room Assignment |
| February 14 | Class Cancelled! | |||
| February 19 | Situated Cognition | Chapter 14 (Clark) | Situated Cognition | |
February 21 |
Quiz 1 AI: Problem Solving |
AI: Search | ||
| February 25 | AI: Reasoning | AI: Logic | Search Assignment | |
| February 28 | AI: Generalization | Decision Trees | Decision Trees | |
| March 4 | AI: Learning | AI: Neural Networks | ||
| March 7 | Quiz 2 |
| March 18 | Visual Perception | Vision | ||
| March 21 | More Perception | MorePerception | Visual Depth Cues Assignment | |
| March 25 | Attention | Attention | ||
| March 28 | Memory, Concepts and Mental Representations | Memory Concepts Representations |
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| April 1 | Psychology of Reasoning | Reasoning | ||
| April 4 | Quiz 3 | |||
| April 8 | Brain: Basic Anatomy | Brain Basics | ||
| April 11 | Class cancelled! | |||
| April 15 | Brain: Perception and Hemispheres | Brain Perception Brain Hemispheres |
Final Project Proposal due | |
| April 18 | Animal Cognition | Animal Cognition | ||
| April 22 | Language | Language | ||
| April 25 | Cognitive Robotics | Cognitive Robotics | ||
| April 29 | No Class | |||
| May 2 | Quiz 4 | |||
| May 6 | Course Wrap-Up | Final Project Due |