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Schedule for Cognitive Science, Fall 2009 |
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Date |
Topic |
Reading and/or Assignment |
Inst. |
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Sep01 |
Some context: Mind-body problem |
Clark, Introduction |
SA |
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Sep03 |
What is cognitive science? |
Clark, Chpt 1 Bisson, T. (1991). They're made out of meat. Omni, April 1991. (also on youtube) Pinker (1997), How the Mind Works, 3-36 |
SA |
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Sep04 |
No lab |
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Sep08 |
Searle's Chinese Room Representational theories of mind |
Bloom (2004), "The Duel Between Body and Soul" Clark, Chpt 2 Nilsson & Pelger (1994), "A Pessimistic Estimate of the Time Required for an Eye to Evolve"
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SA |
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Sep10 |
Neurons and neural signaling |
Garrett (2009) Brain & Behavior, 2nd edition, 23-46 |
SA |
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Sep11 |
Lab #1: Action potentials |
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SA |
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Sep15 |
Neurons and neural signaling |
CSAI, Chapter 7, Neuroscience: Brain and Cognition |
SA |
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Sep17 |
Neurons and neural signaling |
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SA |
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Sep18 |
Lab #2: Channels |
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SA |
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Sep22 |
CNS and Cortical Structures |
Purves et al. (2004), Intro to Neuroscience, The Auditory System |
SA |
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Sep24 |
Hearing: peripheral sound processing |
Clark, Chpt 5 |
SA |
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Sep25 |
Lab #2: Channels (cont.) |
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Sep29 |
Hearing and Speech |
Clark, Chpt 3 |
SA |
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Oct01 |
Speech Production |
Hudson (2000), Essential Introductory Linguistics, Chpt2: Phonetics |
SA |
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Oct02 |
Lab #3: Hearing speech |
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SA |
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Oct06 |
Categories and categorical perception |
Raizada and Poldrack (2007), “Selective Amplification of Stimulus Differences during Categorical Processing of Speech” |
SA |
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Oct08 |
Review |
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SA |
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Oct09 |
First Exam |
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Oct13 |
Fall Break – No class |
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Oct15 |
Memory |
Ward, J. (2007) Chpt 9, Student's Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience Quiroga et al. (2005), "Invariant Visual Representation by Single Neurons in the Human Brain", Nature |
SA |
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Oct16 |
Memory Scanning Lab |
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Oct20 |
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Pecher et al. (2003) “Verifying Different-Modality Properties...”
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BL |
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Oct22 |
Memory (Amnesia and Forgetting) |
SA |
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Oct23 |
No Lab |
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SA |
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Oct27 |
A theory of cortex |
Hawkins (2004), Chpt 5, On Intelligence |
SA |
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Oct29 |
Lab #4: Hierchical Temporal Memory |
Hawkins (2004), Chpt 6, On Intelligence |
SA |
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Oct30 |
HTM Lab |
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SA |
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Nov03 |
Linguistics |
Pinker (1994), chapter 4 of The Language Instinct |
SA |
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Nov05 |
Linguistic representation: Syntax |
Hudson, Chpt. 6 |
SA |
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Nov06 |
Linguistic Typology |
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Nov10 |
Syntax and Recursion |
Chomsky, Hauser & Fitch, 2002
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SA |
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Nov12 |
Animal language and recursion |
Genter et al., Recursive syntactic pattern learning by songbirds, 2006 Dr. Doolittle's Delusion: Animals and the Uniqueness of Human Language, 2004 |
SA |
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Nov13 |
Lab: Robotics |
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SA |
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Nov17 |
Language and Social Cognition |
Language, Meaning, and Social Cognition, Holtgraves and Kashima, 2007 |
KL |
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Nov19 |
Computation |
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BT |
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Nov20 |
Lab: Robotics and Programming |
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Nov24 |
Computation |
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BT |
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Thanksgiving break |
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Thanksgiving break |
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Dec01 |
Robotics and Direct Representation |
Mindware, Chapter 6 |
SA |
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Dec03 |
Robotics |
Brooks (1991) Intelligence without Representation |
KO, SA |
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Dec04 |
Lab: Robots |
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Dec08 |
Perceptrons |
Pfeifer and Scheier (2001), Understanding Intelligence, Chpt 5 |
SA |
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Dec10 |
Neural Network Learning |
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SA |
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Dec11 |
Lab: Neural Networks |
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Dec15 |
Language learning: Are rules necessary? |
Marcus
et al. (1999), "Rule Learning by 7-Month-Old Infants" |
SA |
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Dec17 |
Review |
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SA |
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Dec18 |
Second Exam |
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