Exposure to the basic computational methods useful throughout cognitive science. Computing basic statistics, modeling learning individuals, evolving populations, communicating agents, and corpus-based lingusitics will be considered.
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(Cross-listed with Psychology 136) This course examines the foundations and growth of mind, discussing the development of perception, imagery, concept formation, memory, and thinking. Emphasis is placed on the representation of knowledge in infancy and early childhood. (Credit may not be received for both Psychology 136 and Cognitive Science 113.)
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This course provides an overview of neurological development and explores the relations between physiological change and the experience for the child from the prenatal period through adolescence.
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This course is an introduction to computational modeling of biological intelligence, focusing on neural networks and related approaches to supervised learning. Topics include estimation, filtering, optimization, multilayer perceptrons, support vector machines, boosting, Bayes nets.
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This course is an introduction to computational modeling of biological intelligence, focusing on neural networks and related approaches to unsupervised learning. Topics include density estimation, clustering, self-organizing maps, principal component analysis, information theoretic models, and evolutionary approaches.
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This course is an introduction to the field of human computer interaction (HCI). It provides an overview of HCI from the perspective of cognitive science. Recommended: Cognitive Science 10 and an introductory programming course.
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This course covers fundamentals of user interface design and implementation of Web-based systems. A major component is completion of a substantial programming project in which students work together in small teams. Three hours of lecture and one hour of laboratory.
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Review of historical perspectives: introspectionist, behaviorist, and cognitivist models. Examination of how perceptual and motor constraints and ecological demands yield species-specific differences in cognitive repertoire. Contemporary issues in the comparative study of the evolution of human cognition.
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Human thought and meaning are deeply tied to the capacity for mapping conceptual domains onto each other, inducing common schemas and performing mental simulation. This course examines major aspects of this cognitive activity including metaphor, conceptual blending and embodied cognition.
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How the human mind/brain creates mathematics: embodiment, innovation, and creativity. The emergence and power of abstract concepts, such as infinity, infinitesimals, imaginary numbers, or zero. Cognitive approaches that connect mathematics to human thought in general.
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Neural bases of language use in normal adults, and neural bases of language and communication development in normal children. Evidence on the language and communication deficits in adults (especially aphasia and dementia) and children (specific language impairment, focal brain injury, retardation, and autism).
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Spontaneous gestures and their relationship to speech, cognition, brain, and culture. The course covers, among others, gesture and language development, gesture and conceptual systems, speech-gesture co-production and its brain bases, evolution of language, and gestural behavior in special propulations.
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Special topics in cognitive science are discussed. (May be repeated when topics vary.)
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This course develops a detailed analogy between the evolution and architecture of language comprehension in human primates and symbol processing at the level of individual cells, contrasting this with the analogy between cognition and computation.
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A review of the patterns of impaired and intact cognitive abilities present in brain-damaged patients in terms of damage to one or more components of a model of normal cognitive functioning. (Cognitive science majors may not receive elective credit for both Psychology 139 and Cognitive Science 172.)
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This course explores how drugs interact with the brain/mind and culture. It covers evolutionary and historical perspectives, brain chemistry, pharmacology, expectancies and placebo effects, and models of addiction. It also provides a biopsychosocial survey of commonly used and abused substances.
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This course will review the literature that correlates brain rhythms in the human EEG with aspects of cognition, behavioral states, neuropsycho-pharmacology, and psychopathology in order to understand the psychological and neurophysiological underpinnings of these experiences.
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This course surveys the theory and practice of using recordings of electrical and magnetic activity of the brain to study cognition and behavior. It explores what brain waves reveal about normal and abnormal perception, processing, decision making, memory, preparation, and comprehension.
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Mathematical and computational modeling of the evolution and mechanisms of simple cognitive functions. Theoretical background, including topics in population genetics, behavioral ecology, evolutionary game theory, dynamical systems theory, genetic algorithms, and neural networks are applied to questions concerning the evolution of behavioral strategies, the relation between evolution and learning, and the evolution of cooperation, communication and other aspects of social behavior.
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Examines the cognitive basis of successful Web and multimedia design. Topics: information architecture, navigation, usability, graphic layout, transaction design, and how to understand user interaction.
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This course follows up on the basics of multimedia design taught in Cognitive Science 187A. Students will probe more deeply into selective topics, such as animation, navigation, graphical display of information, and narrative coherence. A large fraction of time will be spent on group projects.
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Computational methods for finding and exploiting structure across vast data corpora, from personal e-mail collections to the entire WWW. Students will implement and evaluate algorithms used as part of modern search engines, and connect these to models of shared cognition.
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This independent study course is for advanced students who wish to prepare for and apply to the Cognitive Science Honors Program. After completing this course, students may be admitted to the Honors Program contingent upon significant progress made during the course. (See â
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This course will allow cognitive science honors students to explore advanced issues in the field of cognitive science. It will also provide honors students the opportunity to develop an honors thesis on the topic of their choice and begin preliminary work under faculty supervision. Students will receive an âIPâ grade in 190B and the grade assigned for 190C, when completed, will replace the âIPâ in 190B.
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This course will provide honors candidates an opportunity to complete the research on and preparation of an honors thesis under close faculty supervision. Oral presentation of student’s thesis is required to receive honors; additionally, student must receive grade of A- or better in 190B and 190C to receive honors.
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