Emre Ugur
Ph.D.
Introduction to Cognitive Science
Monday 12:00-13:00 – BM A3
Tuesday 09:00-11:00 – BM A3
Aim: Introduction of basic concepts, approaches and issues in the field of cognitive science to increase the awareness of the students to the questions raised in the disciplines of computer science, linguistics, philosophy and psychology; focus on the interaction of these disciplines in approaching the study of the mind; specialization on topics central to cognitive science such as the nature of mental representation, reasoning, perception, language use, learning as well as other cognitive processes of humans and other intelligent systems.
Textbook: The course will have no main textbook, but the following topics and readings week by week.
Lecture slides: Available at the course page.
Instructor: Emre Ugur (contact)
Office hours: Anytime. But make sure I'm in the office via email.
Mailing-list: Please send email to instructor if you are not registered!
Grades
Schedule (subject to change):
Introduction: Introduction to the study of cognitive sciences. A brief history of cognitive science. Methodological concerns in philosophy, artificial intelligence and psychology.
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Artificial Intelligence: History and foundations of AI, AI programming languages, Turing Machine, Turing Test, intelligent agents, Problem solving and search
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Psychology: Behavioralism, cognitive maps, experimental methods. Nervous system and brain: Nervous system, neurons, organization of the brain, processing of sensory information in the brain; motor and sensory areas; Brain Imaging, fMRI, MEG, PET, EEG,
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Brain Imaging: fMRI, MEG, PET, EEG..
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Guest Lecture: Lucas Thorpe
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Guest Lecture: Oguz Erdin
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Affordances: Ecological Approach to Vision, invariant variables, evidence from Neurophsiology, alignment paradigm
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Intro to Neural Nets: McCulloch and Pitts neurons, perceptrons, hebbian learning, hopfield nets
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Guest Lecture: Yagmur Denizhan; Information, ontological dualism, Macy Conferences, Code duality
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| Sensory Processing: Motor and sensory areas, visual pathways, overview of senses
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Guest Lecture: Inci Ayhan
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| Multi-sensory Integration: Perceptual fusion, multi-sensory integration in cortex, receptive fields,
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| Inci Ayhan: Visual Attention | Slides | |
| Pavel Logacev: Language, a brief overview, linguistic competence, phrase structure, creativity and recursion, animals and language, linguistic diversity, language and thought, determinism, relativism, | Slides | |
| Ena Hodzik: Comprehension and Production Studies, Bilingual representations, Stroop effect, the Simon Task, Process research, Recursive models, keystroke logging, eye tracking studies | Slides | |
| Intro To Machine Learning, regression, classification, perceptron learning rule, clustering, k-means | Slides | |
| Cognitive Development, Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development, Assimilation-Accomodation, Object Permanence, Development of Imitation, Three-mountain test, Conservation test, Theory of Mind | Slides | |
Constucting memories; explicit vs. implicit memory; information processing (three-boxes) model of memory; sensory memory; short-term/long-term/episodic memory
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Reasoning: Rationality; bounded rationality; paradoxes, heuristics and biases;
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Grading: TBA
- Quizzes: 10
- 10 homeworks: 30
- midterm: 20
- final: 20
- project: 20
Project: Project or term paper.
Quizzes: One quiz in each lecture at a random time. Please bring your own paper.
Cheating: Any sharing or copying will be considered as cheating. Please do not cheat! See CMPE procedures for cheating behavior.