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CS/Pysch/ISyE 6795
(Graduate) Introduction to Cognitive Science
Spring 2005

Ashok K. Goel

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Below is a preliminary day-by-day schedule for the class.

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Date		Topic			Readings

Jan. 10		Introduction
		to the course

Jan. 12		Paradigms of		B&G I.1.1 pp. 2-37
		Cognitive Science

Jan. 14		Paradigm Shifts 	B&G I.1.2 pp. 38-76
		in Cognitive Science

Jan. 19		Logic			B&G I.1.3 pp. 77098

Jan. 21		Logic			Thagard Chapter 1

Jan. 24		The CS/AI Methodology 	B&G 26, 33

Jan. 26		Probability		B&G 10

Jan. 28		Rules			Thagard Chapter 3

Jan. 31		Rules 			B&G Chapter 42

Feb. 2		Concepts/Categories	Thagard Chapter 4

Feb. 4		Concepts/Prototypes	B&G 8

Feb. 7		The Psychological	B&G 27, 29
		Methodology

Feb. 9		Concepts/Models

Feb. 11		Analogies		Thagard Chapter 5

Feb. 14		Analogies		B&G 36, 1

Feb. 16		Images			Thagard Chapter 6

Feb. 18		Images			B&G 12

Feb. 21		Connections		Thagard	Chapter 7

Feb. 23		Connections		B&G 38

Feb. 25		The Neurobiological 	B&G 32, 34
		Methodology

Feb. 28		Brains			Thagard Chapter 8

Mar. 2		Brains			B&G 4, 32, 34, 41

Mar. 4 		Machine Learning  	B&G 16

Mar. 7		Brains
		Mid-Term is Assigned

Mar. 9		Embodied Cognition 	Thagard Chapter 12

Mar. 11		Dynamical Systems	B&G 38
		Mid-Term is Due

Mar. 13		Situated Action		B&G 39

Mar. 15		Ecological Perception   B&G 18

Mar. 28		Review of Mid-Term Exam

Mar. 30		Review of Mid-Term Exam

Apr. 1		Situated Cognition      B&G 56

Apr. 4		The Anthrpological 	B&G 5, 28, 30
		Methodology

Apr. 6 		Social Cognition	Thagard Chapter 13

Apr. 8		Mediated Action		B&G 22, 40

Apr. 11		Problem Solving		B&G 44

Apr. 13		Problem Solving

Apr. 15	 	Language Processing	B&G 14, 15

Apr. 18		Language Processing

Apr. 20		The Linguistic 		B&G 31, 35
		Methodology

Apr. 22		Emotions		Thagard Chapter 10
					B&G 11
		***Term Project
		is due ***


Apr. 25		Conciousness		Thagard Chapter 11
					B&G 9
		***Final Exam
		is assigned ***

Apr. 27		Innateness		B&G 45, 46

Apr. 29		Review

May 1		***Final Exam
		is due ***

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Ashok Goel
March 28, 2005

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