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| M 8/25 | Intro: classical cognitive science | |
| W 8/27 | The computational metaphor: complexity | Gardner |
| M 9/1 | No class: Labor Day | |
| W 9/3 | Classical issues in cognitive science | Meno |
| M 9/8 | Machine intelligence | Turing/Searle |
| W 9/10 | Problem solving/search | Newell and Simon |
| M 9/15 | Search/Intro to Neural Nets | Bechtel and Abrahamsen |
| W 9/17 | Neural Nets and connectionism | Hinton PS1 Due |
| M 9/22 | Semantic nets; memory | Schacter |
| W 9/24 | Memory | |
| M 9/29 | Judgment/decision-making/probability | Tversky and Kahneman |
| W 10/1 | Judgment/decision-making | Gigerenzer |
| M 10/6 | Vision | Marr PS2 Due |
| W 10/8 | Vision | Biederman |
| M 10/13 | Mental imagery | Tye |
| W 10/15 | Mental imagery | Pylyshyn |
| M 10/20 | Spatial/physical/commonsense reasoning | |
| W 10/22 | Cognitive neuroscience | Gazzaniga |
| M 10/27 | Cognitive neuroscience | Sacks PS3 Due |
| W 10/29 | Embodied cognition | Lakoff, Clark |
| M 11/3 | Embodied cognition; animal cognition | Braitenberg, Brooks |
| W 11/5 | Infant cognition | Guest lecture by Adam Eisenberg, Age 3 |
| M 11/10 | Infant cognition | Gopnik |
| W 11/12 | Animal cognition | Guest lecture by Rhombi Eisenberg, rat terrier |
| M 11/17 | Game theory | Axelrod PS4 Due |
| W 11/19 | Game theory | Pinker |
| M 11/24 | Evolutionary psychology | Cosmides and Tooby |
| W 11/26 | NO CLASS - CU is on a Friday schedule | |
| M 12/1 | Language | Guest Lecture |
| W 11/26 | Language acquisition | Karmiloff and Karmiloff-Smith PS5 Due |
| M 12/8 | Mathematical cognition | Dehaene |
| W 12/10 | Consciousness | |