Cognitive Science

Current Schedule: Last updated 8/28/01

Schedule is subject to change!

8/27 Intro to class: Classical cognitive science
8/29 The computational metaphor
9/3 Labor Day: no class
9/5 The Turing test
Guest lecture: Gerhard Fischer
9/10 The "Chinese Room"
Guest lecture: Jim Martin
9/12 Problem Solving
9/17 Problem Solving/Search
9/19 Judgment/decision-making/probability
9/24 Judgment/decision-making
9/26 Memory
10/1 Memory
10/3 Embodied Cognition
10/8 Embodied Cognition
10/10 Cognitive Neuroscience
10/15 Cognitive Neuroscience
10/17 Infant Cognition
Guest lecture: Adam Eisenberg
10/22 Infant Cognition
10/24 Vision
10/29 Vision
10/31 Mental Imagery
11/5 Mental Imagery
11/7 Spatial Cognition
11/12 Animal Cognition
Guest lecture: Rhombi Eisenberg
11/14 Animal Cognition
11/19 Consciousness
11/21 Sleep/Dreaming
11/26 Game Theory
12/3 Evolutionary psychology
12/5 Evolutionary psychology
12/10 Language and its acquisition
12/12 Language and its acquisition