Cognitive Science Class Schedule

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Aug 31 Introduction

Daniel Bonevac (Philosophy): Rationalism

Sep 07 Daniel Bonevac (Philosophy): Empiricism

Jonathan Cohen (UCSD Philosophy): Object perception

Sep 14 Risto Miikkulainen (Computer Science): Computational maps in V1

Alex Huk (Neurobiology): Imaging low-level vision

Sep 21 Michael Tye (Philosophy): Change Blindness

Discussion

Discussion note 1 due

Sep 28 Brian Stankiewicz (Psychology): Spatial Cognition

Ben Kuipers (Computer Science): SSH

Oct 05 Brad Love (Psychology): Categorization

Bill Geisler (Psychology): Image statistics and perception

Oct 12 Jacqueline Woolley (Psychology): Cognitive Development

Discussion

Discussion note 2 due

Personal ads due

Oct 19 Tim Schroeder (Univ. of Manitoba Philosophy): Desire and reward

Art Markman (Psychology): Motivation

Oct 26 Tim Schallert (Neurobiology): Brain damage

Vladimir Lifschitz (Computer Science): Action

Nov 02 Nicholas Asher (Philosophy): Discourse

Discussion

Discussion note 3 due

Nov 09 Richard Meier (Linguistics): Sign Language

Swathi Kiran (Communications Sciences and Disorders): Impaired Language

Nov 16 Bruce Porter (Computer Science): Knowledge bases

Peter Stone (Computer Science): Machine Learning for Robots

Collaborative paper proposals due

Nov 23 No class (Happy Thanksgiving)
Nov 30 Sahotra Sarkar (Philosophy): Philosophy of science

Discussion note 4 due

Student presentations:

• Grinberg and Olmanson: Social Knowledge
• Keller and Kundu: Distributed Cognition
• Liberman and Linsey: Problem-based Learning

Class evaluation

Dec 07 Student presentations:

• Reisinger, Saggar, and Shield: Emergence of Language
• Alden, Gregorson and Son: Semantic Features of Concepts
• Hansen and Rauschuber: Categorizing Speech
• Kamath and Silverthorn: Social Cognition in WWW
• Dunning, Karpov, and Lyu: Hierarchical and Sequential Memory
• Mericli and Wenzel: Visualization
• Ganesan and Kim: Mental Imagery

Dec 14 Collaborative paper due