Introduction to Cognitive Science
COGS 1
Mary ET Boyle, Ph.D.
Department of Cognitive Science
Introduction to Cognitive Science
Fall 2003

Course Description
Do you ever wonder wonder what … thinking, language, feeling, robotics, remembering, artificial intelligence, neural networks
…are all about???
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neuroscience psychology linguistics computer science philosophy
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What exactly is COGS1?
Sampler
Each lec
course: ture is pr esented a differen t faculty by member
.
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How to succeed in COGS1…
Attend lectures and discussions.
Study in small increments frequently.
If you want a B in a class: study 3 hours/credit!
Studying means concentrating without interruptions.
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How to read the articles
• Before the lecture, quickly read through the articles assigned.
• This will make it easier to take notes.
• After lecture and before section:
Go back and reread the articles carefully.
• Take notes when you read.
• Highlighting does very little to help you remember material.
• You may find you need to read the article twice.
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Midterm reading…
• Don’t leave all your reading until just before the midterm.
• You won’t absorb much material.
• The week before the midterm, quickly re-read the articles to refamiliarize yourself with the material.
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Lecture time…
• Before the lecture, quickly read through the articles assigned.
• Take good notes during lecture; bring a tape recorder if necessary.
• Within 48 hours after the lecture re-write your notes.
• This will help you review the material.
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Come to lecture and section
Whatever you do,
DO NOT SKIP LECTURE
OR
SECTION!!!!
You will just get further behind.
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To encourage you…
• Every week there will be a quiz!
• So that you will read!
• In section.
• Readings and Lectures.
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Course Hoops
Sections:
Weekly Quiz & Discussion
Midterm:
Fri October 31
Final:
Mon Dec 8 @ 11:30 – 2:30 pm
3 Hrs. Experiment Participation
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FAQ: What will be on the quiz???
Lectures from the prior week.
Assigned readings from the prior week.
Week 1 material will be on the quiz during week 2 sections.
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FAQ: How many quizzes will there be?
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FAQ: What if I miss a quiz??
(If you miss a section, you can go to a different section… but you need to tell your TA!)
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Dr. Todorov
Getting things done: intelligent control of action in biological and artificial systems.
Computational principles of movement and neuroscience.
(2000) Wolpert, D. M. & Zoubin, Z. Nature Neuroscience
Reinforcement Learning: An introduction (Chapter 1)
(1992) Sutton, R. S. & Baro, A. G.
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Dr. Gary Cottrell
Connectionist models of cognitive processes.
Appeal of parallel distributed processing . (1987) McClelland, J.
L., Rumelhart, D. E. & Hinton, G. E. In: Parallel distributed processing: Explorations in the microstructure of cognition.
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Dr. Jeff Elman
In our own image: the new AI.
Connectionism, artificial life, and dynamical systems.
(1998)
Elman, J. E. In: A Companion to Cognitive Science.
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Dr. Rik Belew
What is in a meme?
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/dennett/dennett_p2.html
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Ayse Pinar Saygin
Language and the brain.
The Neural Architecture of Language Disorders.
(2000) Dronkers,
Redfern and Knight. In: The New Cognitive Neurosciences, ed 2.
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Dr. David Kirsh
Navigating the Web.
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Dr. Jean-Marc Fellous
Face Recognition.
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Dr. Chris Johnson
Alien intelligences: the minds of other animals.
What is it like to be a monkey? How monkeys see the world.
(1990) Cheney, D. L. & Seyfarth, R.M.
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Dr. Mary ET Boyle
Listening to neurons.
Neural Conduction and Synaptic Transmission:
How Neurons Send and Receive Signals. (2002)
Biopsychology, Pinel, J.P.J. pp. 81-103
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Dr. Marty Sereno
Eavesdropping on the brain: what can you really see?
Eavesdropping on the brain.
Federmeier, K. D.
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Dr. Seana Coulson
ERPs and language processing.
Electrophysiology reveals semantic memory use in language c ompre hension.
(2000)
Kutas, M. & Federmeier, K. D. Trends in Cognitive Science
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Dr. Ariel Lang
A look at posttraumatic stress disorders and the mind.
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (2002) Keane, T. M. & Barlow, D. H.
In: Anxiety and its disorders: the nature and treatment of anxiety and panic. 2ed
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Dr. Carol Padden
What can new sign languages, language structure, and acquisition tell us about your mind?
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Dr. Ursula Bellugi
Williams syndrome.
Bridging cognition, the brain and molecular genetics: evidence from Williams syndrome. (1999)
Bellugi, U. et al. Trends in Neurosciences.
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Dr. Eric Courchesne
Autism
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Dr. Jochen Triesch
Think for yourself robot!
Biologists and engineers create a new generation of robots that imitate life.
(2000) Taubes, G. Science.
Humanoid robots: A new kind of tool.
(2000) Adames, et al. IEEE
Autonomous mental development by robots and animals. (2001)
Weng et al. Science .
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Dr. Dan Kripke
Let the sun shine in!
Brighten your life.
(1997) D. F. Kripke www.BrightenYourLife.info
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Dr. Neal Swerdlow
Gating disorders and more.
A Surgeon’s Life . (1997) Sacks, O.
In: An anthropologist from mars: Seven paradoxical tales.
Obsessive-Compulsive disorder and Tic syndromes . (2001)
Swerdlow, N. R. Medical Clinics of North America . Vol. 85.
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Dr. Frank Haist
The life of memory: consolidation in the brain.
Consolidation of human memory over decades revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging.
(2001)
Haist, F. et al. Nature Neuroscience.
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Dr. Frank Haist
The truth about false memories.
Creating false memories.
(1997)
Loftus, E. Scientific American.
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David Leland
This is your brain on drugs.
Buzzed. (1998) Kuhn, C., Swartzwelder, S., and Wilson, W. pp 234-266.
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Dr. Vic Ferreira
Language production: speaking and misspeaking.
Speaking and misspeaking.
(1995) Dell, G. S.
In: An invitation to cognitive science (Vol. 1)
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Dr. Ed Hutchins
Reasoning in the South Pacific.
Reasoning in Trobriand Discourse (1981)
Hutchins, E. In: Language, culture and cognition.
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Bob Williams
Making meaning from a clock.
Material Anchors for Conceptual Blends (2000) Hutchins, E .
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Dr. Jim Hollan
User-centered system design.
Cognitive engineering (1986) Norman, D. A. In: User Centered
Systems Design: New Perspectives on Human-Computer Interaction.
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Dr. Craig McKenzie
Judgment and decision making.
Judgment and decision making. (In press)
McKenzie, C. In: Handbook of cognition.
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