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＊本課程為哲學所、語言所、師培中心及心理所老師共同開授之跨領
域認知科學課程，全程使用英語授課，歡迎選修；
＊ 第一次上課時間為九月十九日（星期三）上午十時十分，地點在
文學院 412 教室。
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Introduction to Cognitive Science
Fall, 2007
Credit hours: 3
Class hours:
Classroom:
Course code: 1255202 (哲學研究所)
星期三（Wednesdays）10:10 am – 1:00 pm
文學院 412
Goals: To introduce graduate students to the fundamental issues of cognitive
science.
Description:
This course is designed for junior graduate students who are
interested in gaining general knowledge in cognitive science and
to understand why it is so important that cognitive science as a
discipline to study the mind requires an interdisciplinary approach.
No special background is required, but students from
philosophy, linguistics, and psychology departments are
especially welcome.
Main features:
It will be an all-English taught course.
The course will be taught by faculty members from philosophy,
linguistics, teacher’s education center, and psychology.
Instructors:
王一奇 (Philosophy) (kikiwang@phil.ccu.edu.tw) (x31404)
麥 傑 (James Myers) (Linguistics) (lngmyers@ccu.edu.tw)
(x31506)
曾玉村 (Center for Teacher’s Education) (ttcytt@ccu.edu.tw)
(x36403)
襲充文 (Psychology) (psycws@ccu.edu.tw) (x32203)
Reading materials:
General background reading
Stillings, N. A., et al. (1995). Cognitive science: An introduction. Cambridge, MA:
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MIT Press.
Philosophy of Mind
Clark, A. (2001). Mindware: An introduction to the philosophy of cognitie science.
NY: Oxford University Press.
Language and Language Processing
Pinker, S. (1995). Language acquisition. In L. R. Gleitman & M. Liberman (Eds.) An
invitation to cognitive science, vol. 1: Language (second edition) (pp. 135-182).
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Jackendoff, R. (2002). Chapter 9 (Semantics as a mentalistic enterprise) and chapter
10 (Reference and truth). In Foundations of language: Brain, meaning, grammar,
evolution (pp. 267-332). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Vision and Neuroscience
Marr. D (1982). Vision: A computational investigation into the human representation
and processing of visual information. San Francisco, CA: Freeman.
Farah, M. (2000). Cognitive neuroscience of vision. UK: Blackwell.
Rosenzweig, M. R., Breedlove, S. M., & Leiman, A. L. (2002). Biological psychology
(Chapter 10 Vision: From eye to brain). Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates.
AI, Connectionist Modeling, and Discourse Processing
Graesser, A. C., Olde, Brent, & Klettke, B. (2002). How does mind construct and
represent stories? In M. C. Green, Strange, J. J., & Brock, T. C. (Eds.). Narrative
Impact: Social and cognitive foundations (pp.229-262). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
McLeod, P., Plunkett, K., & Rolls, E. T. (1998). Introduction to connectionist
modelling of cognitive processes. Oxford University Press.
Zwaan, R. A. & Singer, M. (2003).Text comprehension. In Graesser, A. C.,
Gernbacher, M. A., & Goldman, S. R. (Eds.). Handbook of discourse processes
(pp. 83-121). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Other reading materials will also be supplied and assigned by instructors of each part.
Course Schedule
Date Instructor(s)
9.19
9.26
王一奇
麥 傑
曾玉村
襲充文
王一奇
10.03
王一奇
Topics and Readings
Course orientation:
“What is cognitive science?” (Stillings et al. ch. 1)
(I) Dualism, Behaviorism, Identity Theory, Functionalism,
and Eliminativism. (Clark, Appendix I)
(I) The Theory of Computation: Turing Machine and
Recursive Function Theory (Handout),
(II) Mindware as Software (Clark, Chapter 1)
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10.10
10.17
National
Holiday
王一奇
10.24
王一奇
10.31
11.07
11.14
11.21
麥
麥
麥
麥
11.28
襲充文
12.05
襲充文
12.12
襲充文
12.19
襲充文
12.26
曾玉村
01.02
01.09
01.15
曾玉村
曾玉村
曾玉村
傑
傑
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** NO CLASS **
(I) Symbol Systems (Clark, Chapter 2)
(II) Patterns, Contents, and Causes (Clark, Chapter 3)
(I) Connectionism (Clark, Chapter 4)
(II) Consciousness and the Meta-Hard Problem (Clark,
Appendix II)
**1st take-home exam**
Introduction to Linguistics (Stillings et al. ch. 6)
Language Acquisition (Pinker 1995)
Semantics (Jackendoff ch. 9)
Natural Language Processing (Stillings et al. ch. 11)
**2nd take-home exam**
Brain and Cognition: Part I (Stillings et al. ch. 5; RBL, Chap
10)
Brain and Cognition: Part II (Stillings et al. ch. 5; RBL,
Chap 10)
Cognitive Neuroscience of Vision: Part I (Stillings et al. ch.
12, Farah, 2000, Marr, 1982)
Cognitive Neuroscience of Vision: Part II (Stillings et al. ch.
12, Farah, 2000; Marr, 1982)
** 3rd take-home exam**
Artificial Intelligence & mental representation (Stillings et
al. ch. 4)
A Primer on Connectionist Modeling (McLeod et al. ch.2)
Text and Discourse Processing (I) (Zwaan & Singer, 2003)
Text and Discourse Processing (II) (Graesser, Olde, Klettke,
2002)
** 4th take-home exam**
Grading Policy
There will four parts in this course, and hence each part will account for 25%
toward your final grade of the course.
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