Cognitive Science
PSY/LIN/PHL 463
Spring 2005
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Assignments


Group Assisgnments
Group 1
 Group 2
 Group 3
 Group 4
 Group 5
 Group 6
Melissa Alsobrooks
David Himelright
Amanda Millett

 Tyler Baldwin
Tony Homrich
Justine Pilot
 Tom Bourguignon
Matt Horn
Leidy Ramirez
 Stephen Cooper-Mccann
Steve Kreis
Nate Ruhala
Michael McKinley
 Jamie David
Kate Leitch
Andrew Taylor
Matthew Schilleman
 Leanna Gingras
Andrew Mattarella-Micke
Jason Stover
Neal Mason

*  Note one change to the schedule given in class. Group 3 will now be responsible for the Andy Clark lecture and group 4 will be responsible for the E. P. Stabler article. Remember to get the 500 word reaction papers to me by Monday at noon (or Wednesday if the last article listed).

 

1/11, 1/13

What is Cognitive Science?
Thagard, chapter 1, pp. 3-21
Stillings, chapter 1, pp. 1-14   

 

1/18, 1/20

Classical Cognitive Science

Logic, Rules, and Reasoning
Thagard, chapter 2, Logic, pp. 23-41 - Group 1
Thagard, chapter 3, Rules, pp. 43-58 - Group 2
Stillings, chapter 4.2, Knowledge Representation, pp. 151-172  - Group 3

 

1/25, 1/27

Symbol Processing
Andy Clark, chapters 1-3 (pp. 7-61)
    Chapter 1 - Group 4
    Chapter 2 - Group 5
    Chapter 3 - Group 6

 

2/1, 2/3

Concepts and Learning
Thagard, chapter 4, Concepts, pp. 59-76 - Group 1
Stillings, chapter 5.2, Learning, pp. 192-223 - Group 2

 

2/8, 2/10

Artificial Intelligence
John Searle, Minds, Brains and Programs (handout) - Group 3
Selected Replies to Searle, from Behavior and Brain Science (handout) - Group 4

 

2/15, 2/17

Distinguished Lecture, Feb 14th: Alex Kacelnik. Professor, Department of Zoology, Oxford University. Rationality and its Meanings - Group 5

Neurally Inspired Cognitive Science

Neuroscience
Stillings, chapter 7.2-7.3, 7.5, pp. 270-305; 323-325 (Group 6 and 1)

 

2/22, 2/24

Vision
Thagard, chapter 6, Images, pp. 93-106 - Group 2
Stillings, chapter 12.1-12.3, 12.5 (pp. 461-490, 502-513) - Group 3
Andy Clark, chapter 5, Perception, Action and the Brain, pp. 84-102 - Group 4

 

3/1, 3/3

Connectionism
Thagard, chapter 7, pp. 107-126 - Group 5
Stillings, chapter 2.10, pp. 63-83 - Group 6
Andy Clark, chapter 4, Connectionism, pp. 62-83  - Group  1

3/8, 3/10

Spring Break

3/15, 3/17

Rumelhart and McClelland, On Learning the Past Tenses of English Verbs (handout) - Group 2
Fodor and Pylyshyn, Connectionism and the Cognitive Architecture (handout)  - Group 3

3/22, 3/24

Cognitive Psychology and Linguistics

Memory
Howard Eichenbaum, Amnesia: Learning about Memory from Memory Loss (handout)  - Group  4

Cognitive Psychology
Thagard, chapter 6, pp. 77-92 - Group 5
Stillings, chapter 2.1-2.3, 2.7 (15-26, 42-54) - Group 6

3/29, 3/31

Distinguished Lecture, Mar 28th: Randy Buckner, Associate Professor, Washington University, Department of Psychology. The Cognitive Neuroscience of Human Memory
Group - Group 1

Linguistics
Stillings, chap. 6.1–6.3, pp. 215-259 - Group 2
E.P. Stabler, How Are Grammars Represented? (handout)  - Group 4

4/5, 4/7

Distinguished Lecture, April 4th: Andy Clark. Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, The University of Edinburgh, Department of Philosophy. Re-Inventing Ourselves: The Plasticity of Embodiment, Sensing and Mind  - Group 3

Thursday, April 7th: First Draft of Paper Due

Stephen Stich, Grammar, Psychology, and Indeterminacy (handout) - Group 5
Noam Chomsky and Jerrold Katz, What the Linguist is Talking About (handout) - Group 6

4/12, 4/14

Thursday, April 14th: Peer Reviews Due

Challenges to Cognitive Science

Emotion and Consciousness
Thagard, chapter 9, pp. 139-154 - Group 1
Stillings, chap. 8.3 (pp. 345-367) - Group 2
Andy Clark, Appendix II: Consciousness & the Meta-Hard Problem, pp. 171-188  - Group 3

4/19, 4/21

4/18, 4/19, 4/20 - Individual Meetings with Students

Dynamicism
Thagard, chapters 10-11, pp. 155-160; 169-173 - Group 4
Andy Clark, Dynamics, pp. 120-139 - Group 5
Rodney Brooks, Intelligence without Representation (handout)  - Group 6

4/26

Class Cancelled 4/28

Conclusion
Thagard, chapter 12, pp. 183-190