LING105 - Introduction To Cognitive Science

Status
O
Activity
REC
Section number integer
406
Title (text only)
Introduction To Cognitive Science
Term
2018C
Subject area
LING
Section number only
406
Section ID
LING105406
Course number integer
105
Registration notes
Registration also required for Lecture (see below)
Meeting times
R 05:00 PM-06:00 PM
Meeting location
TOWN 307
Level
undergraduate
Description
Cognitive Science is founded on the realization that many problems in the analysis of human and artificial intelligence require an interdisciplinary approach. The course is intended to introduce students to the problems and characteristic concepts of Cognitive Science, drawing on formal and empirical approaches from the parent disciplines of computer science, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy and psychology. The topics covered include Perception, Action, Learning, Language, Knowledge Representation, and Inference, and the relations and interactions between such modules. The course shows how the different views from the parent disciplines interact, and identifies some common themes among the theories that have been proposed. The course pays particular attention to the distinctive role of computation in such theories, and provides an introduction to some of the main directions of current research in the field.
Course number only
105
Cross listings
COGS001406, CIS140406, PSYC207406
Fulfills
Formal Reasoning Course
Use local description
No