Chapters refer to Stillings, N. A., Weisler, S. E., Chase, C. H., Feinstein, M. H., Garfield, J. L.,

& Rissland, E. L. (1995).

Cognitive Science: An Introduction (2nd ed.). Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.

Planned class format: Lecture followed by discussion.

Class meets Thursdays 4:15-6:45 in ICC 212

MEETING SCHEDULE

Date

Lecturer

Assignment

Aug

31

*Farre, Dept of Philosophy

None

Sept

7

*Farre, Dept of Philosophy

c1: What is cognitive science?

14

*Howard, Dept of Psychology

c2: Cognitive Psychology: Architecture of the Mind

21

*Howard, Dept of Psychology

c3: Cognitive Psychology: Further Explorations

28

*Maloof, Dept of Computer Science

c4: Artificial Intelligence: Knowledge Representation

Oct

5

*Maloof, Dept of Computer Science

c5: Artificial Intelligence: Search, Control, & Learning

12

*Portner, Dept of Linguistics

c6: Linguistics: The Representation of Language

19

Midterm

26

*Friedman, Dept of Neurology

c7: Neuroscience: Brain and Cognition

Nov

2

*Davis, Dept of Philosophy

c8: Philosophy: Foundations of Cognitive Science

9

?Ullman, Dept of Neuroscience

c9: Language Acquisition

16

*Davis, Dept of Philosophy

c10: Semantics

23

No Class: Thanksgiving

30

*Rauschecker, Dept of Physiology & Biophysics

c12: Vision

Dec

7

*Caraballo or Velauthapillai, Dept of Computer Science

c11: Natural Language Processing