Intro to Cognitive Science, Fall 2001.

Course coordinator: Paul Portner Office Hours M11:30-12:30

473 ICC Th 3-4

7-5949

portnerp@georgetown.edu

 

Text: Carolyn P. Sobel, The Cognitive Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Mayfield Publishers, 2001.

Week

Date

Teacher

Topic

Text Assignment

1

8/30

Portner

Overview

 

2

9/6

Vaidya

Cognitive Psychology

Ch 1

3

9/13

Vaidya

Cognitive Psychology

Ch 2

4

9/20

Friedman

Neuroscience

Ch 3-4

5

9/27

Rauschecker

Perception

(part of Ch 3)

6

10/4

Portner

Linguistics

Ch 5

7

10/11

Ullman

Language Acquisition

 

8

10/18

 

Midterm

 

9

10/25

Portner / Mani

Semantics (first half) /

AI (second half)

Ch 6-7

10

11/1

Mani

AI

Ch 8

11

11/8

Caraballo

NLP

(part of Ch 8)

12

11/15

Davis

Philosophy and other fields in CogSci (psych, neuro, ling, AI)

Ch 9-10.

13

11/29

Farre

Consciousness

(part of Ch 10)

14

12/6

Portner

Wrap up discussion

 

Grading & Requirements: Midterm (50%), Final Exam (50%).