Jan. 20
Introduction,
what is cognitive science?
Jan.
27
Topic:
Modeling the mind
Readings:
Turing (1950) Searle (1980)
Feb.
3
Topic:
Computing in CogSci The architecture of cognition
Reading:
Pylyshyn (1989) Jeanne Fodor (1995) Ron
Feb.
10
Topic:
Experimental methods in CogSci
Reading:
Bower & Clapper(1989) John
Feb.
17
Topic:
Symbolic Models
Reading:
Newell, Rosenbloom & Laird (1989) , DanBBS replies to
Newell (1992)
Feb.
24
Topic:
Connectionist Models
Reading:
Rumelhart(1989), Ron McClelland (1995)
March
3
No
Class Spring break
March
10
Topics:
Modularity of Mind and symbol grounding
Reading:
Fodor (1985) Harnad (1990)Dan
Assignment:
Abstract of project proposal due
March
17
Topic:
How should we consider the brain in CogSci?
Reading:
Sejnowski, (1995) Sejnowlski, & Churchland, (1989). Amber
March
24
Topic:
Rational models of cognition
Reading:
Anderson (1993), Mark Anderson & Schooler (1991)Amber
March
31
Topic:
Dynamical systems and cognition
Reading:
vanGelder & Port (1995) Mark
Assignment:
Two page project proposal due
April
7
Topic:
Evolutionary Psychology and Cog Sci
Reading:
Cosmides & Tooby (1994), Victor Cosmides, Tooby & Barkow
(1992)
April
14
No
class
April
21
Topic:
Evolutionary Psychology and Cog Sci
Reading:
Dunbar (1993), Victor Excerpts from Donald (1991) (
April
28
Topic:
Rethinking Innateness Elman, et al (1997) Jeanne
May
5
Assignment:
In class paper presentations
Anderson, J. R. & Schooler, L. J. (1991) Reflections of the environment in memory. Psychological Science, 2 396-408.
Bower, G. H. & Clapper, J. P. Experimental methods in cognitive science. In M. Posner (ed.) Foundations of Cognitive Science, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
Brooks, R. (1991). Intelligence without representation. Artificial Intelligence, 47 139-59.
Chase, W. G. & Ericsson, K.A. (1982) Skill and working memory. In G.H. Bower (ed.), The psychology of Learning and Motivation (vol. 16, pp. 1-58). New York: Academic Press.
Cosmides, L. and Tooby, J. (1994). Beyond intuition and instinct blindness: Toward an evolutionarily rigorous cognitive science. Cognition, 50, 41-77.
Cosmides, L., Tooby, J., and Barkow, J.H. (1992). Introduction: evolutionary psychology and conceptual integration. In J. H. Barkow, L. Cosmides and J. Tooby (eds), The adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture, New York: Oxford University Press.
Donald, M. (1991). Origins of the Modern Mind:: Three states in the evolution of culture and cognition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Dunbar, R. (1993). Coevolution of neocortical size, groups size, and language in humans. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 16, 581-735.
Elman, J. L. Bates, E. A., Johnson, M. H., Karmiloff-Smitth, A., Parisi, D., Plunkett, K. Rethinking Innateness: A connectionist perspective on Development. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Fodor, J. (1985). Precis of The Modularity of Mind Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 8 1-5.
Fodor, J. (1995). The folly of simulation. In P. Baumgartner and S. Payr (eds.) Speaking Minds: Interviews with twenty eminent cognitive Scientists. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
Harnad, S. (1990). The symbol grounding problem, Physica D, 42, 335-346.
Marr, D. (1982). Vision. San Francisco: Freeman.
McClelland, J. (1995). Toward a pragmatic connectionism. In P. Baumgartner and S. Payr (eds.) Speaking Minds: Interviews with twenty eminent cognitive Scientists. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
Newell, A. (1995) The serial imperative. In P. Baumgartner and S. Payr (eds.) Speaking Minds: Interviews with twenty eminent cognitive Scientists. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
Newell, A. Rosenbloom, P. S., Laird, J. E. (1989) Symbolic Architectures for Cognition. In M. Posner (ed.) Foundations of Cognitive Science, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
Newell, A. & Simon H. A. (1963). GPS: A program that simulates human thought. In E. A. Feigenbaum & J. Feldman (eds.) Computers and Thought.
Pylyshyn, Z. W. (1989) Computing in Cognitive Science. In M. Posner (ed.) Foundations of Cognitive Science, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
Rumelhart, D. E. (1989) The architecture of Mind: A connectionist Approach. In M. Posner (ed.) Foundations of Cognitive Science, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
Searle, J. R. (1980) Minds, brains, and programs, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 3, 417-457.
Sejnowski, T. J. (1995) The hardware really matters. In P. Baumgartner and S. Payr (eds.) Speaking Minds: Interviews with twenty eminent cognitive Scientists. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
Sejnowlski, T. J. & Churchland, P. S. (1989). Brain and Cognition. In M. Posner (ed.) Foundations of Cognitive Science, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Simon, H. A. (1995). Technology is not the problem. In P. Baumgartner and S. Payr (eds.) Speaking Minds: Interviews with twenty eminent cognitive Scientists. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
Simon, H. A. and Kaplan, C. A. (1989) Foundations of Cognitive Science. In M. Posner (ed.) Foundations of Cognitive Science, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Sloman, A. (1993). The mind as a control system. In C. Hookway and D. Peterson (eds.), Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Cambridge: The Press Syndicate, University of Cambridge
Sperber, D. and Wilson, D. (1986). Relevance: Communication and Cognition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University.
Turing, A. M. (1950). Computing Machinery and Intelligence, Mind, 59: 433-460.
VanGelder, T. & Port, R. (1995). It's about time: An overview of the dynamical approach to cognition. In r. Port and t. van Geldger (eds.) Mind as motion: Explorations in the dynamics of cognition, 1-43. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.