The Department of Computer Science & Engineering
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CSE/LIN/PHI/PSY 575 & APY 526:
INTRODUCTION TO
COGNITIVE SCIENCE
Fall 2007
Directory of Documents

Directory of Documents

CSE/LIN/PHI/PSY 575 & APY 526: Last Update: 29 July 2008

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  1. What Is Cognitive Science?

    1. Sources of Information on Cognitive Science
    2. Classic Readings in Cognitive Science
    3. Miscellaneous Readings in Cognitive Science
    4. UB Center for Cognitive Science Research Groups

  2. What Is the Mind?

    1. What is philosophy?
    2. On the mind-body (or mind-brain) problem
    3. On functionalist theories of mind

  3. Theory of Mind

  4. Modularity of Mind

  5. Reasoning

  6. AI as a cognitive science, rules, and connections

    1. AI as a cognitive science
    2. Rules
    3. Connections
    4. On Unconscious Cognition (a.k.a. "Implicit Learning", "Tacit Knowledge", "Intuition", or "instinct")
    5. The Dynamic Systems Approach

  7. Concepts & Categories

    1. From MITECS
    2. Miller's magical number 7
    3. Eleanor Rosch et al.
    4. George Lakoff
    5. At UB

  8. Lakoff & Johnson's Theory of Conceptual Metaphor

  9. Mental Images

  10. Memory

  11. Vision

  12. UPDATED Neuroscience

  13. Emotion

  14. Consciousness

  15. Situated/Embedded/Extended Cognition

  16. Interdisciplinary Cognitive Science Projects

  17. Turing Test & Chinese Room Argument


  18. Material added after end of course:

    1. Wynn, Thomas; & Coolidge, Frederick L. (2008), "A Stone-Age Meeting of Minds", American Scientist 96(1) (January-February): 44-51.

      • Abstract: "Neandertals became extinct while Homo sapiens prospered. A marked contrast in mental capacities may account for these different fates."

    2. Pinker, Steven (2008), "The Moral Instinct", NY Times Magazine (13 January): 32-37, 52, 55-56, 58.



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