Proseminar in Cognitive Science 2011
Course number 16:185:500
Instructors: Zenon Pylyshyn and Guest Lecturers
Classroom: Psychology Building Room A139, Busch Campus
Time:
Tuesdays,
E-mail: zenon@ruccs.rutgers.edu
Date Lecturer & Readings
Sept 6
Zenon Pylyshyn
Foundations:
What
is Cognitive Science?:
PowerPoint: What is Special about Cognitive Science?
Sept
13 Zenon
Pylyshyn: Cognitive
Architecture (with visual
focal attention as
an example)
Reading 3: Things and Places (Chapter 3): Why do we need selection?
PowerPoint: Architecture, Capacity and Attention
Sept
20 Randy
Gallistel: Memory and the
Computational Brain
Reading: Learning
and Representation
Sept
27 Brian McLaughlin:
The systematicity of
thought
Fodor,
J. & Pylyshyn, Z. (1988) Connectionism and Cognitive Architecture:
A Critical Analysis. Cognition,
28, 3-71.
Evans, G. (1982) The
Varieties of Reference.
Oxford: Clarendon, pages 100-105.
Johnson,
K. (2004) On the Systematicity of Language and Thought. The Journal of Philosophy, 3,
111-139.
McLaughlin: Powerpoint presentation
Oct 4
Brandon Fitelson: Foundations of Subjective Probability
Here are the background
readings for the lecture. The first two are
crucial -- the other three provide some deeper background.
1* Keynes, J.M., Treatise on Probability, Chapter 3, "The
Measurement of Probabilities".
2* de Finetti, B., Foresight: Its Logical Laws, Its Subjective
Sources, chapter 1 (excerpt), "The Logic of the
Probable".
3. Suppes, Representation and Invariance of Scientific Structures,
Chapter 5 (excerpts), "Representations
of Probability".
4. Fine, T., Theories of Probability, excerpts
from Chapters 2 and 3.
5. Joyce, J., "A
Nonpragmatic Vindication of Probabilism" (especially, section 6).
Oct 11 Gretchen Chapman: The Psychology of Decision Making
Oct 18
Mark
Baker: Universals of
Language -- the example of case and agreement
Case
and agreement: notes on universal grammar
Oct 25 Karin Stromswold: Language Acquisition and Learnability
Readings TBA
Nov 1
Matthew Stone:
Language
use by and for computers
Nov 8
Deena Skolnick Weisberg:
Cognitive
Development
Flavel: Review of Cog Development
Nov 15
Thomas Papathomas: Cross-modal perception
Reading: “Influences
of attention on auditory aftereffects w/ visual adaptation”
“Hearing visual motion in depth”
Nov 22 No Class
Nov 29
Elizabeth Torres: Control
of Motor Actions
Reading:
(1) Two
classes of movements in motor control
Dec 6
Jacob
Feldman: Bayesian Computing in
Vision
Reading:
“Bayesian
models of object perception”
Dec 13
No Class