460-4110/01 – Cognitive Science (KV)
Gurantor department | Department of Computer Science | Credits | 2 |
Subject guarantor | doc. MSc. Donald David Davendra, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | doc. MSc. Donald David Davendra, Ph.D. |
Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Optional |
Year | 2 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
Year of introduction | 2015/2016 | Year of cancellation | 2017/2018 |
Intended for the faculties | FEI | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
Cognitive Science is an interdisciplinary effort to uncover the relationships between brains, minds, and behavior. This course will provide a selective look into a number of topics, which are central to Cognitive Science. Starting with a historical overview of these relationships, the module will go on to look at topics in the study of language, learning, perception, action, and thought. Each topic will be addressed from a variety of theoretical and practical standpoints from the viewpoint of computer science.
Topics covered in the lectures would be:
1. Language: Innateness and Modularity
2. Learning and Development
3. Movement
4. Vision
5. Representation
6. On Time and Space
7. Reasoning
8. Social Cognition
9. Memory
10. Consciousness
Teaching methods
Lectures
Tutorials
Summary
Cognitive Science is an interdisciplinary effort to uncover the relationships between brains, minds, and behavior. This course will provide a selective look into a number of topics, which are central to Cognitive Science. Starting with a historical overview of these relationships, the module will go on to look at topics in the study of language, learning, perception, action, and thought. Each topic will be addressed from a variety of theoretical and practical standpoints from the viewpoint of computer science.
Compulsory literature:
1. Posner, M. I. (1989). Foundations of Cognitive Science. Cambridge: MIT Press.
2. Elman, J., Bates, E., Johnson, M., Karmiloff-Smith, A., Parisi, D. & Plunkett, K. Rethinking Innateness: a connectionist perspective on development. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press/Bradford Books, 1998.
3. Tomasello, M. (1999). The cultural origins of human cognition. Cambridge, MA: Harverd University Press.
Recommended literature:
1. Rogoff, B., & Lave, J. (1984). Everyday cognition: Its development in social context. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
2. Newell, A. (1990). Unified theories of cognition. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Interview with the students.
E-learning
Other requirements
Additional requirements are placed on the student.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
Cognitive Science is an interdisciplinary effort to uncover the relationships between brains, minds, and behavior. This course will provide a selective look into a number of topics, which are central to Cognitive Science. Starting with a historical overview of these relationships, the module will go on to look at topics in the study of language, learning, perception, action, and thought. Each topic will be addressed from a variety of theoretical and practical standpoints from the viewpoint of computer science.
Topics covered in the lectures would be:
1) Language: Innateness and Modularity
2) Learning and Development
3) Movement
4) Vision
5) Representation
6) On Time and Space
7) Reasoning
8) Social Cognition
9) Memory
10) Consciousness
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction
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