BCSC 153: Lecture Schedule
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Week
Date
Topic
Readings
1
01/12
Course requirements;
Introduction
2.1
01/17
The field of cognitive
science
Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy
2.2
01/19
Study of mind
Sternberg
3.1
01/24
Issues in cognitive science
Norman
3.2
01/26
Issues in cognitive science
Norman (cont'd)
4.1
01/31
Quiz 1
Human cognitive evolution
Human cognitive evolution
Donald
4.2
02/02
Human cognitive evolution
Donald (cont'd)
5.1
02/07
Language
Boroditsky
5.1
02/09
Embodied cognition
Wilson
6.1
02/14
Quiz 2
Embodied cognition
Embodied cognition
Wilson & Golonka
6.2
02/16
Exam review
7.1
02/21
Exam 1
7.2
02/23
Embodied cognition,
dynamical systems and
robotics
Clark
8.1
02/28
Metacognition
Shimamura
8.2
03/02
Connectionism
Computation and cognition
Computation and cognition
McCloskey
Pylyshyn (focus on sections 5)
Pylyshyn (focus on sections 5)
9
Spring Break
10.1
03/14
Computation and cognition
Computer and human mind
Computer and human mind
Pylyshyn (focus on
section 6 and 7)
Searle
Searle
10.2
03/16
Object recognition
Riesenhuber & Poggio
11.1
03/21
Quiz 3
Concept and categorization
Categorization, prototypes and exemplars
Concept and categorization
Categorization, prototypes and exemplars
Medin & Smith
Smith & Linda
Smith & Linda
11.2
03/23
Exam Review
12.1
03/28
Exam 2
12.2
03/30
Memory and consciousness
Tulving
13.1
04/04
Consciousness in other mental states
13.2
04/06
Dissociation of implicit and
explicit memory
Rugg et al.
14.1
04/11
Quiz 4
Explicit and implicit learning
Explicit and implicit learning
Willingham & Goedert-Eschmann
14.2
04/13
TBD
15.1
04/18
Guest lecture on Music and
Cognition by Prof. David
Temperley
15.2
04/20
Exam review
16.1
04/25
Final Exam