Cognitive Science (CSC385) — Notes, Syllabus & Past Questions

Study of human intelligence and its replication in artificial systems.

Elective Course8 Chapters
Chapter 1Past Questions

Introduction

Cognition Process, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Science, Foundations of Cognitive Science, Cognitive Science and Multi-disciplinary, Machines and Minds, Laws thoughts to binary logic.

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Chapter 2Past Questions

Precursors of Cognitive Science

Behaviorism; Theory of Computation and Algorithms; Algorithms and Turing Machines; Marr's Three Level of Computation; Linguistics and Formal Language; Information Processing Models in Psychology.

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Chapter 3Past Questions

Psycological Perspective of Cognition

Cognitive Models of Memory, Atkinson-Shiffrin's Model, Tulving's Model, Mental Imagery, Kosslyn's View, Moyer's View, Peterson's View, Cognitive Maps, Problem Understanding, States of Cognition.

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Chapter 4Past Questions

Physical Symbol System and Language of Thought

Physical Symbol System Hypothesis, Symbol and Symbol Systems, Problem Solving by Symbol Structure, Physical Symbol System to Language of Thoughts, The Computer Model of the Mind.

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Chapter 5Past Questions

Cognitive System

Cognitive System; Architecture for intelligent agents; Modularity of Mind; Modularity Hypothesis; The ACT-R/PM architecture.

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Chapter 6Past Questions

Brain Mapping

Structure and Function in Brain, Anatomical Connectivity, Cognitive Functioning Techniques from Neuroscience, Mapping the brain's electrical activity: EEG and MEG.

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Mind Reading

Metarepresentation; Metarepresentation, autism, and theory of mind; Mind Reading System; Understanding False Belief; Mind Reading as Simulation.

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Chapter 8Past Questions

Neural Networks and Distributed Information Processing

Neurally Inspired Models of Information Processing, Single-Layer Networks and Boolean Functions, Multilayer Networks, Information Processing in Neural Networks, Language Learning in Neural Networks.

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