This course is part of a series of core courses for graduate students in human cognitive and related areas of psychology. It provides, for those students, an overview of the broad area of cognitive science, the interdisciplinary study of thinking. Much of psychology's contributions to cognitive science is covered in other core courses, so this one will deal with the interfaces of cognitive psychology with artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, and, to a lesser extent, philosophy, neurology, and anthropology.
Prerequisites: This is meant to be a fast-moving course for students with considerable psychology background but not necessarily any computer science or other experience with formalisms. Howard Gardner's book, The Mind's New Science, is a good approximation to a syllabus for the course, but a number of original-source readings will be used.
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Credits: 2