Prerequisites: MTH 141 or 161
Offered: Spring
This course is limited to 15 students
Cognitive scientists attempt to make theories of human perception, language, memory, learning, categorization,
reasoning, and many other cognitive functions. A good way of making explicit all the details of a theory, of
understanding the implications of a theory, and of comparing the theory with other theories is to implement the
theory as a computer model. The course will teach students about current theories of human cognition, and their
computer implementations. The course will focus on a class of computer models known as connectionist models or
artificial neural networks.
Students will be required to perform several assignments in which they implement computer models of human
cognition using software provided to the students. The course assumes knowledge of introductory calculus.
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