CSCI-6402 (3) Issues and Methods in Cognitive Science

Interdisciplinary introduction to cognitive science, examining ideas from cognitive psychology, philosophy, education, and linguistics via computational modeling and psychological experimentation. Includes philosophy of mind; learning; categorization; vision and mental imagery; consciousness; problem solving; decision making, and game-theory; language processing; connectionism. Department enforced prereqs., graduate standing or at least one course at the 3000-level or higher in Computer Science, Linguistics, Philosophy or Psychology. No background in Computer Science will be presumed. Same as EDUC 6504, LING 6200, PHIL 6310, and PSYC 6200. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.