SYMBSYS 100 Introduction to Cognitive Science Spring 2005

COURSE INFORMATION
Instructors	Dan Jurafsky, jurafsky@stanford.edu (Office hours by appointment) Daniel Richardson, richardson@psych.stanford.edu (Office hours by appointment)
TAs	Heesoo Kim, heesoo.kim@gmail.com(Office hours: Tuesdays 12-1, 460-040A) Adam November, november@psych.stanford.edu (Office hours: Mondays, 12-1pm, 420-336) David Oshima, davidyo@stanford.edu (Office hours: Wednesday 1-2, 460-040B)
Time	Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10 - 11.30am
Location	420:041
Sections	Tuesday 2:15-3:05, Location 160-315 (Adam) Tuesday 4:15-5:05, Location 320-221 (Heesoo) Wednesday 2:15-3:05, Location 160-323 (David)
Required Work	Section participation - including one week leading a class discussion (15%) Questions and comments regarding lectures and readings, emailed once weekly to your TA (15%) Bi-weekly assignments (30%) Final - short essay answers and multiple choice (40%) - scheduled for Friday, June 3rd at 3:30pm

SCHEDULE
Date	Who	Topic and Readings (Follow links to download slides and papers)	Assignments & Section Notes
Mar 29	DCR & DJ	Introduction to the Course The Turing test (download slides as pdf or movie *)	Week 1: No section
Mar 31	DJ	The Computational Model of the Mind (download slides as pdf or ppt) Turing, A. (1950). Computing Machinery and Intelligence. Mind 59:433-460 Searle, John R. (1980). Minds, Brains, and Programs. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 3. Dewdney, A. K. (1993). Turing Machines: The Simplest Computers. Chapter 28 ` of The New Turing Omnibus (pp. 186-194).
April 5	DCR	The Computational Model of the Mind (II) (download slides as pdf or movie *) Fodor, J. (1998). Concepts: Where cognitive science went wrong. Chapter 1 Barsalou, L.W., Simmons, W.K., Barbey, A., & Wilson, C.D. (2003). Grounding conceptual knowledge in modality-specific systems. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 84-91	Week 2: Assignment 1 due, 10am April 7th. Section PPT slides
April 7	John Perry	Philosophy of Mind (download slides as pdf) James, W. (1892). The Stream of Consciousness
April 12	DCR	Bridging Mind and Brain (download slides as pdf) Churchland & Rush, (2001) Computation and the Brain, MIT encyclopedia of Cognitive Science Illing, R (2003) Humbled by History, Scientific American.	Week 3:
April 14	Lera Boroditsky	Language and Thought (download slides as pdf) Boroditsky, L (in press). Linguistic Relativity
April 19	Brian Wandell	Vision and color perception No readings	Week 4: Assignment 2 due April 21st, 10am
April 21	DCR	Perceptual Illusions (download slides as pdf or movie *) Ramachandran & Rogers-Ramachandran, (2003) Seeing is Believing. Scientific American Calvert, Brammer & Iversen (1998) Cross modal identification. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2(7). For the purposes of discussion, please read this paper AFTER the lecture: Eagleman (2001). Visual illusions and neurobiology. Nature reviews
April 26	William Newsome	Neuroscience of Awareness (download slides as pdf or movie *) Nagel, T. (1974) What is it like to be a bat? The Philosophical Reviews Cohen & Newsome (in press). What electrical microstimulation has revealed about the neural basis of cognition. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 14	Week 5:
April 28	DCR	The Goal of Perception (download slides as pdf or movie *) Churchland, P., Ramachandran, V.S., & Sejnowski, T.J (1994) A Critique of Pure Vision , In Large-Scale Neuronal Theories of the Brain, C. Koch &J. C. Davis, MIT Press. For the purposes of discussion, please read this paper AFTER the lecture: Simons & Levin (1997) Change Blindness, Trends in Cognitive Science
May 3	DCR	Active Vision and Artificial Life (download slides as pdf) Clark, A. (1999) An embodied Cognitive Science? Trends in Cognitive Science Brooks, R. (1991) Intelligence without representation, Research Report, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory	Week 6: Assignment 3 due May 5th, 10am
May 5	DJ	Language Processing (download slides as ppt, pdf, or 6up pdf) Warren, R.M. (1970). Restoration of missing speech sounds. Science, 167, 392--393 McGurk, H. and McDonald, J.  (1976). Hearing lips and seeing voices, Nature 264, 746-748 Tanenhaus, M.K., Spivey-Knowlton, M.J., Eberhard, K.M. & Sedivy, J.E. (l995). Integration of visual and linguistic information in spoken language comprehension. Science, 268, 1632-163
May 10	DJ	Metaphor Lakoff, George and Mark Johnson.  (1980).  Metaphors We Live By. University of Chicago Press. 3-45 Lakoff, George. (1987).  Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things. University of Chicago Press.  380-415.	Week 7:
May 12	DJ	Conversation (download slides as ppt, pdf, or 6up pdf) Grice, H. Paul.  (1975).  Logic and Conversation. In Peter Cole and Jerry L. Morgan (eds.)  Syntax and Semantics Volume 3: Speech Acts. Academic Press.  41-58 Clark H. (1994). Discourse in Production. In Gernsbacher, M. A. (Eds.) Handbook of Psycholinguistics, Academic Press, 985-1021.
May 17	DJ	Reasoning and Decision Making (download slides as ppt, pdf, or 6up pdf) Tversky, A. & Kahneman, D. (1974), "Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases," Science, 185:1124-1131 Gigerenzer, G., Czerlinski, J., & Martignon, L. (2002), "How Good Are Fast and Frugal Heuristics?" In Gilovich, T., Griffin, D., & Kahneman, D. (Eds.) Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment, Cambridge University Press, pp. 559-581	Week 8: Assignment 4 due May 19, 10am
May 19	Natasha Kirkham	Cognitive Development (download slides as pdf)
May 24	DJ	Machine Learning and Neural Networks (download slides as ppt, pdf, or 6up pdf) Elman, J. L., Bates, E. A., Johnson, M. H., Karmiloff-Smith, A., Parisi, D. & Plunkett, K. (1996), " Rethinking innateness: A connectionist perspective on development.," MIT Press, Chapter 2 (except pps. 74-83 optional)	Week 9:
May 26	DJ	Nativism vs. Empiricism and Language Learning (download slides as ppt, pdf, or 6up pdf) Landauer, T. K., & Dumais, S. T. (1997). A solution to Plato's problem: The Latent Semantic Analysis theory of the acquisition, induction, and representation of knowledge. Psychological Review, 104, 211-240. Plato. Meno.
May 31	DCR	The Evolution of the Mind (download slides as pdf or movie *)	Week 10: Assignment 5: the exercises in this chapter due May 31st, 10am
June 3rd, 3:30pm		FINAL Download a review sheet that lists the topics that will be covered in the exam Download some sample questions The final will consist of 16 multiple choice questions and four short essay questions (from a choice of six).

* the lectures are available as interactive quicktime movies with audio and video. Click on the movie or use the cursor keys to advance through the slides.