Please check webpage for the latest syllabus:
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~port/teach/500/syll.html
Office Hours;
Sean McLennan, T 11am-12:30pm, Sycamore 0012.
Robert Port, TR 11-12, Mem 330, 5-9217.
Course Requirements: (1) Read assigned readings before the lectures. (2) Write 5 essays, some in two drafts. (3) Read and comment on other students essays. (4) Midterm exam on readings, (5) Final exam, (6) Several lab assignments and homework projects.
Essay 1.Write essay, 1000-1500 words. First draft due next Wed evening by midnight.
Lab Wednesday, Sept 1 in Sycamore 0006 (sic, in the sub-basement)
Lecture Notes, Week 1.
Readings:
*Haugeland, John (1985) The saga of modern mind. In AI/VI, Chapter 1.
Haugeland, J. (1997) What is mind design? In Mind Design II (MD2).
Thagard, Paul (1997) Mind, Chap 1 `Representation and computation.'
Other Useful Readings:
Fodor, Jerrold (1981/1994) The mind-body problem. Scientific American. Reprinted in E. D. Klemke, A. David Kline, Robert Hollinger (eds.) Philosophy: Contemporary Perspectives on Perennial Issues (4th ed). St. Martin Press, New York, 1994.
Reed, Edward S. (1997) From Souls to Minds: The Emergence of Psychology from Erasmus Darwin to William James. Yale University Press.
Lab (Sept 8): Tutorial on Annotate software for sharing manuscripts.
Essay 1 - first draft due to be posted by midnight Wednesday. Commentaries due by Saturday midnight.
Lecture Notes, Week 2
Readings:
Chomsky, Noam (1968) `Linguistic contributions: Past' from Language and Mind: Enlarged Edition. Harcourt-Brace-Jovanovich, New York, 1968/1972. pp. 1-23.
Skinner, B. F. (1980) Cognitive science and behaviorism. British Journal of Psychology 76.
Other Useful Readings:
Boring, E. G. (1950) A History of Experimental Psychology, 2d Ed. Chapters 1-3, 9-10, 24.
Lab (Sept 15):Turing machines
Essay 1, final draft due, midnight Friday.
Comments on Ch'i and Dualism (RP and Peter Murray)
Lecture Notes, Week 3
Readings:
Turing, Alan (1950) Computing machinery and intelligence. In MD2-2.
Searle, John R. (1980) Minds, brains and programs. In MD2-7.
Other Useful Readings
Newell, Alan (1980) Physical symbol systems. Cognitive Science 4, 135-183.
Lab (Sept 22): Doing logic.
Essay 2, due Friday, Sept 24
Lecture Notes, Week 4 (preliminary draft)
Readings:
Alan Newell quote on symbol processing . (from Newell, A. (1980)`Physical Symbols Systems' Cognitive Science 4, 135-183. )
Thagard, Paul Mind : Ch 2 `Logic'
Newell, Alan and Herbert Simon (1976) Computer science as empirical inquiry.Communications of the Assoc. of Computing Machinery (ACM) 19, 113-126. Also MD2-4.
Other Useful Readings: Barwise, Jon and John Etchemendy (1989) Model-theoretic semantics. In M. Posner (ed) Foundations of Cognitive Science. Bradford/MIT Press. pp. 207-243.
Lab (Sept 29):.
Lecture Notes, Week 5.
Production System Example: camel identification
Readings:
Thagard, Paul. Mind. Ch 3 `Rules'
*Anderson, John R. `ACT-R and addition'
Lab (Oct 6): Prof. Jon Mills, Ballantine Hall 135, 7-8:30. `Analog computing'
Essay 3 assignment. Due Wed, October 13 midnight.
Lecture Notes, Week 6.
Readings:
Thagard, Paul Mind, Ch 4 `Concepts'.
Deacon, Terrence (1997) The Symbolic Species: The Coevolution of Language and the Brain. (Norton). Excerpts ``Symbolic reference and human evolution''
Notes on Human Signs and Symbols according to Deacon
Port, R. Essay on dualism. See the course Annotate webpage, Essay 1, Version 1.
Recommended: Rosch, Eleanor `Principles of categorization' in E. Rosch and B. B. Lloyd (eds) Cognition and Categorization (L. Erlbaum, 1978). Reprinted in A. Collins and E. Smith (eds) Readings in Cognitive Science: A Perspective from Psychology and Artificial Intelligence. (Morgan-Kaufmann, 1988). *
Lab (Oct 13):. Prof. Robert Goldstone, Ballantine Hall 135, 7-8:30. `Categories and concepts'
Readings:
Minsky, Marvin `A framework for representing knowledge' (MD2-5)
Dreyfus, Hubert `From microworlds to knowledge representation' (MD2-6)
Smith, Brian Cantwell (1998) `Situatedness/Embeddedness.' In MITECS (MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. A draft is available online or as hardcopy in packet (3 pages). *
Recommended: Smith. Brian Cantwell (1991) `On the threshold of belief: Or, the owl and the electric encyclopedia.' Mspt. Revised version appeared as `The owl and the electric encyclopedia', Artificial Intelligence 47 (1991), 251-288. *
Wk 8. Oct 19, 21. Ecological Psychology: J. J. Gibson
Lab (Oct 20): Midterm exam, written in class. Covers material thru Wk 7.
Lecture Notes: Week 8
Readings:
Gibson, J. J. (1979) The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception. (Houghton-Mifflin, Boston) pp. 1-32, 47-63.
Bruce, Vicky and Patrick Green (1990) Visual Perception: Physiology, Psycholgoy and Ecology, 2d Ed. (L. Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ), Chaps 10 and 11.
Wk 9. Oct 26, 28. Neuroscience.
Lab (Oct 27): Brainwave intro: IAC network. (Meet in Ball'n Hall 118).
Lecture Notes, Week 9
Essay 4, due Friday Nov 5.
Readings:
Kandell, E., J. Schwartz and T. Jessell (1991) Principles of Neuroscience, 3d Ed. Chapters 1, 2 (pp. 1-32).
Grossberg, Steven (1995) Neural dynamics of motion perception, recognition learning and spatial attention. In Mind as Motion, Ch 15.
Recommended: Rosenbaum, David (1987) `Neuroscience: Brain and cognition'. In Stillings, Neil et al. (1987) Cognitive Science: An Introduction. (MITP) Chapter 7, pp.265-301.
Changeux, Jean-Pierre (1985) Neuronal Man: The Biology of Mind. (Oxford UP). Thoughtful overview, but a mediocre translation from French.
Grossberg, Stephen (1995) The attentive brain. American Scientist 83, 438-449. Available in postscript from Grossberg's online papers list. For an FAQ on Adaptive Resonance Theory, you could check this page for references on ART, a glossary and pointers to ART simulators.
Wk 10. Nov 2, 4. Genetic Algorithms and Emergence.
Lab (Nov 3): Star Logo.
Lecture Notes
Readings:
Holland, John (1998) Emergence: From Chaos to Order. (Addison-Wesley). Chap 1, pp. 1-15. *
Holland, John H. (1995) Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity. (Perseus Books, Reading, Mass). Excerpt from Chap 2, pp. 41-80 on `adaptive agents'. *
Wk 11. Nov 9, 11. Connectionism.
Lab (Nov 10): Brainwave: backpropagation learning.
Lecture Notes, Week 11.
Readings:
Rumelhart, David (1989) The architecture of mind: A connectionist approach. In Michael Posner (ed.) Foundations of Cognitive Science. MIT P/Bradford, Cambridge Mass. Chapter 4, pp. 133-159. (MD2-8).
Port, Robert (1994) Tutorial sketch of the McClelland-Rumelhart model for word and letter recognition. (unpublished, 5 pages). *
Rumelhart, D. and Jay McClelland (1981) An interactive activation model of context effects in letter perception. Part 1. An account of basic findings. Psychological Review 88, 375-407. *
Lab (Nov 17): Brainwave: individual network project.
Lecture Notes, Week 12.
Essay 5, due Fri, Dec 3.
Readings:
Norton, Alec (1995) Dynamics: An introduction. In Mind as Motion, Ch 2.
van Gelder, Tim and R. Port (1995) `It's about time' In Mind as Motion. Ch 1, pp 1-43.
Other Useful Reading:
Abraham, Ralph and Christopher Shaw (1980) Dynamics: the Geometry of Behavior, Vol 1, (Aerial Press) pp. 1-50 (dynamical systems in general, simple and driven oscillators).
Lecture: Prof. Geoff Bingham, Psych `Gibson and Emprirical Research'
Lecture Notes (none)
Readings:
Thelen, Esther (1995) Time-scale dynamics and the development of an embodied cognition. In Port and van Gelder Mind as Motion, Ch 3.
Lakoff, George (1989) A figure of thought. Metaphor and Symbolic Activity 1. Reprinted in Honeck et al (eds) Introductory Readings in Cognitive Psychology, Dushkin Publishing Group, Guilford, CT, pp. 201-207.*
Recommended: Beer, Randall (1995) Computational and dynamical languages for autonomous agents. In Mind as Motion, Ch 5.
Wk 14. Nov 30, Dec 2. Speech Production and Temporal Pattern Perception
Lab (Dec 1): Web-research on newfangled cog sci.
Lecture Notes: Week 14
Readings:
Browman, Catherine & Louis Goldstein (1995) Dynamics and articulatory phonology. In Mind as Motion, Chap 7, pp 175-194.
Port, McAuley and Cummins (1995) Naive time, temporal patterns and human audition. In Mind as Motion, Ch 12.
Consciousness
Lab: Surprise project
Lecture Notes: Week 15.
Read both for Tues (review on Thursday):
Chalmers, David (1996) Facing up to the problem of consciousness. Available on Chalmer's web page. To appear in S. Hameroff, Kazniak and Scott (eds) Toward a Science of Consciousness. (MITP). Also available at this location as Journal of Consciousness Studies 2, 1995, pp. 200-219.
Dennett, Dan (1978) Where am I? In Douglas Hofstadter and Dan Dennett (eds) The Mind's Eye: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul. (Basic Books, New York, 1981). Excerpt from Brainstorms (1978) by Dan Dennett. *
Final Exam. Scheduled for Thurs, December 16, 10:15am. Final exam questions are here. The exam will be a subset of this list. The exam will be written using Annotate in Sycamore 0006. You will have two hours.