＊本課程為哲學所、語言所、師培中心及心理所老師共同開授之跨領域認知科學課程，全程使用英語授課，歡迎選修；
認 知 科 學 導 論
Introduction to Cognitive Science
Fall, 2007
Credit hours: 3 Course code: 1255202 (哲學研究所)
Class hours: 星期三（Wednesdays）10:10 am – 1:00 pm
Classroom: 文學院 412
Goals: To introduce graduate students to the fundamental issues of cognitive science.
Description: This course is designed for junior graduate students who are interested in gaining general knowledge in cognitive science and to understand why it is so important that cognitive science as a discipline to study the mind requires an interdisciplinary approach. No special background is required, but students from philosophy, linguistics, and psychology departments are especially welcome.
Main features: It will be an all-English taught course.
The course will be taught by faculty members from philosophy, linguistics, teacher’s education center, and psychology.
Instructors: 王一奇 (Philosophy) ( kikiwang@phil.ccu.edu.tw ) (x31404)
麥 傑 (James Myers) (Linguistics) ( lngmyers@ccu.edu.tw ) (x31506)
曾玉村 (Center for Teacher’s Education) ( ttcytt@ccu.edu.tw ) (x36403)
襲充文 (Psychology) ( psycws@ccu.edu.tw ) (x32203)
Reading materials:
General background reading
Stillings, N. A., et al. (1995). Cognitive science: An introduction. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Philosophy of Mind
Clark, A. (2001). Mindware: An introduction to the philosophy of cognitie science. NY: Oxford University Press.
Language and Language Processing
Pinker, S. (1995). Language acquisition. In L. R. Gleitman & M. Liberman (Eds.) An invitation to cognitive science, vol. 1: Language (second edition) (pp. 135-182). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Jackendoff, R. (2002). Chapter 9 (Semantics as a mentalistic enterprise) and chapter 10 (Reference and truth). In Foundations of language: Brain, meaning, grammar, evolution (pp. 267-332). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Vision and Neuroscience
Marr. D (1982). Vision: A computational investigation into the human representation and processing of visual information. San Francisco, CA: Freeman.
Farah, M. (2000). Cognitive neuroscience of vision. UK: Blackwell.
Rosenzweig, M. R., Breedlove, S. M., & Leiman, A. L. (2002). Biological psychology (Chapter 10 Vision: From eye to brain). Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates.
AI, Connectionist Modeling, and Discourse Processing
Graesser, A. C., Olde, Brent, & Klettke, B. (2002). How does mind construct and represent stories? In M. C. Green, Strange, J. J., & Brock, T. C. (Eds.). Narrative Impact: Social and cognitive foundations (pp.229-262). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
McLeod , P., Plunkett , K., & Rolls , E. T. (1998). Introduction to connectionist modelling of cognitive processes. Oxford University Press.
Zwaan, R. A. & Singer, M. (2003).Text comprehension. In Graesser, A. C., Gernbacher, M. A., & Goldman, S. R. (Eds.). Handbook of discourse processes (pp. 83-121). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Other reading materials will also be supplied and assigned by instructors of each part.
Grading Policy
There will four parts in this course, and hence each part will account for 25% toward your final grade of the course.
Course Schedule
課 ‧ 程 ‧介 ‧紹
|
Date |
Instructor(s) |
Topics and Readings |
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9.19 |
王一奇 麥 傑 曾玉村 襲充文 |
Course orientation: “What is cognitive science?” (Stillings et al. ch. 1) |
|
9.26 |
王一奇 |
(I) Dualism, Behaviorism, Identity Theory, Functionalism, and Eliminativism. (Clark, Appendix I) |
|
10.03 |
王一奇 |
(I) The Theory of Computation: Turing Machine and Recursive Function Theory (Handout), (II) Mindware as Software (Clark, Chapter 1) |
|
10.10 |
National Holiday |
** NO CLASS ** |
|
10.17 |
王一奇 |
|
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10.24 |
王一奇 |
(I) Connectionism (Clark, Chapter 4) (II) Consciousness and the Meta-Hard Problem (Clark, Appendix II) **1st take-home exam** |
|
10.31 |
麥 傑 |
Introduction to Linguistics (Stillings et al. ch. 6) |
|
11.07 |
麥 傑 |
Language Acquisition (Pinker 1995) |
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11.14 |
麥 傑 |
Semantics (Jackendoff ch. 9) |
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11.21 |
麥 傑 |
Natural Language Processing (Stillings et al. ch. 11) **2nd take-home exam** |
|
11.28 |
襲充文 |
Brain and Cognition: Part I (Stillings et al. ch. 5; RBL, Chap 10) |
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12.05 |
襲充文 |
Brain and Cognition: Part II (Stillings et al. ch. 5; RBL, Chap 10) |
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12.12 |
襲充文 |
Cognitive Neuroscience of Vision: Part I (Stillings et al. ch. 12, Farah, 2000, Marr, 1982) |
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12.19 |
襲充文 |
Cognitive Neuroscience of Vision: Part II (Stillings et al. ch. 12, Farah, 2000; Marr, 1982) ** 3rd take-home exam** |
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12.26 |
曾玉村 |
Artificial Intelligence & mental representation (Stillings et al. ch. 4) |
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01.02 |
曾玉村 |
A Primer on Connectionist Modeling ( McLeod et al. ch.2) |
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01.09 |
曾玉村 |
Text and Discourse Processing (I) (Zwaan & Singer, 2003) |
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01.15 |
曾玉村 |
Text and Discourse Processing (II) (Graesser, Olde, Klettke, 2002) ** 4th take-home exam** |