Cognitive Science Courses

• COGSCIC1 (Fall '01) - Introduction to Cognitive Science
  University of California, Berkeley
  This course introduces the interdisciplinary field of cognitive science. Lectures and readings will survey research from artificial intelligence, psychology, linguistics, philosophy, and neuroscience, and will cover topics such as the nature of knowledge, thinking, remembering, vision, imagery, language, and consciousness. Sections will demonstrate some of the major methodologies. Also listed as Education C1.
  
  Weekly Questions (10/22/01)
  Summary of Hemispheric specialization for English and ASL (11/12/01)
  Weekly Questions (11/19/01)
  Weekly Questions (11/26/01)
  Can our culture affect our linguistics? (12/03/01)
  
  
• COGSCIC100 (Summer '02) - Basic Issues in Cognition
  University of California, Berkeley - Benjamin Bergen
  Theoretical foundations and current controversies in cognitive science will be discussed. Basic issues in cognition--including perception, imagery, memory, categorization, thinking, judgment, and development--will be considered from the perspectives of philosophy, psychology, computer science, and physiology. Particular emphasis will be placed on the nature, implications, and limitations of the computational model of mind. Also listed as Psychology C120.
  
  
• COGSCIC127 (Fall '02) - Cognitive Neuroscience
  University of California, Berkeley
  This course will examine research investigating the neurological basis of cognition. Material covered will include the study of brain-injured patients, neurophysiological research in animals, and the study of normal cognitive processes in humans with non-invasive behavioral and physiological techniques such as functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), electroencephalography (EEG), and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). Topics to be covered include perception, attention, memory, language, motor control, executive control, and emotion. Also listed as Psychology C127.
  
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• COGSCIC126 (Fall '02) - Perception
  University of California, Berkeley
  An introduction to principal theoretical constructs and experimental procedures in visual and auditory perception. Topics will include psychophysics; perception of color, space, shape, and motion; pattern recognition and perceptual attention. Also listed as Psychology C126.
  
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• PHIL100 AB (Summer '99) - Introduction to Philosophy
  College of San Mateo
  An introductory survey of philosophical questions and points of view from classical and contemporary perspectives.
  
  Hedonism
  
  
• PHIL135 (Fall '01) - Theory of Meaning
  University of California, Berkeley
  Language as social behavior. Language compared to other sign systems. The foundations of semantics, truth, meaning, reference. Issues of logical form in belief sentences, indirect discourse, sentences about causality, events, actions. Relations between thought and language.
  
  Frege And The Two Different Same Stars (10/09/01)
  Rigid Designator (11/15/01)
  Final (12/18/01)
  
  
• MCB61 (Spring '02) - Brain, Mind, and Behavior
  University of California, Berkeley - David E. Presti
  Introduction to human brain mechanisms of sensation, movement, perception, thinking, learning, memory, and emotion in terms of anatomy, physiology, and chemistry of the nervous system in health and disease. Intended for students in the humanities and social sciences and others not majoring in the biological sciences.
  
  
• LING100 (Spring '02) - Introduction to Linguistic Science
  University of California, Berkeley
  An intensive introduction of linguistic analysis, including core areas such as phonetics and phonology, morphology, and syntax and semantics, with data from a range of languages. Argumentation and writing skills are developed through substantial weekly homework assignments.
  
  
• LINGC105 (Fall '02) - The Mind and Language
  University of California, Berkeley - Eve Sweetser
  Conceptual systems and language from the perspective of cognitive science. How language gives insight into conceptual structure, reasoning, category-formation, metaphorical understanding, and the framing of experience. Cognitive versus formal linguistics. Implications from and for philosophy, anthropology, literature, artificial intelligence, and politics. Also listed as Cognitive Science C101.
  
  Required texts:
  Women, Fire and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About The Mind
  
  Schedule
  Women, Fire and Dangerous Things: Objectionist View
  Women, Fire and Dangerous Things: Experiential View
  Women, Fire and Dangerous Things: Comparing Experiential Realism to Objectivism, Objectivist Roles Accorded to Body
  Women, Fire and Dangerous Things: Themes Explored in the Book
  Women, Fire and Dangerous Things: Idea of a Cognitive Model
  Women, Fire and Dangerous Things: Scholars and Themes Discussed