Description: A team-taught course highlighting development of the field and the broad range of topics covered in the major. Example topics include addiction, analogy, animal cognition, human-computer interaction, language, neuroimaging, neural networks, reasoning, robots, and real-world applications.

Description: The role of cognition and computation in the development of state-of-the art technologies such as human computational interaction in aviation, air traffic control, medical diagnosis, robotics and telerobotics, and the design and engineering of cognitive artifacts.

Description: The department faculty and the Students for Cognitive and Neurosciences (SCANS) offer this seminar exploring issues in cognitive science. It includes informal faculty research presentations, investigations of topics not covered in the curriculum, and discussions on graduate school and careers. (May be repeated when topics vary.)

Description: This course examines memory, reasoning, language understanding, learning, and planning directly in everyday, real-world settings. The course work will include discussions of both the findings and the methodology of naturalistic studies of cognition. Prerequisite: Cognitive Science 102A.

Description: Exposure to the basic computational methods useful throughout cognitive science. Computing basic statistics, modeling learning individuals, evolving populations, communicating agents, and corpus-based lingusitics will be considered. Prerequisite: Cognitive Science 18 or equivalent programming course or consent of instructor.

Description: This course covers fundamentals of user interface design and implementation of Web-based systems. A major component is completion of a substantial programming project in which students work together in small teams. Three hours of lecture and one hour of laboratory. Prerequisites: Cognitive Science 120, Cognitive Science 18 or Cognitive Science 3 or Computer Science and Engineering 5A or Computer Science and Engineering 8A or Computer Science and Engineering 8B or Computer Science and Engineering 11 or Computer Science and Engineering 12 or Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 9, or consent of instructor.

Description: Special topics in cognitive science are discussed. (May be repeated when topics vary.) Prerequisite: department approval.

Description: How can we do ethnography in artistic environments? Dance rehearsals are fuzzy and apparently messy social settings. Given the complexity of social interaction, a structured methodology makes a difference in getting valid results. This course is a practicum in ethnography for developing a methodology for dance cognition & creativity. At a theoretical level, we will be covering modern topics in Cognitive Science, such as body skill, physical thinking and multimodal instruction. At a practical level, students will go through the methodological steps of a real ethnography of dance. We will provide access to the ICL unique video archive we collected in the making of Dyad1909 (2009) and FAR (2010), which premièred in London, at the Sadlers Wells Theater. We will dwell on the specific do’s and dont’s of using the digital camera for data gathering, and the implications of using visual analysis software. In all, this class is a hands-on experience for students who are interested in qualitative research of professional teams. We provide the students with skills for observation, interviewing, transcription, and coding in an artistic field.

Description: A review of the patterns of impaired and intact cognitive abilities present in brain-damaged patients in terms of damage to one or more components of a model of normal cognitive functioning. (Cognitive science majors may not receive elective credit for both Psychology 139 and Cognitive Science 172.) Prerequisite: Cognitive Science 107A.

Description: Examines the cognitive basis of successful Web and multimedia design. Topics: information architecture, navigation, usability, graphic layout, transaction design, and how to understand user interaction. Prerequisites: Cognitive Science 3 or Cognitive Science 25; open to cognitive science majors with upper-division standing only.