PSYE503 Models and Simulations in Contemporary Cognitive Psychology
Annotation:
• Give knowledge about the contemporary approaches in modeling in cognitive psychology
• Acquaint the students with the potential of modeling and simulation in planning experiments in cognitive psychology
• Acquaint the students with the newest models in cognitive psychology and their usage in the understanding of empirical results
Lecturers:
Prof. Maurice Grinberg, PhD
Course Description:
Competencies:
Competences
At the end of the course, students are expected to:
1) know:
• the basics of modelling in psychology
• modeling approaches and simulation envirnoments
• examples of application of models to empirical results
2) be able:
• to understand modeling and description of empirical data
• to analyze simple experiments based on various modelling approaches
• to run simple simulation and understand their results
• to design an experiment based on model expectations
Prerequisites:
Types:
Full-time Programmes
Types of Courses:
Lecture
Language of teaching:
English
Topics:
Bibliography:
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Eliasmith, C. & Anderson, C.H. (2002). Neural Engineering:Computation, Representation, and Dynamics in Neurobilogical Systems, TLFeBook (и материали от сайта http://nengo.ca/)
The Emergent simulation environment. http://grey.colorado.edu/emergent/index.php/Main_Page
John F. Sowa: Knowledge Representation: Logical, Philosophical, and Computational Foundations. Brooks/Cole: New York, 2000
Langley, P., Laird, J. E., & Rogers, S. (2006). Cognitive architectures: Research issues and challenges
McLeod, P., Plunkett, K., and Rolls, E.T. (1998), "Introduction to Connectionist Modelling of Cognitive Processes", Oxford Press
Michael S. C. Thomas, M.S.C., McClelland, J.L., Richardson, F.M., Shapiro, A.C., & Baughman, F. (2009). Dynamical and Connectionist Approaches to Development: Toward a Future of Mutually Beneficial Co-evolution. In Spencer, J. (Ed.) Toward a Unified Theory of Development: Connectionism and Dynamic System Theory Re-Considered. Oxford Press.
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O'Reilly, R. C., Munakata, Y., Frank, M. J., Hazy, T. E., and Contributors (2012). Computational Cognitive Neuroscience. Wiki Book, 1st Edition. URL: http:/ / ccnbook. colorado. edu
Plunkett, K., and Elman, J.L. (1998), "Exercises in Rethinking Innateness: A Handbook for Connectionist Simulations", MIT (в наличност в библиотеката на НБУ)
Polk, A.T. & Seifert, C.M. (Eds.) (2002). Cognitive modelling. MIT Press.
Port, R. F. and van Gelder, T. (1995), "It's About Time: An Overview of the Dynamical Approach to Cognition", ch. 1 in "Mind as Motion: Exploration in the Dynamics of Cognition", eds. Port, R. F. and van Gelder, T. (1995)
Rogers, T. T. and McClelland, J. L. (2004). Semantic Cognition: A Parallel Distributed Processing Approach. Cambridge