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---+ Logistics

   * Tu/Th 1400 (Lecture Theatre 2, Appleton Tower) F 1500 (Room 2.12, Appleton Tower) 
      * 30 lectures
      * First lecture 21 September
      * Last lecture 2 December
   * 9 Tutorials
   * 9 Lab
---+ The official story

The official course descriptor is at<br /><br /> https://www.star.euclid.ed.ac.uk/ipp/cxinfr08020.htm<br /> <br />We need to build a course website, to go at <br /><br /> http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/inf1-cg/<br /><br />The document which Teaching Committee approved is<br /><br /> http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/admin/committees/bos/meetings/11-12-09/cogsci1.pdf
---+ Open questions
---++ Teaching Assistant

Sorted!
---++ Guest Lecture(rs)
   * Lucky to get
   * 1 person for a run of 3, maybe (from PPLS)
   * Mark Steedman (actions / verbs / affordance)
   * Simon Kirby
---++ Assessed coursework topics x 3
   * essay vs. practical 
      * Collaboration?
      * Mixture in each assignment?
   * topics
---++ Exam Planning
   * content
   * format
   * dummy example
---++ Labs
   * topics 
      * One (?) continuing topic -- design, execute, assess, model a phenom. 
         * Perception? (BW)
         * Collective intelligence
         * Pictionary game (Jon O -- please send me pointers!!!!) 
            * Bilateral development of pictures, then into a group
         * Segmentation (Saffran et al.)
         * Use some of the lectures for this too?
   * software

See SyllabusPlanning for topics, lecturer and timetable details
---++ Topics
   1 Language -- U-shaped curve -- learning-- synthetic perception D' vs beta -- see LanguageTopic
   1 Memory and attention-- vision--see MemoryTopic 
      1 synthesised line boundaries -- Dennett at TED, maybe
      1 Google's PageRank algorithm as a model of human memory
   1 %NAVY%Intro to the brain/ relevant neurology stuff%ENDCOLOR% [added by Alyssa] 
      1 What are neurons and how do they "work" (trasmit information)
      1 Major brain structures, mostly those relating to our themes (language areas, prefrontal cortex, hippocampus-memory, amygdala if we do emotion, visual cortex)
      1 How this biological stuff relates to models of the brain and neural processes, and how it inspires connectionist models of language learning, memory, etc.
   1 %NAVY%Levels of analysis in cognition %ENDCOLOR% 
      1 Three levels of analysis/ problem decomposition as described in David Marr's 'Vision." Implementation vs algorithmic level vs conceptual level of a problem. ** This might be a good thing to work through in a tutorial. The original section in Vision is only a few pages long, and very readable. It's a good piece to assign, and there are multiple copies of this book in the library.
      1 Type 1 vs Type 2 problems-- David Marr again, from his 1977 paper "Artificial Intelligence--A Personal View." Also very readbale.
---+++ Lecture breakdown
 <blockquote>

Intro: 1 or 2

Turing/Philosophy of Mind: 2

Review: 1

Theme x 2: 13
<blockquote>

See LanguageTopic and MemoryTopic
</blockquote></blockquote>

---++ Text(s) (maybe)

Need to explore http://www.oup.com/uk/booksites/psychology -- goes with _Cognitive Psychology_ text from OU, also _Methods Companion_: "Electronic versions of figures, experiment and data files, and software for running cognitive models" -- Library has a copy, costs 28GBP from Blackwells online

Alternative is Quinlan and Dyson -- Alyssa to review vision chapter: http://books.google.com/books?id=SgeUWo4sUhAC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&q&f=false Alyssa -- price is high: 34GBP from Blackwells Online

It would be best to get a parallel to the Pinker, if we could. . .Mark Steedman suggests Frisby, new edition http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/products/john+p-+frisby/james+v-+stone/seeing/7247032/, library has only old (1979 !) edition, Richard Shilcock suggests [[http://catalogue.lib.ed.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=10&ti=1,10&SC=Redirect|N&SA=Baddeley, Alan D., 1934-&PID=UPhimJ2z49PtUaGigHfOe-Fzb5CU&SEQ=20100902121459&SID=2][Memory / Alan Baddeley, Michael W. Eysenck, and Michael C. Anderson]] -- 7 copies in libraries -- worth looking at? Baddeley's earlier work on memory, with a similar !ToC, is available online, in a somewhat degraded (no illustrations) version: http://ezproxy.lib.ed.ac.uk/login?url=http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=10203
---++ First lecture
   1 McGurk, Gorilla, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjbWr3ODbAo starting at 14:40
   1 Real brains -- NMR film? 
      1 Search -- chess, humans vs. machines
      1 Garden paths
   1 What is cogsci?

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