More overview of Cognitive Science - Intro to Cognitive Science: Cognitive Modeling - Fall 2009

Contents

Overview of Today's Class [1/12]
Pretest [2/12]
Reflection on Readings [3/12]
Domains of Cognitive Science [4/12]
Methods of Cognitive Science [5/12]
What behaviors do CogSci researchers study? [6/12]
Language [7/12]
Reflection question [8/12]
Some language factoids [9/12]
Exercise [10/12]
Some interpretations [11/12]
Reading for next time [12/12]

Slides

Overview of Today's Class [1/12, 2009/09/15]

Pretest [2/12, 2009/09/15]

Questions:

Applying Cognitive Science to the question:

Reflection on Readings [3/12, 2009/09/15]

What were the main points?

Domains of Cognitive Science [4/12, 2009/09/15]

What are they?

Methods of Cognitive Science [5/12, 2009/09/15]

What are they?

What behaviors do CogSci researchers study? [6/12, 2009/09/15]

Language [7/12, 2009/09/15]

Reflection question [8/12, 2009/09/15]

Procedure:

  1. Think for a minute about the question below.
  2. Write for a minute your answer.
  3. Then we'll share.

Question:

Some language factoids [9/12, 2009/09/15]

Language is:

Exercise [10/12, 2009/09/15]

In pairs, come up with as many different interpretations as you can of the following sentence:

Some interpretations [11/12, 2009/09/15]

(Courtesy of wikipedia)

Reading for next time [12/12, 2009/09/15]

Steven Pinker (Harvard) on Language Acquisition

"Pretraining"