Computational Foundations of Cognitive Science 1

Lectures

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No.WeekLecturerTopicReading
1 1OsborneIntroduction [1up] [4up]-
2 1OsborneVectors, vector operations [1up] [4up]Anton ch. 1.1
3 1OsborneDistances, norm, dot product [1up] [4up]Anton ch. 1.2
4 2OsborneMatlab overview [1up] [4up]McMahon ch. 1
5 2OsborneMatlab programming [1up] [4up]McMahon ch. 4
6 2OsborneMatlab vectors [1up] [4up]McMahon ch. 2
7 3Keller Models of learning [1up] [4up]-
8 3Keller Models of semantic processing [1up] [4up]-
9 3Keller Basic operations on matrices; matrix product [1up] [4up]Anton ch. 3.1
10 4Keller Algebraic properties of matrices; transpose; inner and outer product [1up] [4up]Anton ch. 3.2
11 4Keller Matlab matrices [1up] [4up]McMahon ch. 2
12 4Keller Inverses; matrices with special forms [1up] [4up]Anton ch. 3.2, 3.6
13 5Keller Determinants and eigenvectors [1up] [4up]Anton ch. 4.1, 4.4
14 5Keller Matlab inverses, eigenvectors, plotting and graphics [1up] [4up]McMahon ch. 3
15 5Keller Convolutions and kernels [1up] [4up]-
16 6Keller Models of object recognition [1up] [4up]-
17 6Keller Introduction to probability theory, combinatorial methods [1up] [4up]Freund ch. 1.1-1.3
18 6Keller Sample spaces, events, probabilities [1up] [4up]Freund ch. 2.1-2.4
19 7Keller Conditional probability, Bayes' theorem; models of reasoning [1up] [4up]Freund ch. 2.5-2.8
20 7Keller Discrete and continuous random variables; distributions and densities [1up] [4up]Freund ch. 3.1-3.4
21 7OsborneSpecial distributions and densities [1up] [4up]
Expecation and varance [1up] [4up]
Freund ch. 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.4, 6.1-6.3, 6.5
22 8Keller Models of eyetracking data [1up] [4up]-
23 8Feng To be confirmed.-
-- 8- No lecture-
24 9OsborneJoint, marginal, and conditional distributions [1up] [4up]Freund ch. 3.5-3.7
259OsborneProbabilistic language models [1up] [4up]-
269OsborneEntropy, Kullback-Leibler divergence [1up] [4up]Cover ch. 2.1-2.4
2710OsborneCodes [1up] [4up]Cover ch. 5.1-5.4
2810OsborneMinimum description length [1up] [4up]Cover ch. 7.1-7.4


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