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Computational Foundations of Cognitive Science 1

Lectures

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No.	Week	Lecturer	Topic	Reading
1	1	Osborne	Introduction [1up] [4up]	-
2	1	Osborne	Vectors, vector operations [1up] [4up]	Anton ch. 1.1
3	1	Osborne	Distances, norm, dot product [1up] [4up]	Anton ch. 1.2
4	2	Osborne	Matlab overview [1up] [4up]	McMahon ch. 1
5	2	Osborne	Matlab programming [1up] [4up]	McMahon ch. 4
6	2	Osborne	Matlab vectors [1up] [4up]	McMahon ch. 2
7	3	Keller	Models of learning [1up] [4up]	-
8	3	Keller	Models of semantic processing [1up] [4up]	-
9	3	Keller	Basic operations on matrices; matrix product [1up] [4up]	Anton ch. 3.1
10	4	Keller	Algebraic properties of matrices; transpose; inner and outer product [1up] [4up]	Anton ch. 3.2
11	4	Keller	Matlab matrices [1up] [4up]	McMahon ch. 2
12	4	Keller	Inverses; matrices with special forms [1up] [4up]	Anton ch. 3.2, 3.6
13	5	Keller	Determinants and eigenvectors [1up] [4up]	Anton ch. 4.1, 4.4
14	5	Keller	Matlab inverses, eigenvectors, plotting and graphics [1up] [4up]	McMahon ch. 3
15	5	Keller	Convolutions and kernels [1up] [4up]	-
16	6	Keller	Models of object recognition [1up] [4up]	-
17	6	Keller	Introduction to probability theory, combinatorial methods [1up] [4up]	Freund ch. 1.1-1.3
18	6	Keller	Sample spaces, events, probabilities [1up] [4up]	Freund ch. 2.1-2.4
19	7	Keller	Conditional probability, Bayes' theorem; models of reasoning [1up] [4up]	Freund ch. 2.5-2.8
20	7	Keller	Discrete and continuous random variables; distributions and densities [1up] [4up]	Freund ch. 3.1-3.4
21	7	Osborne	Special 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	8	Keller	Models of eyetracking data [1up] [4up]	-
23	8	Feng	To be confirmed.	-
--	8	-	No lecture	-
24	9	Osborne	Joint, marginal, and conditional distributions [1up] [4up]	Freund ch. 3.5-3.7
25	9	Osborne	Probabilistic language models [1up] [4up]	-
26	9	Osborne	Entropy, Kullback-Leibler divergence [1up] [4up]	Cover ch. 2.1-2.4
27	10	Osborne	Codes [1up] [4up]	Cover ch. 5.1-5.4
28	10	Osborne	Minimum description length [1up] [4up]	Cover ch. 7.1-7.4