Cognitive Representations 174311 (6 ECTS/3 cu) Spring 2006

The course consists of two parts:

1. Literature Exam by Distance (2 ECTS) - beginning on January 12 and ending on February 20. Results by February 27.

2. Group Work (1-4 ECTS) from February 27 to June 2 - only for those who passed the Literature Exam.

News

Introductory lecture: Thursday, January 12, time 14-16, room D106B

Key words

• Brain-based devices
• Neural Darwinism
• the Sapir-Whorfh hypothesis
• Paivio's Dual Coding Hypothesis
• the existence of linguistic and conceptual universals
• mental images
• apperception
• conceptual modelling

The Goal

• to learn how to examine cognitive representations

Schedule

• See http://cs.joensuu.fi/~marjomaa/cr/LD.htm

Literature

Primary Source: Esko's Learning Diary: http://cs.joensuu.fi/~marjomaa/cr/LD.htm

Additional information

Gaetano La Russa, gaetano.larussa@cs.joensuu.fi

Last updated: 12 Jan 2006