Course Listing: SEMINAR IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE
Spring 2021, Bloomington
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COGS-Q 700 SEMINAR IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE (3 CR)
33668 09:15A-10:30A TR WB WEB Beer R 15 3 0
EVOLUTION AND ANALYSIS OF BRAIN-BODY-ENVIRONMENT SYSTEMS
Notions of embodiment, situatedness and dynamics are becoming
increasingly important in cognitive science, converging on a
view in which an agent's behavior and cognition are seen not
merely as products of its brain alone, but rather as arising
from the interaction between the agent's nervous system, body
and environment. In order to evaluate the significance of
these ideas, this course will examine the construction and
analysis of models of complete brain-body-environment
systems, with a particular emphasis on the use of tools from
complex systems (including evolutionary algorithms, dynamical
systems theory and information theory) to study how such
coupled systems work. Behaviors to be examined range from
basic motor behavior and sensorimotor learning to categorical
perception, selective attention, agency detection and
communication. We will also examine some of the broader
implications of the brain-body-environment perspective for
thinking about brain and behavior.
Above class meets 100% Online through Synchronous
instruction. For more information visit
https://covid.iu.edu/learning-modes/index.html
VT: AMBIGRMS & MECHNSM OF CREATVTY
36582 04:30P-05:45P TR WB WEB Hofstadter D 12 2 0
Ambigrams and the Mechanisms of Creativity
Above class meets 100% Online through Synchronous
instruction. For more information visit
https://covid.iu.edu/learning-modes/index.html
Above class meets with COGS-Q 499, SOAD-U 401 and SOAD-U 501
