COGS538 CONSCIOUSNESS AND COGNITION
| Course Code: |
9020538 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): |
3(0-0) |
| ECTS Credit: |
8.0 |
| Department: |
Cognitive Sciences |
| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Study: |
Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: |
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| Offered Semester: |
Fall Semesters. |
| Prerequisite: |
Set 1: 9020503
Set 2: 9020504 |
| One of the sets above should be completed before taking
COGS538 CONSCIOUSNESS AND COGNITION . |
Course Content
Conceptual clarification (consciousness-awareness-attention-control), kinds of consciousness (access, phenomenological, monitoring, self), the hard problem of consciousness, philosophical approaches to consciousness (analytic, (non-)reductionist, dualist/identity, functional, representational, phenomenological), consciousness in relation to the mind-body problem and to free will, empirical / experimental approaches to consciousness, time and consciousness, (un-)conscious perceptual processes, consciousness and goal-directed human action, neural correlates of consciousness (NCC), computational correlates models of consciousness (CCC/CMC), states of consciousness (blind-sight, binoucular rivalry, flash suppression, sleep etc.), (lucid) dreaming.
