COGS555 CONNECTION.AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR
| Course Code: |
9020555 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): |
3(3-0) |
| ECTS Credit: |
8.0 |
| Department: |
Cognitive Sciences |
| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Study: |
Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: |
Assoc.Prof.Dr. MURAT PERÝT ÇAKIR |
| Offered Semester: |
Fall or Spring Semesters. |
Course Content
History and development of connectionism. The dispute between nativism and empiricism; symbols and rules vs. patterns and associations; connectionism and the cognitive sciences; connectionism and dynamical systems; perspectives and limitations of connectionism. Basic concepts of connectionist networks. Learning to work and doing exercises with a simple connectionist network (“T-learn”). Applications of connectionist modelling: human cognitive development, language acquisition (the English past tense debate), language production and processing, person perception, human consciousness, music.
