PSYCH 6140 - Computational Psychology

(crosslisted) COGST 6140, INFO 6140

Spring. 4 credits.

Co-meets with COGST 3140/INFO 3140/PSYCH 3140.

S. Edelman.

This course states and motivates the observation that cognition is fundamentally a computational process and explores the implications of this idea. Students are introduced to a variety of conceptual tools for thinking about cognitive information processing, including statistical learning from experience and the use of patterns distilled from past experience in guiding future actions. They learn to apply these tools to gain understanding of perception, memory, motor control, language, action planning, problem solving, decision making, reasoning, intelligence, and creativity.