Course Details
Subject {L-T-P / C} : HS1326 : Cognitive Science { 3-0-0 / 3}
Subject Nature : Theory
Coordinator : Prof. Ramakrishna Biswal
Syllabus
Module 1. Overview of Cognitive Science: Introduction to Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Language and Thought, Learning and Memory, Theory of Mind, Mind and Culture.
Module 2. Mind-Body Problem and Behaviorism: Psychology before the Cognitive Revolution. Interdisciplinary Approach.
Module 3. Linguistics: Syntax and the generativity of Language.
Module 4. Information Processing, Classical View of Information Processing,
Module 5. Neuroscience: Brain Anatomy, Brain Imaging with special reference to functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), Neuron Doctrine, Neurophysiology, Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, Cajal’s Synaptic Plasticity Hypothesis.
Module 6.Working Memory and Executive Control: Prefrontal Cortex, Limited Capacity, Serial Position Curve, Double Dissociations, Modal Model, Baddeley’s Working Memory Model, Central Executive, Stroop Effect, Wisconsin Card-sorting Task.
Course Objectives
- The basic objective of the course is to provide comprehensive introduction to the functioning of human brain.
- To learn fundamentals of Brain-Computer interaction.
- To learn and imply basic theory of cognitive science to real life problem solving using brain-computer interface.
Course Outcomes
As Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary field of study students would be able to know how humans and other animals come to understand and know the properties of their external environment and process them to behave in a particular way. Cognitive science includes but not limited to philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence, and linguistics. Students would also learn how brain is not only a stimulus driven bio-machine but also an anticipator and modulator of behavior of the living beings.
Essential Reading
- Baars, B.J. & Gage, N.M., Cognition, Brain, and Consciousness: Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience (2nd Ed.)., New York: Academic Press, , Baars, B.J. & Gage, N.M. (2010). Cognition, Brain, and Consciousness: Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience (2nd Ed.). New York: Academic Press, ISBN 978-0-12-375070-9.
- Kolb, B. &Whishaw, I., An Introduction to Brain and Behavior (2nd Ed.)., New York: Worth Publishers. , Kolb, B. &Whishaw, I. (2006). An Introduction to Brain and Behavior (2nd Ed.). New York: Worth Publishers. ISBN 0-7167-1187-7.
Supplementary Reading
- Kolb, B. &Whishaw, I., Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology, New York: Worth Publishers
- Anderson, J.R., How can the human mind occur in the physical universe?, New York Oxford University Press