PSYCH 3140 - Computational Psychology

(crosslisted)
(also COGST 3140, INFO 3140) (KCM-AS)

Spring. 4 credits.

Prerequisite: one course each in psychology and statistics, or permission of instructor. Co-meets with COGST 6140/INFO 6140/PSYCH 6140. Limited to 100 students.

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.