CGSC 4900

Special Topics in Cognitive Science

0.5 credit · Undergraduate

The topic of this course will vary from year to year. Students may register in more than one section of CGSC 4900 but may register in each section only once.

2023

Topics

Systematicity Critique Fodor & Pylyshyn (1988) Connectionism and cognitive arch
Linear Algebra Garrity (2001) All the Math You Missed, ch. 1
Holographic Vectors Plate (1995) Holographic reduced representations
Vector Symbols Gayler (2003) Vector symbolic architectures...
Semantic Pointers Eliasmith (2015) How to build a brain, ch. 4
Working Memory Franklin & Mewhort (2015) Memory as a hologram
Episodic Memory Jamieson & Hauri (2012) An exemplar model...
Semantic Memory Jones & Mewhort (2007) Representing word meaning...
Catastropic Mannering & Jones (2021) Catastrophic Interference in
Colloquium Talk &
Abstract Associations Kelly et al. (2020) Indirect associations...
Quantum Probability Busemeyer et al. (2011) A quantum theoretical...
Declarative Memory Kelly et al. (2020) Holographic Declarative Memory
Transformers Vaswani et al. (2017) Attention is all you need
Last day for academic withdrawal
HRRformers Alam et al. (2023) Recasting Self-Attention with HRRs
Hopfield Networks Ramsauer et al. (2020) Hopfield networks is all you need
Predictive coding Friston (2010) The free energy principle
Architectures Ororbia & Kelly (2023) A neuro-mimetic realization...

Prerequisites & course information

Prerequisite(s): each section will have its own prerequisites and permission of the department if is required. Seminar three hours per week.

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