Cognition and Computation

3 Units

An introduction to (1) theories of the relationship between cognition and computation; (2) computational models of human cognition (e.g. models of decision-making or concept creation); and (3) computational tools for the study of human cognition. All three dimensions involve AI and data science: theories compare natural and artificial intelligence and are tested against archives of data from brain imagining to linguistic corpora; models are derived from and tested against datasets of e.g., financial decisions (markets), legal rulings and findings (juries, judges, courts), legislative actions, and healthcare decisions, and moreover are often constructed via AI; computational tools aggregate data and operate upon it analytically, for search, recognition, tagging, machine learning, statistical description, and hypothesis testing, employing the full range of computational powers. Offered as COGS 330 , COGS 430 , DSCI 330 and DSCI 430 .