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"Week | Reading | Monday | Wednesday | Assignments |
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"Jan 6, 8 | Chpt 1 | Introduction | Neurons | |
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"Jan 13, 15 | Chpt 2,4 | Neural Coding | #1 posted |
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"Jan 20, 22 | Chpt 4 | Neural Models | |
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"Jan 27, 29 | Chpt 5,6 | Feedforward Transformations | #1 due (29th at dawn); #2 posted |
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"Feb 3, 5 | Chpt 6,3 | Nonlinear Transformations | |
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"Feb 10, 12 | Chpt 7 | Analysis of Representations | #2 due (14th at dawn) |
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"Feb 17, 19 | | *Reading Week* | #3 posted |
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"Feb 24, 26 | Chpt 8 | Dynamics and Neural Control | |
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"Mar 3, 5 | Chpt 8 | Dynamics and Neural Control | #3 due (5th at dawn) |
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"Mar 10, 12 | Chpt 9 | Inference and Learning | #4 posted |
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"Mar 17, 19 | | | #4 due (19th at dawn) |
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"Mar 24, 26 | | Project Presentations | |
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"Mar 31, Apr 2 | | Project Presentations | |
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"# My Background\n",
"\n",
"- Undergrad: Systems (Waterloo)\n",
" - option in Cognitive Science\n",
"- Masters of Philosophy in Computer Science and AI (Sussex)\n",
" - experimental psychology on robots\n",
"- PhD in Cognitive Science (Carleton)\n",
" - philosophy of computational modelling"
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"## Research Theme\n",
"\n",
"- How does the mind work?\n",
"- Most complex and most interesting system humanity has ever studied\n",
" - Why study anything else?\n",
"- How should we go about studying it?\n",
" - What techniques/tools?\n",
" - How do we know if we're making progress?\n",
" - How do we deal with the complexity?"
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"## Standard Approach\n",
"\n",
"- Psychology