Cognitive Systems I

The technical discussions ("Fachgespräche") as well as the oral exams ("Modulprüfungen") in Cognitive Systems I will be on Friday, 07 August 2009 (and on Friday, 25 September 2009, for repeaters). To take an oral exam or to participate in a technical discussion, please register by 25 July 2009 (or by 12 September 2009, for repeaters) by sending an email to cosy@informatik.uni-bremen.de. If you register for a technical discussion, the email should list the names of all participants of the group (one mail per group is sufficient). Please note that the successful participation in the tutorials is a precondition for registering for a technical discussion.

Tutorials (08 April; 29 April; 13 May; 27 May; 17 June; 01 July)

Tutorial 1 (T. Barkowsky): Wed 08:00-09:00
Tutorial 2 (T. Barkowsky): Wed 09:00-10:00
Tutorial 3 (J. F. Sima): Wed 10:00-11:00
Tutorial 4 (J. F. Sima): Wed 11:00-12:00

Assignments / Credits

To receive credit for this course you have to work on five written / programming exercises (see return dates below). Please send your solutions to cosy-exercises@informatik.uni-bremen.de with the subject of the mail starting with "CoSy 1 / Tutorial <n>" (numbers of tutorials see above). The mail should contain a written documentation as .pdf, .rtf, or .doc file as well as the source code of your implementation. This work is to be done in groups of 3-4 students. In the five exercises you have to reach an average grade of at least 60%. In the tutorial, each group has to present their solutions in an appropriate way (slide presentation, handout).

At the end of the semester we will have a technical discussion of 20-30 minutes with every group to check whether the marks achieved in each working group are homogeneously applicable to all candidates of the group and to decide on individual marks.

We much encourage collaboration and collaborative work will be especially required when completing your exercises. However, collaboration is to be sharply distinguished from cheating. No forms of cheating (including plagiarism) will be tolerated, so don't! If you do, rest assured that we will find out about it. Should you be caught cheating, this may result in your automatic failure in the course.

Return dates for the exercises:
No. 1: 26 April; No. 2: 10 May; No. 3: 24 May; No. 4: 14 June; No. 5: 28 June

Exercises

What makes a good solution? .pdf

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

Exercise 3

Exercise 4

Exercise 5

Slides

lecture 1: Introduction .pdf

lecture 2: Information Processing and Information Theory .pdf

lecture 3: Information Processing and Knowledge Representation .pdf

lecture 4: Cognitive Processes in Visual Perception .pdf

lecture 5: 3D Visual Perception .pdf

lecture 6: Color Perception .pdf

lecture 7: Human Memory .pdf

lecture 8: Problem Solving, Insight, Creativity, GPS .pdf

lecture 9: Mental Representations .pdf

lecture 10: Mental Imagery .pdf

lecture 11: Human Language Processing .pdf

lecture 12: Cognitive Maps and Spatial Orientation.pdf

Literature

Anderson, J. R. (2004). Cognitive psychology and its implications (6th ed.). New York: Worth Publishers.

Palmer, S. E. (1999). Vision science - Photons to phenomenology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Gleitman, L. R., & Liberman, M. (Eds.) (1995). An Invitation to Cognitive Science - Vol. 1: Language (2nd ed.). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Kosslyn, S. M., & Osherson, D. N. (Eds.) (1995). An Invitation to Cognitive Science - Vol. 2: Visual Cognition (2nd ed.). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Smith, E. E., & Osherson, D. N. (Eds.) (1995). An Invitation to Cognitive Science - Vol. 3: Thinking (2nd ed.). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Scarborough, D., & Sternberg, S. (Eds.) (1998). An Invitation to Cognitive Science - Vol. 4: Methods, models, and conceptual issues (2nd ed.). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

last update: 04-11-09