EE 690 Cognitive Neuroscience and Embodied Intelligence
Web: http://www.ohio.edu/people/starzykj/index.html
Spring 2012
Prerequisite: graduate standing
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T,Th 1:00-2:30 r. 326 Stocker http://www.ohio.edu/people/starzykj/network/Class/special_topic.html |
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Text
Bernard J. Baars and Nicole M. Gage “Cognition,
Brain, and Consciousness”, Academic Press, 2007.
References
Joscha Bach, “Principles
of Synthetic Intelligence”, Oxford University press, 2009.
Pentti Haikonen, “The cognitive approach to conscious machines”, UK: Imprint Academic, 2003.
Pentti Haikonen, “Robot Brains – Circuits and Systems for Conscious Machines”, John Wiley & Sons, 2007.
R. Pfeifer, J.C. Bongard, How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence, The MIT Press (Bradford Books), 2007.
Timothy T. Rogers i James L. McClelland, Semantic Cognition: A Parallel Distributed Processing Approach The MIT Press (June 1, 2004).
Rolf Pfeifer, Christian Scheier, "Understanding Intelligence", The MIT Press, ISBN: 026266125X, Sept. 1, 2001.
Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee, "On Intelligence" ISBN: 0805074562, Times Books (October 3, 2004).
Many of the presentation slides are from the course by prof. O'Reilly,
Computational Cognitive Neuroscience (Psych 4175/5175), Spring 2008.
Course outline
For details of the course material please see the schedule page
· Foundations of Embodied Intelligence
· Autonomous Intelligent Systems
· Cognitive System Architecture
· Information Processing by Brain
· Neural Representation
· Memory
· Perception and Attention
· Motivation
· Emotion
· Language
· Cognition
· PSI Model of Cognition
Grading
Grades will be based on the following;
Motivated
Learning Project (30%)
Please send email with your presentation slides and Matlab code.
Modify name of the main program in Matlab to include main
for instance UFO_main.m
Research Papers Presentations (30%)
Please submit your presentation power point slides via email Name the presentation file YourName.doc
Write a brief summary for each paper in Word format
Other Reading Assignments (20%)
Write a brief summary for each paper in Word format as assigned in the schedule web page
Active Participation in Class (20%)
These are bonus points you can get to improve your grade.
To get them you must be active participation during class lectures.
Prepare yourself for discussion by reading text or reference books and use your imagination.
Examination
Final project due- Thursday May 31, 2012.
All examinations are take home
project based tests.
Withdrawal
A student may withdraw from class at his discretion up to and including the first 21 days of the quarter.
Laboratory Work
Students will complete the machine learning project using Matlab and Motivated Learning Software Agent. The focus will be on illustrating intelligent agent's behavior in various environments that lead to complex interactions with environment based on many levels of goal hierarchy and interdependencies between goals. Several primitive pains may be used to obtain a complex network of goals. Students should test the software and optimize environment parameters for agent to learn in the small number of iterative step.
As an alternative to motivated learning project you could illustrate use of PSI agents based on the following web information
http://www.advancedmagic.com/download.shtml
use python software from PSI3 Human Behavior Simulation Program
and AMPsi version 0.6 please also read http://neovox.advancedmagic.com/
I will reserve time for students to present the results of project in class.
Students with Disabilities
If you have a documented disability that requires an accommodation, please notify me within the first two weeks of the quarter. Please contact the Office of Institutional Equity for guide and assistance with disability issues. Their web page is
http://www.ohio.edu/equity/disabilityservices/
Withdrawal
A student may withdraw from class at his discretion up to and including the first 21 days of the quarter.
Academic Conduct
Cheating on examinations, submitting work of other students as your own, or plagiarism in any form will result in penalties ranging from an F on the assignment or exam to expulsion from the university, depending on the seriousness of the offense.
Classroom Privacy
The lectures, classroom activities, and all materials associated with this class and developed by the instructor are copyrighted in the name of Dr. Janusz Starzyk. Recording of classroom activities by any electronic means, by students, other faculty, university administrators, or others, requires permission of the instructor. Under no circumstances may verbatim recording of copyrighted classroom lectures and materials by electronic or any other means (including note taking) be conducted for 1) sale, whether or not it is for educational benefit, or 2) for the educational benefit of those not enrolled in the class. This does not apply to non-verbatim notes taken by students.