EE690 Cognitive Neuroscience and Embodied Intelligence

Course Schedule, Spring 2012

Wk	Date	Subject	Additional Reading	Lab and Homework
1	March 27	Class and lab organization Introduction to Embodied Intelligence Tutorial on Embodiment	Chapter 1 Lecture 1 Human Machine Interaction	Assignment Guidelines chose topics to study and the student number
2	April 3	Cognitive Systems	Chapter 2 Lecture 2 Perception Perception Tracking Learning	Research Papers Assignments (chose a student number from the list) download and unzip software Motivated Learning Software Please write your choices here Motivated Learning Software Project
3	April 10	Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience Functional Framework for Cognition	Chapter 3 Lecture 3 Memory and Attention	Motivated Learning Software rev. 4 1 page summary of "Episodic memory in nonhumans: what, and where, is when?" due
4	April 17	Imaging the Living Brain	Chapter 3 Lecture 4 Reasoning and Interacting	Read “What constitutes plagiarism” 2 pages summary of "Evolutionary Supervision of a Dynamical Neural Network" due
5	April 24	Brain Functional Organization	Chapter 4 Lecture 5 Interaction Style and Technology	2 pages summary of "Primate Culture and Social Learning" due
6	May 1	Perception - Vision	Chapter 5 Lecture 6 Usable System Design	2 pages summary of "Learning like baby" due
7	May 8	Perception and Attention Attention and Consciousness	Chapter 6 Lecture 7 Usability Evaluation
8	May 15	Memory and Learning	Chapter 7 Lecture 8 Model Based Evaluation	3 pages synopsis of your Research Papers Assignments talk due
9	May 22	Research Papers Presentations		Research Papers Presentations Classroom Presentations Evaluation Form
10	May 29	Hearing and Speech Language	Chapter 8 Lecture 9 Spoken Language Interaction	Final Reports of Motivated Learning Software Project due Final Project Report Requirements

Lecture notes based on Bernard J. Baars and Nicole M. Gage Cognition, Brain, and Consciousness, Academic Press, 2007.

Prepare presentations based on Joscha Bach, “Principles of Synthetic Intelligence”, Oxford University press, 2009.