Neural Arrays Adaptation and Learning

Social Cognition

          Developing Mind and Brain     

Grading

Grades will be based on the following;

Goal Creation Learning Project (40%)  
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

Textbook presentation and slides (20%)

Students prepare power point presentation of a selected chapter from text book Cognition, Brain, and Consciousness,

using jpg figures from the web page http://www.elsevierdirect.com/companion.jsp?ISBN=9780123736772

Please submit your presentation power point slides via email

Research Paper Presentation (20%)
Please submit your presentation power point slides via email

Other Reading Assignments (20%)

Write a brief summary for each paper in Word format as assigned in the schedule web page

Examination

Final project due- Thursday May 21, 2009.
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 Goal Creation 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.

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.