Tyler Thrash: Catalogue data in Autumn Semester 2017 |
Name | Dr. Tyler Thrash |
Department | Humanities, Social and Political Sciences |
Relationship | Lecturer |
Number | Title | ECTS | Hours | Lecturers | |
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851-0252-02L | Introduction to Cognitive Science Number of participants limited to 70. Particularly suitable for students of D-ITET | 3 credits | 2V | C. Hölscher, V. Schinazi, T. Thrash | |
Abstract | The lectures provide an overview of the foundations of cognitive science and investigate processes of human cognition, especially perception, learning, memory and reasoning. This includes a comparison of cognitive processes in humans and technical systems, especially with respect to knowledge acquisition, knowledge representation and usage in information processing tasks. | ||||
Learning objective | Cognitive Science views human cognition as information processing and provides an inter-disciplinary integration of approaches from cognitive psychology, informatics (e.g., artificial intelligence), neuroscience and anthropology among others. The lectures provide an overview of basic mechanisms of human information processing and various application domains. A focus will be on matters of knowledge acquisition, representation and usage in humans and machines. Models of human perception, reasoning, memory and learning are presented and students will learn about experimental methods of investigating and understanding human cognitive processes and representation structures. | ||||
851-0252-05L | Research Colloquium Cognitive Science Prerequisite: Participants should be involved in research in the cognitive science group. | 2 credits | 2K | C. Hölscher, V. Schinazi, T. Thrash | |
Abstract | The colloquium provides a forum for researchers and graduate students in cognitive science to present/discuss their ongoing projects as well as jointly discuss current publications in cognitive science and related fields. A subset of the sessions will include invited external visitors presenting their research. Participants of this colloquium are expected to be involved in active research group. | ||||
Learning objective | Graduate student train and improve their presentation skills based on their own project ideas, all participants stay informed on current trends in the field and have the opportunity for networking with invited scholars. |