CGSC 1001a And T: Mysteries Of The Mind Syllabus
CGSC 1001a and t: Mysteries of the Mind
Syllabus
Fall 2013, Wednesdays and Fridays, 2:35pm to 03:55pm
Location: Southam Hall Theatre B
Course title: Mysteries of the Mind
Department: Institute of Cognitive Science (2201 Dunton Tower)
Course number (including section letter): CGSC 1001a, CGSC 1001t
Instructor's name; office location & phone; email address; office hours:
Dr. Jim Davies
2208 Dunton Tower
Phone: 613-520-2600 x1109
Email: Please use the CULearn discussion board for questions. If you do not want other students to see the question, please use the CULearn messaging system. Please do not use regular email—with 600 students we would be overwhelmed.
Office hours: by appointment; please use TAs for questions
TA name; …show more content…
office location(s) & phone; email addresses; office hours:
Ehsan Amjadian
Office Hours: Mondays 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Office Hours location: 2222 Dunton Tower
Evan Houldin
Office Hours: Fridays 4-5pm Office Hours location: 2220 Dunton Tower
Heather Douglas
Office Hours: Thursdays 1:30pm-2:30pm Office Hours location: 5210 VSIM
Roxana-Maria Barbu
Office Hours: Thursdays 2:50-3:50pm Office Hours location: 2221 Dunton Tower
Wahida Chowdhury
Office Hours: Tuesday from 2 - 3 PM Office Hours location: HCI 2110
Course newsgroup, web site address, etc.
if applicable: CULearn will be used for marks. You can download lectures, the current version of this syllabus, and other useful things from: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6kg5bn2i3j6dym9/PA3QtfKpPY
Course description: -- content, aims, objectives:
The human mind is the most complex thing yet discovered in the universe. Learn about minds in humans, animals, and computers in this fascinating exploration of consciousness, memory, creativity, problem solving, perception, and your own biases. The introductory course will also cover fun topics such as how cognitive science can help you through school, how cognitive science applies to important real-world problems in areas such as law and computer interfaces, and the mind issues raised by popular movies. This course will guide you through the fascinating mysteries, and the solutions found so far, of our inner world. …show more content…
TV
If you want to see my Mysteries of the Mind lectures, they are available on Rogers Ottawa Digital Cable Channel 243. Sundays, 2 – 5 pm.
Students in the “T” section of CGSC 1001 please note: As stated in Carleton Central the T section is a CUOL section. This means lectures are available on Rogers Ottawa Digital Cable Channel 243 and On-Line. The posted scheduled time for section T of Sundays, 2 – 5 pm is the course’s broadcast time on Rogers Cable. Students without access to Rogers Cable may opt to add the On-line Video-on-Demand (VOD) service ($50) by registering in CRN 35093. VOD lectures can also be viewed at no charge in the CUOL Student Centre in room D299Loeb Building, VOD stations are available 24 hours a day. For More information on CUOL and VOD available herewww.carleton.ca/cuol
Texts -- (required, supplementary, on Reserve, other): There is no text book for this course.
Course calendar: -- list which coordinates content topics with dates or class meetings; dates of all scheduled quizzes, tests or examinations plus deadlines for submission of all pieces of term work; description of how Review Week will be used (if applicable).
Evaluation: Grades will be based on the arithmetic mean of marks on the two tests during the term and the final (each will be worth one third). All tests will be multiple-choice. The final exam date, time, and place will be announced later, but will occur sometime between December 11 and 22 (inclusive), 2013. You are invited to post multiple choice questions to http://mysteriesofthemind.pbworks.com/ and I promise to use some of them. Go to this page and add questions! Study them before the tests.
What Happens When: (This might get updated, particularly for readings)
Date
Topic
Due
F-P: Friday, September 6, 2013
Introduction to Course
F-1a: Wednesday, September 11
Learning, Memory, Representation
Read: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cognitive_Psychology_and_Cognitive_Neuroscience/Memory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning F-1b: Friday, September 13
The Cognitive Level read: http://jimdavies.blogspot.com/2009/01/confusing-levels-of-explanation.html http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cognitive_Science:_An_Introduction/Cognitive_Science_Defined http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Teleofunctionalism#Functionalism F-2a: Wednesday, September 18
The Fields that Compose Cognitive Science, a bit of an experiment http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Cognitive_psychology F-2b: Friday, September 20
How Cognitive Science Can help you get through school + Learning Disabilities with Jessie Gunnell and Sonia Tanguay http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204644504576653004073453880.html Read this, even though we'll be talking about Anki, not supermemo: http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/ff_wozniak install at http://ankisrs.net/ watch these introductory videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0dI2VyLDWw&feature=PlayList&p=4221D2E6B440D79B&playnext_from=PL&index=0&playnext=1 or search youtube for the first video "Anki 1/7: Reviewing and Shared Decks"
More help here, but it's not required for the class: http://ankisrs.net/docs/index.html http://www.bakadesuyo.com/is-everything-we-know-about-teaching-and-lear F-3a: Wednesday, September 25
Cognitive Science and the Real World
Read: http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/False_memory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%E2%80%93computer_interaction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lakoff#Political_significance_and_involvement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_economics (optional) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_chess
F-3b: Friday, September 27
Perception
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.11/bolero.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perception F-4a: Wednesday, October 2
Analogy
http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/hofstadter/analogy.html http://jimdavies.org/research/publications/ijcai/2009/Davies2009.pdf F-4b: Friday, October 4
Language and Communication http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Language_%28linguistics%29 F-5a: Wednesday, October 9
Cognitive Biases http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases F-5b: Friday, October 11
Cognitive Myths http://health.usnews.com/health-news/family-health/articles/2009/10/13/5-common-pop-psych-myths_print.html F-6a: Wednesday, October 16
Consciousness
F-6b: Friday, October 18
Religion
Pages 453—461 of http://www.purdue.edu/hhs/slhs/research/documents/Kemmerer/(2006)Bering_commentary_2.pdf
Jesse Bering’s “The Folk Psychology of Souls” 2006
Saturday, October 19
TEST 1
Test on everything up to and including Analogy lecture. 12:30pm – 2:00pm
F-7a: Wednesday October 23
Watch Film Memento in class none F-7b: Friday, October 25
Finish Film, Sebastien Plante http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Models_of_consciousness Oct 28-Nov1
Fall Break
F-8a: Wednesday, November 6
Cognitive Science in Film
F-8b: Friday, November 8
Guest Lecture 2: Deirdre Gardiner
Moral Reasoning
Saturday, November 9
TEST 2
Test on lectures from Language and Communication to Guest Lecture 1. 12:30-2:00pm
F-9a: Wednesday, November 13
Cognitive Architectures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_architecture F-9b: Friday, November 15
Why Cognitive Science is the Most Important Thing In the World http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applications_of_artificial_intelligence F-10a: Wednesday, November 20
Cognitive Development read http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/05/18/090518fa_fact_lehrer?currentPage=all and F-10b: Friday, November 22
Evolutionary Psychology http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/evolutionary-psychology/ F-11a: Wednesday, November 27
Social Cognition and the Evolution of Intelligence http://archives.evergreen.edu/webpages/curricular/2006-2007/languageofpolitics/files/languageofpolitics/Evol_Anthrop_6.pdf Olivier Pascalis, Jocelyne Bachevalier, Face recognition in primates: a cross-species study, Behavioural Processes, Volume 43, Issue 1, April 1998, Pages 87-96, ISSN 0376-6357, DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(97)00090-9. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0376635797000909
F-11b: Friday, November 29
Compellingness
F-12a: Wednesday, December 4 imagination F-12b: Friday, December 6
Cognitive Science History, Present, and Future http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/08/ray_kurzweil_does_not_understa.php http://boingboing.net/2011/07/14/far.html http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html Course Policies and University Information
Student requirements
Students are required to keep copies of any submitted work.
Missed assignments
All assignments MUST be submitted by the deadline. If you think you will not be able to submit your assignment in time (because of illness or bereavement) you must contact your instructor in advance and NOT on the due date for the assignment. If the assignment is not received within 15 minutes by the specified deadline it will be counted as missed and will not be graded (you will receive 0% for that assignment). If you know you cannot meet the assigned deadline for any reason, contact your instructor as soon as possible to make alternate arrangements.
Carleton’s Statement Regarding Plagiarism
The Senate of the University has labeled plagiarism an instructional offence. For the University’s purposes to plagiarize is to “use and pass off as one's own idea or product work of another without expressly giving credit to another”. Being caught plagiarizing can result in one being expelled, suspended from all studies at the University, suspended from full-time studies, awarded a reprimand, refused permission to continue or to register in a specific degree program but subject to having met all academic requirements shall be permitted to register and continue in some other program, placed on Academic Warning, or awarded an F or Abs in a course or examination. For specific examples of plagiarism and tips on how to avoid it visit
the Academic Integrity section of the Learning Commons at http://www.carleton.ca/wts/docs/writingresources.html#academicintegrity
If you have any questions about this issue and would like to make sure you are using the proper citation system, do not hesitate to ask me at any time via e-mail or office hours.
Academic Accommodation
You may need special arrangements to meet your academic obligations during the term because of disability, pregnancy or religious obligations. Please review the course outline promptly and write to me with any requests for academic accommodation during the first two weeks of class, or as soon as possible after the need for accommodation is known to exist.
Students with disabilities requiring academic accommodations in this course must register with the Paul Menton Centre for Students with Disabilities (PMC) for a formal evaluation of disability-related needs. Documented disabilities could include but are not limited to mobility/physical impairments, specific Learning Disabilities (LD), psychiatric/psychological disabilities, sensory disabilities, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and chronic medical conditions. Registered PMC students are required to contact the PMC, 613-520-6608, every term to ensure that your Instructor receives your Letter of Accommodation, no later than two weeks before the first assignment is due or the first in-class test/midterm requiring accommodations. If you only require accommodations for your formally scheduled exam(s) in this course, please submit your request for accommodations to PMC by Nov. 18, 2013 for the Fall term and March 7, 2014 for the Winter term.
You can visit the Equity Services website to view the policies and to obtain more detailed information on academic accommodation at http://carleton.ca/equity/accommodation.
STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES
There are several services for students on campus depending on the need you experience:
1) For health and counselling issues you can visit the Health and Counselling Services; 2600 CTT Centre; 613-520-6674; www.carleton.ca/health
2) Student Academic Success Centre (SASC); 302 Tory; 613-520-7850; www.carleton.ca/sasc assists students with academic planning, understanding academic rules & regulations, finding a tutor, choosing or changing a major, polishing study skills, and referrals to other services.
3) Academic Writing Centre and Writing Tutorial Service (4th Floor, Library, 613-520-6632; www.carleton.ca/wts can help you learn to write better papers. Tutors are graduate students in many different departments, with plenty of experience writing. They are trained to assist you at any stage in the writing process. To make an appointment, simply call 520-6632, or come in person between 9:00 am and 4:30 pm Monday through Friday.
4) The Learning Commons (4th Floor, Library, 613-520-2600, ext.1125; See also Main Floor desk) is a one-stop study-shop that combines research, IT and learning support services under one roof to enhance the student experience.
Syllabus
Fall 2013, Wednesdays and Fridays, 2:35pm to 03:55pm
Location: Southam Hall Theatre B
Course title: Mysteries of the Mind
Department: Institute of Cognitive Science (2201 Dunton Tower)
Course number (including section letter): CGSC 1001a, CGSC 1001t
Instructor's name; office location & phone; email address; office hours:
Dr. Jim Davies
2208 Dunton Tower
Phone: 613-520-2600 x1109
Email: Please use the CULearn discussion board for questions. If you do not want other students to see the question, please use the CULearn messaging system. Please do not use regular email—with 600 students we would be overwhelmed.
Office hours: by appointment; please use TAs for questions
TA name; …show more content…
office location(s) & phone; email addresses; office hours:
Ehsan Amjadian
Office Hours: Mondays 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Office Hours location: 2222 Dunton Tower
Evan Houldin
Office Hours: Fridays 4-5pm Office Hours location: 2220 Dunton Tower
Heather Douglas
Office Hours: Thursdays 1:30pm-2:30pm Office Hours location: 5210 VSIM
Roxana-Maria Barbu
Office Hours: Thursdays 2:50-3:50pm Office Hours location: 2221 Dunton Tower
Wahida Chowdhury
Office Hours: Tuesday from 2 - 3 PM Office Hours location: HCI 2110
Course newsgroup, web site address, etc.
if applicable: CULearn will be used for marks. You can download lectures, the current version of this syllabus, and other useful things from: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6kg5bn2i3j6dym9/PA3QtfKpPY
Course description: -- content, aims, objectives:
The human mind is the most complex thing yet discovered in the universe. Learn about minds in humans, animals, and computers in this fascinating exploration of consciousness, memory, creativity, problem solving, perception, and your own biases. The introductory course will also cover fun topics such as how cognitive science can help you through school, how cognitive science applies to important real-world problems in areas such as law and computer interfaces, and the mind issues raised by popular movies. This course will guide you through the fascinating mysteries, and the solutions found so far, of our inner world. …show more content…
TV
If you want to see my Mysteries of the Mind lectures, they are available on Rogers Ottawa Digital Cable Channel 243. Sundays, 2 – 5 pm.
Students in the “T” section of CGSC 1001 please note: As stated in Carleton Central the T section is a CUOL section. This means lectures are available on Rogers Ottawa Digital Cable Channel 243 and On-Line. The posted scheduled time for section T of Sundays, 2 – 5 pm is the course’s broadcast time on Rogers Cable. Students without access to Rogers Cable may opt to add the On-line Video-on-Demand (VOD) service ($50) by registering in CRN 35093. VOD lectures can also be viewed at no charge in the CUOL Student Centre in room D299Loeb Building, VOD stations are available 24 hours a day. For More information on CUOL and VOD available herewww.carleton.ca/cuol
Texts -- (required, supplementary, on Reserve, other): There is no text book for this course.
Course calendar: -- list which coordinates content topics with dates or class meetings; dates of all scheduled quizzes, tests or examinations plus deadlines for submission of all pieces of term work; description of how Review Week will be used (if applicable).
Evaluation: Grades will be based on the arithmetic mean of marks on the two tests during the term and the final (each will be worth one third). All tests will be multiple-choice. The final exam date, time, and place will be announced later, but will occur sometime between December 11 and 22 (inclusive), 2013. You are invited to post multiple choice questions to http://mysteriesofthemind.pbworks.com/ and I promise to use some of them. Go to this page and add questions! Study them before the tests.
What Happens When: (This might get updated, particularly for readings)
Date
Topic
Due
F-P: Friday, September 6, 2013
Introduction to Course
F-1a: Wednesday, September 11
Learning, Memory, Representation
Read: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cognitive_Psychology_and_Cognitive_Neuroscience/Memory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning F-1b: Friday, September 13
The Cognitive Level read: http://jimdavies.blogspot.com/2009/01/confusing-levels-of-explanation.html http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cognitive_Science:_An_Introduction/Cognitive_Science_Defined http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Teleofunctionalism#Functionalism F-2a: Wednesday, September 18
The Fields that Compose Cognitive Science, a bit of an experiment http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Cognitive_psychology F-2b: Friday, September 20
How Cognitive Science Can help you get through school + Learning Disabilities with Jessie Gunnell and Sonia Tanguay http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204644504576653004073453880.html Read this, even though we'll be talking about Anki, not supermemo: http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/ff_wozniak install at http://ankisrs.net/ watch these introductory videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0dI2VyLDWw&feature=PlayList&p=4221D2E6B440D79B&playnext_from=PL&index=0&playnext=1 or search youtube for the first video "Anki 1/7: Reviewing and Shared Decks"
More help here, but it's not required for the class: http://ankisrs.net/docs/index.html http://www.bakadesuyo.com/is-everything-we-know-about-teaching-and-lear F-3a: Wednesday, September 25
Cognitive Science and the Real World
Read: http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/False_memory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%E2%80%93computer_interaction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lakoff#Political_significance_and_involvement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_economics (optional) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_chess
F-3b: Friday, September 27
Perception
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.11/bolero.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perception F-4a: Wednesday, October 2
Analogy
http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/hofstadter/analogy.html http://jimdavies.org/research/publications/ijcai/2009/Davies2009.pdf F-4b: Friday, October 4
Language and Communication http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Language_%28linguistics%29 F-5a: Wednesday, October 9
Cognitive Biases http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases F-5b: Friday, October 11
Cognitive Myths http://health.usnews.com/health-news/family-health/articles/2009/10/13/5-common-pop-psych-myths_print.html F-6a: Wednesday, October 16
Consciousness
F-6b: Friday, October 18
Religion
Pages 453—461 of http://www.purdue.edu/hhs/slhs/research/documents/Kemmerer/(2006)Bering_commentary_2.pdf
Jesse Bering’s “The Folk Psychology of Souls” 2006
Saturday, October 19
TEST 1
Test on everything up to and including Analogy lecture. 12:30pm – 2:00pm
F-7a: Wednesday October 23
Watch Film Memento in class none F-7b: Friday, October 25
Finish Film, Sebastien Plante http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Models_of_consciousness Oct 28-Nov1
Fall Break
F-8a: Wednesday, November 6
Cognitive Science in Film
F-8b: Friday, November 8
Guest Lecture 2: Deirdre Gardiner
Moral Reasoning
Saturday, November 9
TEST 2
Test on lectures from Language and Communication to Guest Lecture 1. 12:30-2:00pm
F-9a: Wednesday, November 13
Cognitive Architectures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_architecture F-9b: Friday, November 15
Why Cognitive Science is the Most Important Thing In the World http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applications_of_artificial_intelligence F-10a: Wednesday, November 20
Cognitive Development read http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/05/18/090518fa_fact_lehrer?currentPage=all and F-10b: Friday, November 22
Evolutionary Psychology http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/evolutionary-psychology/ F-11a: Wednesday, November 27
Social Cognition and the Evolution of Intelligence http://archives.evergreen.edu/webpages/curricular/2006-2007/languageofpolitics/files/languageofpolitics/Evol_Anthrop_6.pdf Olivier Pascalis, Jocelyne Bachevalier, Face recognition in primates: a cross-species study, Behavioural Processes, Volume 43, Issue 1, April 1998, Pages 87-96, ISSN 0376-6357, DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(97)00090-9. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0376635797000909
F-11b: Friday, November 29
Compellingness
F-12a: Wednesday, December 4 imagination F-12b: Friday, December 6
Cognitive Science History, Present, and Future http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/08/ray_kurzweil_does_not_understa.php http://boingboing.net/2011/07/14/far.html http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html Course Policies and University Information
Student requirements
Students are required to keep copies of any submitted work.
Missed assignments
All assignments MUST be submitted by the deadline. If you think you will not be able to submit your assignment in time (because of illness or bereavement) you must contact your instructor in advance and NOT on the due date for the assignment. If the assignment is not received within 15 minutes by the specified deadline it will be counted as missed and will not be graded (you will receive 0% for that assignment). If you know you cannot meet the assigned deadline for any reason, contact your instructor as soon as possible to make alternate arrangements.
Carleton’s Statement Regarding Plagiarism
The Senate of the University has labeled plagiarism an instructional offence. For the University’s purposes to plagiarize is to “use and pass off as one's own idea or product work of another without expressly giving credit to another”. Being caught plagiarizing can result in one being expelled, suspended from all studies at the University, suspended from full-time studies, awarded a reprimand, refused permission to continue or to register in a specific degree program but subject to having met all academic requirements shall be permitted to register and continue in some other program, placed on Academic Warning, or awarded an F or Abs in a course or examination. For specific examples of plagiarism and tips on how to avoid it visit
the Academic Integrity section of the Learning Commons at http://www.carleton.ca/wts/docs/writingresources.html#academicintegrity
If you have any questions about this issue and would like to make sure you are using the proper citation system, do not hesitate to ask me at any time via e-mail or office hours.
Academic Accommodation
You may need special arrangements to meet your academic obligations during the term because of disability, pregnancy or religious obligations. Please review the course outline promptly and write to me with any requests for academic accommodation during the first two weeks of class, or as soon as possible after the need for accommodation is known to exist.
Students with disabilities requiring academic accommodations in this course must register with the Paul Menton Centre for Students with Disabilities (PMC) for a formal evaluation of disability-related needs. Documented disabilities could include but are not limited to mobility/physical impairments, specific Learning Disabilities (LD), psychiatric/psychological disabilities, sensory disabilities, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and chronic medical conditions. Registered PMC students are required to contact the PMC, 613-520-6608, every term to ensure that your Instructor receives your Letter of Accommodation, no later than two weeks before the first assignment is due or the first in-class test/midterm requiring accommodations. If you only require accommodations for your formally scheduled exam(s) in this course, please submit your request for accommodations to PMC by Nov. 18, 2013 for the Fall term and March 7, 2014 for the Winter term.
You can visit the Equity Services website to view the policies and to obtain more detailed information on academic accommodation at http://carleton.ca/equity/accommodation.
STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES
There are several services for students on campus depending on the need you experience:
1) For health and counselling issues you can visit the Health and Counselling Services; 2600 CTT Centre; 613-520-6674; www.carleton.ca/health
2) Student Academic Success Centre (SASC); 302 Tory; 613-520-7850; www.carleton.ca/sasc assists students with academic planning, understanding academic rules & regulations, finding a tutor, choosing or changing a major, polishing study skills, and referrals to other services.
3) Academic Writing Centre and Writing Tutorial Service (4th Floor, Library, 613-520-6632; www.carleton.ca/wts can help you learn to write better papers. Tutors are graduate students in many different departments, with plenty of experience writing. They are trained to assist you at any stage in the writing process. To make an appointment, simply call 520-6632, or come in person between 9:00 am and 4:30 pm Monday through Friday.
4) The Learning Commons (4th Floor, Library, 613-520-2600, ext.1125; See also Main Floor desk) is a one-stop study-shop that combines research, IT and learning support services under one roof to enhance the student experience.