Cognitive Science (COGST)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2019-2020.

COGST 1111

This course focuses on how leaders in a variety of fields use design as a social change agent. It interweaves theories of leadership and creative problem-solving through case study examinations of a wide ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: DEA 1110

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 16559 COGST 1111   LEC 001

  • Lab fee: $15 (charged to bursar bill).

COGST 1500

Environmental Psychology is an interdisciplinary field concerned with how the physical environment and human behavior interrelate. Most of the course focuses on how residential environments and urban and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16418 COGST 1500   LEC 001

  • 16420 COGST 1500   DIS 201

  • 16421 COGST 1500   DIS 202

  • 16422 COGST 1500   DIS 203

  • 16423 COGST 1500   DIS 204

  • 16424 COGST 1500   DIS 205

  • 16425 COGST 1500   DIS 206

  • 16426 COGST 1500   DIS 207

  • 16427 COGST 1500   DIS 208

  • 16428 COGST 1500   DIS 209

  • 16429 COGST 1500   DIS 210

  • 16430 COGST 1500   DIS 211

  • 16431 COGST 1500   DIS 212

  • 16432 COGST 1500   DIS 213

  • 16433 COGST 1500   DIS 214

  • 16434 COGST 1500   DIS 215

  • 16435 COGST 1500   DIS 216

  • 16436 COGST 1500   DIS 217

  • 16437 COGST 1500   DIS 218

  • 16439 COGST 1500   DIS 220

COGST 1501

Human-Environment Relations is an interdisciplinary field concerned with how the physical environment and human behavior interrelate. Most of the course focuses on how residential environments and urban ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture, one discussion, and one laboratory. Combined with: COGST 1500DEA 1500DEA 1501PSYCH 1500PSYCH 1501

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16361 COGST 1501   LEC 001

  • 16362 COGST 1501   DIS 201

  • 16693 COGST 1501   LAB 401

  • 16694 COGST 1501   LAB 402

  • 16695 COGST 1501   LAB 403

COGST 2230

Introduction to psychology from a biological perspective, which focuses on brain mechanisms of behavior. Topics include the structure and function of the nervous system, physiological approaches ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PSYCH 2230

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8293 COGST 2230   LEC 001

COGST 2300

This course will provide you with an overview of how children's cognition develops. We will investigate how cognition develops from many different perspectives. The main perspectives will be biological, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: HD 2300

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16217 COGST 2300   LEC 001

  • 16218 COGST 2300   DIS 201

COGST 2310

Covers sentential languages, the truth-functional connectives, and their logic; first-order languages, the quantifiers "every" and "some," and their logic. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: PHIL 2310

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9514 COGST 2310   LEC 001

  •  9515 COGST 2310   DIS 201

  •  9516 COGST 2310   DIS 202

COGST 2621

Throughout history, metaphors drawn from technology of the time have been proposed to understand how the mind works. While Locke likened the newborn's mind to a blank slate, Freud compared the mind to ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PHIL 2621

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9420 COGST 2621   LEC 001

COGST 3250

This course will focus on the complex interactions between neurochemicals and their receptors (pharmacodynamics) that drive human behavior. It will provide an overview of the principles of neurotransmission ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HD 3250

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16255 COGST 3250   LEC 001

COGST 3330

In this class we will discuss the properties of truth-conditional semantics, with a focus on those phenomena that have been used to question the adequacy of such systems. The course starts of by discussing ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18987 COGST 3330   LEC 001

COGST 3420

Our present technology allows us to transmit and display information through a variety of media. To make the most of these media channels, it is important to consider the limitations and abilities of the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PSYCH 3420PSYCH 6420VISST 3342

  • 3-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5914 COGST 3420   LEC 001

  • Recommended prerequisite: PSYCH 2050. 4-credit option is by permission of faculty.

COGST 3660

Focuses on networks of brain regions that are organized around the integration of processes related to emotion and motivation. The course first explores brain pathways for processing visual, auditory, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HD 3660

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16262 COGST 3660   LEC 001

COGST 4150

Seminar on the essential features and qualities of culture and how it impacts human endeavors.  Because understanding culture necessarily requires interaction across multiple areas of study, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COGST 6150COML 4229PSYCH 4150

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17672 COGST 4150   SEM 101

    • T Uris Hall 205
    • Christiansen, M

      Dubreuil, L

COGST 4250

Introductory laboratory-based course focusing on basic foundations in translational research on decision making across the lifespan. The course introduces students to hands-on applications of research ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HD 4250

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9140 COGST 4250   LAB 401

COGST 4265

Laboratory-based course focusing on basic foundations in translational research on the neuroscience of human memory and memory development. Students attend a weekly lab meeting for 1.5 hours per week, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HD 4260

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  9139 COGST 4265   LAB 401

COGST 4330

How do we perceive and know the world around us? Which are the multiple ways in which we negotiate this knowledge into language and embodied practice? Does one's position in society matter? Is the thing ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ANTHR 4330STS 4330

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17878 COGST 4330   SEM 101

COGST 4700

Experience in planning, conducting, and reporting independent laboratory, field, and/or library research in an interdisciplinary area relevant to Cognitive Science. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5666 COGST 4700   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Edelman, S

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7736 COGST 4700   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Hale, J

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7737 COGST 4700   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Goldstein, M

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8412 COGST 4700   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Spreng, R

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8420 COGST 4700   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Cutting, J

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8835 COGST 4700   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Linster, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8836 COGST 4700   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Swallow, K

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9601 COGST 4700   IND 608

    • TBA
    • Russo, J

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 19057 COGST 4700   IND 609

    • TBA
    • Christiansen, M

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 19096 COGST 4700   IND 610

    • TBA
    • Cleland, T

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 19102 COGST 4700   IND 611

    • TBA
    • Wang, Q

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 19135 COGST 4700   IND 612

    • TBA
    • Krumhansl, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 19159 COGST 4700   IND 613

    • TBA
    • Cardie, C

COGST 4710

Provides a research workshop in which undergraduate students who are engaged in research in a particular area relevant to cognitive science can meet across disciplines to learn and practice the essentials ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5667 COGST 4710   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Staff

  •  9766 COGST 4710   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Hodes, H

COGST 4720

The course will cover advanced topics in research on the emotions from central neural and peripheral physiological perspectives, with an emphasis with how emotions shape different aspects of cognition ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HD 4720

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 16280 COGST 4720   LAB 401

COGST 4740

This course constitutes an introduction to natural language processing (NLP), the goal of which is to enable computers to use human languages as input, output, or both. NLP is at the heart of many of today's ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CS 4740CS 5740LING 4474

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8051 COGST 4740   LEC 001

COGST 6020

This hands-on laboratory course will develop research skills in the context of risk and rational decision making in human development from multiple disciplinary perspectives and with respect to different ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HD 6020

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17892 COGST 6020   SEM 101

COGST 6150

No description available. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COGST 4150COML 4229PSYCH 4150

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17876 COGST 6150   SEM 101

    • T Uris Hall 205
    • Christiansen, M

      Dubreuil, L

COGST 6333

In this class we will discuss the properties of truth-conditional semantics, with a focus on those phenomena that have been used to question the adequacy of such systems. The course starts of by discussing ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18991 COGST 6333   LEC 001

COGST 7710

Addresses current theoretical and empirical issues in computational linguistics. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LING 7710

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 19087 COGST 7710   SEM 101