Syllabus

ET60023
Course name	Introduction To Cognitive Information Processing
Offered by	Centre For Educational Technology
Credits	3
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Syllabus mentioned in ERP

Concepts taught in class

The Cognitive Revolution, Part 1 (2 Lectures) • The Cognitive Revolution, Part 2 (Philosophical issues, neuropsychological perspective) (2 Lectures) • Early Information Processing Models (2 Lectures) • Recent trends in Information Processing (3 Lectures) • Information theory – Source and channel coding theorems. Mutual information and information processing principles (2 Lectures) • Attention and Perception, Part 1 (role of brain) (Review of different approaches) (3 lectures) • Attention and Perception, Part 2 (Automaticity; Attention odds & ends) (3 lectures) Mid sems • Cognitive approach to vision and pattern recognition: Template matching theory, Feature detection theory, Computational theory of vision, Feature integration theory (4 lectures) • Working Memory & Consciousness - Memory models: Episodic memory, Sensory memory, Short term memory, Long term memory (2 lectures) • “Unconscious Cognition” (Cognition without Awareness): Explicit & Episodic Memory, Implicit Memory, Memory Accuracy, Nonverbal Memory, Semantic Memory knowledge) & Concepts (2 lectures) • Cognitive Load and its measurement (2 lecture) • Cognition architecture of reasoning: ACT* model, Spread of activation theory, General problem solver model, SOAR model (3 lectures) • Language and cognition: language formation and the brain, Word recognition, Surface level structures, Word and sentence production, Cognitive linguistic issues (3 lectures) • Semantic cognition and semantic nets (2 lectures) • Current trends in research: Controversies and debates (1 lecture)

Student Opinion

If you want a chill subject and want to take this course as elective. Go ahead! A peaceful course with less workload.

But if you are interested in learning about cognitive science via this course, DON'T TAKE IT. Course contains shallow discussions, biased examples, naive explanations for a lot of things. That is not the way psychology should be taught or learnt.

Instead try the following courses if you are interested about human brain

HS20002 General Psychology: Introduction to General Psychology. Basics of Psychology are discussed. Interesting things can be learnt about human behaviour.
EC60007: Computational Neuroscience: Understanding brain from a computational and mathematical point of view.

Time Table

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Day	3:00-3:55 pm	4:00-4:55 pm
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Thursday	CET Studio-1	CET Studio-1
Friday	CET Studio-1