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The lecture is offered in English only. Philosophy students can participate in this intensely interdisciplinary lecture to learn central concepts and methods in cognitive science. Cognitive science developed into a central basis of modern philosophy of mind, epistemology and theories of AI systems. Thus, we offer philosophy students (in all programs) insight into Cognitive Science. A precondition is a very good performance in the logic course in philosophy. The lecture can be used to earn an ungraded certificate on the basis of a written exam. Philosophy students can choose a focus on theoretical concepts but also have to learn central knowledge in cognitive neuroscience as well as computational modelling.
The detailed sequence of the lectures and topics will be announced in the first session which will start with Lecture 1 “Theoretical Frameworks in Cognitive Science 1”. Central Topics of the lectures include the following (open for change of sequences and some adjustments of research topics each year):
Theoretical Frameworks in Cognitive Science 1
Cognitive Neuroscience of Perception
Theoretical Frameworks in Cognitive Science 2
Theories of Consciousness
Cognitive models of semantics and pragmatics
Cognitive Neuroscience of Emotion
Theories of Emotion
Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory
Theory of Perception and Cognition
Stress and its role for cognitive abilities
Computational approaches to Cognitive Science
Reinforcement Learning in the Brain 1
Reinforcement Learning in the Brain 2
Supervised Learning in Neural Networks