At the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Describe basic theoretical concepts in cognitive psychology
- Describe central methodological approaches in cognitive psychology
- Describe classic and influential findings in cognitive psychology
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The course will provide Artificial Intelligence students with a general introduction to cognitive psychology. The course will cover major theories, methods and results in three main domains: perception, attention, and memory. Specific questions include: How do we humans perceive colour? How do we recognise objects in the visual world? How do we shift attention from one part of a visual scene to another? How do we learn and remember facts, or autobiographical details of our own lives? Understanding the answers to questions such as these about human cognition provides a foundation for addressing related questions about artificial intelligence systems later in the curriculum. Four main approaches will be introduced: experimental cognitive psychology, cognitive neuropsychology, cognitive neuroscience and computational cognitive science. The course therefore also introduces the relation between cognitive processes and underlying brain processes, in preparation for the cognitive neuroscience course that follows in the curriculum: Brain for AI (SOW-BKI108).
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