The Brain and Cognitive Sciences II
As taught in: Spring 2006
Image 1. Face recognition. (Image by Prof. Pawan Sinha.)
Image 2. Photographs of twins. (Image by Prof. Steven Pinker.)
Image 3. Sentence tree. (Image by Prof. Edward Gibson.)
Image 4. Rodin's The Thinker. (Image by Prof. Lera Boroditsky.)
Image 5. Midsaggital fMRI human brain scan. (Image courtesy of MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.)
Instructors:
Prof. Edward Gibson
Prof. Joshua Tenenbaum
Prof. Pawan Sinha
MIT Course Number:
9.012
Level:
Graduate
Course Description
This class is the second half of an intensive survey of cognitive science for first-year graduate students. Topics include visual perception, language, memory, cognitive architecture, learning, reasoning, decision-making, and cognitive development. Topics covered are from behavioral, computational, and neural perspectives.
