Download COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY MEETING, 2007

COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY MEETING, 2007
Workshop #4: Interactive Computer-Based Cognitive Science Instruction
August 1, 8:30 – 5pm
8:30–8:40
Welcome & Introductions & LOADING FILES ON LAPTOPS
FOUNDATIONAL ISSUES
8:40–9:10
Metaphysics, Epistemology & Philosophy of Mind (David Anderson)
Philosophy of Mind (Intro Level)
MODULES: Can a Machine Think? The Turing Test, Types of Computers, Functionalism,
Searle's Chinese Room Argument, Introduction to Neurons, Connectionism, ANN that See
eBOOK: Win Phillip's The Extraordinary Future (Advanced Undergrad)
Metaphysics & Epistemology: Is the World a Grand Illusion? Realism vs. Antirealism?
MODULE: Online Visual Search Experiment (Software by Tom Busey)
MODULE: Online Change Blindness Experiment (Software by Tom Busey)
MODULE: Virtual Anthropology Lab (Color Terms)
PSYCHOLOGY . . and MORE
9:10–10:00
EPsych (Gary Bradshaw)
Psychology and Cognitive Science
MODULE: The Neuron
MODULE: The Brain
MODULE: Pandemonium
MODULE: Neural Networks
10:00–10:30 BEVERAGE BREAK
NEUROBIOLOGY
10:30–11:15 Virtual Neuroscience Labs (David Anderson for Rob Stufflbeam & Tom Busey)
Dopamine & Addiction
MODULE: Virtual Cocaine Lab
(Design & Animations by Rob Stufflebeam, Paul Garris & David Anderson)
Brain Imaging
MODULE: Virtual EEG Lab (Software by Tom Busey)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
11:15-12:00 Foundations of Artificial Intelligence (Peter Bradley)
GOFAI
MODULE: Online Turning Machine
CONNECTIONISM
MODULE: Online Artificial Neural Net
12:00 – 1:30 LUNCH (You're on your own)
AI & ROBOTICS
1:30-1:45
Top-Down Robotics & Student Research Projects (David Anderson)
MODULE: Virtual Robotics Lab
1:45-3:00
Bottom-Up Robotics & Cognitive Science (Ken Livingston & Josh de Leeuw)
Vassar's IRRL Bottom-Up Robotics Lab
A Brief History of Robotics
MODULE: Building Behavior-Based (Bottom-up) Mobile Robots
MODULE: Robo-Ethology Exercise
3:00 – 3:30
BEVERAGE BREAK
COLLABORATIONS
3:30-5:00
Future Collaboration on Curricula, Archives, & Grants = A Consortium
(All Participants)
Resources from Workshop Participants
Launching the Consortium on Cognitive Science Instruction
Cognitive Science Instruction Archive (Indiana University / Illinois State University)
Research Strategies & Grants to Assess Virtual Labs
Other issues . . .