Course Description:

Cognitive Science 200 is an interdisciplinary seminar of changing topics used as a mechanism for Ph.D. students in the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program and the Cognitive Science Department to achieve breadth. This quarter, the topic is based on our new NSF-sponsored Science of Learning Center, The Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center (TDLC). The goal of the course is the explain the issues and research involved in the role of time and timing in learning and interacting with the world, from synaptic learning all the way up to the social dynamics of learning.

Schedule:

April 13, 2007: Terry Sejnowski (Salk Institute) Learning from the Birds and Bees April 20, 2007: Dan Feldman (UC San Diego) Spike Time Dependent Plasticity April 27, 2007: Mike Mozer (University of Colorado at Boulder) Modeling the Temporal Dynamics of Learning May 4, 2007: Javier Movellan (UC San Diego) The Social Dynamics of Learning May 11, 2007: Emo Todorov (UC San Diego) The Temporal Dynamics of Learning to Move

May 18, 2007: Michael Frank (University of Arizona) Neural Dynamics of Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making May 25, 2007: Paula Tallal (Rutgers University) Temporal Dynamics Underlying the Development of Language and Literacy June 1, 2007: Aniruddh Patel and John Iversen (Neurosciences Institute) How Learning Langue Influences the Perception of Non-linguistic Rhythm June 8, 2007: Andrea Chiba (UC San Diego) Learning Sequences

Featuring

Monday, March 3, 2008
8:00am - 5:00pm

Frederic de Hoffmann Auditorium, Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

TSN Signature Series

These 3-day events will be available shortly for purchase on DVD.