PSYCH 186ACognitive Science Laboratory: Introduction to Theory and Simulation
Psychology · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Designed for junior/senior departmental majors. Models of cognition within framework of explanation at multiple levels of abstraction. Examples of elementary models in multiple psychological domains (e.g., visual perception, categorization, learning, reasoning, and problem solving). Types of models include neural networks and symbolic models. Lectures and discussions interwoven with computer simulations written in MATLAB.
P/NP or letter grading.
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Requisites: courses 10, 85, 100A, 100B, Program in Computing 10A, 10B.
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PSYCH 186A
- PSYCH 10Introductory Psychology
- PSYCH 85Introduction to Cognitive Science
- COMPTNG 10AIntroduction to Programming
- PSYCH 100APsychological Statistics
- STATS 10Introduction to Statistical Reasoning
- PSYCH 100BResearch Methods in Psychology
- COMPTNG 10BIntermediate Programming
- COM SCI 31Introduction to Computer Science I
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