COGST 3140

Computational Psychology

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2024-2025.

This course states and motivates the observation that cognition is fundamentally a computational process and explores the implications of this idea. Students are introduced to a variety of conceptual tools for thinking about cognitive information processing, including statistical learning from experience and the use of patterns distilled from past experience in guiding future actions. They learn to apply these tools to gain understanding of perception, memory, motor control, language, action planning, problem solving, decision making, reasoning, intelligence, and creativity.

When Offered Spring.

Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: one course each in psychology and statistics, or permission of instructor.

Distribution Category (ETM-AS) (KCM-AG)

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