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DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

KATHMANDU UNIVERSITY

Subject: Introduction to Cognitive Science Course Code: AICC 102


Credit: 3 F.M: 100
Type: Core

Course Description:

Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary field of study where students will be able to know
how humans and other animals come to understand and know the properties of their external
environment and process them to behave in a particular way. Cognitive science includes but
is not limited to philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence, and linguistics.
Students would also learn how the brain is not only a stimulus-driven bio-machine but also
an anticipator and modulator of the behavior of the living beings

Course Objectives:

1. To provide a comprehensive introduction to the functioning of the human brain.


2. To learn the fundamentals of Brain-Computer interaction.
3. To learn and imply the basic theory of cognitive science to real-life problem solving
using a brain-computer interface.

Evaluation Scheme
 In-Semester evaluation: 50 marks
 End-Semester Evaluation - 50 marks

Unit 1: Human Mind and Perceptron (6 Hr)

1.1 Introduction to philosophy; Overview of Philosophy; Behaviorism Computationalism;


Functionalism; Embodiment; Phenomenology;
1.2 Cognitive Revolution; Interdisciplinary Perspective; Representation: Digital, Analog and
Dual-coding Hypothesis, Computation: Tri-Level hypothesis

Unit 2: Neurobiology (9 hrs)


2.1 Introduction and Organization of the Nervous System; Difference between neuron and
neuroglia and their types, parts and their functions; Major divisions of the central and
peripheral nervous systems. Sensory and motor pathways; The autonomic nervous system
(sympathetic and parasympathetic); Cranial and Spinal Nerves.
2.2 Overview of different parts of brain and Spinal cord and their functions; Familiarization
about different terms i.e. Synapse, CSF, Ascending and Descending tracts, Dura, Pia and
Arachnoid mater, nerve fibers (myelinated and unmyelinated), ganglia.
2.3 Brief introduction about development of nervous system; Cerebrum-Lobes and Functional
areas; Midbrain, Pons and Medulla; Cerebellum and their major functions; Higher
function and vegetative function control areas of brain.

Unit 3: Philosophy of Cognitive Science (8 hrs)


3.1 Philosophical Approach; Philosophical assumption of Cognitive science; Mind-Body
Problem; Free-will and Determinism;
3.2 Mystery of Consciousness; Consciousness and Neurophysiology; Consciousness and
Artificial Intelligence; Understanding attention through a philosophical approach

Unit 4: Mind as connection, Neurophysiology and Connections (12 hrs)

4.1 Cognitive approach: Mind as Information processing, Modular approach, Understanding


attention through a cognitive approach
4.2 Neuroscience approach: Mind as Neurophysiological matter, Methodological approach in
Neuroscience, understanding attention through neuroscience approach
4.3 Connectome approach: Mind as connectome, Methodological approach in connectome;
Understanding attention through connectome approach

Unit 5: Cognitive System, Neural Networks and Distributed Information Processing (10 hrs)
5.1 Cognitive System; Architecture for intelligent agents; Modularity of Mind; Modularity
Hypothesis; The ACT-R/PM architecture
5.2 Neural Inspired Models of Information Processing; Single-Layer Networks and Boolean
Functions; Multilayer Networks; Information Processing in Neural Networks; Language
Learning in Neural Networks; Neural Network Models of Children’s Physical Reasoning

Text Book / References

1. Allan Siegel, Hreday N. Sapru, Essential Neuroscience, Third Edition, Wolters Kluwer,
2015.
2. Amit Konar – Artificial Intelligence and Soft computing: Behavioral and Cognitive
Modeling of the Human Brain, CRC Press, 2000.
3. Daniel Kolak, William Hirstein, Peter Mandik, Jonathan Waskan, Cognitive Science, An
Introduction to Mind and Brain, Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, 2006.
4. José Luis Bermúdez, Cognitive Science: An Introduction to the Science of the Mind,
Third Edition, Cambridge University Press, 2020.
5. Mayer, E.A., & Saper, C.B. (2000). Progress in Brain Research: The Biological Basis
for Mind Body Interactions, Vol 122, Elsevier.
6. Michael R. W. Dawson , Mind, Body, World: Foundations of Cognitive Science, UBC
Press, 2013.

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