Cognitive Systems

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Department of Cybernetics

Synopsis:

The aim of the subject is to provide students with knowledge of structure and basic functions of brain, receptors' information processing. Further significance of adaptation and learning, its importance, realization and use in biosystems and technical systems. Attention is paid to the interaction brain-body, coordination of motion and the man-machine interface.

Requirements:

Conditions for approval: presence in seminars and labs, measurements, presentation of solved task

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Brain and methods for its investigation

2. Processes of perception (sight, hearing, olfactory sense, taste, touch)

3. Sight and vision system

4. Hearing, auditory system, speech

5. Consciousness

6. Memory

7. Visual and auditory objects

8. Recognition

9. Language, space and development of cognitive flexibility

10. Adaptation and learning

11. Interaction of body and brain

12. Movement control

13. Significance, realization and use in biosystems and technical systems

14. Intelligent man-machine interface

Syllabus of tutorials:

1. Brain structure

2. Function of receptors and processes of perception

3. Processing of visual information

4. Processing of acoustic information

5. EEG recording at rest

6. EEG recording during mental activity

7. EEG recording during body movements

8. Evaluation of recorded data

9. Evaluation of recorded data

10. Evaluation of recorded data

11. Realization of learning principles in biosystems

12. Realization of learning principles in technical systems

13. Sensomotoric functions

14. Principles of intelligent man-machine interface

Study Objective:

Study materials:

[1] Posner M.I. (ed.): Foundations of Cognitive Science. MIT Press, 1996

[2] Churchland P.M.: A Neurocomputational Perspective: The Nature of Mind and the Structure of Science. MIT Press, 1992

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Further information:

No time-table has been prepared for this course

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