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Foundation and Frontiers of Cognitive Science
认知科学基础与前沿
Connecting classic theories and experimental methods in cognitive science with current frontiers in artificial intelligence.
Course materials
2026 Fall
The schedule and materials will be updated throughout the term.
| Week | Topic | Slide / Note | Lab |
|---|---|---|---|
| W01Lecture 09/08 · Lab 09/09 | Course Introduction & Overview | ||
| W02Lecture 09/15 · Lab 09/16 | Neural Basis of Cognition | ||
| W03Lecture 09/22 · Lab 09/23 | Perception and Attention | ||
| W04Lecture 09/29 · Lab 09/30 | Vision | ||
| W05Lecture 10/06 (no class) · Lab make-up 10/10 | National Day holiday | The odd-week Wednesday class is made up on October 10. | — |
| W06Lecture 10/13 · Lab 10/14 | Auditory and Speech Systems | ||
| W07Lecture 10/20 · Lab 10/21 | Language and Syntax 1: Constituency Parsing | — | |
| W08Lecture 10/27 · Lab 10/28 | Language and Syntax 2: Dependency Parsing | — | |
| W09Lecture 11/03 · Lab 11/04 | Language Modeling | — | |
| W10Lecture 11/10 · Lab 11/11 | Memory (I) | — | |
| W11Lecture 11/17 · Lab 11/18 | Memory (II) | — | |
| W12Lecture 11/24 · Lab 11/25 | Learning and Memory Systems | — | |
| W13Lecture 12/01 · Lab 12/02 | Thinking and Decision Making | — | |
| W14Lecture 12/08 · Lab 12/09 | Emotion and Affective Computing | — | |
| W15Lecture 12/15 · Lab 12/16 | Mind and Consciousness | — | |
| W16Lecture 12/22 · Lab 12/23 | To be announced | — | — |
| W1712/29–12/30 | Final examination period | Final examination time to be confirmed. | — |
2025 Fall
Archived Fall 2025 materials. Lab downloads preserve the original term file structure.
| Week | Topic | Slide / Note | Lab |
|---|---|---|---|
| W01 | Introduction: cognitive science, methods, and AI | ||
| W02 | Neural foundations of cognition | ||
| W03 | Perception, vision, and attention | ||
| W04 | Vision and object recognition | ||
| W05 | National Day holiday | No class. | — |
| W06 | Neuromorphic computing | ||
| W07 | Audition and speech recognition | ||
| W08 | Memory I: short-term and working memory | ||
| W09 | Memory II: long-term memory, forgetting, and implicit memory | ||
| W10 | Language and language models I | ||
| W11 | Language and cognitive load | ||
| W12 | Learning theories | ||
| W13 | Thinking, reasoning, and decision making | ||
| W14 | Emotion and affective computing | ||
| W15 | Theories of consciousness | — | |
| W16 | Review and summary | — |
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