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General Information | Resources | Reading List | Weekly Schedule | Lecture Notes |
I. General Information |
Dr. Yoonsuck Choe
Email: choe(a)tamu.edu
Office: HRBB 322B
Phone: 845-5466
Office hours: TBA
CPSC 625
MWF 12:40pm-1:30pm HRBB 126.
See the Weekly Schedule section for more details.
- nervous system overview
- computational tools and basic theoretical concepts
- natural sensory statistics and neural coding,
- self-organization in neural networks,
- connectivity analysis in biological networks,
- active approach and analogy,
- understanding the behavior of dynamical agents, and
- semantics and the role of action in perception and cognition.
Grading will be on the absolute scale. The cutoff for an `A' will be at most 90% of total score, 80% for a `B', 70% for a `C', and 60% for a `D'. However, these cutoffs might be lowered at the end of the semester to accomodate the actual distribution of grades.
The TAMU student rules (http://student-rules.tamu.edu/), Part I Rule 20 will be strictly enforced.
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a federal anti-discrimination statute that provides comprehensive civil rights protection for persons with disabilities. Among other things, this legislation requires that all students with disabilities be guaranteed a learning environment that provides for reasonable accommodation of their disabilities. If you believe you have a disability requiring an accommodation, please contact the Department of Student Life: Services for Students with Disabilities in Room 126 of the Koldus Building, or call 845-1637. (The source of this passage is TAMU Phil320 Syllabus.)
III. Weekly Schedule and Class Notes |
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1 | 1/19 | MLK Day (Holiday) | ||||
1 | 1/21 | Introduction | Three handouts were distributed. Ask the instructor for extra copies. | slide01.pdf |
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1 | 1/23 | Nervous system basics | Handouts, and Stevens "The Neuron" in the paper packet | slide02.pdf |
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2 | 1/26 | Intro wrap up | Bell (1999; reading list) | Paper comment#1 out (due 2/2) | No class W/F | slide03.pdf |
2 | 1/28 | No class | Make up (2/11 6-8pm HRBB302) | |||
2 | 1/30 | No class | Make up (2/11 6-8pm HRBB302) | |||
3 | 2/2 | Probability/ Bayesian Framework | Knill et al. (1996; photocopy) | Paper comment#1 due; slide04 will be distributed in class |
slide04.pdf |
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3 | 2/4 | " | Schneider (1999) | Paper comment#2 assigned (due 2/9) | slide04.pdf |
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3 | 2/6 | Bayesian vs. Info Theory | Jepson and Feldman (1996; readling list); Ballard chapter 2 (pp46-51; handout) | slide05.pdf |
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4 | 2/9 | Cognition/ Redundancy/ Learning | Langlois and Garrouste (1997) | Paper comment#2 due | slide06.pdf |
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4 | 2/11 | Basic computational tools | Paper comment #3 announced (slide07 page2; due 2/13) | Make-up class today 6-8pm HRBB302; 4 handouts plus the lecture notes (slide07) | slide07.pdf |
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4 | 2/13 | Computationalism | Searle (1997; reading list; photocopy) | Paper comment #4 announced (slide08 page1; due 2/18) | Paper comment #3 due; Paper comment #1 grades | slide08.pdf |
5 | 2/16 | Computationalism | Searle (1997; reading list; photocopy) | slide08.pdf |
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5 | 2/18 | Schema theory | Arbib (1996; reading list; photocopy) | Paper comment #4 due | slide09.pdf |
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5 | 2/20 | Imitation | Arbib (2003; pp606-611; photocopy) | slide10.pdf |
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6 | 2/23 | Visual illusions | Yu and Choe (2004) | Guest talk by Yingwei Yu | ||
6 | 2/25 | Interactive vision | Churchland et al. (1994; readling list; photocopy) | Paper comment #5 announced | Paper comment #4 grades | slide11.pdf |
6 | 2/27 | Action and Semantics | Choe and Bhamidipati (2004; reading list; Bio-ADIT) | Paper comment #2 grades | slide12.pdf |
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7 | 3/1 | Thalamus | Hill and Tononi (2003; reading list); Guillery and Sherman (2002; reading list) | Paper comment #5 due | slide13.pdf |
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7 | 3/3 | Thalamus and Analogy | Choe (2003; reading list; IJCNN pp.1480-1485) | slide14.pdf |
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7 | 3/5 | Analogy with Binary Spatter Code | Kanerva (1998; reading list -- both) | slide16: project suggestions | slide15.pdf |
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8 | 3/8 | Evolutionary Agents | Gomez and Miikkulainen (1998; reading list) | Program Assignment Announced; Paper presentation and project topics |
slide17.pdf |
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8 | 3/10 | Natural scene statistics | Lee and Choe (2003; reading list; IJCNN pp.206-211), Barlow (2001) | Paper topics (prelim) due | slide18.pdf |
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8 | 3/12 | Dynamical systems | Beer (2000; reading list) | Paper topics/presentation date preference due | slide19.pdf |
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9 | 3/15 | Spring Break | No class | |||
9 | 3/17 | Spring Break | No class | |||
9 | 3/19 | Spring Break | No class | |||
10 | 3/22 | Self-organization in the visual cortex | Choe and Miikkulainen (Biol. Cyb. 2004) | slide20.pdf |
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10 | 3/24 | Paper presentation 1 | Helga and John Kocurek; Corlette | |||
10 | 3/26 | Paper presentation 2 | Whetzel; Meeks | |||
11 | 3/29 | Paper presentation 3 | Smith; Leiloglou | Program #1 due | ||
11 | 3/31 | Paper presentation 4 | Dou; Song;Coker | |||
11 | 4/2 | Paper presentation 5 | Liu and Zhang; Wang | |||
12 | 4/5 | Paper presentation 6 | Sanders; Busse | |||
12 | 4/7 | Paper presentation 7 | Jung, Lim, and Shin | |||
12 | 4/9 | Reading Day | No Class | |||
13 | 4/12 | Paper presentation 8 | Dahms, Stoker, and Bethancourt | |||
13 | 4/14 | Paper presentation 9 | Misra, Annamala, and Isen | |||
13 | 4/16 | Paper presentation (Corlette) Self-organization in the visual cortex |
Choe and Miikkulainen (Biol. Cyb. 2004) | slide20.pdf |
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14 | 4/19 | Paper presentation (Corlette) Self-organization in the visual cortex |
Choe and Miikkulainen (Biol. Cyb. 2004) | slide20.pdf |
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14 | 4/21 | Alternative essenses of AI | Brooks (1998; reading list) | slide21.pdf |
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14 | 4/23 | Active Vision | Granlund (1998) | Project preliminary report due | slide22.pdf |
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15 | 4/26 | Rhythm recognition | Buisson, J.-C., A rhythm recognition computer program to advocate interactivist perception, Cognitive Science, 28:75-87, 2004 [PDF] (demo) | slide23.pdf |
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15 | 4/28 | Course wrap-up | Summary and perspectives | slide24.pdf |
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15 | 4/30 | Project presentation | [1] Noah [2]Navendu, Rajah, and Ciji; [3] Fenghui and Yutu |
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16 | 5/3 | Project presentation | [4] Matt and Iason (plus resources for further exploration) |
Last class day | slide25.pdf |
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16 | 5/4 | Project presentation (Redefined day: Tuesday) |
[5] Dan [6] John and Helga | Redefined day: Tuesday class | ||
5/10 | Final Presentation 10:30am-12:30pm |
[7] Jon and Brad [8] Lingfeng [9] Yantao and Jinding [10] John (Meeks) [11] Heejin, Jaehee, and Seongjin [12] Deji | Final Project Due (in class) |