Computers and Cognitive Sciences 2 - NAIL088
Title: Informatika a kognitivní vědy 2
Guaranteed by: Department of Software and Computer Science Education (32-KSVI)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2021 to 2023
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 6
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:3/1, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Guarantor: Mgr. Ján Antolík, Ph.D.
Class: Informatika Mgr. - volitelný
Classification: Informatics > Programming, Software Engineering, Theoretical Computer Science
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Annotation -
This course gives an introduction into computational neuroscience and cognitive psychology. The second term will focus primarily on memory systems, spatial cognition and motor systems, and also neural and behavioral learning. The lecture will be given in Czech language in 2016/7 and in English language in 2017/8.
Last update: Holan Tomáš, RNDr., Ph.D. (17.04.2024)
Course completion requirements -

Paper presentation

Research project

Last update: Antolík Ján, Mgr., Ph.D. (19.12.2023)
Literature - Czech

Literatura:

Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain (Hardcover)

by Mark F Bear (Author), Barry Connors (Author), Michael Paradiso (Author); Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Sternberg, R. J.: Kognitivní psychologie; Portál

Veselovský, Z.: Etologie: Biologie chování zvířat; Academia

The Psychology of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman; Basic Books

Last update: Holan Tomáš, RNDr., Ph.D. (17.04.2024)
Syllabus -

1) Memory and knowledge representation; spatial orientation; hippocampus.

2) Introduction into behavioral sciences, ethology. Imprinting, habituation, sensitization, operant and classical conditioning. Learning at the level on neurons and synapses.

3) Brain research methods

4) Motor system: oculomotor system, spinal cord, cerebellum, motor cortex, basal ganglia. Walking robots.

Last update: Holan Tomáš, RNDr., Ph.D. (17.04.2024)