INF1-CG: Schedule

Week-by-week Overview and Deadlines

WeekThemeQuizAssignment
W1Introduction to Cognitive Science  
W2Modelling the Brain  
W3Connectionist Models: 
Perceptrons and Neural Networks

QUIZ 1
SUBMIT BY
17:00 ON MONDAY 02/02/2026

 
W4Neural Networks, continued
Measuring Brain Activity
Vision: How we see
  
W5Vision: How we see, continued

QUIZ 2
SUBMIT BY
17:00 ON MONDAY 09/02/2026

 
Flex Week   
W6Categories and language 

HANDED OUT
MONDAY 23/02/2026

W7Language continued

QUIZ 3
SUBMIT BY
17:00 ON MONDAY 02/03/2026

 
W8Learning and Memory: How we remember  
W9Comparative Cognition
Social Cognition
Creativity

QUIZ 4
SUBMIT BY
17:00 ON MONDAY 16/03/2026

 
W10Reinforcement Learning: How we learn to act 

SUBMIT BY
12:00 ON MONDAY 23/03/2026

W11 

QUIZ 5
SUBMIT BY
17:00 ON MONDAY 30/03/2026

 
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