INF1-CG: Week 6
Tasks
Your major tasks and deadlines this week are:
- Start working on Assignment 1, which will be issued this week and is due on Monday 24 March. This assignment is for credit and accounts for 20% of your course mark.
- The assignment has two parts. Part 1 deals with modeling past tense formation, part 2 deals with modeling visual perception. You can start immediately with Part 1, but for Part 2, it's best to wait until the lectures on visual perception in the second half of the course.
- Do Quiz 3, which will be issued on Friday and is due on Monday 3 March at 12:00 noon.
- Attend lectures 15, 16, and 17.
- Attend your tutorial group. Make sure to first attempt the Questions for Tutorial 5 on your own.
- Attend one of the drop-in labs. Please note that the drop-in labs for weeks 6-9 are there to support the assignment; there are no separate lab exercises for these weeks.
- If you need help with the course material, attend one of the office hours.
- Read the readings for this week.
Lectures
| No | Date | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 15 | 25 Feb | Modelling in Cognitive Neuroscience |
| 16 | 27 Feb | The Human Brain |
| 17 | 28 Feb | Neurons |
All lectures will be livestreamed and recorded on Echo Video. You may have to log on through Learn before this link works.
Readings
The links below direct you to the University Library or to Piazza. You will need to log on to access the full text.
Readings come in two flavours: required and recommended.
| Gage and Baars 2018 | Fundamentals of Cognitive Neuroscience (Second Edition): Chapter 2 - The Brain | Required |
| Ward 2019 | The Student’s Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience: Chapter 2 - Introducing the brain | Recommended |
| Brooks, R., Hassabis, D., Bray, D., & Shashua, A. (2012) | Is the brain a good model for machine intelligence? Nature, 482(7386), 462. | Recommended |
Assignments
To access the assignments, please login in through Learn, and then go the link “Notable LTI 1.2”.
Quizzes
To access the quizzes, please login in through Learn, and then go the link “Gradescope”.
Tutorials
Please attempt to answer the Questions for Tutorial 5. These will be discussed in the tutorial sessions this week.
Labs
Please attend one of the drop-in lab sessions this week. The labs are designed to help with the assignments, and you can ask the lab demonstrator if anything is unclear with Assignment 1.
To access the lab notebooks, please login in through Learn, and then go the link “Notable LTI 1.2”.