Wayne D. Gray -- Cognitive Science -- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Advanced Topics in Cognitive Science: Emotion, Control of Cognition, & Dynamic Decision Making

 

COGS 6962 -- Fall 2004

 

Instructor: Wayne Gray
Phone: 518-276-3315
Email: grayw@rpi.edu
Office: 305 Carnegie
Office Hours: by appointment
Class Time: Thur 2-6
Class Location: Carnegie 206

course URL: http://www.rpi.edu/~grayw/courses/cogs6962/

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Description

This research seminar focuses on issues in the study of dynamic decision-making and emotion. What may initially appear to be two separate topics on closer inspection are revealed as inextricably intertwined aspects of the human integrated cognitive system. In sorting through the modern theories and evidence we will come face to face with basic issues in control of cognition and the issue of optimality or the lack thereof in our cognitive processes.


We will revisit a handful of key papers and controversies that helped to define and frame our current debates. However, 30 of the 48 papers we will read were published in 2000 or later with 12 having been published in the last two years (2003 or 2004 or in press).

 

 

About the Instructor

See my homepage for information about my research interests. Also be sure to visit the CogWorks Laboratory website.


last changed: 2004-08-25 by wdg