This course is designed for first-year bachelor students in the Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence program at Tilburg University. Students in this course are required to be taking an Introduction to AI course in parallel, thus many AI topics have been omitted.
The textbook for the course is the first edition of Friedenberg and Silverman's Cognitive Science: An introduction to the mind. It is available here. Weekly readings from the journal Trends in Cognitive Science and similar outlets accompany each week's chapter from the textbook.
| Lecture | Topic | Readings |
| 1 | Introduction | |
| 2 | Overview of Cognitive Science | Chapter 1 and Miller (2003) |
| 3 | Philosophical Approach | Chapter 2 and Barsalou (2008) |
| 4 | Psychological Approach | Chapter 3 and Maurer et al. (2002) |
| 5 | Review Day | No readings |
| 6 | Cognitive Approach 1 | Chapter 4 and Deroy et al. (2016) |
| 7 | Cognitive Approach 2 | Chapter 5 and Lee et al. (2017) |
| Take-home exam | Assignment Due | |
| 8 | Neuroscience Approach (Willem Huijbers) | Chapter 6 and Sejnowski et al. (2014) |
| 9 | Evolutionary Approach |
Chapter 8 and Jara-Ettinger et al. (2016) |
| 10 | Review Day | No readings |
| 11 | Network Approach (Martin Atzmuller) | Chapter 7 and Barabasi & Bonabeau (2003) |
| 12 | Lingustic Approach | Chapter 9 and Goodman & Frank (2016) |
| 13 | Robotics (Paul Vogt) | Chapter 12, Steels (2003), Belpaeme et al. (2011) |
| 14 | Summary, Conclusion, Review Day | Chapter 13 |