COGS 50.09 Computational Models of Social Cognition
This course explores ways of thinking about models in cognitive science. The course will follow three themes, with the goal of developing your ability to analyze what different modeling approaches reflect about our views of the mind and of the world. The content-theme of the course will be computational models of social cognition, which will involve other topics in cognitive science to build the foundations. The theoretical-theme will be framing models as epistemological expressions, which will emphasize thinking deeply about the philosophy and practice of modeling. The methodological-theme will be probabilistic programming, which will give you a skillset for building cognitive models.
Instructor
Houlihan