* Last Updated 16th Oct 2003 *  (Highlighted material is subject to change)

Schedule is updated weekly

 

Week

 

Starting

Labs and lab questions
Tue 4-6 GP-south 78-208

Revision
questions

Lecture notes
Thu 4-6
GP-south 78-224

Readings

1

28th July

 

No Lab

 

 

Introduction

(lecture notes in pdf)

CMC
1 Preface;
2 Intro to NN;
3 Intro to BW

2

4th Aug 

Before the lab:

  Read chs1-4

In the lab:

  Week 2 questions.

 

1.  CMC ch 3exercises (Intro to BW)

2. CMC Ch 4 exercises (IAC and J&S model)

 

IAC model

Intro to the Stroop effect (pdf)

Model of the Stroop effect (html)

 CMC Ch 10

3 Ekka

11th Aug 

 

Before the lab:

  Read ch 10  

In the Lab:

  Week 3 questions  

  CMC Ch 10 exercises

 

 

Stroop network with numbers

Hebbian learning (ppt)

 CMC Ch 5

4

18rd Aug 

Before the lab:
  Read ch 5

In the lab:

  Week 4 questions

  CMC Ch 5 exercises.

 

 

Memory model

Unsupervised learning: SOM(html slides)

CMC Ch 8

5

25th Aug 

The Self-Organizing Map (ch 8)

Week 5 questions

Week 5 answer sheet

SOM

1. Supervised learning: bp lecture (pdf)

2. Q6 excel spreadsheet

3. Q12 spreadsheet

4. Additional lecture notes (htm)

 CMC Ch 7

 

6

1st  Sept

 

Backprop (ch 7)

 Week 6 questions and answer sheet

 

Backprop

ECI – Intro to EC

 Read the online GA tutorial

7

8th Sept

Intro to GAs Week 7 Questions

EC1

ECII – Game theory and IPD

 Read the Tutorial question sheet

8

15th Sept

IPD Week 8 Questions

EC II

Discussion on ECII questions

ECIII - Sex Mind and Language

 Read the tutorial question sheet

9

22rd Sept

ECIII Week 9 Questions

NetLogo Users Manual

NetLogo

EC III

Analogies and copycat

 

Read the online Copycat tutorial

 

mid-semester break

27th Sept

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10

6th Oct

Copycat Week 10 Questions

1 Copycat sample question and answer
2 Copycat past exam question and answer

Complex Systems I

 

 Read the NetLogo User Manual Tutorial 1 (page 1 and 17-24)

11

13th Oct

Cellular Automata
Week 11 Questions

Complex Systems I

 

 

Complex Systems II

 

 

12

22nd Oct

No lab

Reserved for Asgt work

Complex Systems II

Alternative approaches to modelling: UTCs & Embodied Cognition

 

 

13

27th Oct

No Lab

Reserved for Asgt work

Embcog and UTCs

 

Revision Session (no lecture notes)

 Asgt is due

Any questions from the labs and the sample questions may be on the exam. Past exam papers are available online from 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002,