Schedule

Week	Starting	Labs Tue 4-6 or Thu 2-4 GP-south 78-116	Lab questions	Revision questions	Lecture notes Thu 4-6 GP-south 78-344	Readings
1	2^nd Aug	No lab			Introduction	CMC 1 Preface; 2 Intro to NN; 3 Intro to BW
2	9^th Aug	Introduction to BrainWave (ch 3) IAC and Jets & Sharks model (ch 4)	Week 2	IAC model	Intro to the Stroop effect Model of the Stroop effect
3	16^th Aug	The Stroop model (ch 10)	Week 3	Stroop network with numbers	Human memory: Hebbian learning
4	23^rd Aug	The Hebbian Network (ch 5)	Week 4	Memory model	Unsupervised learning: SOM
5	30^th Aug	The Self-Organizing Map (ch 8)	Week 5 Week 5 answer sheet	SOM	Supervised learning: backpropagation
6	6^th Sept	Backprop (ch 7) and Simple recurrent networks	Week 6 Week 6 answer sheet	Backprop	Modeling time and dynamically interacting agents: firefly synchronization
7	13^th Sept	Fireflies (BrainWave) BrainWave1.1	Week 7	Firefly and RNNs	Models of evolutionary processes: introduction to evolutionary computation (hard copy of lecture notes only)
8	20^th Sept	EC I: Intro to EC	EC I: Intro to EC	EC I	Evolution of altruism, the role of game theory
mid-semester break	27^th Sept				Mid Semester Break
9	4^th Oct	EC II: Baldwin effect	EC II: Baldwin effect	EC II	Evolution of human behaviour
10	11th Oct	EC III: The IPD	EC III: The IPD	EC III	Models of analogical reasoning: Copycat
11	18th Oct	CopyKitten	Week 11	Copycat	Embodied cognition: the role of robotics
12	25^th Oct	Reserved for Asgt work Assignment Marking Scheme	No lab	Embodied cognition UTCs: SOAR	Unified theories of cognition
13	1^st Nov	Reserved for Asgt work	No lab	Past exam papers (IC230 and IC231) are available online from 1998 and 1999 and 2000 (in pdf)	Revision