PSYC 538. Categorization, Communication and Consciousness.
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PSYC 538
Categorization, Communication and Consciousness.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Psychology (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The main challenges that cognitive science faces today, focusing on the capacity to learn sensorimotor categories, to name and describe them verbally, and to transmit them to others, concluding with cognition distributed on the Web.
- Prerequisite(s): Student must have completed a 300 level course in one of the following: Linguistics, Philosophy, Psychology, Computer Science, or Neuroscience.
- Restriction(s): Restricted to U2 students or above.
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