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Lectures:
  • Lecture 01: [PPT] : Overview; background on neural functioning
  • Section notes, week 1: [PDF] [OpenOffice]
  • Lecture 02: [PPT] : Neurons; motor control
  • Lecture 03: [PPT] : Neural development
  • Section notes, week 2: [PDF] [OpenOffice]
  • Lecture 04: [PPT] : Connectionist models: basics
  • Lecture 05: [PPT] : Psychological considerations
  • Section notes, week 3: [PDF] [OpenOffice]
  • Lecture 06: [30MB PPT] [7.5MB PDF] : Brain imaging and exploration methods
  • Lecture 07: [PPT] : Learning: biological and connectionist
  • Section notes, week 4: [PDF] [OpenOffice]
  • Lecture 08: [PPT] : More learning, including backpropagation
  • Lecture 09: [PPT] : Review of backpropagation, plus color
  • Section notes, week 5: [PDF] [PPT] [OpenOffice] : Includes highlighted equations of backpropagation
  • Lecture 10: [PPT] : Categories and Schemas
  • Lecture 11: [PPT] : Lakoff's guest lecture
  • Section notes, week 6: [PDF] [OpenOffice] : Categories and schemas
  • Lecture 12: Charles Fillmore's guest lecture
  • Lecture 13: [PPT] : Image schemas, including the beginning of a story about learning them
  • Lecture 14: [PPT] : Regier's model
  • Midterm review: [PDF] : Review for the midterm on Tuesday
  • Lecture 15: [OpenDocument] [PDF] : Bayesian Networks
  • Lecture 16: [PPT] : Computational level: abstract representations
  • Section notes, week 8: [PDF] [OpenOffice]
  • Lecture 17: [PPT] : Motor control
  • Lecture 18: [PPT] : Tom Griffiths's guest lecture
  • Section notes, week 9: [PDF] [OpenOffice]
  • Lecture 19: [PPT] [PDF] : Model merging and Metaphor
  • Lecture 20: [PPT] [PDF] : Aspect
  • Section notes, week 10: [PDF] [OpenOffice]
  • Lecture 21: [PPT] [PDF] : Understanding text about actions: metaphor, aspect, and the KARMA simulator
  • Lecture 22: [PPT] [PDF] : The binding problem, automatic inference, and SHRUTI
  • Section notes, week 11: [PDF] [OpenOffice]
  • Lecture 23: [PDF] : Grammars
  • Lecture 24: [PPT] : Embodied Construction Grammar
  • Section notes, week 12: [PDF] [OpenOffice] : Review of grammars
  • Lecture 25: [PPT] : Parsing with Embodied Construction Grammar
  • Lecture 26: [part 1 PDF] [part 2 PPT]: Learning ECG
  • Section notes, week 13: [PDF] [OpenOffice] : Review of grammar learning
  • Lecture 27: [PPT] : More Embodied Construction Grammar learning
  • Section notes, week 14: [PDF] [OpenOffice]
  • Final exam review: [PDF] [OpenOffice]
Last year's class notes:

Joseph's class notes, in [PDF].