PSY 420 - Using Robots to Understand the Mind

College of Arts and Sciences
3 credit(s) Irregularly

Double Numbered with: PSY 620
Cognitive science explains behavior mechanistically. This course uses simple, autonomous, mobile robots as model cognitive agents. By doing cognitive science on these robots we come to understand what it means to say that “cognition is computation”.
PREREQ: (PSY 205 OR PSY 209) AND PSY 322 (AND PSY 419
COREQ: or PSY 419)