NSC 308, 309 - Embodied Cognition

Course unit(s): 1
Meets GAR (students beginning prior to Fall 2024): Meets general academic requirement SC (and is a linked IL when offered as 309).
Prerequisite or corequisite: NSC 300 Brain & Behavior , or PSY 217, 218 Cognitive Processes (may be concurrently enrolled), or permission of instructor.

Explores an increasingly influential and popular research program in cognitive science in which brain function is investigated in the context of an organism’s embodied interactions with the material, social, and (in the case of human beings) cultural environment. Class discussions integrate research from neurophysiology, ethology, ecological psychology, computational theory of mind, phenomenology, cybernetics, and dynamical systems theory. Labs focus on experiential and experimental investigations, discussion of primary literature, and the making and study of simple behaving robots.