Cognitive Science
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MIT OCW
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The Human Brain
Prof. Nancy Kanwisher
This course surveys the core perceptual and cognitive abilities of the human mind and asks how they are implemented...
Science & Math
Biology
Cognitive Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Introduction to Psychology
Prof. John D. E. Gabrieli
This course is a survey of the scientific study of human nature, including how the mind works, and how the brain...
Social Sciences
Psychology
Science & Math
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Machine Learning
Rohit Singh
6.867 is an introductory course on machine learning which gives an overview of many concepts, techniques, and...
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
AI
Algorithms and Data Structures
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course
Prof. Tomaso Poggio
This course explores the problem of intelligence—its nature, how it is produced by the brain and how it could be...
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
AI
Machine Learning
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Cognitive Neuroscience
Prof. Suzanne Corkin
This course explores the cognitive and neural processes that support attention, vision, language, motor control,...
Science & Math
Biology
Cognitive Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Philosophical Issues in Brain Science
Prof. Alex Byrne
This course provides an introduction to important philosophical questions about the mind, specifically those that...
Social Sciences
Psychology
Science & Math
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Introduction to Neural Computation
Prof. Michale Fee
This course introduces quantitative approaches to understanding brain and cognitive functions. Topics include...
Science & Math
Biology
Cognitive Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Introduction to Computational Neuroscience with Neuroblox
Prof. Lilianne Mujica-Parodi
In this course, you will learn the basics of computational neuroscience via hands-on model building in Neuroblox and...
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
Computer Science
Science & Math
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Pattern Recognition and Analysis
Media Lab Faculty and Staff
This class deals with the fundamentals of characterizing and recognizing patterns and features of interest in...
Science & Math
Cognitive Science
Mathematics
advanced
MIT OCW
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Brain Structure and Its Origins
Prof. Gerald E. Schneider
This course provides an outline of vertebrate functional neuroanatomy, aided by studies of comparative neuroanatomy...
Science & Math
Biology
Cognitive Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Neuroscience and Behavior
Prof. Gerald E. Schneider
This course covers the relation of structure and function at various levels of neuronal integration. Topics include...
Social Sciences
Psychology
Science & Math
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Advanced Natural Language Processing
Prof. Michael Collins
This course is a graduate introduction to natural language processing - the study of human language from a...
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
AI
Machine Learning
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Introduction to Neural Networks
Prof. Sebastian Seung
This course explores the organization of synaptic connectivity as the basis of neural computation and learning....
Science & Math
Biology
Cognitive Science
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Principles of Autonomy and Decision Making
Prof. Brian Charles Williams
This course surveys a variety of reasoning, optimization and decision making methodologies for creating highly...
Business & Management
Systems Thinking
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
The Nature of Creativity
Prof. Irving Singer
This course is an introduction to problems about creativity as it pervades human experience and behavior. Questions...
Social Sciences
Psychology
Science & Math
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Minds and Machines
Prof. Alex Byrne
This course is an introduction to many of the central issues in a branch of philosophy called philosophy of mind.
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
AI
Machine Learning
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Robert Speer
How are math, art, music, and language intertwined? How does intelligent behavior arise from its component parts?...
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
Networks and Security
Computer Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Introduction to Computational Neuroscience
Prof. Sebastian Seung
This course gives a mathematical introduction to neural coding and dynamics. Topics include convolution,...
Science & Math
Biology
Cognitive Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
The Linguistic Study of Bilingualism
Prof. Suzanne Flynn
One mind, two languages. The basic focus of this class will be on the linguistic and psycholinguistic underpinnings...
Science & Math
Cognitive Science
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Special Topics: Genetics, Neurobiology, and Pathophysiology of Psychiatric Disorders
Prof. Edward Scolnick
An opportunity for graduate study of advanced subjects in Brain and Cognitive Sciences not included in other subject...
Social Sciences
Psychology
Science & Math
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Perception
Prof. Josh McDermott
This course studies how the senses work and how physical stimuli are transformed into signals in the nervous system....
Science & Math
Cognitive Science
Health & Medicine
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
The Brain and Cognitive Sciences II
Prof. Earl Miller
This course is the second half of the intensive survey of brain and behavioral studies for first-year graduate...
Social Sciences
Psychology
Science & Math
advanced
MIT OCW
free
The Brain and Cognitive Sciences I
Prof. Earl Miller
Survey of principles underlying the structure and function of the nervous system, integrating molecular, cellular,...
Science & Math
Biology
Cognitive Science
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Music Perception and Cognition
Dr. Peter Cariani
This course is a survey of perceptual and cognitive aspects of the psychology of music, with special emphasis on...
Science & Math
Biology
Cognitive Science
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Foundations of Cognition
Prof. Josh Tenenbaum
Advances in cognitive science have resolved, clarified, and sometimes complicated some of the great questions of...
Social Sciences
Psychology
Science & Math
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Statistics for Brain and Cognitive Science
Emery N Brown
Provides students with the basic tools for analyzing experimental data, properly interpreting statistical reports in...
Science & Math
Cognitive Science
Mathematics
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Techniques in Artificial Intelligence (SMA 5504)
Prof. Tomás Lozano-Pérez
6.825 is a graduate-level introduction to artificial intelligence. Topics covered include: representation and...
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
AI
Algorithms and Data Structures
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Sensation And Perception
Dr. Benjamin Balas
This course provides an introduction to important philosophical questions about the mind, specifically those that...
Social Sciences
Psychology
Science & Math
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Cellular Neurobiology
Prof. Troy Littleton
This course serves as an introduction to the structure and function of the nervous system. Emphasis is placed on the...
Science & Math
Biology
Cognitive Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Evolutionary Psychology
Prof. Steven Pinker
Current research on the evolution and development of cognition and affect, including intuitive physics, biology, and...
Social Sciences
Psychology
Science & Math
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Infant and Early Childhood Cognition
Prof. Laura Schulz
This course is an introduction to cognitive development focusing on children’s understanding of objects, agents, and...
Social Sciences
Psychology
Science & Math
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Brain and Cognitive Sciences Computational Tutorial Series
This is a seminar series led by graduate students and postdocs in the MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences...
Science & Math
Biology
Cognitive Science
beginner
MIT OCW
free
A Clinical Approach to the Human Brain
Prof. Thomas Byrne
This course is designed to provide an understanding of how the human brain works in health and disease, and is...
Social Sciences
Psychology
Science & Math
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Topics in Statistics: Statistical Learning Theory
Prof. Dmitry Panchenko
The main goal of this course is to study the generalization ability of a number of popular machine learning...
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
AI
Algorithms and Data Structures
advanced
MIT OCW
free
fMRI Bootcamp
Prof. Rebecca Saxe
This video lecture series begins with an introduction to the basics of anatomical and functional MRI and the time...
Science & Math
Cognitive Science
Health & Medicine
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Language and Mind
Prof. Ted Gibson
This course will address some fundamental questions regarding human language: (1) how language is represented in our...
Social Sciences
Psychology
Science & Math
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Affective Computing
Prof. Rosalind W. Picard
This course instructs students on how to develop technologies that help people measure and communicate emotion, that...
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
AI
Machine Learning
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Neurotechnology in Action
Prof. Alan Jasanoff
This course, as a part of MIT’s Center for Neurobiological Engineering curriculum, explores cutting-edge...
Science & Math
Cognitive Science
Engineering
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Physical Intelligence
Noah Riskin
For all of the bodies attached to the many great minds that walk the Institute’s halls, in the work that goes on at...
Science & Math
Cognitive Science
Health & Medicine
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Computational Cognitive Science
Prof. Joshua Tenenbaum
This course is an introduction to computational theories of human cognition. Drawing on formal models from classic...
Science & Math
Cognitive Science
Engineering
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Pattern Recognition for Machine Vision
Dr. Bernd Heisele
The applications of pattern recognition techniques to problems of machine vision is the main focus for this course....
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
AI
Machine Learning
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Holographic Imaging
Prof. Michael Halle
MAS.450 is a laboratory course about holography and holographic imaging.
This course teaches holography from a...
Art, Design & Architecture
Media Studies
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Human Supervisory Control of Automated Systems
Prof. John Hansman
Human Supervisory Control of Automated Systems discusses elements of the interactions between humans and...
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
User Experience
Computer Science
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Neural Basis of Learning and Memory
Prof. Matt Wilson
This course highlights the interplay between cellular and molecular storage mechanisms and the cognitive...
Science & Math
Biology
Cognitive Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Statistical Learning Theory and Applications
Dr. Ryan Rifkin
Focuses on the problem of supervised learning from the perspective of modern statistical learning theory starting...
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
AI
Algorithms and Data Structures
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Research Topics in Neuroscience
Prof. Peter H. Schiller
This series of research talks by members of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences introduces students to...
Social Sciences
Psychology
Science & Math
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Prof. Susan Carey
This course uses neuroscience methods to study the cognitive development of human infants and children. Case studies...
Science & Math
Biology
Cognitive Science
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Affect: Neurobiological, Psychological and Sociocultural Counterparts of "Feelings"
Stephan L. Chorover
This course studies the relations of affect to cognition and behavior, feeling to thinking and acting, and values to...
Social Sciences
Psychology
Science & Math
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Cognitive Neuroscience of Remembering: Creating and Controlling Memory
Prof. Anthony Wagner
This course is offered during the Independent Activities Period (IAP), which is a special 4-week term at MIT that...
Science & Math
Biology
Cognitive Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Human Memory and Learning
Prof. Anthony Wagner
Surveys the literature on the cognitive and neural organization of human memory and learning. Includes consideration...
Science & Math
Biology
Cognitive Science
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Natural Language and the Computer Representation of Knowledge
Prof. Robert Berwick
6.863 is a laboratory-oriented course on the theory and practice of building computer systems for human language...
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
AI
Machine Learning
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Networks for Learning: Regression and Classification
Prof. Tomaso Poggio
The course focuses on the problem of supervised learning within the framework of Statistical Learning Theory. It...
Science & Math
Cognitive Science
Mathematics
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Tools for Robust Science
Prof. Rebecca Saxe
This course offers a comprehensive exploration of cutting-edge tools and techniques designed to revitalize and...
Science & Math
Cognitive Science
Health & Medicine
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Lab in Psycholinguistics
Prof. Edward Gibson
Hands-on experience designing, conducting, analyzing, and presenting experiments on the structure and processing of...
Science & Math
Cognitive Science
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Industrial Design Intelligence: A Cognitive Approach to Engineering
Prof. Ted Selker
This class investigates cognitive science and technology as it is applied to the industrial design process. The...
Science & Math
Cognitive Science
Engineering
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Animal Behavior
Prof. Gerald E. Schneider
The introductory topics will cover various approaches to the study of animals and their behavior. Key concepts in...
Science & Math
Biology
Cognitive Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Common Sense Reasoning for Interactive Applications
Prof. Henry Lieberman
This course will explore the state of the art in common sense knowledge, and class projects will design and build...
Art, Design & Architecture
Media Studies
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Neuroscience of Morality
Prof. Rebecca Saxe
How do we decide whether an action is morally wrong? How do we choose to do what is right? When and why do we punish...
Social Sciences
Psychology
Science & Math
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Out of Context: A Course on Computer Systems That Adapt To, and Learn From, Context
Prof. Henry Lieberman
Increasingly, we are realizing that to make computer systems more intelligent and responsive to users, we will have...
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
AI
Machine Learning
advanced
MIT OCW
free
MEG Workshop
Dr. Tech. Matti Hämäläinen
This series helps learners understand magnetoencephalography (MEG) signals through the lens of source estimation,...
Science & Math
Cognitive Science
Health & Medicine
beginner
MIT OCW
free
Cognitive Processes
Prof. Mary C. Potter
This undergraduate course is designed to introduce students to cognitive processes. The broad range of topics covers...
Science & Math
Cognitive Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
The Human Intelligence Enterprise
Patrick Henry Winston
This course analyzes seminal work directed at the development of a computational understanding of human...
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
AI
Machine Learning
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Advanced Animal Behavior
Prof. Gerald E. Schneider
The course includes survey and special topics designed for graduate students in the brain and cognitive sciences. It...
Cognitive Science
Psychology
Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Feeling and Imagination in Art, Science, and Technology
Prof. Irving Singer
This course is a seminar on creativity in art, science, and technology. We discuss how these pursuits are jointly...
Literature
Philosophy
Cognitive Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Neural Coding and Perception of Sound
Dr. Bertrand Delgutte
This course focuses on neural structures and mechanisms mediating the detection, localization and recognition of...
Biology
Cognitive Science
Biomedical Technologies
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Laboratory in Visual Cognition
Prof. Aude Oliva
9.63 teaches principles of experimental methods in human perception and cognition, including design and statistical...
Science & Math
Cognitive Science
Health & Medicine
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Language Processing
Prof. Edward Gibson
This course is a seminar in real-time language comprehension. It considers models of sentence and discourse...
Linguistics
Cognitive Science
Humanities
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Experimental Molecular Neurobiology
Prof. Carlos Lois
Designed for students without previous experience in techniques of cellular and molecular biology, this class...
Biology
Cognitive Science
Science & Math
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Special Topics in Vision Science
Prof. Edward Adelson
An advanced seminar on issues of current interest in human and machine vision. Topics vary from year to year. This...
Engineering
Visualization
Computer Science
advanced
MIT OCW
free
AFNI Training Bootcamp
Rick Reynolds
This training course is an introduction to the use of the AFNI software suites for the analysis of functional MRI...
Imaging
Cognitive Science
Science & Math
beginner
MIT OCW
free
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Musical Time
Dr. Martin Marks
This course is an interdisciplinary exploration of three broad topics concerning music in relation to time.
Music...
Philosophy
Music
Cognitive Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Abnormal Language
Mr. Christopher Hirsch
Introduction to the linguistic study of language pathology, concentrating on experimental approaches and theoretical...
Health Care Management
Linguistics
Cognitive Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
The Lexicon and Its Features
Dr. David Gow
This course provides an overview of the distinctive features which distinguish sound categories of languages of the...
Linguistics
Cognitive Science
Humanities
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Probability and Causality in Human Cognition
Prof. Joshua Tenenbaum
Probability theory captures a number of essential characteristics of human cognition, including aspects of...
Mathematics
Cognitive Science
Science & Math
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Biochemistry and Pharmacology of Synaptic Transmission
Prof. Richard Wurtman
This course considers the process of neurotransmission, especially chemicals used in the brain and elsewhere to...
Biology
Cognitive Science
Science & Math
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Transcribing Prosodic Structure of Spoken Utterances with ToBI
Dr. Nanette Veilleux
This course presents a tutorial on the ToBI (Tones and Break Indices) system, for labelling certain aspects of...
Electrical Engineering
Linguistics
Computer Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Darwin and Design
Prof. James Paradis
Humans are social animals; social demands, both cooperative and competitive, structure our development, our brain...
Humanities
History
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Topics in Brain and Cognitive Sciences Human Ethology
Prof. Gerald E. Schneider
Survey and special topics designed for students in Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Emphasizes ethological studies of...
Cognitive Science
Psychology
Social Sciences
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Scene Understanding Symposium
Prof. Aude Oliva
What are the circuits, mechanisms and representations that permit the recognition of a visual scene from just one...
Biology
Cognitive Science
Science & Math
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Affective Priming at Short and Extremely Short Exposures
Prof. Suzanne Corkin
This course is an investigation of affective priming and creation of rigorously counterbalanced, fully computerized...
Biology
Cognitive Science
Science & Math
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Special Topics: Social Animals
Prof. Rebecca Saxe
Humans are social animals; social demands, both cooperative and competitive, structure our development, our brain...
Biology
Cognitive Science
Psychology
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Conversational Computer Systems
Mr. Christopher Schmandt
This class explores interaction with mobile computing systems and telephones by voice, including speech synthesis,...
Electrical Engineering
Cognitive Science
Computer Science
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Studies in Poetry - British Poetry and the Sciences of the Mind
Prof. Noel Jackson
Do poems think? Recurrent images of the poet as an inspired lunatic, and of poetry as a fundamentally irrational...
Humanities
History
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
The Neural Basis of Visual Object Recognition in Monkeys and Humans
Prof. James DiCarlo
Understanding the brain’s remarkable ability for visual object recognition is one of the greatest challenges of...
Psychology
Biology
Cognitive Science
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Special Topics in Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Prof. Anthony Wagner
Memory is not a unitary faculty, but rather consists of multiple forms of learning that differ in their operating...
Biology
Cognitive Science
Science & Math
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Investigating the Neural Substrates of Remote Memory using fMRI
Prof. Suzanne Corkin
This course is an investigation to distinguish episodic memory, which is memory of personal events, from semantic...
Biology
Cognitive Science
Science & Math
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Marathon Moral Reasoning Laboratory
Prof. John Mikhail
This seminar focuses on the cognitive science of moral reasoning. Philosophers debate how we decide which moral...
Humanities
Philosophy
Cognitive Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Object and Face Recognition
Prof. Pawan Sinha
Provides a comprehensive introduction to key issues and findings in object recognition in experimental, neural,...
Systems Engineering
Cognitive Science
Engineering
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Laboratory in Cognitive Science
Prof. Pawan Sinha
Teaches principles of experimental methods in human perception and cognition, including design and statistical...
Cognitive Science
Science & Math
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
The Development of Object and Face Recognition
Prof. Pawan Sinha
This course takes a ‘back to the beginning’ view that aims to better understand the end result. What might be the...
Systems Engineering
Cognitive Science
Engineering
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Modularity, Domain-specificity, and the Organization of Knowledge
Prof. Elizabeth S. Spelke
This course will consider the degree and nature of the modular organization of the mind and brain. We will focus in...
Cognitive Science
Science & Math
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Experimental Methods of Adjustable Tetrode Array Neurophysiology
Prof. Matthew Wilson
Students will be exposed to all aspects of a cutting-edge technique in modern electrophysiology, in a highly...
Biology
Cognitive Science
Psychology
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Reasonable Conduct in Science
Prof. Matthew Wilson
To provide instruction and dialog on practical ethical issues relating to the responsible conduct of human and...
Philosophy
Cognitive Science
Humanities
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Brain and Cognitive Sciences Computational Tutorial: Optimizing the Full Stack for Generative Image and Video Models
This tutorial covers optimization strategies for diffusion models used in image and video generation; topics include...
Machine Learning
Computer Science
Engineering
beginner
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University Of Cambridge Introduction To Cognitive Psychology And Neuropsychology
Cognitive Science
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American Psychological Association Be A Better Learner Using Psychology
Cognitive Science