Discussion of senior research projects during the fall and spring terms that culminate in written and oral senior theses. Each project must be supervised by a cognitive scientist working at Barnard or Columbia.
This course will focus on a topic at the intersection of neuroscience and philosophy. Potential topics include free will, consciousness, neural representation, probabilistic inference, and the computational theory of mindThis course will focus on a topic at the intersection of neuroscience and philosophy. Potential topics include free will, consciousness, neural representation, probabilistic inference, and the computational theory of mind.