Comments for CogSci 3790: Introduction to Cognitive Science

Comment on Homework by Jerald

Jerald — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 03:23:14 +0000

i would like to say that I have fairly bad pacing information given when writing papers and I’ll probably end up repeating myself a bit on the last page ( more than i’m supposed to just from summarizing)

Comment on Homework by Ron

Ron — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:11:13 +0000

By the classical view of consciousness, I mean the Cartesian Theatre view.

Comment on Homework by Nicole

Nicole — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 04:34:53 +0000

I’m kinda confused about what the ‘classical view of consciousness’ implies. Are we talking about the wax tablet sort of thing? Or are we talking about the other views of consciousness that came about before the Multiple Drafts model? Am i completely missing something?

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Comment on Reading Schedule by Derek

Derek — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 15:30:18 +0000

reading is still TBA for today’s lecture?

Comment on Homework 2 is up (and WebCT news) by Courtland

Courtland — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 02:01:55 +0000

Just to help some people out with printing from Permap, you can click the option print output to file (which is located under the normal print stuff). Then afterwards you select the High Quality Print option (ctrl+q, i think) and this will make an image in the permap folder which you can print as you would a normal image.

Comment on Homework by Matt

Matt — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:30:41 +0000

Eh, I don’t think that was what Taneshia was asking because I think she has the same issue I had. If A, the feature set for some animal, has 10 elements, then the spot on the diagonal, of the half-grid where A that permap reads, where A is compared to A will be 10. Similarly, if B has 11 elements then the spot on the diagonal where B is compared to B will be 11. However, permap is not capable of dealing with this as it intended for use with MDS models and one of the noted flaws of MDS models is that they assume that all objects are equally like themselves. In order to make all the elements on the diagonal equal, I averaged them. I was just checking that this was an acceptable way of resolving the issue.

Comment on Homework by Justin

Justin — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 08:40:07 +0000

Courtland:
Sure, they can be negative. It’s up to you to interpret them. For instance, you might try normalizing them to help you analyze and compare.

Taneshia:
The MDS model has a number indicating similarity between two entities. The feature-by-feature comparison is already factored into that similarity value.

Lisa:
The assignment says, “Let f be a simple count of the members in the set.” “The set” refers to the set of features (i.e. traits). So f(A^B) refers to the count of how many features are the same, f(A-B) refers to the count of how many features are in A but not B, and f(B-A) refers to the count of how many features are in B but not in A.

Comment on Homework by Lisa Stuber

Lisa Stuber — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 07:14:38 +0000

Are A and B just the number of traits, or the number of traits the two have in common (or something else…)?

Comment on Using the PERMAP tool by Derek

Derek — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 17:36:13 +0000

I unzipped and used the installer with no problems on Windows Vista Business Edition.

Comment on Homework 2 is up (and WebCT news) by Phillip

Phillip — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 15:51:48 +0000

I’ve started print services using the computer management utility and I still get 482 errors. Do I need to also have a printer installed in order for it to work?

OS: XP Pro SP2