ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Introduction to artificial intelligence and machine learning. Artificial neural networks: mathematical formalism and general principles. Supervised learning: perceptron, delta rule, multi-layered networks and error backpropagation. Generalization and overfitting. Partially recurrent networks: learning sequential data. Unsupervised learning: associative memories and Hopfield networks, competitive learning, latent variable models, annealing, Boltzmann machines. Deep learning. Reinforcement learning. Computer simulation as a research method in cognitive (neuro)science. Connectionist models of perception and cognition.