Teaching

Christian Freksa, 
Thomas Barkowsky,
Thora Tenbrink,
Holger Schutheis,
Rasmus Wienemann,
Ana-Maria Olteteanu

A two-semester course on natural and artificial cognitive systems. The first semester provides an introduction to basic concepts, terminology, and methods used in the interdisciplinary study of cognitive systems; it covers foundations of perception, memory and reasoning, learning and action, and verbal and non-verbal communication.

The course consists of lectures and practical implementation tasks. The goal of the course is to provide a basic understanding of concepts and methods of cognitive science. The course will be both in English and in German such that

• german students will experience a smooth introduction to English courses and that
• international students will be able to participate in this course.

Holger Schultheis, 
Thomas Barkowsky,
Christian Freksa

A two-semester course on natural and artificial cognitive systems. The first semester provides an introduction to basic concepts, terminology, and methods used in the interdisciplinary study of cognitive systems; it covers foundations of perception, memory and reasoning, learning and action, and linguistic and non-linguistic communication.

The second semester investigates methods from psychology, neuroscience, and informatics in more detail; cognitive architectures and modeling approaches are studied; we perform case studies in cognitive modeling and discuss challenges for the field of cognitive science. The course consists of lectures, reading, modeling, and writing assignments, and discussion groups. The goal of the course is to provide a firm grasp on concepts and methods of cognitive science.

This colloquium is part of the International Quality Network of the Universities of Bremen, Freiburg, and Hamburg in cooperation with 23 international partner universities and the Transregional Collaborative Research Center Spatial Cognition: Reasoning, Action, Interaction of the Universities Bremen and Freiburg. Scientists of the participating institutions and guests report on their research in the area of spatial cognition. Usually research groups from other locations are connected through an interactive teleconferencing network.

Ph.D. and master/diploma students discuss their current research. For the preparation of the session the candidates distribute a research paper one or two weeks ahead of time to the seminar participants. In the seminar session, the most important aspects of the paper are summarized by the author to initiate an in-depth discussion of the work in progress.