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2-IKV-141 Current Trends in Cognitive Psychology Provides: Ing. PhDr. Tomáš Gál, PhD. Form and extent of the course: Lecture / Seminar - 2 / 1 hours per week Semester: 2nd Number of credits: 5 Evaluation during the course: test, independent work Concluding evaluation: exam and work Objectives of the course: To present basic approaches in statistics, to learn to collect, describe and manipulate empirical data. To learn to formulate scientific questions, hypotheses and verifiable probabilistic estimates. To learn to interpret results on facts of psychological origin, to learn to use symmetries in understanding of systems, with emphasis to practical application of this knowledge. Brief outline of the course: Introduction - the goal and the spirit of course Methodological tools - statistics as lingua franca in the science, especially in the psychology Descriptive statistics with examples from the psychology, SPSS as tool for data handling Inference statistics with examples from the psychology. Artificial neural nets and multivariate statistics - Symmetries in science, especially in mathematics, physics and psychology Point of view of invariance and "objective reality" Examples of symmetries in science - continuous and discrete symmetries Gauge invariance in physics, psychology, models of psychological spaces Some special problems of cognitive psychology Perception , perception of speech. Libet´s experiments of, free will and consciousness What is MP3 and MPEG - informatics meet physics and psychology (student´s activity) Scientific research of sleep and dream - (student´s activity) Speech recognition of as a cognitive problem - recognition of speech and ANN Literature: Tarski A.: Úvod do logiky a metodologie deduktivních věd, Academia, Praha, 1969 Kolmogorov, A.N.: Osnovnije poňatja teorii verojatnosti, Nauka, 1974 Clauss. G., Ebner, H.: Základy štatistiky pre psychológov, pedagógov a sociológov, Bratislava, SPN, 1988 Sachs, L.: Applied Statistics, Sprienger-Verlag, New York Heidelberg Berlin, 1978 R. Penrose: The Emperors New Mind, Oxford University Press, 1990 Hofstadter, D. R. : Godel, Escher, Bach, Penguin Books, 1979 Majstri vied, celá edícia, vydáva Kaligram 1991 - 2006 Kolumbus, celá edícia, vydáva Mladá fronta, 1960- 2006 Language of instruction: Slovak |