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TDT4137

Cognitive Architectures

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Credits 7.5
Level Third-year courses, level III
Course start Autumn 2024
Duration 1 semester
Language of instruction English
Location Trondheim
Examination arrangement School exam

About

About the course

Course content

Cognitive architectures aim at giving increased understanding of intelligent systems and how they interact with the external world. The subject covers underlying infrastructures and how various subsystems work together for coherent cognition. Key elements include short-term memory, long-term memory, representation of mental structures, functional processes and learning mechanisms. In this context, the subject also treats evaluation of user interfaces in terms of cognitive complexity analysis, and also looks at advanced multimodal user interaction.

Learning outcome

Knowledge: The subject will give the candidate a general introduction to concepts, methods and techniques within cognitive architectures.

Skills: The candidate will be able to apply actual methods and techniques.

General competence: Through practical and theoretical exercises the student shall understand and apply cognitive architectures, and have an integrated view of intelligent systems. The candidate shall know the field historically and its foundation based on artificial intelligence, cognitive science and human-computer interaction.

Learning methods and activities

Lectures, colloquia, self-study, and exercises.

A number of mandatory exercises must be approved in order to take the exam.

Compulsory assignments

  • Exercises

Further on evaluation

If there is a re-sit examination, the examination form may be changed from written to oral.

The exam will be in English only, but the students may answer in Norwegian if preferred.

Course materials

To be announced

Subject areas

  • Computer and Information Science
  • Information Technology and Informatics

Contact information

Course coordinator

Department with academic responsibility

Department of Computer Science

Examination

Examination

Examination arrangement: School exam
Grade: Letter grades

Ordinary examination - Autumn 2024

School exam
Weighting 100/100 Examination aids Code D Date 2024-12-20 Time 09:00 Duration 4 hours Exam system Inspera Assessment
Place and room for school exam

The specified room can be changed and the final location will be ready no later than 3 days before the exam. You can find your room location on Studentweb.

Sluppenvegen 14
Room SL410 orange sone
11 candidates
Room SL274
2 candidates
Room SL120
3 candidates
Room SL410 blå sone
48 candidates

Re-sit examination - Summer 2025

School exam
Weighting 100/100 Examination aids Code D Duration 4 hours Exam system Inspera Assessment
Place and room
The specified room can be changed and the final location will be ready no later than 3 days before the exam. You can find your room location on Studentweb.