COGS 304 - Conceptual Integration

Institution:

Case Western Reserve University

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Description:

Conceptual Integration, otherwise known as "blending", is a defining feature of higher-order human cognition, indispensable for all behaviors typically taken as distinctive to human beings. This course presents the cognitive mechanisms of conceptual integration, the constraints on its operation, and its deployment and expression in a range of human behaviors such as learning, invention, mathematical and scientific discovery, language, art music, gesture, social understanding, institutional performance, reasoning, decision, judgment, choice, design, and engineering. A student in the class will work on an individual research project in any of a variety of fields, including engineering (e.g. designing with blends), computer science, the arts, the humanities, the social sciences, cognitive neuroscience, and linguistics. Only one of COGS 304 and COGS 404 can be taken for credit within any degree program. Offered as COGS 304 and COGS 404.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.case.edu

Phone Number:

(216) 368-2000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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