Interdivisional
Updated August 22, 2019
Advising Faculty
1.
Sven Anderson - Computer Science
(coordinator)
2.
Sarah Dunphy-Lelii
- Psychology
3.
Justin Hulbert – Psychology (on sabbatical fall ‘18)
4.
Arseny Khakhalin –
Biology
5.
Kristin Lane – Psychology
6.
Bruce Robertson - Biology
7.
Frank M. Scalzo - Psychology
8.
Michael Tibbetts – Biology
If
you are interested in neuroscience, artificial intelligence, philosophy of
mind, animal behavior, linguistics, or psychology, you might want to broaden
your expertise to include the study of Mind, Brain, and Behavior (MBB). MBB is an
concentration rather than a program, so an interested student must moderate
into a program (primary discipline) and complete its requirements, in addition
to pursuing studies in MBB. We
believe that any program can be enhanced by adding the study of cognition. That
said, the degree in MBB has the greatest overlap with biology, computer
science, psychology, and philosophy, so it is generally most straightforward to
combine MBB with one of these fields.
Moderation Requirements:
1.
Any
one of three qualifying intro courses:
·
CS 131 Foundations
of MBB
·
BIO 162
Introduction to Neurobiology
·
PSY
141 Intro to Psychological Science
2.
One
other course from a contributing discipline (psychology, computing, biology, philosophy,
or linguistics).
3.
One
course from a second, different contributing discipline (psychology, computing,
biology, philosophy, or linguistics).
Graduation
Requirements:
1. First
cluster - course 1
2. First
cluster - course 2
3. First
cluster - course 3
4. Second
cluster - course 1
5. Second
cluster - course 2
6. Second
cluster - course 3
7. Upper
college seminar in Cognitive Science (MBB 317)
8. Senior
Project I - must be relevant to MBB
9. Senior
Project II - must be relevant to MBB
Before graduation, students must complete two
discipline clusters (programs or disciplines; see below). A cluster is a coherent set of three courses,
constructed by the concentration faculty, that
provides an introduction to a given discipline and how it can contribute to the
study of cognition.
MBB
Clusters
Psychology:
The Psychology Cluster consists of three courses:
·
PSY 141
Introduction to Psychological Science
·
one 200 level
course from those listed below
·
one 300 level
psychology course
Students should note that 300 level courses typically
have a 200 level prerequisite in the same or closely related area, and
typically require that students be moderated in Psychology or a closely related
program. 200 Level Psychology Courses fulfilling the 200 level course
requirement for the Psychology Cluster include (but are not limited to) the
following offerings:
·
PSY 210 Adult
Abnormal Psychology
·
PSY 211 Child
Abnormal Psychology
·
PSY 212
Personality Psychology
·
PSY 220 Social
Psychology
·
PSY 221 Developmental
Psychology
·
PSY 230 Cognitive
Psychology
·
PSY 231
Neuroscience
·
PSY 237 Drugs and
Human Behavior
·
PSY 241 Social
Neuroscience
·
PSY 243 Learning
& Memory
·
PSY 244 Psychology
of Emotion
·
PSY 271 Judgment
and Decision Making
Computing:
Three courses, one from each of the following sets:
Course 1: CMSC
143: Object-Oriented Programming w Robots (unless admitted directly to a
higher-level course)
Course 2: CMSC 251: Introduction to Artificial
Intelligence or
CMSC 225: Computer Architecture
Course 3: CMSC 351: Artificial Intelligence or
CMSC 353: Modeling and Simulation or
CMSC 360: Intelligent Robots & Perception or
CMSC 352: Machine Learning
Biology:
Three of the following courses, at least two of them
numbered 200 or higher:
·
162 Introduction
to Neurobiology
·
151 From Genes to
Traits
·
201 Genetics and
Evolution
·
202 Ecology and
Evolution
·
324 Animal
Physiology
·
313 Animal
Behavior
·
318 Cellular and
Molecular Neuroscience
·
417 Computational
Neuroscience
Linguistics:
Intro Linguistics (LIT 201) and any two of:
·
Psycholinguistics
(Psy 256)
·
Syntax (CNSV 299)
·
Cognitive and
Neural Bases of Metaphor Comprehension (PSY 339)
·
Topics in Philosophy
of Language (Phil 271)
·
Music and Language
(CNSV 220)
Philosophy:
1.
PHIL 115 Introduction to the Philosophy of the Mind
2.
PHIL 247 The First
Person Perspective: Philosophy of Mind
3.
And one of the
following three courses:
·
PHIL 2** Problems
of Irrationality
·
PHIL 2** The
Conscious and the Unconscious
·
PHIL 3** Evolution
and Cognition