UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
The Department of Computer Science & Engineering

Spend one hour researching and creating a 5 minute presentation about a concept, person, or paper in cognitive science (or a related field). You will present your work during the second half of lab.

Some sample topics:

Behaviorism vs. Functionalism
Biological Neurons
Metaphor
Qualia

Some sample papers:

The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information --George Miller
What Is it Like to Be a Bat? --Thomas Nagel
Elements of a Theory of Human Problem Solving --Newell & Simon
What the Frog's Eye Tells the Frog's Brain --Lettvin, Maturana, McColloch & Pitts

Some sample people:

Noam Chomsky (Linguistics and CS)
Philip Johnson-Laird (Psychology, Reasoning)
Steven Pinker (Vision, Psycholinguistics)
David Marr (Vision)
James McClelland (ANNs, Psychology)
Marvin Minsky (AI, Philosophy)