Giovanni Anastasio's Cognitive Science Capstone (CSC) Work Site

About this page

This page presents documents pertaining to my work in the Cognitive Science Capstone (CSC) course. Most of the documents pertain to my CSC research project that was completed throughout this semester.Several of the other documents pertain to other significant components of the course, including notes on the Craft of Research (Required Text), preparations for an oral exam, and blog entries. The remaining references are to elements of enrichment that relate to the cognitive science and the CSC experience.

Research Project

• Candidate Research Project Interests: Candidate Interest 1 - Semiotics and Cinema | Candidate Interest 2 - Human Foraging | Candidate Interest 3 - Musical Memories
• Candidate Research Problem statements: Candidate Problem Statement 1 - Semiotics and Cinema | Candidate Problem Statement 2 - Human Foraging | Candidate Problem Statement 3 - Musical Memories
• Research Problem Finalization: Research Problem Finalization - Semiotics and Cinema
• First sources: Annotated List of a Dozen Resources
• First Notes: Pass 1 | Pass 2 | Pass 3 | Pass 4 | Pass 5
• Draft Prerequisites: Draft Prerequisite Assignment
• Twenty Questions: Twenty Questions
• Second Sources: Annotated List of Twenty Resources
• Second Notes: Eighty Notes
• Lightening Draft: Lightening Draft Assignment
• Skeletal Draft: Skeletal Draft Assignment
• Substantial Draft Components: Substantial Draft Assignment || Third Notes Assignment || Bibliography
• Final Draft Components: Capstone Project Final Draft || Capstone Project Slideshow Presentation PDF
• Capstone Finally: Capstone Finally Assignment

Periferal Tasks

Craft of Research Lists: 

• CoR 1: Thinking in Print | 
• CoR 2: Connecting with Your Reader | 
• CoR 3: From Topics to Questions | 
• CoR 4: From Questions to a Problem | 
• CoR 5: From Problems to Sources | 
• CoR 6: Engaging Sources | 
• CoR 7: Making Good Arguments | 
• CoR 8: Making Claims | 
• CoR 9: Assembling Reasons and Evidence | 
• CoR 10: Acknowledgments and Responses | 
• CoR 11: Warrants

Classic Reading Briefs:  Classic Paper 1: The Turing Test |  Classic Paper 2: Computer Science as Empirical Inquiry: Symbols and Search |  Classic Paper 3: Parallel Distributed Processing |  Classic Paper 4: Embodied Cognition
Blog Entries:  Entry 1: Entering into the Cognitive Science Program |  Entry 2: A Brief Overview of the Cognitive Science Program |  Entry 3: The Cognitive Science Club |  Entry 4: What Exactly Can I Do With This Degree?

External Resources

• Cognitive Science as a field
• Video on the basics of Machine Learning
• Your Brain on Music
• Human Computer Interaction Explained
• Semiotics
• Embodied Cognition
• Cognitive Semiotics
• Cinema and Semiotics
• Diegetic Vs Non-Diegetic Sound
• Color Theory