To simulate the outside world, including society, the brain decodes and encodes patterns of information. These cognitive processes of reading and writing manifest as stereotyped information sampling and communicating behaviours, that have been shaped by eons of interactions with conspecifics in particular and natural information patterns in general. This course is a glimpse into the evolution of these cognitive processes, their neurophysiological underlyings, how thay have shaped, and been shaped by human culture, and what happens when they default. The evaluation of this course will be done through debate contests performed in between 2 teams of 6 people, as well as a written final exam. The purpose of such an evaluation is to assess the knowledge of the students about the different theories of reading and writing in the brain, the empirical evidences that support them and the students ability to defend them and devise new experiments to test these theories.
- Teacher: Samy Rima