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+assignment myth of cognitive decline
+Read the paper in this folder (diagonally), and write a short review in which you evaluate the conclusions of this study against the following two questions:
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+1. how would someone establish that cognitive declines are in fact real?
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+2. does the paper meet those criteria?
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+This assignment is due by Thursday next week.
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+final assignment
+the final assignment will be on Rescorla-Wagner networks and the XOR (exclusive or) problem, and more in general, whether a Rescorla-Wagner network can learn a nonlinearly separable problem given sufficient "background cues"
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+this final assignment will be due at the latest three weeks after the end of the course (giving you time to first get all your exams done)
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+details on this assignment will be added next week