[D] Influence of cognitive science on ML. Worth learning?

Often ML algorithms (especially DL) motivate their ideas with notions from cognitive science. These when presented often seem to be reasonable as someone who is not well versed on the subject. A part of me wants to more explicitly learn this and am considering taking a class on it.

the opportunity cost being not being able to explore a topic like signal processing that is next on my list of topics to self-explore. (already have a graduate degree in CS). …

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