The Brain and Cognitive Sciences II

Calendar

SES #	Topics
A: Foundations of Cognitive Science
1	Organizational Meeting
2	Mental representation and computation
3	Evolutionary Psychology and Behavioral Genetics
4	Evolutionary Psychology and Behavioral Genetics
B: Midlevel Vision and Attention
5	Midlevel Vision I
6	Midlevel Vision II
7	Attention
8	Recitation
C: Cognitive Neuroscience of Object Recognition
9	Basic issues, plus behavioral work in normal subjects and neuropsychological cases.
10	Physiology and Imaging
11	Faces
12	Recitation
D: Working Memory and Attention
13	Working Memory and Attention I
14	Working Memory and Attention II
15	Working Memory and Attention III
16	Recitation
17	MIDTERM EXAM
E: Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory
18	Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory I
19	Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory II
20	Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory III
21	Recitation
F: Computational Cognitive Science
22	Lecture 1: Similarity and generalization
23	Lecture 2: Learning concepts, categories, and words
24	Lecture 3: Reasoning and representativeness
25	Recitation: Causal inference and theories
G: Categorization
26	Similarity, Analogy, and Categorization
27	Words and Meanings
28	Language and Thought
29	Recitation
H: Language Acquisition
30	The Computational System of Language, Universal Grammar, Parameters and the Problem of Learnability
31	Learning and Development in Early Language. The development of finiteness, word order, agreement, case and children’s knowledge of language, universal and learned: How to understand the development of different languages
32	Variability in development, impaired language, evidence for genetic variation. Continuation of the discussion from lasts meeting, but will also consider the following
33	Recitation: How to distinguish processing from competence models of language development: The case of null-subjects in English-speaking children
I: Introduction to Language and Psycholinguistics
34	Lecture 1: Speech and speech processing (chapters 6 and 7 of Tartter, 1998)
35	Lecture 2: The structure of sentences (chapter 4 of Tartter, 1998)
36	Lecture 3: Sentence and discourse processing (Gibson & Pearlmutter, 1998, Gibson, 2000, Tanenhaus, 1995)
37	Recitation
38	Review
39	Final Exam