| 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 |