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A: Foundations of Cognitive Science


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1Organizational Meeting
2Mental representation and computation
3Evolutionary Psychology and Behavioral Genetics
4Evolutionary Psychology and Behavioral Genetics



B: Midlevel Vision and Attention


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5Midlevel Vision I
6Midlevel Vision II
7Attention
8Recitation



C: Cognitive Neuroscience of Object Recognition


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9Basic issues, plus behavioral work in normal subjects and neuropsychological cases.
10Physiology and Imaging
11Faces
12Recitation



D: Working Memory and Attention


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13Working Memory and Attention I
14Working Memory and Attention II
15Working Memory and Attention III
16Recitation
17MIDTERM EXAM



E: Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory


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18Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory I
19Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory II
20Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory III
21Recitation



F: Computational Cognitive Science


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22Lecture 1: Similarity and generalization
23Lecture 2: Learning concepts, categories, and words
24Lecture 3: Reasoning and representativeness
25Recitation: Causal inference and theories



G: Categorization


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26Similarity, Analogy, and Categorization
27Words and Meanings
28Language and Thought
29Recitation



H: Language Acquisition


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30The Computational System of Language, Universal Grammar, Parameters and the Problem of Learnability
31Learning 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
32Variability in development, impaired language, evidence for genetic variation. Continuation of the discussion from lasts meeting, but will also consider the following
33Recitation: 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


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34Lecture 1: Speech and speech processing (chapters 6 and 7 of Tartter, 1998)
35Lecture 2: The structure of sentences (chapter 4 of Tartter, 1998)
36Lecture 3: Sentence and discourse processing (Gibson & Pearlmutter, 1998, Gibson, 2000, Tanenhaus, 1995)
37Recitation
38Review
39Final Exam

 


 



 








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