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A: Foundations of Cognitive Science
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Organizational Meeting |
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Mental representation and computation |
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Evolutionary Psychology and Behavioral Genetics |
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Evolutionary Psychology and Behavioral Genetics |
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B: Midlevel Vision and Attention
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Midlevel Vision I |
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Midlevel Vision II |
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Attention |
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Recitation |
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C: Cognitive Neuroscience of Object Recognition
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Basic issues, plus behavioral work in normal subjects and neuropsychological cases. |
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Physiology and Imaging |
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Faces |
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Recitation |
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D: Working Memory and Attention
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Working Memory and Attention I |
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Working Memory and Attention II |
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Working Memory and Attention III |
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Recitation |
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MIDTERM EXAM |
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E: Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory
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Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory I |
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Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory II |
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Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory III |
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Recitation |
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F: Computational Cognitive Science
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Lecture 1: Similarity and generalization |
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Lecture 2: Learning concepts, categories, and words |
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Lecture 3: Reasoning and representativeness |
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Recitation: Causal inference and theories |
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G: Categorization
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Similarity, Analogy, and Categorization |
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Words and Meanings |
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Language and Thought |
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Recitation |
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H: Language Acquisition
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The Computational System of Language, Universal Grammar, Parameters and the Problem of Learnability |
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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 |
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Variability in development, impaired language, evidence for genetic variation. Continuation of the discussion from lasts meeting, but will also consider the following |
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Recitation: How to distinguish processing from competence models of language development: The case of null-subjects in English-speaking children |
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I: Introduction to Language and Psycholinguistics
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Lecture 1: Speech and speech processing (chapters 6 and 7 of Tartter, 1998) |
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Lecture 2: The structure of sentences (chapter 4 of Tartter, 1998) |
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Lecture 3: Sentence and discourse processing (Gibson & Pearlmutter, 1998, Gibson, 2000, Tanenhaus, 1995) |
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Recitation |
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Review |
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Final Exam |
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