| Date |
Class |
Topic |
Assignments |
| 01/18 |
01 |
Introduction/organization | pdf |
Ch 1 "Standard Equipment," Pinker 1997 |
| 01/23 |
02 |
Historical perspective on cognitive science | pdf |
Dennett 1998 | Questions |
| 01/25 |
03 |
Vision I: levels of visual representations | pdf |
Ch 4 "The Mind's Eye," Pinker 1997 |
| 01/30 |
04 |
Vision II: shading & apparent motion perceptions | pdf |
Ch 4 "The Mind's Eye," Pinker 1997 |
| 02/01 |
05 |
Vision III: visual depth perception | pdf |
Ch 4 "The Mind's Eye," Pinker 1997;
Ernst & Bülthoff 2004 | Questions |
| 02/06 |
06 |
Vision IV: high-level vision 1 | pdf |
Ch 4 "The Mind's Eye," Pinker 1997;
Video: Behrmann (Prosopagnia);
Video: Behrmann (Spatial Hemineglect);
Video: Murray (Visual Perception and Size Illusions);
Video: Lotto (Optical Illusions Show How We See) |
| 02/08 |
07 |
Vision V: high-level vision (continued) | pdf |
Ch 4 "The Mind's Eye," Pinker 1997;
Hayhoe & Ballard 2005 | Questions;
Wolfe 2003 | Questions |
| 02/13 |
08 |
EXAM 1 |
|
| 02/15 |
09 |
Language I: speech and phonology | pdf |
Ch 16 "Speech & Hearing," Johnson-Laird 1988 |
| 02/20 |
10 |
Language II: syntax | pdf |
Ch 4 "How Language Works," Pinker 1994 |
| 02/22 |
11 |
Language III: language processing | pdf |
|
| 02/27 |
12 |
Language IV: language learning | pdf |
Ch 1 "The Invention of Language," Gleitman & Newport 1995 |
| 02/29 |
13 |
Language V: language learning (continued) | pdf |
Saffran 2003 | Questions |
| 03/05 |
14 |
Nature/nurture debate & intelligence | pdf |
Gardner 2011 | Questions;
Neisser 1997 | Questions;
Video: Pinker (Chalks It Up to the Blank Slate) |
| 03/07 |
15 |
Behaviorism & nature/nurture interactions | pdf |
|
| 03/12 |
|
Spring Break: No Class |
|
| 03/14 |
|
Spring Break: No Class |
|
| 03/19 |
16 |
Computational theory of mind | pdf |
Boroditsky 2010 | Questions;
Video: Pinker (Language & Thought) |
| 03/16 |
17 |
Review |
|
| 03/26 |
18 |
EXAM 2 |
|
| 03/28 |
19 |
Attention I | pdf |
Video: Strayer (Driver Distraction & Cell Phones) |
| 04/02 |
20 |
Attention II | pdf |
Video: Rensink (Visual Attention) |
| 04/04 |
21 |
Memory I | pdf |
Ch 5 "Episodic Memory," Baddeley et al. 2009;
Ch 6 "Semantic Memory," Baddeley et al. 2009;
Ch 6 "Interconnections," Reisberg 2006 |
| 04/09 |
22 |
Memory II | pdf |
Ch 5 "Episodic Memory," Baddeley et al. 2009;
Ch 6 "Semantic Memory," Baddeley et al. 2009;
Ch 6 "Interconnections," Reisberg 2006;
Busey & Loftus 2007 | Questions |
| 04/11 |
23 |
Memory III: categorization | pdf |
Ch 9 "Concepts and," Reisberg 2006;
Medin 1989 | Questions |
| 04/16 |
24 |
Memory IV: visual memory | pdf |
|
| 04/18 |
25 |
Judgment & decision making I | pdf |
Ch 12 "Deductive Reasoning," Matlin 2005;
Video: Santos (A Monkey Economy as Irrational as Ours) |
| 04/23 |
26 |
Judgment & decision making II | pdf |
Ch 12 "Deductive Reasoning," Matlin 2005 |
| 04/25 |
27 |
Judgment & decision making III | pdf |
Ch 12 "Deductive Reasoning," Matlin 2005 |
| 04/30 |
28 |
EXAM 3 |
|
| 05/02 |
29 |
Review |
|
| 05/07 |
28 |
EXAM 4 @8:30am (during Final Exam week) |