| Date |
Class |
Topic |
Assignments |
| 01/17 |
01 |
Introduction/organization | pdf |
Pinker (1997) [pp. 3-21] | note |
| 01/22 |
02 |
Historical perspective on cognitive science | pdf |
Dennett (1998) [Chapter 1: "Can Machines Think?] | note |
| 01/24 |
03 |
Vision I: levels of visual representations | pdf |
Pinker (1997) [Chapter 4: "The Mind's Eye"] | note |
| 01/29 |
04 |
Vision II: shading & apparent motion perceptions | pdf |
Pinker (1997) [Chapter 4: "The Mind's Eye"] | note;
Dawson (1998) [pp. 243-270] | note |
| 01/31 |
05 |
Vision III: visual depth perception | pdf |
Pinker (1997) [Chapter 4: "The Mind's Eye"] | note;
Ernst & Bülthoff (2004) | note |
| 02/05 |
06 |
Vision IV: high-level vision | pdf |
Pinker (1997) [Chapter 4: "The Mind's Eye"] | note;
Behrmann & Avidan (2005) | note |
| 02/07 |
07 |
Vision V: high-level vision (continued) | pdf |
Pinker (1997) [Chapter 4: "The Mind's Eye"] | note;
Hayhoe & Ballard (2005) | note;
Wolfe (2003) | note
|
| 02/12 |
08 |
EXAM 1 |
|
| 02/14 |
09 |
Language I: speech and phonology |
Holt & Lotto (2008) | note |
| 02/19 |
10 |
Language II: syntax |
Pinker (1994) [pp. 83-103] | note |
| 02/21 |
11 |
Language III: language processing |
|
| 02/26 |
12 |
Language IV: language learning |
Gleitman & Newport (1995) | note |
| 02/28 |
13 |
Language V: language learning (continued) |
Aslin & Newport (2012) | note |
| 03/05 |
14 |
Nature/nurture debate & intelligence |
Gardner (2011) | note;
Neisser (1997) | note |
| 03/07 |
15 |
Behaviorism & nature/nurture interactions |
|
| 03/12 |
|
Spring Break: No Class |
|
| 03/14 |
|
Spring Break: No Class |
|
| 03/19 |
16 |
Computational theory of mind |
Boroditsky (2010) | note |
| 03/21 |
17 |
Knowledge representations |
|
| 03/26 |
18 |
EXAM 2 |
|
| 03/28 |
19 |
Attention |
Green & Bavelier (2003) | note |
| 04/02 |
20 |
Memory I: short-term memory, long-term memory |
|
| 04/04 |
21 |
Memory II: long-term memory |
Roediger III & McDermott (2000) | note;
Busey & Loftus (2007) | note |
| 04/09 |
22 |
Memory III: categorization |
Medin (1989) | note |
| 04/11 |
23 |
Memory IV: visual memory |
|
| 04/16 |
24 |
Judgment & decision making I |
|
| 04/18 |
25 |
Judgment & decision making II |
Tversky & Kahneman (1981) | note |
| 04/23 |
26 |
Judgment & decision making III |
|
| 04/25 |
27 |
EXAM 3 |
|
| 04/30 |
28 |
Review |
|
| May 10 @ 7:15pm |
|
EXAM 4 (during Final Exam week) |