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BCS 111: Lecture Schedule

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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)

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