BCS 172: Lecture Schedule

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Lecturer	Date	Topic	Readings
	01/17	Organizational meeting	Review the syllabus
RA	01/22	Designing and interpreting experiments \| pdf	Aslin & Langlois Slater (2012)
RA	01/24	Nature and nurture in animal development	Hess (1958) Gould & Marler (1985) Kobak (2012)
RA	01/29	Motor development: Reaching, walking, and maturation	Adolph (2008)
RA	01/31	Quiz #1 on Nova video: Neuro-embryology Development of the brain: Effects of experience	Hensch (2012) Stiles (2009)
LE	02/05	Neuroimaging methods for human infants Mini-lecture on QUESTION 1: Romanian orphanage studies	Amso & Casey (2006) Lloyd-Fox et al. (2010) Nelson et al. (2013)
RA	02/07	Sensory development: Seeing in infancy End of class: GROUP PLANNING	Kellman & Arterberry 1&2 Aslin (2007) Oakes (2010)
RA	02/12	Group Reports on QUESTION 1
RA	02/14	Perception of depth and distance	Adolph & Kretch (2012) Gunderson et al. (1993)
RA	02/19	Perceiving objects and patterns	Johnson (1997) Slater et al. (2010)
RA	02/21	Infant memory and statistical learning	Rovee-Collier (1999) Blaser & Kaldy (2010) Aslin & Newport (2012)
	02/26	MIDTERM EXAM 1
RA	02/28	Piaget's theory of conceptual development Mini-lecture on QUESTION 2: Television, video games and social media	Ginsburg & Opper (1979) Klahr (2012) Courage & Setliff (2009)
RA	03/05	Infants' knowledge of objects and number End of class: GROUP PLANNING	Baillargeon (1994) Wynn (1995) Xu & Kushnir (2013)
RA	03/07	Group Reports on QUESTION 2
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RA	03/19	Children's conceptual development	Gelman (2003) Gopnik (2012)
RA	03/21	Theory of mind	Senju et al. (2011) Sodian (2011) Chevallier (2012)
RA	03/26	The development of speech perception Mini-lecture on QUESTION 3: Benefits/harms of bilingualism	Aslin (2012) Werker et al. (2012) Bialystok & Craik (2010)
CB	03/28	Music perception End of class: GROUP PLANNING	Hannon & Trainor (2007) Trehub et al. (2008)
RA	04/02	Group reports on QUESTION 3
PR	04/04	Quiz on Nova video: Memory impairments Language development and nature/nurture	Gleitman & Newport (1995) Saffran et al. (2001)
RA	04/09	Word learning and sentence processing	Hurtado et al. (2008) Swingley (2008) Kidd et al. (2011)
AI	04/11	Social and cultural influences on language PROJECT REPORT DUE	TBA
RA	04/16	Information processing in children	McWilliams et al. (2012) Goldin-Meadow (2009) Richardson & Hayne (2007)
	04/18	CLASS CANCELLED; SRCD
RA	04/23	Intelligence/Behavior genetics	Champagne & Mashooh (2009) Johnson et al. (2009)
RA	04/25	Project summary and Q&A for final exam
	04/30	EXAM 2

THERE IS NO CUMULATIVE FINAL EXAM

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