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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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