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Course Schedule—Fall 2008

Cognitive Science

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COGNITIVE SCIENCE

050.105 (N,S)

INTRODUCTION TO COGNITIVE NEUROPSYCHOLOGY (3) McCloskey Limit 125   Explores cognitive deficits caused by brain damage (including language, perceptual, and spatial, deficits), and considers how the deficits shed light on normal mental processes.
Cross-listed with Neuroscience

Sec. 01

TTh 1:30-2:45

050.205 (N,S)

THE STRUCTURE OF ENGLISH (3) Burzio    Limit 40   Our knowledge of English has a complex and yet regular structure in all major linguistic domains: word-formation (morphology), sound structure (phonology), and structure of phrases (syntax).    This course uncovers the principles that make up our knowledge of English and reflects on the fact that they are largely acquired without specific instruction.

Sec. 01

WF 12-1:15

050.327 (N,S)

PHONOLOGY II (3) Staff    Limit 30
Prereq: 050.325 or Perm. Req’d.  This course extends the material covered in 050.325 with more advanced topics in morphology, phonology, and phonetics, varying from year to year.  Sample topics include stress systems and metrical phonology, tone and auto-segmental phonology, reduplication and prosodic morphology, non-concatenative morphology, constraints and optimality theory, feature geometry, articulatory phonology, and phonetics/phonology interface. 
Meets with 050.627

Sec. 01

MW 3-4:15

050.339 (N,S)

INTRODUCTION TO COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT (3) Landau   Limit 25 15 This is a survey course in developmental psychology, designed for individuals with some basic background in psychology or cognitive science, but little or none in development.  The course is strongly theoretically oriented, with emphasis on issues of nature, nurture, and development. 
Meets with 050.639.
Cross-listed with Psychological and Brain Sciences and Neuroscience

Sec. 01

 MW 1:30-2:45

050.370 (N,S)

FORMAL METHODS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE (3) Frank   Limit 30   This course will be devoted to the study of formal systems that have proven useful in the cognitive science of language.  We will discuss a wide range of mathematical structures and techniques and demonstrate their applications in theories of grammatical competence and performance.  A major goal of this course is bringing students to a point where they can evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of existing formal theories of cognitive capacities, as well as profitably engage in such formalization, constructing precise and coherent definitions and rigorous proofs.  Meets with 050.670.

Sec. 01

TTh 12-1:15

050.501

READINGS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE - FRESHMEN

050.503

RESEARCH IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE - FRESHMEN

050.505

READINGS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE - SOPHOMORES

050.507

RESEARCH IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE - SOPHOMORES

050.509

COGNITIVE SCIENCE INTERNSHIP

050.511

READINGS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE - JUNIORS

050.513

RESEARCH IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE - JUNIORS

050.515

READINGS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE - SENIORS

050.517

RESEARCH IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE – SENIORS

050.627

PHONOLOGY II Staff    Limit 10 Perm. Req’d.This course extends the material covered in 050.325 with more advanced topics in morphology, phonology, and phonetics, varying from year to year.  Sample topics include stress systems and metrical phonology, tone and auto-segmental phonology, reduplication and prosodic morphology, non-concatenative morphology, constraints and optimality theory, feature geometry, articulatory phonology, and phonetics/phonology interface. 
Meets with 050.327

Sec. 01

MW 3-4:15

050.639

INTRODUCTION TO COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT Landau   Limit 5 25 This is a survey course in developmental psychology, designed for individuals with some basic background in psychology or cognitive science, but little or none in development.  The course is strongly theoretically oriented, with emphasis on issues of nature, nurture, and development. 
Meets with 050.339
Cross-listed with Psychological and Brain Sciences and Neuroscience

Sec. 01

 MW 1:30-2:45

050.670

FORMAL METHODS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE Frank   Limit 10This course will be devoted to the study of formal systems that have proven useful in the cognitive science of language.  We will discuss a wide range of mathematical structures and techniques and demonstrate their applications in theories of grammatical competence and performance.  A major goal of this course is bringing students to a point where they can evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of existing formal theories of cognitive capacities, as well as profitably engage in such formalization, constructing precise and coherent definitions and rigorous proofs.  Meets with 050.370

Sec. 01

TTh 12-1:15

050.800

DIRECTED READINGS Staff Limit 40   Perm. Req’d.   Guided independent readings in special fields of cognitive science.

Sec. 01

TBA

050.801

RESEARCH SEMINAR IN COGNITIVE NEUROPSYCHOLOGY Rapp  Limit 30   Perm. Req’d.   Participants in this graduate seminar will read and discuss current research articles in cognitive neuropsychology of vision or language, and present their own research. 

Sec. 01

TBA

050.802

RESEARCH SEMINAR IN COGNITIVE PROCESSES McCloskey   Limit 20   
Perm. Req’d.     Current issues and on-going research on human cognition are discussed. 

Sec. 01

TBA

050.811

RESEARCH SEMINAR IN LANGUAGE AND COGNITION Landau   Limit 20 Perm. Req’d.   A specialized research seminar for individuals researching language acquisition, cognitive development and the interface between language and cognition.  Students must actively carry out empirical or theoretical research in these areas. 

Sec. 01

TBA

050.821

RESEARCH SEMINAR IN GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURE Frank  Limit 25   Perm. Req’d.     A critical review of evidence bearing on the question of how words are represented and stored in the mind. Topics in phonological, morphological, syntactic, and/or semantic theory.  Discussion of the current literature and specifically of the relevance of linguistic results for the study of the mind.  

Sec. 01

TBA

050.825

SEMINAR IN OPTIMALITY THEORY Smolensky  Limit 20  Perm. Req’d.   This seminar will read selected chapters from the book, Smolensky & Legendre (2006), The Harmonic Mind: From Neural Computation to Optimality Theoretic Grammar.

Sec. 01

TBA

050.839

RESEARCH IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE  Staff    Perm. Req’d.  

TBA

050.849

TEACHING PRACTICUM 
Perm. Req’d.
   Limit 25  Essential for Teaching Assistants 

TBA

 

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