| COGNITIVE SCIENCE |
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| 050.101
(N,S) |
COGNITION (3) Frank Limit
100 Introductory course exploring
the study of human mental processes within the field of cognitive
science. Drawing upon cognitive psychology, cognitive neuropsychology,
cognitive neuroscience, linguistics, and artificial intelligence,
the course examines theory, methods, and major findings in work
on vision, reasoning, and language. |
Sec. 01 |
ThF 10:30-11:50 |
| 050.203
(N,S) |
COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE: EXPLORING THE LIVING BRAIN (3) Rapp Limit 100 30
Perm. Req’d This
course surveys theory and research concerning how mental processes
are carried out by the human brain. Currently a wide range
of methods of probing the functioning brain are yielding insights
into the nature of the relation between mental and neural events.
Emphasis will be placed on developing an understanding of both
the physiological bases of the techniques and the issues involved
in relating measures of brain activity to cognitive functioning.
Methods surveyed include electrophysiological recording techniques
such as EEG, VEP, ERP, single/multiple unit recording and MEG;
functional imaging techniques such as PET and fMRI; and methods
that involve lesioning or disrupting neural activity such as
WADA, cortical stimulation, animal lesion studies, and the study
of brain-damaged individuals. |
Sec. 01 |
T ThF 2-3:30
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| 050.240
(H,N,S) |
THE WORLD OF LANGUAGE (3)
Legendre This
hands-on course exposes students to the fascinating variety
– and uniformity – to be found among the world’s 6000 languages
through group lectures on a variety of topics as well as actual
linguistic fieldwork conducted in small groups with a native
speaker of a language unknown to the participants. Among the
fundamental questions examined in lectures and tested against
realistic linguistic data are the following. Is knowledge of
language encoded in the genes? Is it unique to mankind?
How do new languages emerge from the contact of two very different
languages? How did English change over time? Are
all languages related? Where does language come from? |
Sec. 01 |
MTW 10 |
| 050.311
(N,S)
(W) |
WRITTEN LANGUAGE: NORMAL PROCESSING & DISORDERS (3) Rapp Prereq: 050.101, 050.102, or 050.105
This course surveys both the historical
development of written language as well as current cognitive
theories that account for the manner in which the written language
is represented and processed by “readers/writers” of a language.
Issues regarding the relationship between the written and spoken
language, the acquisition of written language skills, as well
as developmental and acquired disorders of reading and writing
will be examined.
Cross-listed
with Neuroscience |
Sec. 01 |
MT 11-12:15 |
| 050.315
(N,S) |
COGNITIVE
NEUROPSYCHOLOGY OF VISUAL PERCEPTION
(3) McCloskey Prereq: any one of the following:
050.105, 050.311, 050.203 or 080.203 When
the visual areas of the brain are damaged or fail to develop
normally, remarkable perceptual deficits may result (for example,
inability to determine where objects are even though the objects
can be seen clearly). This course explores a variety of visual
deficits, focusing on what the deficits can tell us about normal
visual perception. Topics include object recognition and visual
agnosia, spatial perception and spatial deficits, and attention
and visual neglect.
Cross-listed
with Neuroscience |
Sec. 01 |
M 2:30-4 |
| 050.321
(N,S) |
SYNTAX
II (3) Legendre Perm. Req’d. Prereq:
050.320 Building on 050.320, this
course addresses and compares conceptions of syntactic theory
that have emerged in the 1980’s and 1990’s. Discussion focuses
on both the substantive and formal properties of the fundamental
principles of syntactic theory, as well as the cross-linguistic
evidence that has motivated them. When possible, connections
will be made to other areas of linguistic inquiry such as processing,
acquisition, and computation. The particular choice of topics
and conceptions will vary from year to year but may include
(1) the contrast between the Principles and Parameters view
where syntactic theory is composed of a set of inviolable principles
whose form admits a certain amount of cross-linguistic variation,
and the Optimality Theory view where the principles are invariant
though violable, and cross-linguistic variation is determined
by the relative importance of satisfying the various principles;
(2) the role of structure building operations in grammar, and
the differences between characterizations of well-formed ness
in terms of sequences of derivational steps and representational
well-formedness. Same course as 050.621 |
Sec. 01 |
MW 2-3:30 |
| 050.326
(H,N,S)
(W)
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FOUNDATIONS OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE (3) Smolensky Prereq: 300 level Computer Science, Linguistics, Philosophy,
Psychology. This course explores
general issues and methodologies in cognitive science through
the reading of classic works (from Plato and Kant through Skinner
and Turing) and recent research articles to begin construction
of a coherent picture of many seemingly divergent perspectives
on the mind/brain. Recent brain-based computational models
serve to focus discussion. Same course as 050.626 |
Sec. 01 |
MT 12:30-2 |
| 050.327
(N,S) |
PHONOLOGY II (3) Burzio 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,
nonconcatenative morphology, constraints and optimality theory,
feature geometry, articulatory phonology, and phonetics/ phonology
interface. |
Sec. 01 |
ThF 10-11:20 10:30-12 10-11:50 |
| 050.332
(N,S) |
COGNITIVE
DEVELOPMENT NEUROSCIENCE (3) Landau
Limit 20 Prereq: 200.103,
050.101, 050.105, 050.245 In-depth examination of the current literature on cognitive
development in the context of development cognitive neuroscience.
Cross-listed
with Neuroscience |
Sec. 01 |
W 12-2 |
| 050.333
(N,S) |
PSYCHOLINGUISTICS
(3) Badecker This
course provides a broad survey of current research on natural
language processing. Topics include the recognition and production
of words, the planning and production of sentences, and how
listeners understand spoken sentences. The types of evidence
examined include speech errors, the analysis of acquired language
impairments, eye-tracking and Event-Related Potential (ERP)
measurements, and various measures of lexical access and relative
processing complexity that can be exploited to reveal how the
brain represents and processes language. |
Sec. 01 |
Th 11:30-2 |
| 200.206
(S) |
FOUNDATIONS
OF MIND (4) Feigenson/Halberda Limit
20 per section
Cross-listed
with Behavioral Biology, Psychology, and Philosophy |
Lec.
Sec. 01
02
03 |
MTW 2
F 1
Th 1
W 1 |
| 050.502 |
READINGS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE FOR
FRESHMEN |
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| 050.504 |
RESEARCH IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE FOR FRESHMEN |
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| 050.506 |
READINGS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE FOR
SOPHOMORES |
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| 050.508 |
RESEARCH IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE FOR SOPHOMORES |
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| 050.510 |
COGNITIVE SCIENCE INTERNSHIP |
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| 050.512 |
READINGS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE FOR
JUNIORS |
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| 050.514 |
RESEARCH IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE FOR JUNIORS |
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| 050.516 |
READINGS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE FOR
SENIORS |
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| 050.518 |
RESEARCH IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE FOR SENIORS |
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| 050.621 |
SYNTAX II Legendre Perm. Req’d Prereq: 050.320 See 050.321 for description (same
course) |
Sec. 01 |
MW 2-3:30 |
| 050.626
(W) |
FOUNDATIONS OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE Smolensky Prereq: 300 level Computer Science,
Linguistics, Philosophy, and Psychology. See
050.326 for description (same course) |
Sec. 01 |
MT 12:30-2 |
| 050.627 |
PHONOLOGY II Burzio See 050.327 for description (same course) |
Sec. 01 |
ThF 10:30-12 10-11:30 |
| 050.632
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COGNITIVE
DEVELOPMENT NEUROSCIENCE Landau
Limit 20 Prereq: 200.103,
050.101, 050.105, 050.245 See 050.332 for description (same
course)
Cross-listed
with Neuroscience |
Sec. 01 |
W 12-2 |
| 050.633
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PSYCHOLINGUISTICS
Badecker See
050.333 for description (same course) |
Sec. 01 |
Th 11:30-2 |
| 050.800 |
DIRECTED READINGS Staff
Guided independent readings in
special fields of cognitive science. |
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| 050.801 |
RESEARCH
SEMINAR IN COGNITIVE NEUROPSYCHOLOGY McCloskey 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 Rapp
Perm. Req’d
Current issues and ongoing research on human cognition are discussed. |
Sec. 01 |
TBA |
| 050.811 |
RESEARCH
SEMINAR: LANGUAGE & COGNITION Landau
Perm. Req’d
A specialized research seminar for individual 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 GRAMM Frank Perm. Req’d
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 |
| 050.824 |
RESEARCH
SEMINAR LEXICAL REPRESENTATION: MORPHOLOGY Burzio/Badecker
Perm. Req’d A critical
review of evidence bearing on the question of how words are
represented and stored in the mind. |
Sec. 01 |
TBA |
| 050.825
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RESEARCH
SEMINAR: OPTIMALITY THEORY Smolensky
This seminar will read selected chapters from the book, Smolensky
& Legendre (2006), The Harmonic Mind: From Neural Computation
to Optimality –Theoretic Grammar. Course canceled 02/10/06
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Sec. 01
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TBA
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| 050.839 |
RESEARCH
- COGNITIVE SCIENCE
Staff |
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| 050.849 |
TEACHING
PRACTICUM Staff Required course for Teaching
Assistants. |
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| 050.850 |
DEPARTMENTAL
READING COURSE Offered on non-Colloquium Thursdays |
Sec. 01 |
Th 3:30-5:30 |
