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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 |
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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.
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WF 12-1:15 |
050.317 (N,S) |
SEMANTICS I (4) Rawlins Limit: 40 This course is an introduction to the study of meaning in natural language. We address both the conceptual and emphilical issues that a semantic theory must grapple with as well as some of the formal machinery that has been developed to deal with such problems. Course added 8/27/08
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TTh 1:30-2:45, F 1:30-2:30 |
050.327 (N,S) |
PHONOLOGY II (3) Wilson 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
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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 |
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MW 1:30-2:45 |
050.370 (N,S) |
FORMAL METHODS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE (3) Frank Rawlins 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. |
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TTh 12-1:15 |
050.501 |
READINGS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE - FRESHMEN |
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050.503 |
RESEARCH IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE - FRESHMEN |
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050.505 |
READINGS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE - SOPHOMORES |
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050.507 |
RESEARCH IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE - SOPHOMORES |
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050.509 |
COGNITIVE SCIENCE INTERNSHIP |
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050.511 |
READINGS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE - JUNIORS |
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050.513 |
RESEARCH IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE - JUNIORS |
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050.515 |
READINGS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE - SENIORS |
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050.517 |
RESEARCH IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE – SENIORS |
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050.627 |
PHONOLOGY II Wilson 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
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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 |
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MW 1:30-2:45 |
050.670 |
FORMAL METHODS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE Frank Rawlins 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
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TTh 12-1:15 |
050.800 |
DIRECTED READINGS Staff Limit 40 Perm. Req’d. Guided independent readings in special fields of cognitive science. |
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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. |
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050.802 |
RESEARCH SEMINAR IN COGNITIVE PROCESSES McCloskey Limit 20
Perm. Req’d. Current issues and on-going research on human cognition are discussed. |
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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.
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050.821
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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. Course canceled 8/21/08
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050.825 |
SEMINAR IN OPTIMALITY THEORY Smolensky Burzio/Wilson 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. |
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050.839 |
RESEARCH IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE
Perm. Req’d.
Sec. 01 - McCloskey
Sec. 02 - Burzio
Sec. 03 - Landau
Sec. 04 - Wilson
Sec. 05 - Rawlins
Sec.06 - Rapp
Sec. 07 - Legendre
Sec.08 - Smolensky
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050.849 |
TEACHING PRACTICUM
Perm. Req’d. Limit 25 Essential for Teaching Assistants |
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