Schedule of Class Meetings (background & guest lecturers)

 

Date

Topic

Readings

Student Presenters

Thurs.   9/1

Introduction

 

 

Tues.     9/6

overview and discussion

Dennett; Brooks

 

Thurs.   9/8

Philosophy of Mind

Kim (1998); Churchland (1993)

Sue

Tues.     9/13

Georges Rey  (phil) – 9am

Rey (1997), Chps. 1 and 2

 

Thurs.   9/15

Speech and Language

Galotti (2004), Ch. 9

Dave

Tues.     9/20

Nan Ratner (speech) – 10am

Leonard (2004); Curlee (2004); Ratner (1997)

 

Thurs.   9/22

Motor Control

“Central Contributions to Motor Control”

Mohit

Tues.     9/27

John Jeka (kin) – 10am

McDowell et al. (2003)

 

Thurs.   9/29

Speech Perception

Halle, Chapter 3

Dave

Tues.     10/4

Bill Idsardi  (ling) – 10am

Kabak & Idardi (2004); Idsardi (2005)

 

Thurs.   10/6

Birdsong and Language

Doupe & Kuhl (1999), pp 567-596

Kai

Tues.   10/11

Bob Dooling (psych) – 10am

Dooling, Brown, Manabe, & Powell (1996)

 

Thurs. 10/13

Drugs and Behavior

Baker et al. (2004); Strauman & Merrill (2004); Leshner (2002)

Mohit

Tues.   10/18

Carl Lejuez (psych) – 10am

Brown et al. (2005)

 

Exam 1 out (end of class)

Thurs. 10/20

Exam 1 in (start of class)

discussion, first half of course and exam

Tues.   10/25

Making Decisions

Galotti (2004), Ch. 12

Tracy

Thurs. 10/27

Reasoning

Tversky & Koehler (1994)

Tracy

Tues.   11/1

Tom Wallsten (psych) – 10am

Wallsten & González-Vallejo (1994)

 

Thurs. 11/3

 

Class cancelled

 

Tues.   11/8

Eye Movements

Steinman (2003)

Mirta

Thurs. 11/10

 

Class cancelled

 

Tues.   11/15

Human Computer Int.

D. Norman (2001); Schneiderman (2000); Plaisant (2004)

John

Thurs. 11/17

Kent Norman (psych) – 10am

Norman (2004); Norman & Panizzi (2004)

 

Tues.   11/22

Mike Dougherty (psych) – 11am

Dougherty & Hunter (2003)

 

Tues.   11/29

Theory of Mind and Cognitive Development

Woodward (2001)

Developing a Theory of Mind, Ch. 8

Kai

Thurs.  12/1

Artificial Intelligence – 10am

Woodward (psych) – 11am

A.I.: Turing (1950); MCarthy (1959)

Woodward: Sommerville et al. (2005)

Cory

Tues.    12/6

Don Perlis (comp sci) – 9am Bob Steinman (psych) – 10:30

Perlis et al. (1997)

Steinman (1995)

 

Thurs.  12/8

General Knowledge – 10am

Galotti (2004), Ch. 6

Cory

Tues.   12/13

David Huber (psych) – 10am

Huber & O’Reilly (2003)

 

Exam 2 out (end of class)

Thurs. 12/15

Exam 2 in (10:00am, by e-mail)