Date | Topic | Readings / Assignments |
date | topic | read |
Week 1 |
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Tu Aug 25 | Course introduction |
Suggested reading: transition to college
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Th Aug 27 | What is Cognitive Science? |
Overview doc
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article on cognitive science
Wikipedia article on cognitive science
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Fr Aug 29 | discussion sections |
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Week 2 |
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Tu Sep 01 | Anatomy of an experimental report |
Overview doc
Simons & Chabris 1999 (read for form)
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Th Sep 03 | Attention! |
Overview doc
Simons & Chabris 1999 (reread for content)
optional:Discover Magazine 2011
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Fr Sep 04 | discussion sections |
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Week 3 |
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Tu Sep 08 | Cognition & Learning |
Overview doc
Roediger & Karpicke 2006
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Th Sep 10 | Cognition & Learning |
Reread Roediger & Karpicke 2006
cognitive science of studying
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Fr Sep 11 | discussion sections |
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Week 4 |
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Tu Sep 15 | Stereotype Threat |
Overview doc
Rydell et al. 2010 (read introduction and experiment 1)
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Th Sep 17 | Stereotype Threat cont'd |
Rydell et al. 2010 (experiments 2 and 3 and final discussion/conclusion)
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Fr Sep 18 | discussion sections |
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Week 5 |
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Tu Sep 22 | Turing Dreams: IBM Watson |
Overview doc
Ferrucci et al. 2010
optional:NY Times, Feb 2011
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Th Sep 24 | Computation: real thought, or just a simulation? |
Overview doc
Searle 1980
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Fr Sep 25 | discussion sections |
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Week 6 |
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Tu Sep 29 | EEG |
Overview doc
Carrick et al. 2007
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Th Oct 01 | Structure and Function in MRI |
Sporns 2012 "From simple graphs to the connectome: Networks in neuroimaging"
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Fr Oct 02 | discussion sections |
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Week 7 |
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Tu Oct 06 | Models & Mechanisms |
Brown 2014 "The tale of the neuroscientists and the computer: why mechanistic theory matters" http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2014.00349
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Th Oct 08 | Midterm Review | |
Fr Oct 09 | NO CLASS! | Fall break |
Week 8 |
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Tu Oct 13 | ++MIDTERM EXAM | |
Th Oct 15 | Evolved logic? |
Overview doc
Cosmides & Tooby 1997
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Fr Oct 16 | discussion sections |
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Week 9 |
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Tu Oct 20 | Heuristics & Rationality |
Overview doc
Gigerenzer & Todd 2007
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Th Oct 22 | Food! |
Overview doc
Wansink et al.
Optional: Scheibehenne et al. 2002a
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Fr Oct 23 | discussion sections |
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Week 10 |
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Tu Oct 27 | A-not-B? |
Overview doc
Smith & Thelen 1999
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Th Oct 29 | A-not-B? cont'd |
Overview doc
Reread Smith & Thelen 1999
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Fr Oct 30 | discussion sections |
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Week 11 |
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Tu Nov 03 | Throw rock, catch dinner? |
Overview doc
Zhu & Bingham 2011
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Th Nov 05 | Language and Rules |
tba
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Fr Nov 06 | discussion sections |
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Week 12 |
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Tu Nov 10 | Language |
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/04/16/the-interpreter-2
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Th Nov 12 | Language & Number |
Overview doc
Frank et al. 2008
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Fr Nov 13 | discussion sections |
++PAPER Proposals due 5 p.m.
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Week 13 |
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Tu Nov 17 | Paper conferences |
by appointment |
Th Nov 19 | Paper conferences |
by appointment |
Fr Nov 20 | Paper conferences |
by appointment |
Week 14 |
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Tu Nov 25 | NO CLASS! | Thanksgiving break |
Th Nov 27 | NO CLASS! | Thanksgiving break |
Fr Nov 28 | NO CLASS! | Thanksgiving break |
Week 15 |
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Tu Dec 01 | Weird people? |
Overview doc
Henrich et al. 2010
Read sections 1-4 pages 1-14 for today]
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Th Dec 03 | More Weird
| Henrich et al. 2010
[Read sections 5-7 pages 14-23 for today]
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Fr Dec 04 | discussion sections
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Su Dec 06 | | ++PAPER due at midnight
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Week 16 |
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Tu Dec 08 | tba |
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Th Dec 10 | Final review |
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Fr Dec 11 | discussion sections
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Finals Week |
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Tu Dec 15 | EXAM | ++FINAL EXAMINATION> Tuesday 7:15-9:15 p.m. Note time is not usual class time.
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