Date | Topic | Readings / Assignments | Notes and Events |
Week 1 |
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Tu Aug 26 | Course introduction |
Suggested readings: transition to college and cognitive science of studying
| Themester orientation
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Th Aug 28 | What is Cognitive Science? |
Overview doc 1
Thagard 2010 and
Wikipedia
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Fr Aug 30 | Concept Maps | discussion sections |
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Week 2 |
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Tu Sep 02 | Anatomy of an experimental report |
Overview doc 2 Roediger & Karpicke 2006
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Th Sep 04 | Learning Processes |
Overview doc 3 Roediger & Karpicke 2006 (reread)
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Fr Aug 30 | | discussion sections |
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Week 3 |
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Tu Sep 09 | Stereotype Threat |
Overview doc 4
Rydell et al. 2010
| optional:Science News, July 2010
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Th Sep 11 | Attention! |
Overview doc 5
Simons & Chabris 1999
| optional:Discover Magazine 2011
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Fr Sep 12 | | discussion sections |
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Week 4 |
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Tu Sep 16 | Turing Dreams: IBM Watson |
Overview doc 6
Ferrucci et al. 2010
| optional:NY Times, Feb 2011
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Th Sep 18 | Computation: mind or model? |
Overview doc 7
Searle 1980
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Fr Sep 19 | | discussion sections |
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Week 5 |
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Tu Sep 24 | Modeling connections |
Overview doc 8
reading tbd
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Th Sep 26 | EEG and Face Processing |
Overview doc 9
Carrick et al. 2007
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Fr Sep 27 | | discussion sections |
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Week 6 |
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Tu Sep 31 | Mapping the Connectome |
Overview doc 10
Sporns tbd
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Th Oct 02 | Eye Contact and the Autistic Spectrum |
Overview doc 11
Pelphrey et al. 2002
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Fr Oct 03 | | discussion sections |
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Week 7 |
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Tu Oct 07 | Midterm review |
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Th Oct 09 | Exam |
++MIDTERM EXAM
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Fr Oct 10 | NO CLASS! | Fall break |
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Week 8 |
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Tu Oct 14 | ***Please sir, can I have some more? |
Overview doc 12
Wansink et al.
| Optional: Scheibehenne et al. 2002a
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Th Oct 16 | Human irrationality? |
Overview doc 13
Tversky & Kahnemann 1983
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Fr Oct 17 | | discussion sections |
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Week 9 |
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Tu Oct 21 | Evolved logic? |
Overview doc 14
Cosmides & Tooby 1997
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Th Oct 23 | Heuristics & Rationality |
Overview doc 15
Gigerenzer & Todd 2007
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Fr Oct 24 | | discussion sections |
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Week 10 |
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Tu Oct 28 | ***Search inside and out |
Overview doc 16
Hills et al. 2008
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Th Oct 30 | ***Food, disgust, morality! |
Overview doc 881
Chapman et al. 2009
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Fr Oct 31 | | discussion sections |
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Week 11 |
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Tu Nov 04 | A-not-B? |
Overview doc 18
Smith & Thelen 1999
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Th Nov 06 | Throw rock, catch dinner? |
Overview doc 19
Zhu & Bingham 2011
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Fr Nov 07 | | discussion sections |
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Week 12 |
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Tu Nov 11 | Language and Number |
Overview doc 20
Frank et al. 2008
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Th Nov 13 | Varieties of experience |
Overview doc 21
Brang et al. 2008
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Fr Nov 14 | | discussion sections |
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Week 13 |
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Tu Nov 18 | ***Food topic tba |
Overview doc 22
tba
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Thu Nov 20 | ***Food topic tba |
Overview doc 23
tba
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Fr Nov 21 | | discussion sections
++PAPER Proposals due 5 p.m.
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Week 14 |
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Tu Nov 25 | NO CLASS! | Thanksgiving break |
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Th Nov 27 | NO CLASS! | Thanksgiving break |
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Fr Nov 28 | NO CLASS! | Thanksgiving break |
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Week 15 |
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Tu Dec 02 | Paper conferences |
by appointment |
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Th Dec 04 | Paper conferences |
by appointment |
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Fr Dec 05 | | discussion sections
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Su Dec 07 | | ++PAPER due at midnight |
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Week 16 |
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Tu Dec 09 | Weird people? |
Overview doc 24
Henrich et al. 2010 |
[Read sections 1-4 pages 1-14 for today]
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Th Dec 11 | More Weird
| Henrich et al. 2010 |
[Read sections 5-7 pages 14-23 for today]
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Fr Dec 12 | | discussion sections |
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Finals Week |
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tba | EXAM | +EXAM as scheduled | Final examination Tuesday 7:15-9:15 p.m. Note time/date!
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