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| Week 1 |
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| Tu Aug 21 | Course introduction |
Suggested readings: transition to college and cognitive science of studying
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| Th Aug 23 | What is Cognitive Science? |
Entries from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and Wikipedia on Cognitive Science
[
Student Link]
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| Week 2 |
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| Tu Aug 28 | Anatomy of an experimental report |
Simons & Chabris 1999 "Gorillas in our Midst"
[
Student Link]
[Google Scholar search]
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| Th Aug 30 | Attention? |
Simons & Chabris 1999 (reread) + Simons 2010 "If you can't notice a gorilla..."
[
Student Link]
[Discover Magazine]
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| Week 3 |
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| Tu Sep 04 | Stereotype Threat |
Rydell et al. 2010 "Stereotype threat prevents perceptual learning"
[
Student Link]
| optional:Science News, July 2010
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| Th Sep 06 | Morality and fairness |
Overview doc 5
Greene & Haidt 2002 "How (and where) does moral judgment work?"
[
Student Link]
| optional reading: Knobe 2003 "Intentional action and side effects in ordinary language"
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| Week 4 |
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| Tu Sep 11 | Fair Animals |
Brosnan & de Waal 2004 "Monkeys reject unequal pay"
+ critique by Wynne, and response by Brosnan & de Waal ("Fair refusal by capuchin monkeys")
[
Student Link]
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| Th Sep 13 | Turing games |
Ferrucci et al. 2010 "Building Watson: An overview of the DeepQA project"
[
Student Link]
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| Fr Sep 14 | | | THEMESTER: "GRIZZLY MAN" IU Cinema, 6:30 p.m.>
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| Week 5 |
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| Tu Sep 18 | Computation: mind or model? |
Searle 1980 "Minds, brains, and programs"
[
Student Link][preprint version]
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| Th Sep 20 | Modeling connections |
McClelland et al. 1986 "The appeal of Parallel Distributed Processing"
[
Student Link]
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| Week 6 |
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| Tu Sep 25 | Connectionist modeling cont'd |
Experiment with the online network demos listed in the slides from Sep 20
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| Th Sep 27 | Mapping the connectome |
Sporns 2011 "The human connectome: a complex network"
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Student Link]
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| Week 7 |
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| Tu Oct 02 | Broken Networks, Bad Behavior? |
Marsh et al. 2008 "Reduced Amygdala Response to Fearful Expressions in Children and Adolescents With Callous-Unemotional Traits and Disruptive Behavior Disorders"
[
Student Link]
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| Th Oct 04 | It's all in the eyes |
Carrick et al. 2007 "It's all in the eyes: neural responses to socially significant gaze shifts"
[
Student Link]
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| Week 8 |
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| Tu Oct 09 | Exam review | |
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| Th Oct 11 | Exam |
++MIDTERM EXAM |
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| Fr Oct 12 | NO CLASS! | | Fall break
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| Week 9 |
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| Tu Oct 16 | Please sir, can I have some more? |
Wansink et al. 2005 "Bottomless Bowls: Why Visual Cues of Portion Size May Influence Intake"
[
Student Link]
| Optional: Scheibehenne et al. 2010 "Dining in the dark. The importance of visual cues for food consumption and satiety"
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| Th Oct 18 | Human irrationality? |
Tversky & Kahnemann 1983 "Extensional versus intuitive reasoning: The conjunction fallacy in probability judgment"
[
Student Link]
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| Week 10 |
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| [Mo Oct 22] | | | THEMESTER: "PROJECT NIM" IU Cinema, 6:30 p.m.
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| Tu Oct 23 | Evolved logic? |
Cosmides & Tooby 1997 "Evolutionary Psychology: A Primer"
[
Student Link] [UCSB link]
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| Th Oct 25 | Heuristics & Rationality |
Todd & Gigerenzer 2007 "Environments that make us smart: Ecological Rationality"
[
Student Link]
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| Week 11 |
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| Tu Oct 30 | Search inside and out |
Hills et al. 2008 "The central executive as a search process: Priming exploration and exploitation across domains"
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Student Link]
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| Th Nov 01 | continue with search |
Continued discussion of Hills et al. 2008
[
Student Link]
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| Week 12 |
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| Tu Nov 06 | Self-knowledge in rats? |
Foote & Crystal 2007 "Metacognition in the rat"
[
Student Link]
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| Th Nov 08 | Throwing arms |
Zhu & Bingham 2011 "Human readiness to throw: the size–weight illusion..."
[
Student Link]
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| Week 13 |
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| Tu Nov 13 | Language and Number |
Frank et al. 2008
"Number as a cognitive technology: Evidence from Pirahã language and cognition"
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Student Link] |
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| Th Nov 15 | Varieties of experience |
Brang et al. 2008 "Is the sky 2?"
[
Student Link]
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| Fr Nov 16 | |
++PAPER Proposals due 5 p.m.
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| Week 14 |
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| Tu Nov 20 | NO CLASS! | | Thanksgiving
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| Th Nov 22 | NO CLASS! | | Thanksgiving
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| Fr Nov 23 | NO CLASS! | | Thanksgiving
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| Week 15 |
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| Tu Nov 27 | Paper conferences |
by appointment |
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| Th Nov 29 | Paper conferences |
by appointment |
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| [Su Dec 2] | | ++PAPER due at midnight |
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| Week 16 |
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| Tu Dec 04 | Weird people? |
Henrich et al. 2010
"The weirdest people in the world?"
[
Student Link]
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[Read sections 1-4 pages 1-14 for today]
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| Th Dec 06 | More Weird |
Continue with Henrich et al. 2010
[
Student Link]
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[Read sections 5-7 pages 14-23 for today]
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| Finals Week |
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| ?? Dec ?? | Final Review Session tba | | |
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| Th Dec 13 | ++FINAL EXAM | +EXAM as scheduled | Final examination Thursday 7:15-9:15 p.m. Note time/date!
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