Introduces the basic methods and means of analysis used in contemporary syntax investigations, practicing with data from different languages. Also offered as AS.050.320.

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Legendre, Geraldine
• Room: Krieger 111
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to the basic principles underlying the mental representation and manipulation of language sounds and their relation to human perception and vocal articulation: how units of sound are both decomposable into elementary features and combined to form larger structures like syllables and words. The role of rules and constraints in a formal theory of phonological competence and in accounting for the range of variation among the world’s languages. Also offered as AS.050.325.

• Days/Times: MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Wilson, Colin
• Room: Krieger 111
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

In-depth examination of the current literature on cognitive development in the context of developmental cognitive neuroscience. Meets with AS.050.332.

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Landau, Barbara
• Room: Krieger 134A
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/5
• PosTag(s): COGS-COGPSY, COGS-NEURO

Introduction to continuous mathematics for cognitive science, with applications to biological and cognitive network models: real and complex numbers, differential and integral multi-variable calculus, linear algebra, dynamical systems, numerical optimization. Recommended course background in Calculus I. This is a basic-level course not appropriate for students with significant math background. Students who have completed both Calc III and Linear Algebra or an equivalent combination may not register. Also offered as AS.050.372.

• Days/Times: MWF 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Smolensky, Paul
• Room: Krieger 111
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Participants in this graduate seminar will read and discuss current research articles in cognitive neuropsychology of vision or language, and present their own research.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: McCloskey, Michael E
• Room: Krieger 143
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/8
• PosTag(s): n/a

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. Permission required.

• Days/Times: Th 12:00PM - 1:30PM
• Instructor: Landau, Barbara
• Room: Krieger 234C
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/8
• PosTag(s): n/a

This seminar is based on topics in computational vision with the option of attending additional subgroup meetings on specific topics.

• Days/Times: F 11:00AM - 1:00PM
• Instructor: Yuille, Alan L
• Room: Malone 228
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 17/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

A critical analysis of current issues and debates in natural language semantics. Discussion of on-going research. Permission required.

• Days/Times: T 10:00AM - 12:00PM
• Instructor: Rawlins, Kyle
• Room: Krieger 134A
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/8
• PosTag(s): n/a

Readings and research presentations on varying topics in mathematics, computation, and formal linguistics with bearing on cognitive science. Permission required.

• Days/Times: Th 10:00AM - 12:00PM
• Instructor: Wilson, Colin
• Room: Krieger 234C
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/8
• PosTag(s): n/a

Topics range from mathematical analysis of neural networks to computational studies of linguistic structure. Focus is ongoing research and current literature.

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 2:30PM
• Instructor: Smolensky, Paul
• Room: Krieger 234C
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/8
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is an advanced seminar and research practicum course. It will provide the opportunity to learn about fMRI methods used in the field of vision science and for students to have hands-on experience to develop, design and analyze a research study on topics in the cognitive neuroscience field of high-level vision. In the first part of the course students will read recent fMRI journal papers and learn about common fMRI designs and analysis methods; in the second part of the course students will conduct a research study to address a research question developed from readings. Students are expected to write a paper in a short journal article format at the end of the course and to present their results in front of the class. Research topics will vary but with special focus on topics in high-level visual processing. Cross-listed with Neuroscience and Psychology.

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Li, Donald
• Room: Krieger 111
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 0/3
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course examines the cognitive and neural mechanisms that allow us to use linguistic knowledge to produce and understand language in real time. You will learn about the key findings on language perception, production, and acquisition, while gaining hands-on, laboratory-style experience with some of the methods commonly used to study language performance. The focus of the class is on the relation between experimental findings and linguistic theory, addressing two core questions of psycholinguistics: How is language organized and implemented in the brain? How (if at all) does our mental machinery shape natural language? Also available as AS.050.333.

• Days/Times: MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Koval, Pasha
• Room: Krieger 134A
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 2/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course provides an introductory survey of the cognitive neuroscience of language – a multidisciplinary field in the intersection of Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, and Neuroscience. We will explore current research on the neural bases of the perception, production, and acquisition or human language in neuro-typical and impaired individuals. Also listed as AS.050.236.

• Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Yarmolinskaya, Julia
• Room: Krieger 111
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 0/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Over the last decade, there has been amazing progress in deep learning AI systems for vision and language, and more and more cognitive neuroscientists are using these tools to study the human brain. This course will give an overview of popular deep learning methods, including convolutional neural networks, recurrent neural networks, variational autoencoders, and transformers, with the goal of addressing two key questions: 1) to what extent do these deep learning systems act like humans, and 2) what questions can they help us answer about the human mind and brain. The class will involve a mix of lectures, hands-on coding assignments, and reading/discussion of primary research articles. The course will focus heavily on vision but will include some topics in language (including large language models) and social cognition.

• Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Isik, Leyla
• Room: Krieger 300
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 0/8
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course provides an introduction to the fields of first and bilingual language acquisition by looking at questions such as the following: Can the grammar of a native language be learned solely on the basis of noticing statistical correlations among words? How does native language acquisition explain — or is explained by — the universal properties, shared by all languages, of words and grammars? How does being exposed to multiple languages from birth affect language acquisition and what happens when a child is not exposed to any language early in life? This is the first part of a two-part course sequence on first and second language acquisition.

• Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Yarmolinskaya, Julia
• Room: Krieger 111
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 3/5
• PosTag(s): COGS-COGPSY, COGS-LING

An introduction to the emerging field of sociophonetics, which lies at the interface between sociolinguistics and phonetics. Students will learn how to analyze phonetic data in service of research questions motivated by social factors including speakers’ region of origin, gender, ethnicity, or other characteristics. Extensions will be made to articulatory phonetics, speech perception, and phonological formalizations. Knowledge of linguistics and phonology/phonetics, including the International Phonetic Alphabet and basic acoustic phonetics, is strongly recommended. The course will draw material from textbooks, scholarly articles, and hands-on phonetic analysis culminating in final projects on topics chosen by students. Listed with AS.050.357.

• Days/Times: MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Renwick, Margaret
• Room: Krieger 111
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

One of the most foundational concepts in neuroscience is the idea that neural activity encodes information about an animal’s sensory environment and internal mental states. This idea is closely connected to the concept of mental representation in cognitive science and philosophy, whereby the mind is proposed to contain internal symbols that represent things in the external world. There have been many fascinating discoveries about how neural signals encode information, but we are still far from a comprehensive theory of neural representation. Recent major developments in neuroscience and machine learning have opened up a new world of possibilities for investigating the underlying principles of information coding in the brains of humans and other animals. In this course, we will discuss primary research articles on neural representation and information processing, and students will implement computational analyses that address issues in these domains. We will mostly focus on vision as a system that illustrates broader principles of information processing in the human brain. The reading material will include work from philosophy, neuroimaging, electrophysiology, and computational modeling. The topics covered include mental and neural representation, neural tuning, population coding, information theory, encoding and decoding models, dimensionality reduction, computational models, deep learning, and other applications of machine learning in neuroscience. Enrollment is limited to Juniors and Seniors. While this class does not have formal prerequisites, programming experience (e.g., AS.250.205 Introduction to Computing) and mathematical preparation (e.g., AS.110.107 Calculus II) are essential. It is also highly recommended that students have previously taken introductory courses in cognitive or systems neuroscience (e.g., AS.050.203 Neuroscience: Cognitive) and machine learning or neural network modeling (e.g., AS.050.372 Foundations of Neural Network Theory).

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Bonner, Mick
• Room: Krieger 111
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 0/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Also offered as AS.050.371. This course introduces techniques for computational modeling of aspects of human cognition, including perception, categorization, and induction. Possible topics include maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference, structured statistical models (including hierarchical and graphical models), nonparametric models. The course emphasizes the close connections among data analysis, theory development, and modeling, with examples drawn from language and vision.

• Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Wilson, Colin
• Room: Krieger 111
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

The course gives an introduction to computational models of the mammalian visual cortex. It covers topics in low-, mid-, and high-level vision. It briefly discusses the relevant evidence from anatomy, electrophysiology, imaging (e.g., fMRI), and psychophysics. It concentrates on mathematical modeling of these phenomena taking into account recent progress in probabilistic models of computer vision and developments in machine learning, such as deep networks. Also offered as EN.601.685. Required Background: Calculus I and experience in a programming language (Python preferred).

• Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
• Instructor: Yuille, Alan L
• Room: Krieger 170
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 11/70
• PosTag(s): CSCI-APPL

Directed readings on current topics in cognitive science. Instructor approval required.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Landau, Barbara
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Directed readings on current topics in cognitive science. Instructor approval required.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: McCloskey, Michael E
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Directed readings on current topics in cognitive science. Instructor approval required.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Kocab, Annemarie
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Directed readings on current topics in cognitive science. Instructor approval required.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Bonner, Mick
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 8/8
• PosTag(s): n/a

Directed readings on current topics in cognitive science. Instructor approval required.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Rapp, Brenda C
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Directed readings on current topics in cognitive science. Instructor approval required.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Rawlins, Kyle
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Directed readings on current topics in cognitive science. Instructor approval required.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Smolensky, Paul
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Directed readings on current topics in cognitive science. Instructor approval required.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Wilson, Colin
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Directed readings on current topics in cognitive science. Instructor approval required.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Yuille, Alan L
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Directed readings on current topics in cognitive science. Instructor approval required.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Isik, Leyla
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Participants in this graduate seminar will read and discuss current research articles in cognitive neuropsychology of vision or language, and present their own research.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: McCloskey, Michael E
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/8
• PosTag(s): n/a

Permission required. Current issues and ongoing research on human cognition are discussed.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Rapp, Brenda C
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 7/8
• PosTag(s): n/a

Participants in this seminar will read and discuss current research articles in the fields of cognitive neuroscience, computational neuroscience, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. The seminar will focus on research that provides insights into the representations and algorithms of the human brain, with an emphasis on vision and natural semantic understanding.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Bonner, Mick
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 4/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

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. Permission required.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Landau, Barbara
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/8
• PosTag(s): n/a

This seminar will discuss papers and ongoing research in the areas of computational cognitive neuroscience, with a focus on different areas of visual and social perception.

• Days/Times: W 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Isik, Leyla
• Room: Krieger 119
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/8
• PosTag(s): n/a

In Fall 2024, this seminar is a survey of approaches to compositional sentence structure. Graduate students with an interest in sentence-level linguistics are encouraged to attend. Approval required.

• Days/Times: T 11:00AM - 1:00PM
• Instructor: Hale, John; Koval, Pasha; Staff
• Room: Krieger 234C
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 6/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

This seminar is based on topics in computational vision with the option of attending additional subgroup meetings on specific topics.

• Days/Times: F 11:00AM - 1:00PM
• Instructor: Yuille, Alan L
• Room: Malone 228
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

Readings and research presentations on varying topics in mathematics, computation, and formal linguistics with bearing on cognitive science.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Wilson, Colin
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/8
• PosTag(s): n/a

Participants in this graduate seminar will read and discuss current research articles in language learning, creation, and evolution. To enroll, students must be actively carrying out empirical or theoretical research in these areas. Permission required.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Kocab, Annemarie
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 5/8
• PosTag(s): n/a

Current topics in any area of cognitive science, including language and vision, with discussion of recent developments in theory, experimental study, and computational modeling.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Landau, Barbara
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Current topics in any area of cognitive science, including language and vision, with discussion of recent developments in theory, experimental study, and computational modeling.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: McCloskey, Michael E
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Current topics in any area of cognitive science, including language and vision, with discussion of recent developments in theory, experimental study, and computational modeling.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Kocab, Annemarie
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 3/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Current topics in any area of cognitive science, including language and vision, with discussion of recent developments in theory, experimental study, and computational modeling.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Bonner, Mick
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 6/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Current topics in any area of cognitive science, including language and vision, with discussion of recent developments in theory, experimental study, and computational modeling.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Rapp, Brenda C
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 3/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Current topics in any area of cognitive science, including language and vision, with discussion of recent developments in theory, experimental study, and computational modeling.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Rawlins, Kyle
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 3/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Current topics in any area of cognitive science, including language and vision, with discussion of recent developments in theory, experimental study, and computational modeling.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Smolensky, Paul
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Current topics in any area of cognitive science, including language and vision, with discussion of recent developments in theory, experimental study, and computational modeling.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Wilson, Colin
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 3/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Current topics in any area of cognitive science, including language and vision, with discussion of recent developments in theory, experimental study, and computational modeling.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Yuille, Alan L
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Current topics in any area of cognitive science, including language and vision, with discussion of recent developments in theory, experimental study, and computational modeling.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Isik, Leyla
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 2/7
• PosTag(s): n/a

Current topics in any area of cognitive science, including language and vision, with discussion of recent developments in theory, experimental study, and computational modeling.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Hale, John
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Essential for Teaching Assistants to satisfy graduate degree TA requirements. Students must register to the appropriate instructor's section based on department assignments.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Landau, Barbara
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Essential for Teaching Assistants to satisfy graduate degree TA requirements. Students must register to the appropriate instructor's section based on department assignments.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: McCloskey, Michael E
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Essential for Teaching Assistants to satisfy graduate degree TA requirements. Students must register to the appropriate instructor's section based on department assignments.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Kocab, Annemarie
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Essential for Teaching Assistants to satisfy graduate degree TA requirements. Students must register to the appropriate instructor's section based on department assignments.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Bonner, Mick
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Essential for Teaching Assistants to satisfy graduate degree TA requirements. Students must register to the appropriate instructor's section based on department assignments.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Wilson, Colin
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Essential for Teaching Assistants to satisfy graduate degree TA requirements. Students must register to the appropriate instructor's section based on department assignments.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Yuille, Alan L
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Essential for Teaching Assistants to satisfy graduate degree TA requirements. Students must register to the appropriate instructor's section based on department assignments.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Isik, Leyla
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Essential for Teaching Assistants to satisfy graduate degree TA requirements. Students must register to the appropriate instructor's section based on department assignments.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Yarmolinskaya, Julia
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 3/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Essential for Teaching Assistants to satisfy graduate degree TA requirements. Students must register to the appropriate instructor's section based on department assignments.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Li, Donald
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Essential for Teaching Assistants to satisfy graduate degree TA requirements. Students must register to the appropriate instructor's section based on department assignments.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Koval, Pasha
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Introduces advanced research topics in cognitive science to graduate students through a series of speakers and discussions.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Bonner, Mick; Isik, Leyla
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/25
• PosTag(s): n/a