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Course # (Section)
Title
Day/Times
Instructor
Room
PosTag(s)
Info
AS.050.102 (01)
Language and Mind
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Yarmolinskaya, Julia S
COGS-LING, COGS-COGPSY
Language and Mind AS.050.102 (01)
Introductory course dealing with theory, methods, and current research topics in the study of language as a component of the mind. What it is to "know" a language: components of linguistic knowledge (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics) and the course of language acquisition. How linguistic knowledge is put to use: language and the brain and linguistic processing in various domains.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Yarmolinskaya, Julia S
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/125
PosTag(s): COGS-LING, COGS-COGPSY
AS.050.105 (01)
Introduction to Cognitive Neuropsychology
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
McCloskey, Michael E (Michael)
COGS-COGPSY, COGS-NEURO
Introduction to Cognitive Neuropsychology AS.050.105 (01)
When the brain is damaged or fails to develop normally, even the most basic cognitive abilities (such as the ability to understand words, or perceive objects) may be disrupted, often in remarkable ways. This course explores a wide range of cognitive deficits, focusing on what these deficits can tell us about how the normal brain works. Topics include brain anatomy and causes of brain damage, reading and spelling deficits, unilateral spatial neglect, hemispheric disconnection, cortical plasticity, and visual perception of location and orientation. Students read primary sources: journal articles that report deficits and discuss their implications.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: McCloskey, Michael E (Michael)
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/205
PosTag(s): COGS-COGPSY, COGS-NEURO
AS.050.135 (01)
Speech & Voice
MW 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Wilson, Colin
Gilman 313
COGS-LING
Speech & Voice AS.050.135 (01)
Course on human speech production and perception, covering topics including anatomy and physiology of the vocal tract, phonetic analysis, language acquisition and impairments, and speech technologies.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Instructor: Wilson, Colin
Room: Gilman 313
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): COGS-LING
AS.050.236 (01)
Neurolinguistics
TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Yarmolinskaya, Julia S
Krieger 111
BEHB-BIOBEH, COGS-COGPSY, COGS-NEURO
Neurolinguistics AS.050.236 (01)
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.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Instructor: Yarmolinskaya, Julia S
Room: Krieger 111
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/19
PosTag(s): BEHB-BIOBEH, COGS-COGPSY, COGS-NEURO
AS.050.317 (01)
Semantics I
MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM, F 3:00PM - 3:50PM
Rawlins, Kyle
Hodson 203 Hodson 305
COGS-LING
Semantics I AS.050.317 (01)
This is an introduction to the study of meaning in natural language. We address the conceptual and empirical issues in semantic theory and introduce some formal machinery that has been developed to deal with such problems. After discussing foundational questions, we turn to formal semantics and pragmatics, as well as their interfaces with syntax and the lexicon. Specific topics include presupposition, type-driven composition, quantification, lexical aspect, argument structure, and lexical representations of meaning.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM, F 3:00PM - 3:50PM
Instructor: Rawlins, Kyle
Room: Hodson 203 Hodson 305
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/20
PosTag(s): COGS-LING
AS.050.348 (01)
First Language Acquisition
TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Yarmolinskaya, Julia S
Krieger 111
COGS-LING, COGS-COGPSY
First Language Acquisition AS.050.348 (01)
This course provides an introduction to the fields of first and second 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? Does the same cognitive mechanism guide language learning in children and adults? What factors account for individual differences in ease and ultimate attainment when a second language is learned later in life? Is it possible to become indistinguishable from a native speaker in a foreign language? What changes take place in the brain when a new language is learned? Also offered as AS.050.648.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Instructor: Yarmolinskaya, Julia S
Room: Krieger 111
Status: Open
Seats Available: 7/19
PosTag(s): COGS-LING, COGS-COGPSY
AS.050.352 (01)
Applying Cognitive Neuroscience to Artificial Intelligence Part I
Applying Cognitive Neuroscience to Artificial Intelligence Part I AS.050.352 (01)
As a result of greater computing power and Big Data, artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly improving for well-defined tasks and narrow intelligence. Moreover, it has entered all industries in a myriad of ways. But will AI ever have human-like general intelligence? What does humanlike general intelligence even mean? Why should we even care? This course is designed to answer these complex questions by giving students working knowledge of the underlying principles and mechanisms of human behavior and cognition, and how they may be applied to solving current and rising industry challenges. Key topics to be addressed will include vision, audition, language, learning, emotion and social cognition, creativity, and consciousness. Each topic addressed will cover latest advancements within cognitive neuroscience, with relevant applied case studies. Students will apply learned topics to a final group research project on the topic of their choice.
Have you ever wondered about the relationships between language and thought? Philosophers, linguists, psychologists, evolutionary theorists and cognitive scientists have too and this course will survey the current thinking on this matter. Classical papers such as those by Whorf and Sapir, more recent philosophical papers by people such as Fodor and Dennett, and recent empirical work by linguists and psycholingists on the relationship between language and thinking in development and in adults will be covered. Discussions will focus on the theoretically possible relationships between language and thought and the empirical data that speak to these. Juniors and seniors only. Freshmen and sophomores by permission of instructor only.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Landau, Barbara (Barbara)
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/15
PosTag(s): BEHB-BIOBEH, COGS-COGPSY, COGS-LING
AS.050.383 (01)
Computational Social Cognition
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Isik, Leyla
Bloomberg 176
COGS-NEURO, COGS-COMPCG, NEUR-CG, NEUR-CP
Computational Social Cognition AS.050.383 (01)
Humans are a fundamentally social species with amazing capabilities beyond that of any other biological or artificial system. Yet the cognitive and neural computations underlying our vast social abilities are largely unknown. Advances in naturalistic neuroscience paradigms and machine learning are revolutionizing the way cognitive scientists study social cognition. This course will explore new research in computational social cognition, drawing from topics in cognitive neuroscience, development, and artificial intelligence. Our goal is to understand the motivation, methodology and implications of recent research. The class will be heavily focused on social vision, but will also explore other aspects of social cognition including theory of mind and moral reasoning.
What underlies our aesthetic response to music? How and why are we able to identify certain sounds as music? To what extent are music and natural language similar? What is it about music that evokes such powerful emotions such as happiness and sadness? What is unique to musical creativity? Examining such questions from cognitive science, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophical perspectives, this course explores relevant research and theory in the emerging domain of music perception and cognition. Students will complete a final research paper on the topic of their choice that integrates the course material.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 9:00AM - 11:30AM
Instructor: Lopez-Gonzalez, Monica
Room: Krieger 134A
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): COGS-COGPSY, NEUR-CG, NEUR-ST
AS.376.371 (02)
Introduction to Music Cognition
M 5:00PM - 7:30PM
Lopez-Gonzalez, Monica
Krieger 111
COGS-COGPSY, NEUR-CG, NEUR-ST
Introduction to Music Cognition AS.376.371 (02)
What underlies our aesthetic response to music? How and why are we able to identify certain sounds as music? To what extent are music and natural language similar? What is it about music that evokes such powerful emotions such as happiness and sadness? What is unique to musical creativity? Examining such questions from cognitive science, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophical perspectives, this course explores relevant research and theory in the emerging domain of music perception and cognition. Students will complete a final research paper on the topic of their choice that integrates the course material.
