PSYC 4305-001/301: Mind, Brain, & Intelligence
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Instructor:
Dr. Rick Dale Office: 442 Psychology Building Office hours: Weds., 2-4 (or by appt.) Phone: 678-4938 Email: radale@memphis.edu Website: http://cia.psyc.memphis.edu/rad/ |
Spring 2008 Tuesdays, 2:40-5:40 219 Psychology Building Course website: http://cia.psyc.memphis.edu/rad/4305/ |
Important: First paper grading rubric distributed in class
Official schedule & readings
Date: 1/15 (day 1) Topic: Organizational meeting; getting started
Readings: n/a
Activity: Activity 0
Key figures n/a
Date: 1/22 (day 2) Topic: History and strategy of cognitive science; stages and speed of mental processing
Homework (before class, required): Send me two thought questions by Monday, January 21st (instructions)
Readings (before class, required): Preamble 1, Braitenberg Introduction, Braitenberg Vehicle 1
Activity (in class, required): Reaction time (Activity 1)
Optional/supplementary readings: Boring, 1961 (pp. 245-248, sec. 2), Miller, 2003, Posner, 2005
Date: 1/29 (day 3) Topic: Learning and memory; capacity of working memory; chunking
Homework (before class, required): Send me two thought questions by Monday, January 28th (instructions)
Readings (before class, required): Wiki's chunking article (instead of preamble), Braitenberg Vehicles 2 & 3, Miller, 1956 (Recoding and Summary)
Activity (in class, required): Chunking (Activity 2)
Optional/supplementary readings: Boring, 1961 (pp. 249-250), Gobet et al., 2001 (pp. 236-237 particularly)
Key figures: Ebbinghaus, Cool: Luria's S, Tammet videos
Date: 2/12 (day 4) Topic: Computer simulation; Turing test
Homework (before class, required): Send me two thought questions by Monday, February 4th (instructions)
Readings (before class, required): Braitenberg Vehicles 4 & 5
Activity (in class, required): Introduction to Octave (Activity 3)
Optional/supplementary readings: Christiansen & Chater, 2001 (the 3 criteria)
Key figures/ideas: Turing, Turing test
Date: 2/19 (day 5) Topic: The brain; neuroimaging (**NOTE THE CHANGE DUE TO TORNADOES)
Homework (before class, required): Send me two thought questions by Monday, February 18th (instructions)
Readings (before class, required): Braitenberg, Biological notes pp. 95-105; Wiki's imaging article (instead of preamble)
Activity (in class, required): TBA
Optional/supplementary readings: Raichle, 1998
Link of interest: Brain game
Date: 3/11 (day 6) Topic: Philosophy and thought experiments (**NOTE THE CHANGE DUE TO ILLNESS)
Homework (before class, required): Send me two thought questions by Monday, February 9th (instructions)
Readings (before class, required): Braitenberg Introduction (reconsider as thought experiment); Choose 2 philosophical thought experiments to read/comment on
Activity (in class, required): More Octave (Activity 4)
Date: 3/18 (day 7) Topic: Analysis/nature of speech
Homework (before class, required): Send me two thought questions by Monday, February 17th (instructions)
Readings (before class, required): Please read the following brief Wiki articles relevant to Jenny's presentation: McGurk Effect, formants, articulatory manner, and research in speech perception (just that section in the article).
Activity (in class, required): Praat!
Date: 3/25 (day 8) Topic: Analysis of word usage, detection of deception
Homework (before class, required): Send me two thought questions by Monday, February 24th (instructions)
Readings (before class, required): Hancock, J.T., Curry, L., Goorha, S., & Woodworth, M.T. (2004). Lies in Conversation: An Examination of Deception Using Automated Linguistic Analysis. Proceedings, Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 26, 534-540. Mahwah, NJ: LEA. [download the PDF]
Activity (in class, required): LIWC!
Date: 4/1 (day 9) Topic: The ultimate puzzle in cognitive science: Consciousness
Homework (before class, required): Send me two thought questions by Monday, March 31st (instructions)
Readings (before class, required): Steven Pinker's time article [download the PDF]
Activity (in class, required): Assorted
Date: 4/8 (day 10) Topic: Language and thought + TLearn
Homework (before class, required): Send me two thought questions by Monday, April 7th (instructions)
Readings (before class, required): Boroditsky & Ramscar, 2002
Optional reading: Pennebaker et al., 2003 (pp. 548-554) (related to LIWC, if you'd like to use it for a final project)
Activity (in class, required): TLearn
Date: 4/15 (day 11) Topic: Art and the intention of the artist
Homework (before class, required): Send me two thought questions by Monday, April 14th (instructions)
Readings (before class, required): Paul Bloom's article in the Times, Preissler & Bloom, 2007: Kids do it too
Optional reading: Cutting, 2006: The more you see a painting, the more you like it
Activity (in class, required): Tlearn -- slides, and a link to Tlearn
Date: 4/22 (day 12) Topic: Art and the intention of the artist; no readings, attendance still expected
Final class!