Date:
11/28 Speaker:
Rick Dale
Email your thoughts/questions to Ralu (raluca.stoian
[at] gmail) and Rick (radale@mem...edu)
by Monday.
Readings
Required:
De Jong, H. (2002). Levels of explanation in biological
psychology.
Philosophical Psychology, 15, 441-462.
Required: These (very) brief summaries of The
Complementary Nature will be interesting to all: What
is...?,
and general
book summary.
Optional (but interesting!):
Mitchell, S. (2004). Why integrative pluralism?
E:CO, 6, 81-91.
Date:
11/14 Speaker:
Ron Sun
Email your thoughts/questions to Ralu
(raluca.stoian [at] gmail), Quan (quantang@mem...edu),
and Rick (radale@mem...edu) by Monday.
Readings
Sun, R. et al. (2005). On levels of cognitive modeling. Philosophical
Psychology, 18, 613-637.
Date:
11/7 Speaker:
Bob McMurray
Email your thoughts/questions to Patrick Jeuniaux
(patrick.jeuniaux [at] gmail), Zack Perry (zackperry [at] gmail),
and Rick (radale@mem...edu) by Monday.
Readings
McMurray, R. et al. (in press). Integrating connectionist learning
and dynamical systems processing: Case studies in speech and lexical
development. In J. Spencer et al. (Eds.), Toward a new grand
theory of development?
McMurray, R. (2007). Defusing the vocabulary explosion. Science, 317,
631.
Date:
10/31 Speaker:
Sidney D'Mello
Email your thoughts/questions to Ryan McCall
(rmccall@mem...edu) and Rick (radale@mem...edu) by Monday.
Readings
Glenberg, A. & Robertson, D. (2000). Symbol grounding and meaning:
A comparison of high-dimensional and embodied theories of meaning. Journal
of Memory and Language,43, 379-401.
Burgess, C. (2000). Theory and operational definitions
in computational memory models: A response to Glenberg and Robertson. Journal
of Memory and Language, 2000, 402-408.
Date:
10/24 Speaker:
Eric Jacobs
Email your thoughts/questions to Suzy Deutsch
(lisasuzy [at] comcast.net), Alan Albright (alanalbright [at] prodigy.net)
and Rick (radale@mem...edu) by Monday.
Readings
Delprato, D. & Midgley, B. (1992). Some fundamentals
of B.F. Skinner's behaviorism. Americanf Psychologist, 27,
1507-1520.
Chiesa, M. (1992). Radical behaviorism and scientific frameworks. American
Psychologist, 27, 1287-1299.
Hineline, P. (1992). A self-interpretive behavior analysis. American
Psychologist, 27, 1274-1286.
Date:
10/17 Speaker:
Barbara Clancy
Email your thoughts/questions to Amy Witherspoon
(awthrspn@mail.psyc.mem...edu), Christine Kowalczyk (ckwlczyk@gmail...),
and Rick (radale@mem...edu) by Monday.
Readings
Clancy, B., et al. (in press). Extrapolating brain development from
experimental species to humans. NeuroToxicology.
Bates, E., et al. (2002). Early language development and its neural correlates.
In I. Rapin & S. Segalowitz (Eds.), Handbook of Neuropsychology, Vol.
6,
Child Neurology (2nd edition). Elsevier.
Date:
10/10 Speaker:
Kevin Bath
Email your thoughts/questions to Kyle Dempsey
(kdempsey@mail.psyc.mem...edu) and Rick (radale@mem...edu)
by Monday.
Readings
Cryan, J.F. & Slattery, D.A. (2007). Animal models of mood disorders:
Recent developments. Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 20, 1-7.
Chen, Z-Y., Jing, D., Bath, K.G., et al. (2006). Genetic variant BDNF (Val66Met)
polymorphism alters anxiety-related behavior. Science, 314,
140-143.
Bath, K.G. & Lee, F.S. (2006). Variant BDNT (Val66Met) impact on brain structure
and function. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 6,
79-85.
Date:
10/3 Speaker:
Guy Van Orden
Email your thoughts/questions to John Cicala
(jcicala@mem...edu), Stacie West (swest@mem...edu) and Rick (radale@mem...edu)
by Monday.
Readings
Van Orden, G.C., Holden, J.G., & Turvey, M.T. (2003). Self-organization
of cognitive performance. Journal of Experimental Psychology:
General, 132, 331-350.
Date:
9/26 Speaker:
Remy Debes
Email your thoughts/questions to Jenny Roche
(jroche@mem...edu) and Rick (radale@mem...edu) by Monday.
Readings
Gallese, V & Goldman, A. (1998). Mirror neurons
and the simulation theory of mind-reading. Trends
in Cognitive Sciences,
2, 493-501.
Ramachandran, V. & Oberman, L. (2006). Broken mirrors.
Scientific American, November, 2006.
Rizzolatti, G., Fogassi, L., & Gallese, V. (2006).
Mirrors in the mind. Scientific American, November, 2006.
Date:
9/19 Speaker:
Max Louwerse
Email your thoughts/questions to Phillip Hart
(phillip.hart@gmail...), Nick Benesh (mithodor@gmail...), and Rick
(radale@mem...edu), by Monday evening at the latest.
Readings
Glenberg, A. M. (1997). What memory is for. Behavioral & Brain
Sciences, 20, 1-55. [external
pdf] (NB: First 18 pages are the main article.
The remaining pages are peer commentary -- feel free to skim these
and extract what you find most interesting for discussion).
Louwerse, M.M. (2007). Symbolic or embodied representations:
A case for symbol interdependency. In T. Landauer, D. McNamara, S.
Dennis, & W. Kintsch (Eds.). Handbook of latent semantic analysis
(pp. 107-120). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Date:
9/12 Speaker:
Morten Christiansen
Readings
Christiansen, M.H & Chater, N. (submitted). Language as shaped by the
brain.
Christiansen, M.H. & Tomblin, B. (submitted). Reappraising language
genetics. (optional for the students)
Date: 9/5 Speaker:
Deborah Tollefsen
Though not ideal (but simple and comprehensive), we'll
consider a variety of Wikipedia articles on basic topics in the philosophy
of science. These will help us prepare for Prof. Tollefsen's presentation/discussion.
Email your thoughts/questions to Nick Duran (nduran@mem...edu), Gina
Caucci (gcaucci@mem...edu), and Rick (radale@mem...edu), by Monday
evening at the latest.
All to read: Philosophy
of Science
Presenters will read / consider (and all are invited
to peruse):
Karl
Popper, demarcation + falsificationism
Thomas
Kuhn and his much-discussed book
Imre
Lakatos and research programmes
Date: 8/29 Speaker:
Rick Dale
Readings
Miller, G.A. (2003). The cognitive revolution: a historical
perspective. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 141-144.
Simon, H.A. (1992). What is an explanation of behavior? Psychological
Science, 3, 150-161.
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