Part I: Foundations of Cognitive Science - Steven Pinker

Feb 7 W: Organizational Meeting // Mental representation and computation

Feb 9 F: Mental representation and computation // Evolutionary Psychology and Behavioral Genetics

Feb 12 M: Evolutionary Psychology and Behavioral Genetics

Feb 14 W: Recitation

Part II: Math Background & Neural Networks - Sebastian Seung

Feb 16 F: Linear algebra with MATLAB

[Feb 19 M: President's Day - Holiday]

Feb 21 W: Simple perceptrons

Feb 23 F: Multilayer perceptrons

Feb 26 M: Attractor neural networks

Part III: Computational Vision - Pawan Sinha

Feb 28 W: Computational Vision I

Mar 2 F: Computational Vision II

Mar 5 M Computational Vision III

Mar 7 W Recitation

Part IV: Cognitive Neuroscience of Object Recognition - Nancy Kanwisher

Mar 9 F Cognitive Neuroscience of Object Recognition I

Mar 12 M : Cognitive Neuroscience of Object Recognition II

Mar 14 W: Cognitive Neuroscience of Object Recognition III

Mar 16 F Recitation

Mar 19 M: MIDTERM EXAM

Part V: Information Processing and Capacity Limits - Molly Potter

Mar 21 W: Visual working memory

Mar 23 F: Conceptual short-term memory (CSTM)

[March 26-30: Spring Vacation]

Apr 2 M: Stage theory, PRP, AB

Apr 4 W: Recitation

Part VI: Working Memory & Attention - Earl Miller

Apr 6 F: Working Memory and Attention I

Apr 9 M: Working Memory and Attention II

Apr 11 W: Working Memory and Attention III

Apr 13 F: Recitation

[Apr 16 M: Patriot's Day

Part VII: Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory - Anthony Wagner

Apr 18 W: Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory I

Apr 20 F: Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory II

Apr 23 M: Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory III

Apr 25 W: Recitation

Part VIII: Intro to Language & Psycholinguistics - Ted Gibson

Apr 27 F Lecture 1: Speech and speech processing

Apr 30 M Lecture 2: The structure of sentences

May 2 W Lecture 3: Sentence and discourse processing

May 4 F Recitation

Part IX: Language Acquisition - Ken Wexler

May 7 M: The Computational System of Language, Universal Grammar, Parameters and the Problem of Learnability

May 11 F: Variability in Development, Impaired Language, Evidence for Genetic Variation

May 14 M: Recitation: How to Distinguish Processing from Competence Models of Language Development

May 16: TBA - Miller & Kanwisher