Professor David Moore
108 Broad Hall
Office extension: 71648
E-mail: dmoore@pitzer.edu
Pitzer College
Psychology 125
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Spring, 2008
Here's
only the most pertinent info--I'll discuss details
today in class.
Class
will meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m
All regular class meetings will be held in Broad Center 209.
All lab meetings will be held in Broad Hall 213.
My
OFFICE HOURS will be on:
Wednesdays
from 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
In addition, I'm free to be
scheduled -- in
fact, I'd actually prefer it if you'd make an appointment with me
if you'd like to talk. Under any circumstances, I'll be in my
office or lab lots, so you can just drop on in.
We will use the following two books in this course; they should now be
available in Huntley Bookstore:
Johnson, M.H. (2005).
Developmental cognitive
neuroscience, (2nd ed.).
Malden,
MA:
Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Elman, J.L., Bates, E.A.,
Johnson, M.H., Karmiloff-Smith,
A., Parisi, D., and Plunkett, K.
(1997). Rethinking
innateness: A connectionist perspective on development.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
I'll
also
be using the following book in connection with our labs; it is not
required reading, but you can check it out if you're interested:
Plunkett,
K. and Elman, J.L. (1997). Exercises in rethinking innateness: A
handbook for connectionist simulations. Cambridge,
MA:
MIT Press.
Any
supplemental readings will be available for you to pick up (at cost) in
Pitzer's duplicating center in Bernard Hall (copies will also be made
available on reserve in the Marquis Reading Room, by request).
A
NOTE ABOUT ASSIGNMENTS: Lab write-ups will be due a week-and-a-half
after we meet to talk the lab over (please see syllabus for lab
write-up due dates). You should attempt to do the lab as soon
as
possible
after our lab meeting, so that if things don't go as planned, you'll
have time to come by
and get help from me, and still be able to hand in the write-up on
time.
Final papers will
be due by 5:00 PM on Friday, May 9.