SYLLABUS FOR PSYCH 125

WEEK OF: TUESDAY THURSDAY READING
1/22 Orientation and Overview Debates:
Continuity, Nature/Nurture, and Modularity
Johnson: Chapter 1
1/29 Embryology from Conception to Neural Tube Closure: Epigenesis NO CLASS
(Pitzer Recruiting)
Elman: Chapter 1
2/5 NO CLASS
(Prof. Moore sick)
NO CLASS
(Prof. Moore sick)

2/12 Concepts in Connectionist Modeling LAB I:
AND and OR, but XOR?
Elman: Chapter 2
2/19 Neuroembryology I:
Proliferation and Migration 
Neuroembryology II:
Aggregation and Axonal Guidance
Johnson: Chapter 2
2/26 Neuroembryology III:
Synapse Formation and Programmed Cell Death

(LAB I DUE)
Vision:
Eyes, Brain, and Attention
Johnson: Chapter 3
3/4 LAB II:
XOR and Autoassociation
(LAB RUNS FROM 3:00 - 4:15 TODAY)
Perceiving and Acting I:
Objects and Number
Johnson: Chapter 4
Elman: pp. 147-169
3/11 Perceiving and Acting II:
Social Stimuli
Habituation and Memory
(LAB II DUE)
Johnson: Chapter 5 and
Chapter 6
3/18 NO CLASS
(Spring Break)
NO CLASS
(Spring Break)
3/25 MIDTERM NO CLASS
(ICIS Conference)
4/1 Dynamic Systems Theory:
The Case of Motor Development
More on Motor Development and D.S.T. Elman: pp. 107-115
(try pp. 210-238, too) and Thelen Reading
4/8 LAB III:
Categorization
Cross-Modal Integration Meredith and Stein Reading and
Lickliter Reading
4/15 Categorization Conceptually Language I: Psychobiology
(LAB III DUE)
Johnson: Chapter 7
4/22 LAB IV:
Language
Language II:
Parsing, Past Tense, and Vocabulary
Elman: pp. 118-147
4/29 Lateralization Experience, Critical Periods, and Plasticity
(LAB IV DUE)
Johnson: Chapters 9 and 10 and Turkewitz Reading
5/6 Conclusions and Wrap-up NO CLASS
(Reading Days)
(FINAL PAPER DUE FRIDAY, MAY 9 at 5:00 PM)
Johnson: Chapter 11
Elman: Chapter 7

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