| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 3/25 | MIDTERM | NO CLASS (ICIS Conference) |
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| 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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