| WEEK OF: | MONDAY | WEDNESDAY | READING |
| 1/17 | NO CLASS | Orientation and Overview | Johnson:
Chapter 1; Gottlieb, 2001 |
| 1/24 | The
Source of Development: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives |
Methods of Inquiry | Johnson: Chapters 2 & 3 |
| 1/31 | Concepts in Connectionist Modeling | LAB
I: AND and OR, but XOR? |
Elman:
Chapter 1 |
| 2/7 | Genes: What They Are, What They Do, and What They Can't Do | Embryology, from Conception to Neural Tube Closure | Elman:
Chapter 2 and pp. 107-115 |
| 2/14 | Neuroembryology
I: Proliferation, Migration, and Aggregation (LAB I DUE) |
LAB
II: XOR and Autoassociation |
Johnson: Chapter 4 |
| 2/21 | Neuroembryology
II: Axonal Guidance, Synapse Formation, and Programmed Cell Death |
Developmental Plasticity | Nelson,
2000; Neville and Bavelier, 1998; Pascalis, et al., 2005 |
| 2/28 | Vision: Eyes, Brain, and Attention |
Folk
Physics & Math: Domain Specificity? (LAB II DUE) |
Johnson:
Chapter 5; Elman: pp. 147-171 |
| 3/7 | Perceiving
and Acting I: Objects and Number |
MIDTERM | Johnson:
Chapter 6; Cantlon, et al., 2006 |
| 3/14 | NO CLASS (Spring Break) |
NO CLASS (Spring Break) |
No Reading |
| 3/21 | Perceiving
and Acting II: Social Cognition |
Categorization Conceptually | Johnson: Chapter 7 |
| 3/28 | LAB
III: Categorization |
NO CLASS (SRCD Conference) |
Johnson: Chapter 9 |
| 4/4 | Language I: Psychobiology |
Language
II: Parsing, Past Tense, and Vocabulary (LAB III DUE) |
Elman, pp. 118-147 |
| 4/11 | Habituation, Learning, and Memory | LAB
IV: Language |
Johnson:
Chapter 8 |
| 4/18 | Lateralization | Temperament and Self-Regulation | Turkewitz,
1993; Johnson: Chapter 11; Schwartz, et al., 2003; Posner, et al., 2007 |
| 4/25 | Social
Cognition in Normal and Abnormal Populations (LAB IV DUE) |
The
Power of Interaction |
Liu,
et al., 2009; Baron-Cohen, 2004; Johnson: Chapter 12; Elman, pp. 319-321 and 333-356 |
| 5/2 | Slow & Small is Good! | Conclusions
and Wrap-up (FINAL PAPERS DUE IN CLASS ON WEDNESDAY, MAY 4) |
Johnson:
Chapter 13 and/or Elman: Chapter 7 |