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Program Courses
Below are the Catalog descriptions of the graduate courses offered by members of the Language and Cognition program.PSYC 312. Ecology of Language
The scope and content of an ecological theory of language are outlined.
Conventional theories of language, ecological theories of perceiving
and acting and relevant portions of social psychological,
anthropological, and linguistic theory are explored.
3 credits, Lecture. Instructor consent required.
PSYC 313. Memory
Contrasts associationist, cognitive, connectionist, and cognitive
neuroscience approaches to issues involving short-term memory,
long-term memory, and the representation of knowledge.
3 credits, Lecture. Instructor consent required.
PSYC 314. The Mental Lexicon
The role of the mental lexicon in the perception and production of
words, including the representation and use of knowledge about
phonology, morphology, orthography, and semantics.
3 credits, Lecture. Instructor consent required.
PSYC 315. Connectionist Models
Connectionist models in psychology and computational neuroscience.
Topics include learning, memory, and language processes in both intact
and damaged networks.
3 credits, Lecture. Instructor consent required.
PSYC 341. Reading Acquisition and Reading Disorders
Examination of theories and research: Aspects of literacy and stages of
acquisition; cognitive prerequisites for reading and writing;
individual differences in learning and the problem of dyslexia.
3 credits, Lecture.
PSYC 359. The Neuropsychology of Language
An examination of language and speech in relation to the biological
systems that serve communicative processes in man.
3 credits, Lecture. Instructor consent required.
PSYC 364. Dynamics of Language
Application of dynamical systems theory to language modeling.
3 credits, Lecture.
PSYC 367. Cognition
An introduction to theories of human cognition.
3 credits, Lecture.
PSYC 368. Psychology of Language
Psychological aspects of linguistic structure, with particular
attention to phonology.
3 credits, Seminar Instructor consent required.
PSYC 383. Sentence and Discourse Processing
How psychological theories of perception and learning provide insight
into language processing at the level of sentence structure and
discourse structure.
3 credits, Lecture.
Related Courses
The following courses are offered by members of the Psychology Department and are among those that can be used to satisfy the Related Courses requirement.PSYC 325. Foundations in Neuropsychology
An introduction to neuropsychology, including functional neuroanatomy,
neurochemistry, neuropharmacology and cognitive/emotional function and
dysfunction.
3 credits, Lecture.
PSYC 332. Developmental Ethology
Introduction to conceptual, theoretical, and empirical issues based
upon an ethological and biopsychological approach to development across
species. Topics include nature-nurture, behavioral embryology, early
experience, continuity-discontinuity, and performationism versus
epigenesis.
3 credits, Lecture. Instructor consent required.
PSYC 333. Cognitive Development
Current theory and research on children's conceptual development.
3 credits, Lecture. Instructor consent required.
PSYC 338. Development of Language and Related Processes
Experimental and descriptive study of the child's language processes,
with emphasis on acquisition, structure, meaning, thought, and the
influence of verbal processes on nonverbal behavior.
3 credits, Lecture. Open to Psychology graduate students, others with
permission.
PSYC 350. Cerebral Mechanisms in Perception
Knowledge and principles of neural organization related to attention,
sensory processing, perception and cognition.
3 credits, Lecture. Instructor consent required.
PSYC 351. Neural Foundations of Learning and Memory
Examination of the processes involved in habituation, conditioning,
learning, and memory through a study of the neural elements and systems
involved in their production and maintenance.
3 credits, Lecture. Instructor consent required.
PSYC 353. Introduction to Nonlinear Dynamics
Basic concepts and methods of nonlinear dynamics systems theory applied
to behavioral time-series data.
3 credits, Lecture. Instructor consent required.
PSYC 355. Physiological Psychology
A survey of research findings on the physiological and anatomical
process underlying sensory and motor functions, emotion and motivation,
learning and thinking.
3 credits, Lecture. Instructor consent required.
PSYC 356. Behavioral Neuroscience Research Seminar
Seminar on current research, with intra- and extra-mural colloquium
speakers.
2 credits, Seminar. Instructor consent required.
PSYC 360. Advanced Nonlinear Dynamics for the
Behavioral Sciences
Advanced concepts and methods of nonlinear dynamics systems theory
applied to behavioral time-series data.
3 credits, Lecture. Instructor consent required. Prerequisite: PSYC
353.
PSYC 365. Perceptual Information Processing
Perceptual behavior interpreted as the processing of sensory
information.
3 credits, Lecture. Instructor consent required.
PSYC 369. Sensation and Perception I
Relations among physical, physiological, and psychological variables in
selected sensory and perceptual processes. Attention is given to
problems of measurement, empirical findings, and theoretical
interpretations.
3 credits, Lecture. Instructor consent required.
PSYC 370. Sensation and Perception II
A continuation of Psychology 369.
3 credits, Lecture. Prerequisite: PSYC 369.
PSYC 374. Control and Coordination of Action
Covers the ecological approach; movement as the product of a
representational/computational system; intentionality; physical
principles of self-organization and cooperativity; task dynamics.
Problems in the physiology of activity, prosthetics and robotics are
addressed.
3 credits, Lecture. Instructor consent required.
PSYC 386. Social Cognition
Study of causal attribution, stereotyping, evaluating, judgement and
decision-making, persuasion, expectancies, memory, attention as they
pertain to social life.
3 credits, Lecture.
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