C. Domains of Representation

6. Objects, Space, and Faces

Low-level vs. high-level. Edges, surfaces, color, motion, generalized cones, etc. What and where. A priori spatial knowledge? Faces vs. objects. Complexes. Verticality. Kinds of loss of spatial and face knowledge. READING: Green, Ch. 4

7. Language

The abstract modular structure of mental grammar. Phonology, syntax, and semantics. Universal grammar, learnability, and acquisition. Aphasias. READING: Green, Chs. 5,7,8 &9

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8. Music

Formal structure of music. Grouping, meter, reduction. Similarities to and differences from language. Innate musical knowledge? Amusia. READING: Gelman and Brenneman, First Principles. Can Support Both Universal and Culture-Specific  Learning about Number and Music (reserve); Jackendoff, Musical Parsing and Musical Affect (reserve)

9. Mathematics

Counting and cardinality. Incrementation and decrementation. Sets and grouping. Acalculia. READING Wynn, Evidence Against Empiricist Accounts... (reserve)

10. Other Minds

Responses to minds, not behavior. Metarepresentation. A social knowledge module?

Autism and TOM loss. READING:  Baron-Cohen et al., Does the Autistic Child Have a Theory of Mind? (reserve)

E. Applications

11. Applied Cognitive Science

Learning and teaching: mathematics and second languages. READING: Nesher, Learning Mathematics (reserve); White, Universal Grammar and Second Language

Acquisition

F. Closing

12.  Evolution

How come we turned out like this? The nature and pitfalls of accounts via inheritance. What children already know. What animals already know. READING:  Gallistel, Lessons from Animal Learning for the Study of Cognitive Development

(reserve); Spelke: Initial Knowledge: Six Suggestions (reserve).

EXAMINATION #3

Course  (cont.)