Cogsci 91: SCANS Presents, Winter 2004
Hours: Wed 4:00 - 5:00 pm
Room: CSB 003
Instructor: Ayse Pinar Saygin
E-mail: asaygin_at_cogsci.ucsd.edu (replace _at_ with @)
Office Hours: Wed 5:00 - 6:00 pm (right after class)
Office: CSB 223
Course website: http://kamares.ucsd.edu/~asaygin/scans.html
SCHEDULE
Jan 7 - Introductory Meeting
Jan 14 - Attention: Effects on Cognition and Neurophysiology
Speaker: Amy Rezec, Dept. of Psychology
Jan 21 - And What About the Right Hemisphere? Download
slides
Speaker: Andrew Stringfellow, Dept of Cognitive
Science and Center for Research in Language
Jan 28 - Psychophysical and Neuroimaging Investigations of Synesthesia
Speaker: Edward Hubbard, Dept. of Psychology and Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Feb 4 - Corpus Linguistics Meets Computational Linguistics Meets Psycholinguistics
Speaker: Robert Liebscher, Dept. of Cognitive Science
Feb 11 - Change Blindness and Visual Memory
Speaker: Alan Robinson, Dept. of Cognitive Science
Feb 18 - Schizophrenia: Linking Neurochemistry, Culture, and Illness Experience
Speaker: Michael Kiang, Dept. of Cognitive Science
Note room change - class will be in room CSB 180 this week
Feb 25 - Machine Perception as a Cognitive Science
Speaker: Ian Fasel, Dept. of Cognitive Science and Machine Perception Laboratory
Mar 3 - Monkey Morals
Speaker: Kyleb Wild, Dept. of Anthropology
Mar 10 - Neural Mechanisms of Emotion and Decision Making: What We Can Learn from a Rat
Speaker: Irene Merzlyak, Dept. of Cognitive Science
REQUIREMENTS
You are required to do two things: 1) attend all presentations, 2) carry out one of two assignment options.
What if you miss a lecture? Do try to not miss lectures - they are only one hour a week. If you miss a lecture, you will be required to "make up" for it either by participating in an experimental study, bringing a receipt from the experimenter and e-mailing me a note explaining what the study was about and what questions you thought it examined, or by attending another related talk on campus and sending me an e-mail note about the talk. Some ideas for make-up talks are at the bottom of the course website. The deadline for make-ups is March 12, 2004, not the end of finals week.
What about the assignment? There are two assignment options. Choose the one which will benefit you most, the one you think will make you think about and learn more about cognitive science:
Assignment Option A) E-mail me a one paragraph "note" about each talk you heard by 5:00 pm the next day (Thursday). The reason for this short deadline is because I want you to take a few minutes to think about what you heard while it's still fresh. You can comment on the general topic, what you thought of the talk, the area of cognitive science the speaker discussed, the methodology/methodologies the speaker discussed, or alternatively something very specific that caught your attention or made you think. As you can see, it's pretty free-form. I don't expect a well-thought-out, structured essay. You can write longer if you feel like it, but a few sentences suffice. If you choose this option you will be required to comment on every week's talk.
Assignment Option B) Alternatively, you can choose to write one, more detailed paper on a topic that interests you more deeply. This will be due at the end of the quarter on March 17, 2004 at noon. If you choose this option, I do expect a more thorough treatment of a topic within cognitive science. I don't expect a full research paper but a short 2-3 page essay. If you choose this option you need to discuss with me and get your topic approved (either during office hours or via e-mail) by Feb 18, 2004. You will still be required to attend all lectures.
For either assignment option, please always focus on what you think. Plagiarism and cheating will not be tolerated.
Most importantly, sit back and enjoy the SCANS Presents' tour of topics in Cognitive Science!
LINKS
UCSD Cognitive Science Department
Cognitive Science 200 Seminar Series - Winter 2004 theme is 'Vision and Learning in Humans and Machines'. Talks are in CSB 003 at 3:00-4:30 pm on Friday afternoons.
Behavioral Neuroscience Club Calendar of Events - Many campus-wide talks are listed on this calendar. Click on an event for a more detailed explanation to see if you are interested in the topic.
Neurosciences Graduate Program Seminar Series - Some excellent speakers come from all around the US for these talks which are Tuesdays at 4:00 pm. The schedule contains links to speakers' websites so you can see if you might be potentially interested in hearing the talk.
Center for Research in Language Colloquium Series Schedule - Tuesdays at 4:00 pm, CSB 280, these talks are about language research, broadly speaking. The topics vary: Neuropsychological, neuroimaging, theoretical, developmental, psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic, computational, anthropological, etc... Check for cancellations (you may need to join the e-mail list - if you join you can also receive abstracts of each week's talks).
Center for Human Development Seminars - Fridays at noon, this Winter the theme of this seminar is how children acquire syntax and morphology and eminent linguists and psychologists will speak. If you want to obtain the schedule join the mailing list, or check back on the website for updates.
UCSD Artificial Intelligence Research Seminars - Mondays at noon in AP&M 4882, you can hear UCSD AI researchers presenting their recent work. (Check the schedule or join the e-mail list for up to date information).
Cognitive Science "Wa" - This is a graduate student run talk series held on Mondays at noon in CSB 180. You may bring your lunch. (Check back for contact and schedule information)