Summer 2022A Introduction to Cognitive Science

University of California, Berkeley
COGSCI N1 001: Introduction to Cognitive Science
Summer Session A: May 23 through July 1 2022
Instructor: Adam M. Croom, Ph.D.
Contact: croom@berkeley.edu
Lectures: Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays 10:00 am – 12:30 pm
Office Hours: By appointment over Zoom

Lecture Schedule

• Lecture 1 (May 23): Introduction to cognitive science
• Lecture 2 (May 24): Nativism, empiricism, and the origins of knowledge
• Lecture 3 (May 25): Language acquisition I: Spoken languages
• Lecture 4 (May 31): Language acquisition II: Sign languages
• Lecture 5 (June 1): Syntax
• Lecture 6 (June 2): Semantics and pragmatics
• Lecture 7 (June 7): Categorization and conceptual metaphor
• Lecture 8 (June 8): Neuroscience of the visual and auditory systems
• Lecture 9 (June 9): Neuroscience of the linguistic system I: Syntax
• Lecture 10 (June 14): Neuroscience of the linguistic system II: Semantics
• Lecture 11 (June 15): Perceptual symbol systems
• Lecture 12 (June 16): Evolutionary psychology I: Emotions and facial expressions
• Lecture 13 (June 21): Evolutionary psychology II: Language and music
• Lecture 14 (June 22): Consciousness
• Lecture 15 (June 23): The extended mind and brain-computer interfaces
• Lecture 16 (June 28): Truth tables and logic gates
• Lecture 17 (June 29): Artificial intelligence, Turing machines, and neural networks
• Lecture 18 (June 30): Review and future directions

Reading Schedule

• Lecture 1 (May 23): Cognitive science (Thagard 1996); Evolutionary psychology, cognitive science, and dynamical systems (Kenrick 2001)
• Lecture 2 (May 24): Nativism, empiricism, and the origins of knowledge (Spelke 1998)
• Lecture 3 (May 25): The child’s learning of English morphology (Berko 1958); A new view of language acquisition (Kuhl 2000)
• Lecture 4 (May 31): Children creating language (Senghas & Coppola 2001); Children creating core properties of language (Senghas, Kita & Ozyurek 2004)
• Lecture 5 (June 1): Syntactic tree diagrams (Griswold, Zelaya & Dawn 2018)
• Lecture 6 (June 2): Literal meaning (Searle 1978); What is a speech act? (Searle 1965)
• Lecture 7 (June 7): Cognitive approaches to lexical semantics (Dingfang 2009); Mapping the brain’s metaphor circuitry (Lakoff 2014)
• Lecture 8 (June 8): Visual processing: Eye and retina (Dragoi 2020); Visual processing: Cortical pathways (Dragoi 2020); Auditory system: Structure and function (Gray 2020); Auditory system: Pathways and reflexes (Gray 2020)
• Lecture 9 (June 9): Form and content (Dapretto & Bookheimer 1999); The cortical organization of syntax (Matchin & Hickok 2020)
• Lecture 10 (June 14): Brain mechanisms linking language and action (Pulvermuller 2005); Processing abstract language modulates motor system activity (Glenberg et al. 2008)
• Lecture 11 (June 15): Perceptual symbol systems (Barsalou 1999)
• Lecture 12 (June 16): Evolutionary psychology and the emotions (Cosmides & Tooby 2000); Facial expressions (Ekman 1999)
• Lecture 13 (June 21): Evolutionary roads to syntax (Zuberbuhler 2019); Music, neuroscience, and the psychology of well-being (Croom 2012)
• Lecture 14 (June 22): Consciousness and the voices of the mind (Jaynes 1986); Global workspace theory of consciousness (Baars 2005)
• Lecture 15 (June 23): The extended mind (Clark & Chalmers 1998); Brain-computer interfaces in neurological rehabilitation (Daly & Wolpaw 2008)
• Lecture 16 (June 28): An introduction to formal logic (Magnus 2012); Introduction to digital logic (Wick 2017)
• Lecture 17 (June 29): Computational modeling of the mind (Rescorla 2015); Connectionism (Buckner & Garson 2019)
• Lecture 18 (June 30): No reading (course review and future directions)