Stephen van Vlack

Sookmyung Women`s University

Graduate School of TESOL

Human Learning and Cognition

Syllabus - Spring 2006

Week 1; March 7

Introductions to the course, the materials, and many other important things.

Go over the Human Learning and Cognition winter reading project.

Week 2; March 14

Terry (200?) Chapter 1, Introduction

Lamb (1999) Chapter 1, The Window of the Mind

♦          Final version of Winter Project due.

Week 3; March 21

Terry (200?) Chapter 2, Habituation and Other Forms of Stimulus Learning

Lamb (1999) Chapter 2, The Evidence of the First Two Kinds

Lamb (1999) Chapter 3, The Stratification of Language

Week 4; March 28

Terry (200?) Chapter 3, Classical Conditioning

Lamb (1999) Chapter 4, A Network of Relationships

Lamb (1999) Chapter 5, Components of Relational Networks

Week 5; April 4

Terry (200?) Chapter 4, Instrumental Conditioning: Reward

Lamb (1999) Chapter 6, Syntax

Lamb (1999) Chapter 7, Building Models

Week 6; April 11

Terry (200?) Chapter 5, Instrumental Conditioning: Nonreward, Punishment, and Avoidance

Lamb (1999) Chapter 8, Interacting Subsystems

Lamb (1999) Chapter 9, Meaning

Week 7; April 18

Terry (200?) Chapter 6, Verbal Learning

Lamb (1999) Chapter 10, Building Connections

Lamb (1999) Chapter 11, Traveling the Pathways

Week 8; April 25

Terry (200?) Chapter 7, Human Memory: Conceptual Approaches

Lamb (1999) Chapter 12, The Ever-Changing Network

Lamb (1999) Chapter 13, Sources of Linguistic Patterning

Week 9; May 2

Terry (200?) Chapter 8, Short-Term Retention

Lamb (1999) Chapter 14, Sequence Management

Lamb (1999) Chapter 15, Linguistic Illusions

♦          Midterm Project due.

Week 10; May 9

Terry (200?) Chapter 9, Encoding

Lamb (1999) Chapter 16, Introducing the Brain

Lieberman (2000), Chapter 1: Functional Neural Systems

Week 11; May 16

Terry (200?) Chapter 10, Storage and Retrieval

Lamb (1999) Chapter 17, Neurons and Nections

Lieberman (2000), Chapter 2: Speech Production and Perception

Week 12; May 23

Terry (200?) Chapter 11, Spatial. Motor-Skill, and Implicit Learning

Lamb (1999) Chapter 18, The Anatomy of Language

Lieberman (2000), Chapter 3: The Lexicon and Working Memory

Week 13; May 30

Lieberman (2000), Chapter 4: The Subcortical Basal Ganglia

Week 14; June 6 (Holiday - to be rescheduled)

Lieberman (2000), Chapter 5: The Evolution of the Functioning Language System

Week 15; June 13

Lieberman (2000), Chapter 6: Commentary

Tie up any loose ends that have not been covered.

Course wind-up and review.

♦          Final projects are due tentatively on Monday, June 20th.