Schedule

BCSC 265: Lecture Schedule

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Week
Date
Topic
Readings (discussion leader in parentheses)
Discussion Leader/Article presenter
1
01/18
Course requirements; Introduction, Academic honesty policy
How to properly cite resources (upload your results to Blackboard by 11:59pm 1/21; you must score at least 12 out of 13)
Form groups
 
2.1
01/23
A brief review of the core concepts in psycho- and neurolinguistics
Broca’s area revisited
Lindenberg et al.
Prof. Yang
2.2
01/25
Neurobiology of language: an overview
Poeppel et al.
 
3.1
01/30
Language lateralization
Olulade et al.
 
3.2
02/01
Language lateralization and multilingualism
Yazbek et al.
 
4.1
02/06
Language development and brain
Brauer et al.
 
4.2
02/08
Language development and brain
May et al.
 
5.1
02/13
Speech perception: the core issues
Pisoni
 
5.2
02/15
Neural basis of speech perception
Hickok and Poeppel
 
6.1
02/20
Essay #1 due
Neural mechanisms in phonetic processing in spoken and sign languages
Williams et al.
 
6.2
02/22
Exposure to non -native speech sounds: bilingual brain network
Kuhl et al
 
7.1
02/27
Visual word recognition
Carreiras at al.
 
7.2
02/29
Visual word recognition in L2
TBA
 

8.1

03/05
Group presentation of proposed topic
 
 
8.2
03/07
Group presentation of proposed topic
 
 
9.1
03/09
Spring Break
 
 
9.2
03/17
Spring Break
 
 
10.1
03/19
Dyslexia
Waldie et al.
 
10.2
03/21
Sentence comprehension
Friederici et al.
 
11.1
03/26
Sentence comprehension
Friederici
 
11.2
03/28
Essay #2 due
Comprehension of dialects
Zaharchuk et al.
 
12.1
04/02
Gesture and language comprehension
Skipper et al.
 
12.2
04/04
Production and comprehension
Segaert et al.
 
13.1
04/09
Language processing in ASD
Groen et al.
 

13.2

04/11
Language processing in schizophrenia
Weinstein et al.
 
14.1
04/16
Language impairment in Parkinson’s patients
Novokova et al.
 
14.2
04/18
Language impairment in Alzheimer’s patients
TBA
Prof. Yang
15.1
04/23
Essay #3 due
Wrap-up
 
 
15.2
04/25
Final presentation
 
 
16.1
04/30
Final presentation