Foundation

Course

  1. Know who your professor is
  2. Know how I will assess your mastery of course content

Scientific Foundations

  1. Recognize that there are multiple scientifically valid ways to study human language; identify scientific evidence relevant to understanding (i) how languages are organized structurally, (ii) how humans perceive and process language in real time, and (iii) the brain basis of language
  2. Define the following terms: localization, lateralization, aphasia
  3. Compare the methodology of Franz Joseph Gall and Paul Broca; give an example of how Gall’s approach caused societal harm
  4. Summarize the classical model of language in the brain and describe the original evidence for that model

The toolbox

  1. Explain the logic of the lesion/deficit mapping method
  2. Describe two methods that can be used to assess lateralization

Claim-evidence mapping

Describe scientific evidence for the following claim:

  1. Language processing in humans is lateralized to the left hemisphere.

Brain Geography

  1. Identify and distinguish coronal, axial, and sagittal views of the human brain
  2. Tell which way a brain is “facing” in each of the three views
  3. Be able to roughly locate Broca’s area and Wernicke’s area on a side view of the brain
Date Class Topic Due
Thurs 8/27 Course Introduction Baggio 2022
Tues 9/1 Localization of function Morse 1997
Thurs 9/3 Brain geography SGN p. 18-25
Fri 9/4 Pick a controversy
Tues 9/8 No class (Monday schedule)
Thurs 9/10 Classical model SGN p. 27-31
Fri 9/11 AI use policy
Tues 9/15 Aphasia Hickok et al. 1998
Thurs 9/17 Lateralization TBD
Friday 9/19 Nothing due
Tues 9/22 Exam #1

Legend

Lecture slides
Read normally (SGN = the textbook)
Project deadline
Some other thing is due
Exam

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