Ling 411 – Neurolinguistics – Spring 2004 – Schedule

Readings are in the Course Packet

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Dates

Topic

Readings

Web Refs

Week 1
January 13-15

Neuroanatomy

Lamb 1999a: Introducing the Brain

brain

Week 2 - 5
January 20 - February 1

Aphasiology

Benson&Ardila 1996: Historical Background

Goodglass 1993: Disorders of Repetition

Benson&Ardila 1996: Classifications of Aphasia

Benson&Ardila 1996: Perisylvian Aphasias

Goodglass 1993: Laterality

H. Damasio 1998: Neuroanatomical Correlates

Goodglass 1993: Disorders of Syntax and Morphology

Rapp&Caramazza 1995:

Lexical Disorders

 

Week 6
February 17-19

Electronic Evidence on  Localization

Calvin & Ojemann 1994: Intraoperative Stimulation

Papanicolaou 1998: MEG

 

Week 7—Tu
February 24

Recovery and Rehabilitation

 

 

Week 7—Th
February 26

E X A M     I

 

 

March 2-4

Mid-Term Break

 

 

Week 8 - 11
March 9 - April 1

The Microscopic Level: Representation of Linguistic Information

Lamb in press: Dimensions of the Territory of Neurolinguistics

Lamb 2003: Neurolinguistics and General Linguistics

Sussman 1998: Is Brain a Computer?

Lamb 1999a: Metaphorical Models

Rizzolatti&Arbib 1998: Language within our Grasp

Lamb 2000: Bidirectional Processing

Lamb 1999b: Local and Distributed Representation

Beeman 1998: Coarse Semantic Coding

Lamb in press: Perception of Speech

networks

 

activation

 

compact

 

learning

 

proximity

 

arcuate

Week 12
April 6-8

Cortical Columns and Relational Networks

Mountcastle 1998: Columnar Organization of the Cortex

 

Burnod

 

columns

Week 13—Tu
April 13

The Anatomy of Language

Lamb 1999a: The Anatomy of Language

 

Week 13—Th
April 15

E X A M    I I

 

 

Week 14
April 20-22

Student Reports

 

 


Updated 4 March 2004