Ling 411 – Neurolinguistics – Spring 2010 – Schedule

All readings are in the course readings packet.
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Dates

Topic

Readings

Web Refs

Week 1

January 12-14

Introduction,
Neuroanatomy

Lamb 2005: Being Scientific, Being Realistic
Lamb 1999: Introducing the Brain

Brain-1

Brain-2

Brodmann

Weeks 2-4

January 19 - February 4

Aphasiology

Benson&Ardila 1996: Historical Background

Goodglass 1993: Disorders of Repetition

A. Damasio 1998: Signs of Aphasia

Goodglass 1993: Laterality

H. Damasio 1998: Neuroanatomical Correlates

Goodglass 1993: Disorders of Syntax and Morphology

 

Weeks 5-7

February 9-25

Investigating Cerebral Function

Cherchi 2000: Investigation of the Brain under Non-pathological Conditions

Lamb 2004: Dimensions of the Territory

Mountcastle, Columnar Organization

Pulvermüller 2002: Neuronal Structure and Function

Pulvermüller 2002: Words in the Brain

Lamb 2005: Language and Brain

MSI

Foreword

Networks

Columns

Activation

Arcuate

March 2-4

B R E A K   

 

 

Weeks 8-9(Tu)

March 9-16

Issues in Linguistic Neuroscience

Beeman 1998: Coarse Semantic Coding and Discourse

Lamb in press: On the Perception of Speech

 

Week 9(Th)

March 18

E  X  A  M   (Th)

 

 

Weeks 10-12

March 23 - April 8

Recent progress in Linguistic Neuroscience

Lamb&Zhang 2010: Mental Representation of Chinese Compounds

Hickock 2000: Speech Perception, Conduction Aphasia & Functional Neuroanatomy

Friederici 2009: Pathways to Language

 

Weeks 13-14

April 13-22

Student Reports