Neuroscience
- Language Development
Nature Reviews Neuroscience offers the full text (HTML and .pdf) of this interesting overview to language development in its November issue: Patricia K. Kuhl. Early language acquisition: Cracking the speech code. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2004....
- Do Animals Feel?
Interesting article at New Scientist about whether or not animals have emotions. Marc Bekoff, professor of biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and Fellow of the Animal Behavior Society, writes about animals and their possible feelings. He...
- Uconn Cog Sci Colloquium -- Friday, Oct. 14
Sorry I’m going to miss this one … Speaker: Herbert Terrace, Columbia University Title: "Thought without Language" Time: 4pm, Friday, October 14, 2005 Place: Class of '47 Room, Babbidge Library, University of Connecticut / Storrs In recent years,...
- Hot Topic: Origin Of Language
The CSA database provides summary info. about the origin of language, entitled Language Origins: Did Language Evolve Like the Vertebrate Eye, or Was It More Like Bird Feathers?. Includes a several page summary, citations, web sites, and a glossary. In...
- Brown Bag Lunch With Dr. Novick Sponsored By The Dean's Student Advisory Council!
Brown Bag Lunch with Dr. Novick sponsored by the Dean's Student Advisory Council Thursday, April 17, 2014 2:00-3:00 pm 2141 Tydings Hall Interested in discussing cognitive linguistics and psychology? Interested in learning about the relationship...
Neuroscience
New "LING 449E Biology of Language" course!
LING 449E
Biology of Language Course
Fall 2015
Biology of Language Course
Fall 2015
TTH 2:00 pm-3:15 pm
Instructor: Chris Heffner
What defines human language? Are other animals capable of using language in the same ways that humans can? These questions and more will be discussed in the interdisciplinary seminar “Biology of Language” (LING 449E), which will be held from 2pm-3:15pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays in Marie Mount Hall. This will be a small interdisciplinary seminar, bringing together insights both from linguistics, psychology, neuroscience, and animal behavior. The course is intended to bring together students from many different fields, so no specific background is required. Instead, interested students should be willing to go outside their comfort zone and learn about topics they might not have heard much about, topics like the definition of language, animal studies of human language learning, mirror neurons and theories of speech perception, and category learning are all potential topics. There will be opportunities to try out experimental design and construction.
Instructor: Chris Heffner
What defines human language? Are other animals capable of using language in the same ways that humans can? These questions and more will be discussed in the interdisciplinary seminar “Biology of Language” (LING 449E), which will be held from 2pm-3:15pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays in Marie Mount Hall. This will be a small interdisciplinary seminar, bringing together insights both from linguistics, psychology, neuroscience, and animal behavior. The course is intended to bring together students from many different fields, so no specific background is required. Instead, interested students should be willing to go outside their comfort zone and learn about topics they might not have heard much about, topics like the definition of language, animal studies of human language learning, mirror neurons and theories of speech perception, and category learning are all potential topics. There will be opportunities to try out experimental design and construction.
- Language Development
Nature Reviews Neuroscience offers the full text (HTML and .pdf) of this interesting overview to language development in its November issue: Patricia K. Kuhl. Early language acquisition: Cracking the speech code. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2004....
- Do Animals Feel?
Interesting article at New Scientist about whether or not animals have emotions. Marc Bekoff, professor of biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and Fellow of the Animal Behavior Society, writes about animals and their possible feelings. He...
- Uconn Cog Sci Colloquium -- Friday, Oct. 14
Sorry I’m going to miss this one … Speaker: Herbert Terrace, Columbia University Title: "Thought without Language" Time: 4pm, Friday, October 14, 2005 Place: Class of '47 Room, Babbidge Library, University of Connecticut / Storrs In recent years,...
- Hot Topic: Origin Of Language
The CSA database provides summary info. about the origin of language, entitled Language Origins: Did Language Evolve Like the Vertebrate Eye, or Was It More Like Bird Feathers?. Includes a several page summary, citations, web sites, and a glossary. In...
- Brown Bag Lunch With Dr. Novick Sponsored By The Dean's Student Advisory Council!
Brown Bag Lunch with Dr. Novick sponsored by the Dean's Student Advisory Council Thursday, April 17, 2014 2:00-3:00 pm 2141 Tydings Hall Interested in discussing cognitive linguistics and psychology? Interested in learning about the relationship...