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PSY 341K - Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience

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Aug 29 Introduction.
Sept 3 Classicism versus Neodarwinism MacNeilage Monograph Ch 1
5 Clark: Embodiment
10 The History of Neodarwinism. Fort
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19 Nature, Nurture, Culture Elman et al. Plotkin
24 Cognitive Neuroscience: Background Gazzaniga, Ivry & Mangun
26 1 & 4.
Oct 1 Cognitive Neuroscience: Selected Topics Gazzaniga, Ivry &
3 Mangun Details to be announced.
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17 MID TERM EXAM
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24 Evolution of Hemispheric Specializations: Introduction
Corballis: The Lopsided Ape
29 Corballis’s Theory Corballis: From mouth to hand: …
31 Rizzolatti & Arbib
Nov 5 MacNeilage’s Theory MacNeilage, Ch 10
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12 Evolution of Speech: The Frame/Content Theory MacNeilage
Monograph, Ch 2
14 Ch 3
19 Ch 4
21 Ch 5
26 Ch 6
28 THANKSGIVING
30 Ch 7
Dec 3 Ch 8
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Readings:

1. A. Clark. Embodied, Situated, and distributed cognition.

2. Language gene is traced to emergence of humans. New York Times, Aug 17.

3. J.L. Elman, E.A. Bates, M.H. Johnson, A. Karmiloff-Smith, D. Parisi, & K. Plunkett. Chapter 1. New Perspectives on Development.

4. H. Plotkin, Chapter 6 Culture: One of the last great frontiers of science.

5. M.C. Corballis. From mouth to hand: Gesture, speech and the evolution of
handedness.

6. G. Rizzolatti & M. Arbib. Language within our grasp.

7. P.F. MacNeilage, Ch. 10 The evolution of the cerebral hemispheric
specialization for speech.