Transcript INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE AUG. 26, 2013 - DAY 1 Brain & Language LING 4110/4890/5110/7960? NSCI 4110/4891/6110 Fall 2013

INTRODUCTION TO
THE COURSE
AUG. 26, 2013 - DAY 1
Brain & Language
LING 4110/4890/5110/7960?
NSCI 4110/4891/6110
Fall 2013
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Enrollment
• After class, people on the waiting list can sign up
IF
• you are a linguistics, neuroscience, or psychology major,
and
• you are a junior, senior or graduate student.
• Everyone else
• Sorry, the class is massively over-enrolled. The course will
be offered again in Fall 2015.
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Objectives
• The objectives of this course are to understand
• how the brain is organized to produce and comprehend language,
• the time course of linguistic processing,
• the linguistic disorders attendant on brain damage.
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Outcomes
• For you to demonstrate your understanding of
these objectives, you will perform the following
tasks:
• Take a quiz almost every Monday, during the first 10 minutes of
class, covering the material since the previous Monday. [(11-1) *
7.5% = 75%]
• No make-up quizzes will be given, but you may drop one.
• If you notify me of an absence early enough before a quiz, you may
drop it.
• Prepare a final project, explained on a separate sheet. Graduate
students are expected to put more effort into the final project. [25%]
• Extra credit: Undergraduates may participate as subjects in an
EEG experiment; graduate students may participate in and help run
the experiment. [up to 3%]
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Class participation?
• There is no credit for class participation …
• … but I will change a X- into a Y+ if I notice you participating in
class.
• Why no credit?
• I will post my PowerPoint presentation to the course website after
every class: http://www.tulane.edu/~howard/LING4110/
• I will record and podcast every class.
• The mp3 files will be available on the course website above.
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A happy subject of an EEG experiment
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Public service option
• Our main placement is the Chartwell Center,
http://www.thechartwellcenter.org/, which is a school for
autistic children.
• Bridget Smith, our coordinator at the Center for Public
Service, will explain it all in much greater detail on Friday.
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Code of Academic Conduct
• “The integrity of Newcomb-Tulane College is based on the absolute honesty
of the entire community in all academic endeavors. As part of the Tulane
University community, students have certain responsibilities regarding work
that forms the basis for the evaluation of their academic achievement.
Students are expected to be familiar with these responsibilities at all times.
No member of the university community should tolerate any form of academic
dishonesty, because the scholarly community of the university depends on
the willingness of both instructors and students to uphold the Code of
Academic Conduct. When a violation of the Code of Academic Conduct is
observed it is the duty of every member of the academic community who has
evidence of the violation to take action. Students should take steps to uphold
the code by reporting any suspected offense to the instructor or the associate
dean of the college. Students should under no circumstances tolerate any
form of academic dishonesty.”
• For further information, point your browser at
http://college.tulane.edu/code.htm.
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Students with disabilities
• Students with disabilities who need academic
accommodation should:
• Contact and register with the Office of Disability
Services (ODS). For more information, visit the ODS
website at
http://tulane.edu/studentaffairs/erc/services/disabilityser
viceshome.cfm.
• Bring official notice to me from the ODS indicating that
you need academic accommodation. This should be
done before the first quiz.
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Schedule
• You should come to
class having read and
mulled over the pages
listed for that day in the
schedule.
• We will cover a chapter a
day.
• There maybe
supplementary readings,
distributed as pdf files on
Blackboard.
• Any changes to the
schedule will be made to
the website.
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Prerequisites
• There aren't any
• I do not take anything for granted and so will explain all
background information, or at least suggest places where
you can find it on your own
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Final exam day
• There is no final exam, but you must present your
final project to the class on the final exam day,
Fri, Dec 16.
• You CANNOT leave town before then!
• Tell your parents NOW!
• You are hereby warned.
• Do not tell me at the end of the semester that
your parents bought you a ticket home without
knowing.
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Electronic communications
• I will send you e-mail on a regular basis – you
must check your e-mail on a regular basis!
• If you want to use a non-Tulane address, e-mail me a
message to that effect from the address.
• Blackboard
• syllabus
• readings
• grades
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Other odds and ends
• If you want to learn more about EEG and neurolinguistics,
you are welcome to participate in my lab.
• If you want to take the course as a linguistics capstone,
please sign up for LING 5110.
• If you want to take the course for honor's credit, I will be
happy to facilitate that for you. You need to get the
relevant form for me to sign.
• I would like to meet with the graduate students after class
is over.
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WHO WE ARE
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Me
• Prof. Harry Howard
• 862-3417 (voice mail 24 hours a day)
• Newcomb Hall 322-D
• Office hours: MW 1-2, T 4-5 & by appointment
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Who are you?
• Everyone interview a person sitting near you to find out:
• His or her name and major;
• Where he or she is from;
• What he or she knows about linguistics and neuroscience.
• Be prepared to report what you have learned to the class.
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THE CONTENT OF THE
COURSE
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What is neurolinguistics?
Fields of linguistics
• basic fields
• phonetics
• articulatory
• acoustic
• phonology
• syntax
• semantics
• hybrid fields
• sociolinguistics
• anthropological linguistics
• psycholinguistics
• neurolinguistics
Fields of neuroscience
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The speech chain
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Objectives
• The objectives of this course are to understand
• how the brain is organized to produce and comprehend language,
• the time course of linguistic processing,
• the linguistic disorders attendant on brain damage.
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NEXT TIME
Introduction & overview, Ingram §1.
Read the study questions on the last page of the chapter
before you read the chapter.
Grads – please stay for a few minutes.