Graduate Courses

 

 

 

 

 

  

PSY 387R: Fundamentals of Cognition

This course begins with a historical overview of the conceptual foundations of cognitive science, and then focuses on research and theory in the areas of pattern recognition, short- and long-term memory, attention, categorization, judgment, and decision-making.  The general approach to these topics is critical and evaluative.

 

 

 

 

PSY 394U: Speech Perception

This seminar focuses on the problem of how human listeners extract phonetic messages from speech waveforms.  After a brief review of articulatory and acoustic phonetics, we survey some of the main experimental findings of speech perception and discuss contrasting theoretical accounts of these findings.  In particular, we examine the current three-way debate between modularity (or motor) theorists, direct realists, and advocates of the role of general auditory and cognitive mechanisms in speech perception.  Special topics include: the role of theories of speech perception in the explanation of phonetic universals, speech perception in infancy, speech perception in animals, and prospects for machine recognition of speech.
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