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Cognitive Science Seminar - Fall 2005

Max Louwerse (Teacher) (2005)

Language is a window to the mind. It provides an insight into how we communicate, how we think and how we behave. It lies at the heart of understanding all aspects of human cognition, culture and conduct. Linguistics is the study of human language and forms a crucial component in disciplines like Cognitive Science, Psychology, Computer Science, Education and a variety of other fields.

The Fall 2005 Cognitive Science Seminar will focus on interdisciplinary perspectives in linguistics. The course is different from psycholinguistic courses in that it takes into account computational models; different from computational linguistic courses in that it takes into account experimental studies; and different from language courses taught in psychology and computer science in that it also considers the structure of language from a theoretical and applied linguistics point of view.

The course covers topics related to morphology, phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, language variation, language acquisition, language evolution and neuroscience and is aimed at an interdisciplinary audience interested in the structure of human language.

Honors General Psychology, Fall 2005

Max Louwerse (Teacher) (2005)

Computational psycholinguistics 2004

Max Louwerse (Teacher) (2004)

This course is an introduction to various aspects of corpus, computational linguistics and computational psycholinguistics including content analysis, text and dialog management, computational stylistics, question answering and speech synthesis. The course consists of short lectures, followed by discussions in which class participation is required. In the lecture, a short overview of a specific topic of the research area will be presented. This is followed by student presentations on a particular research paper.

Honors forum, 2004

Max Louwerse (Teacher) (2004)

In the Honors Forum "Contemporary Issues in Language, Computers and Cognition" key topics in computational psycholinguistics and cognitive science will be addressed. Each forum session will be discussing a different topic, where possible presented by an expert on that topic. All topics will be aimed at an audience with no or little knowledge of the field, but with an interest and enthusiasm in that field. Topics that will be discussed in (guest) lectures are Computationally measuring cohesion of text and its effect on cognition, Intelligent tutoring systems in education, Computational ways of teaching children how to read, Effects of talking heads and computerized speech on human emotions, Answering human questions computationally.

Honors general psychology, 2003

Max Louwerse (Teacher) (2003)

This course is an introduction to various aspects of psychology, including biological, cognitive and social aspects. It covers a broad spectrum of theories, research and issues in psychological sciences. We will cover for instance topics like the human brain, perception, intelligence, memory, language comprehension, personality, social psychology and therapy. Part of the philosophy of the honors program is to encourage students to actively learn and interact. This course therefore requires active student participation! In addition to the lectures, you will be asked to critically think about the topics discussed, to write research papers and to give presentations. Furthermore, you will participate in experiments in order to satisfy your research participation requirement.

Thinking and cognitive processes, 2002

Max Louwerse (Teacher) (2002)

This course gives an overview of fields of cognitive psychology and cognitive science, including perception and attention, short- and long-term memory, language, problem solving, reasoning and decision making.