PDF of full syllabus

Changes in Readings
Replace the Tarr and Vuong paper on the syllabus with:
Biederman, I. (1995). Visual object recognition. In S. F. Kosslyn and D. N. Osherson (Eds.). An Invitation to Cognitive Science, 2nd edition, Volume 2., Visual Cognition. MIT Press. Chapter 4, pp. 121-165.  
http://geon.usc.edu/%7Ebiederman/525/Bieder_VisObRecog_part1.pdf
http://geon.usc.edu/%7Ebiederman/525/Bieder_VisObRecog_part2.pdf

Categorical Perception
Wiseniewski: Concepts and Categorization
Lawrence & Margolis

10/18: Note - Justin's two topics (10/30 and 11/6) have now been swapped with Craig's (11/20 and 11/27)

Slides
Perception 1 (Stuphorn)
Perception 2 (Egeth)
Development of Physical Knowledge (Feigenson)
Attention (Yantis)
Information Processing (Egeth - N/A)
Memory 1 (Stark)

Course Schedule
9/11
Introduction: What Is Cognitive Psychology? (Yantis)
9/18
Perception I. Neural basis of perception (Stuphorn & Yassa)
9/25
Perception II. Perceptual organization and object recognition (Egeth & Yamaguchi)
10/2
Development of Physical Knowledge (Feigenson & Kleitz)
10/9
Attention (Yantis & Mattfeld)
10/16
No class
10/23
Information Processing (Egeth & Chiu)
10/27-11/1
Exam 1
10/30
Memory I: Encoding, Retrieval, and Forgetting (Stark & Moher)
11/6
Memory II: Memory Systems (Stark & Marchette)
11/13
Working Memory and Executive Control (Courtney & Rosenau)
11/20
Categorical perception, Concepts, and Similarity (Halberda & Montojo)
11/27
Language: Rules and Connectionism (Halberda & Stevenson)
12/4
Spatial Cognition (Shelton & Bakker)
12/4-12/8
Exam 2