LAB: Language (in Lewis 1307) - Intro to Cognitive Science: Cognitive Modeling - Fall 2009

Overview of Today's Class [1/10]

Announcements [2/10]

Back to linguistic acquisition [3/10]

But first... [4/10]

Discussion [5/10]

Leftover points from last time? [6/10]

Questions about... [7/10]

Start on P1 [8/10]

Pre-training for next reading [9/10]

CogSci in the news [10/10]

Slides

Overview of Today's Class [1/10, 2009/09/22]

Announcements
More linguistic acquisition discussion
Questions about the project
Prep for past tenses
CogSci in the news (if there's time)

Announcements [2/10, 2009/09/22]

Good questions involve inference/prediction, reflection, and curiosity.
Bad questions...
Participation credit: 10% of grade. How computed?

Partly my judgment.
Partly yours.

Back to linguistic acquisition [3/10, 2009/09/22]

Raise your hand when you've finished reading the text on the following slide.

But first... [4/10, 2009/09/22]

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdgnieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid. Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer inwaht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt.