Theme for 2010: The Neuroscience of Language

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Semester	Week	Title	Associated readings
1	1	Language and sensorimotor cognition	Textbook Chapter 1
	2	Visual object classification and visual attention	Textbook Sections 2.1-2.4
	3	Vision for action: the reach and grasp motor pathways	Textbook Section 2.5
	4	Planning actions: the prefrontal cortex	Textbook Section 2.6
	5	The action recognition pathway	Textbook Section 2.7
	6	The 'who' pathway: representations of self and other	Textbook Section 2.8
	7	Summary lecture	Textbook Section 2.9
	8	Sequential structure in experience of a reach-to-grasp action	Textbook Section 2.10
	9	Working memory representation of a reach-to-grasp action	Textbook Sections 3.1--3.5
	10	Episodic memory representation of a reach-to-grasp action	Textbook Sections 3.6--3.11/td>
	11,12	Introduction to Minimalist syntax	Textbook Chapter 4
2	13	A sensorimotor interpretation of clause syntax	Textbook Chapter 5
	14	How 'surface language' is represented in the brain	Textbook Section 6.1
	15	How infants learn words	Textbook Section 6.2.1--6.2.2, 6.3
	16,17	A neural network for learning clause syntax	Textbook Section 6.2.3--6.2.5, 6.4--6.5
	18	Object perception and the syntax of noun phrases	No reading
	19	TBA	No reading
	20	Revision lecture