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Date  Week Continuation Discussion Q Diss D Lecture Priority Reviewer Pages PDF R Lect L Class Readings
8-Jan 1 Bridging Instruction & Brain Bruer article Q CS P1 Basics of connectionism           WS P1 Bruer, J. T., Educationand the Brain: A bridge Too Far. EducationalResearcher, 26, (8), .4-16
8-Jan 1 c ……..   ……..   ……..               Background - short tutorial reading. Abdi, H. "A neural network primer. Journal of Biological Systems, 2, 247-281, (1994)". 
8-Jan 1 c ……..   ……..   ……..             P2 Background comphrenesive reference Reilly, R. C & Manakata, Y, (2000) Computation Exploration in Cognitive Neuroscience: Understanding the mind by simulating the brain.  MIT Press Selected pages chapters 2-6.(book will be on reserve)
15-Jan 2 Connectinist Modeling papers Q WS   Basics of neuroplasticity           JF   Hinton, G.  Osindero, S., The, Y. (2006) A fast learning algorythm of deep leanring belief nets.  Neuroal Computation.  
15-Jan 2 c ……..   ……..   ……..               Harm, M. W., McChandliss, B. D.  & Sidenberg, M. S., (2003)  Modeling the succeses and failure of interventions for disabled readers.  Scientific Studies of Reading, 7(2), 155-182.
22-Jan 3 Neuroplasticity   JF   Basics of hippocampus           MW   von Kriegstein, K.,  Giraud, A., (2006) Implicit multisensory associations influence voice recognition. PLoS Biology. 4(10), 1809-1820
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29-Jan 4 Multiple Memory Systems Q JF   Learning phenomena           CS   McClelland, J. L. (1998). Complementary learning systems in the brain: A connectionist approach to explicit and implicit cognition and memory. Annals New York Academy of Sciences. 843, 153-169.
29-Jan 4 c ……..   ……..   …               Mitchell, J.P., Dodson, C. S., & Schacter, D. L., (2005) fMRI Evidence for the role of recollection in suppressing misattribution errors: The illusory truth effect. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 17(5), 800-810. Julie will change - there are more recent papers
5-Feb 5 Wrap-up education discussion Q CS   Basics of supervised learning           WS   How Experts Differ from Novices. In. J. D. Bransford, A. L. Brown, & R. R. Cocking (Eds.), How People Learn Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition (pp. 29-50) (http://newton.nap.edu/html/howpeople1/ch2.html)
5-Feb 5 c     ……..   …               Anderson, J. R., & Schunn, C. D. (2000). Implications of the ACT-R learning theory: No magic bullets. In R. Glaser (Ed.), Advances in instructional psychology: Educational design and cognitive science, Vol. 5 (pp. 1-33). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
12-Feb 6 Temporal difference models   WS   basics of basal ganglia & cerebellum           JF   Reilly, R. C & Manakata, Y, (2000) Computation Exploration in Cognitive Neuroscience: Understanding the mind by simulating the brain.  MIT Press Selected pages chapters p 162-163   Add paper Erik error correction models with patrich using reienforcement signal of computation methods. 
19-Feb 7 Neuro papers on reinforcement learning   JF   basics of hybrid models           WS   Schultz, W., (2004). Neural coding of basic reward terms of animal learning theory, game theory, microeconomics and behavioural ecology. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 14, 139-147.            
19-Feb 7 c ……..   ……..   ……..               Frank, M. J., Seeberger, L. C., & O’Reilly, R. C., (2004) By carrot of by stick: Cognitive reinforcement learning in parkinsonism. Science. 306, 1940-1943
26-Feb 8 Modeling hybrid papers   WS   basics of neuro control systems           WS   Schneider, W., & Chein, J. M. (2003). Controlled and automatic processing: behavior, theory and biological mechanisms. Cognitive Science.
26-Feb 8 c ……..   ……..   …               Oliver, W. L. & Schneider, W. (1988).  Using rules and task division to augment connectionist learning. Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 55‑61).    oter group paper
5-Mar 9 Spring Break   na   Spring Break                
12-Mar 10 Neural Control systems   WS   wrap-up education discussion           All   Cohen group processes - frontal and prefrontal systems, Earl Miller abstract formation   
19-Mar 11 Overview of education content areas   CS   overview of math           JF    
26-Mar 12 Math papers (seigler, dehaene)   JF   overview of reading           CP   Dehaene, S., Molko, N., Cohen, L., & Wilson, A. J., (2004) Arithmetic and the brain. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 14, 218-224. 
26-Mar 12 c ……..   ……..   …               Booth, J. L., Siegler, R. S., (2006) Developmental and individual difference in pure numerical estimation. Developmental Psychology. 41(6), 189-201
2-Apr 13 Reading papers    CP                   Shaywitz, Shaywitz, Blachman, Pugh, Fulbright et al et al (2004). Development of left occipitotemporal systems for skilled reading in children after a phonologically- based intervention. Biological Psychiatry 55, 926-933.
2-Apr 13 c     ……..   …                
9-Apr 14 Papers on art, stress, individual difference exercise, etc   JF   wrap-up discussion           CP   Sapolsky, R. M., (2005) The influence of social hierarchy on primate health. Science. 308, 648-652
9-Apr 14 c     ……..   …               Taras, H., (2005) Physical activity and student performance at school. Journal of School Health. 25(6), 214-218
9-Apr 14 c ……..   ……..   ……..               Griffon, S. (2005). Fostering the Development of Whole-Number Sense: Teaching Mathematics in the Primary Grades. In M. S. Donovan and J.  D. Bransford (Eds.), How Students Learn:
Mathematics in the Classroom (pp. 69-120).		  
16-Apr 15     All   The Future