course title
Eye movements and the visual world
dates and location
Wednesdays 1300-1500,
Golm campus, Haus 24, room 052
what this course is about
This is a continuation of last semester's course on sentence comprehension.
In this course we will discuss the evidence for incrementality, anticipation, silent prosody, and expectation using a single method used widely in the psycholinguistic literature, the visual world paradigm.
prerequisites
You should have taken the corresponding Winter semester 2008-2009 course taught by me.
grading
Grading will be based on homework assignments (70%) and class participation (30%).
Homework will begin with the second part of the course, and will involve the following. For each paper assigned to the class, every student must write down at least three questions that relate to the issues discussed in the paper. These questions should be a product of your having critically thought about the paper and its claims. Questions like "I didn't understand X" don't count; such questions can be raised in class or in the moodle forum. I will grade you on the thoughtfulness of your questions. I will provide examples of good and bad questions.
One student will be assigned to lead the discussion. This involves (a) collecting together all the questions; (b) organizing them into themes, and (c) discussing these themes in class (this part will involve everyone, and will especially involve me).
A final issue: in order to allow the moderator to have enough time to prepare the summary, all submissions for a paper must be delivered on moodle \textbf{one week} in advance of discussion of the paper. So, if a paper is to be discussed next Wednesday, your submission is due on moodle Wednesday this week.
We will follow the traditional method this semester: each student selects a paper and presents it in class.
Final
scores will be based on the following mapping described in the
Studienordnung: 95-100%=1,0 (A);90-94=1,3 (A-);85-89=1,7
(B+);80-84=2,0 (B);75-79=2,3 (B-);70-74=2,7 (C+);65-69=3,0
(C);60-64=3,3 (C-);55-59=3,7 (D+);50-54=4,0 (D);45-49=5,0 (F). If a
student's score falls between the cracks, it will be treated as
falling in the higher bin. Also, if a student is in a higher semester
than the regular BA students,
Students are expected to attend class regularly. If a
class is missed, the student is responsible for finding out what the
assignment was, what readings were assigned, and what material was
covered.
Note: If more than three homework submissions are missed, the student fails the course.
conduct in the classroom
Please do not engage in private conversations during class.
All cell phones must be switched off (except by permission from me).
Please do not walk into class after it starts (13:15 is the deadline to be ready for class).
Questions to me during class are actively encouraged.
evaluation of the instructor
Anonymous feedback (especially complaints about the course) is welcome:
Click here for form
schedule
The readings can be downloaded by asking me where they are.
| date |
topic |
paper |
presenter |
slides |
| Apr 22 |
Organizational meeting+Introduction
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Reading 0: Tanenhaus et al 2000
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Shravan
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4a
| May 6 |
Reading 1: Altmann and Kamide 2004, and Tanenhaus et al
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Shravan
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| May 13 |
Reading 2: Kamide 2008
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Elke
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| May 20 |
Reading 3: Barr
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Maria (Miller)
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| May 27 |
Reading 4: Sedivy et al
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Laura
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| June 3 |
Reading 5: Scheepers et al |
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Lena
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| June 10 |
Reading 6: Ito and Speer |
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Katharina
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| June 17 |
Reading 7:
Chambers et al |
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Georg
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| June 24 |
Reading 8: Chambers et al |
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Maria (Pfeiffer)
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| July 1 |
Reading 9: Dickey et al
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Mandy
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| July 8 |
Reading 10: Hanne et al
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Helena
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| July 15 |
Reading 11: Barr and Mirman et al (Methodology)
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Silvana and Tom
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