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Lecture Description
One of the most uniquely human abilities is the capacity for creating and understanding language. This lecture introduces students to the major topics within the study of language: phonology, morphology, syntax and recursion. This lecture also describes theories of language acquisition, arguments for the specialization of language, and the commonalities observed in different languages across cultures.
Course Index
- Introduction
- Foundations: This Is Your Brain
- Foundations: Freud
- Foundations: Skinner
- What Is It Like to Be a Baby: The Development of Thought
- How Do We Communicate?: Language in the Brain, Mouth and the Hands
- Conscious of the Present; Conscious of the Past: Language (cont.); Vision and Memory
- Conscious of the Present; Conscious of the Past: Vision and Memory (cont.)
- Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Love (Guest Lecture by Professor Peter Salovey)
- Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Evolution and Rationality
- Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions, Part I
- Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions, Part II
- Why Are People Different?: Differences
- What Motivates Us: Sex
- A Person in the World of People: Morality
- A Person in the World of People: Self and Other, Part I
- A Person in the World of People: Self and Other, Part II; Some Mysteries: Sleep, Dreams, and Laughte
- What Happens When Things Go Wrong: Mental Illness, Part I (Guest Lecture by Professor Susan Nolen-Ho
- What Happens When Things Go Wrong: Mental Illness, Part II
- The Good Life: Happiness
Course Description
What do your dreams mean? Do men and women differ in the nature and intensity of their sexual desires? Can apes learn sign language? Why canâ
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