INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE AUG. 26, DAY 1 Brain & Language LING 4110/4890/5110/7960? NSCI 4110/4891/6110 Fall 2013

Enrollment After class, people on the waiting list can sign up IF you are a linguistics, neuroscience, or psychology major, and you are a junior, senior or graduate student. Everyone else Sorry, the class is massively over-enrolled. The course will be offered again in Fall /26/13Brain & Language - Harry Howard - Tulane University 2

Objectives The objectives of this course are to understand how the brain is organized to produce and comprehend language, the time course of linguistic processing, the linguistic disorders attendant on brain damage. 8/26/13Brain & Language - Harry Howard - Tulane University 3

Outcomes For you to demonstrate your understanding of these objectives, you will perform the following tasks: Take a quiz almost every Monday, during the first 10 minutes of class, covering the material since the previous Monday. [(11-1) * 7.5% = 75%] No make-up quizzes will be given, but you may drop one. If you notify me of an absence early enough before a quiz, you may drop it. Prepare a final project, explained on a separate sheet. Graduate students are expected to put more effort into the final project. [25%] Extra credit: Undergraduates may participate as subjects in an EEG experiment; graduate students may participate in and help run the experiment. [up to 3%] 8/26/13Brain & Language - Harry Howard - Tulane University 4

Class participation? There is no credit for class participation … … but I will change a X- into a Y+ if I notice you participating in class. Why no credit? I will post my PowerPoint presentation to the course website after every class: I will record and podcast every class. The mp3 files will be available on the course website above. 8/26/13Brain & Language - Harry Howard - Tulane University 5

A happy subject of an EEG experiment 8/26/13Brain & Language - Harry Howard - Tulane University 6

Public service option Our main placement is the Chartwell Center, which is a school for autistic children. Bridget Smith, our coordinator at the Center for Public Service, will explain it all in much greater detail on Friday. 8/26/13Brain & Language - Harry Howard - Tulane University 7

Code of Academic Conduct “The integrity of Newcomb-Tulane College is based on the absolute honesty of the entire community in all academic endeavors. As part of the Tulane University community, students have certain responsibilities regarding work that forms the basis for the evaluation of their academic achievement. Students are expected to be familiar with these responsibilities at all times. No member of the university community should tolerate any form of academic dishonesty, because the scholarly community of the university depends on the willingness of both instructors and students to uphold the Code of Academic Conduct. When a violation of the Code of Academic Conduct is observed it is the duty of every member of the academic community who has evidence of the violation to take action. Students should take steps to uphold the code by reporting any suspected offense to the instructor or the associate dean of the college. Students should under no circumstances tolerate any form of academic dishonesty.” For further information, point your browser at 8/26/13Brain & Language - Harry Howard - Tulane University 8

Students with disabilities Students with disabilities who need academic accommodation should: Contact and register with the Office of Disability Services (ODS). For more information, visit the ODS website at viceshome.cfm. viceshome.cfm Bring official notice to me from the ODS indicating that you need academic accommodation. This should be done before the first quiz. 8/26/13Brain & Language - Harry Howard - Tulane University 9

Schedule You should come to class having read and mulled over the pages listed for that day in the schedule. We will cover a chapter a day. There maybe supplementary readings, distributed as pdf files on Blackboard. Any changes to the schedule will be made to the website.website 8/26/13Brain & Language - Harry Howard - Tulane University 10

Prerequisites There aren't any I do not take anything for granted and so will explain all background information, or at least suggest places where you can find it on your own 8/26/13Brain & Language - Harry Howard - Tulane University 11

Final exam day There is no final exam, but you must present your final project to the class on the final exam day, Fri, Dec 16. You CANNOT leave town before then! Tell your parents NOW! You are hereby warned. Do not tell me at the end of the semester that your parents bought you a ticket home without knowing. 8/26/13Brain & Language - Harry Howard - Tulane University 12

Electronic communications I will send you on a regular basis – you must check your on a regular basis! If you want to use a non-Tulane address, me a message to that effect from the address. Blackboard syllabus readings grades 8/26/13Brain & Language - Harry Howard - Tulane University 13

Other odds and ends If you want to learn more about EEG and neurolinguistics, you are welcome to participate in my lab. If you want to take the course as a linguistics capstone, please sign up for LING If you want to take the course for honor's credit, I will be happy to facilitate that for you. You need to get the relevant form for me to sign. I would like to meet with the graduate students after class is over. 8/26/13Brain & Language - Harry Howard - Tulane University 14

WHO WE ARE 8/26/13Brain & Language - Harry Howard - Tulane University 15

Me Prof. Harry Howard (voice mail 24 hours a day) Newcomb Hall 322-D Office hours: MW 1-2, T 4-5 & by appointment 8/26/13Brain & Language - Harry Howard - Tulane University 16

Who are you? Everyone interview a person sitting near you to find out: His or her name and major; Where he or she is from; What he or she knows about linguistics and neuroscience. Be prepared to report what you have learned to the class. 8/26/13Brain & Language - Harry Howard - Tulane University 17

THE CONTENT OF THE COURSE 8/26/13Brain & Language - Harry Howard - Tulane University 18

What is neurolinguistics? Fields of linguistics basic fields phonetics articulatory acoustic phonology syntax semantics hybrid fields sociolinguistics anthropological linguistics psycholinguistics neurolinguistics Fields of neuroscience 8/26/13Brain & Language - Harry Howard - Tulane University 19

The speech chain 8/26/13Brain & Language - Harry Howard - Tulane University 20

Objectives The objectives of this course are to understand how the brain is organized to produce and comprehend language, the time course of linguistic processing, the linguistic disorders attendant on brain damage. 8/26/13Brain & Language - Harry Howard - Tulane University 21

NEXT TIME Introduction & overview, Ingram §1. Read the study questions on the last page of the chapter before you read the chapter. Grads – please stay for a few minutes. 8/26/13Brain & Language - Harry Howard - Tulane University 22