1. Cognition at Stanford Jay McClelland & Lera Boroditsky Spring, 2009

2. language memory learning & development perception decision making the cognitive faculties semantic cognition executive functions

3. language memory learning & development perception decision making the cognitive faculty semantic cognition executive functions

4. some of the questions How do we get so smart? How does neural tissue think? How do we acquire, construct, store and use knowledge? How do we make meaning out of sensory data? How do we learn language and communicate? How does your brain translate the strange series of hisses, tones, puffs, and pops I am producing with my mouth into meaningful thoughts? How do language, experience, and culture shape the way we think? How do we remember, why do we forget? What does it mean to imagine? How do we reason and make decisions? How does sophisticated behavior emerge out of simple building blocks?

5. the methods testing adults –individually & in interactions –in the lab and out in the world –measuring all aspects & products of human behavior

6. the methods testing adults –individually & in interactions –in the lab and out in the world testing children

7. the methods testing adults –individually & in interactions –in the lab and out in the world testing children fMRI, EEG, MEG, TMS

8. the methods testing adults –individually & in interactions –in the lab and out in the world testing children fMRI, EEG, MEG, TMS patient populations J L Semantic dementia patient’s drawing of a swan

9. the methods testing adults –individually & in interactions –in the lab and out in the world testing children fMRI, EEG, MEG, TMS patient populations computational modeling Context Relation Cue Response Neo-Cortex Hippocampus

10. the methods testing adults –individually & in interactions –in the lab and out in the world testing children fMRI, EEG, MEG, TMS patient populations computational modeling cross-cultural comparisons

11. the methods testing adults –individually & in interactions –in the lab and out in the world testing children fMRI, EEG, MEG, TMS patient populations computational/mathematical modeling cross-cultural comparisons linguistic analyses

12. Lera Boroditsky How can we mentally represent things we could never see or touch? How do the languages we speak shape the ways we think? What does it mean to imagine?

13. wife: I’m leaving. husband: Who is he? Herb Clark Cognitive and social processes in language use and discourse. What speakers mean in saying what they say. Pretense, deception, irony… Special interest in conversation.

14. Jay McClelland * computational modeling cognitive development context effects critical periods concepts continuity in processing, representation and learning causal reasoning comprehension convergent contributions of collaborating brain areas How does complex behavior emerge from simple processing and learning mechanisms? *according to l.b.

15. Ewart Thomas Statistical methods. Mathematical and experimental analyses of information processing, equity, and small-group processes.

16. Life after Stanford Steven KosslynHarvard David RumelhartStanford Larry BarsalouEmory Bob SternbergYale Keith HolyoakUCLA Beth LoftusUC Irvine Richard ShiffrinIndiana John AndersonCMU Steve SlomanBrown Brian RossIllinois Mark GluckRutgers Larry MaloneyNYU Greg MurphyNYU Lynn CooperColumbia

17. Life after Stanford Danny OppenheimerPrinceton Tom GriffithsBrown, Berkeley Lera BoroditskyMIT, Stanford Alex HukUT Austin Noam SobelBerkeley Silvia BungeUC Davis, Berkeley Beth MarshDuke Jeff ZacksWash U Jonathan DembMichigan Anthony WagnerMIT, Stanford Sharon Thompson-SchillUPenn