COURSE UNIT TITLE

: LANGUAGE AND BRAIN

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
DIL 5042 LANGUAGE AND BRAIN ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

General Linguistics

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR EDA CAN KÖKMEN

Offered to

General Linguistics

Course Objective

This course aims at providing the students with the basic terminology used in language and brain research, and providing information about imaging techniques, ERP, lesion studies, language perception and categorisation. The students are expected to learn the localist and non-localist approaches, symbolic and connectivisty approaches, modularity, innateness, the critical period hypothesis, lateralisation, plasticity and the differences between the two hemispheres of the brain.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Being knowledgeable about the basic topics in language and brain studies
2   Being knowledgeable about the brain imaging techniques
3   Interpreting the outputs of the imaging techniques
4   Being knowledgable about the experiment designs used in brain and language studies
5   Preparing novel experiment desings to be used in brain and language studies

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction, presenting the syllabus
2 Introduction to cognitive neuroscience: the historical perspective, cognitive psychology and neurology relation
3 Brain: The macrostructure of the brain, the structure of the neuron, cortex and subcortex
4 The electrophysiological structure of the brain: Single Cell Recordings, EEG, MEG, ERP
5 Brain Imaging Techniques: Structural Imaging, Functional Imaging, Interpreting Functional Imaging Outputs
6 Lesion Studies: Single-Case studies, Group Studies, Animal Models, TMS
7 MID-TERM
8 Vision: Brain-eye relation, Visual Cortex, Object Recognition, Face Recognition
9 Memory and Remembering: Short-term memory, Long-term memory and Working Memory; Memory Loss; Theories on Remembering, Knowing and Forgetting.
10 Speech and Brain: perception of speech, semantic memory, sentence perception and production
11 Reading and Brain: Visual word recognition, spelling and writing, dyslexia
12 Student Presentations
13 Student Presentations
14 Student Presentations
15 Student Presentations

Recomended or Required Reading

Ward, Jamie (2010). The student's guide to cognitive neuroscience. 2nd edition.
Psychology Press. ISBN 978-1-84872-003-9.
Plunkett, K. & Elman, J.L. (1997). Exercises in rethinking innateness. MIT Press, 1997.
Cambell, S. (2006). Language in the non-dominant hemisphere. In: K. Brown (Ed.) The
Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Elsevier. pp. 529-536
Gabrieli, J.D.E. (2009). Dyslexia: A new synergy between education and cognitive
neuroscience. Science, 325 17 July 2009 (280-283).

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Presentation
Tutoring via examples and discussion
Question and Answer

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.20 + STT * 0.30 + FIN* 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + STT * 0.30 + RST* 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

LO 1-2 will be evaluated by the questions in the midterm and final exams.
LO 3-5 will be evaluated by porjects.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

80% class attendance is obligatory.
Absence from classes will not be considered as an excuse for late submission of the homework assignments/projects.
Cheating and plagiarism attempts in assignments and exams will be evaluated with a '0' (zero) grade.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

eda.can@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Monday 13:00-16:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 4 52
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Preparing assignments 1 15 15
Preparing presentations 1 10 10
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 150

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6
LO.1325
LO.2215
LO.35
LO.4215
LO.55

CONTACT INFORMATION
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Phone: +90(232) 412 12 12 - Fax: +90 (232) 464 81 35

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