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If you are still deciding about course for next semester, here is an
up-date on Psychology 7315.

Tentatively, Time: 1 - 3 pm, Wednesdays
Tentatively, Place: ICS Conference Room

Psychology 7315
Spring, 1998
Advanced Research Seminar in Human Memory
L. E. Bourne, Jr.

        This seminar reviews selected topics in human knowledge and skill
acquisition and retention.  Individual student presentations are required
and individual research projects are encouraged.  This semester, the topics
will include current conceptions of:
                The role of emotion and motivation in memory
                Learning strategies
                Generalizability and transfer of facts and skills
                Mental representation of space
                Comprehension of spatial terms
                Second language learning
                Optimizing training for retention and transfer
                Brain correlates of memory
                Computational models of memory
                Research methods
Topics will vary some depending on the background and interest of students
who enroll. Students are expected to make oral presentations and to submit
a written paper, which will review the relevant literature and report on
laboratory investigations, where relevant.

        As an elaboration on the interdisciplinary aspects of this course,
consider the following:
        (a) The course will include an approximately a 4-week module on
spatial cognition.  In this module, we will discuss the linguistic
perspective on spatial language, comprehension of texts about navigating in
space, a developmental perspective on the acquisition of 3D mental
representations, an educational perspective on computer technologies in
support of the acquisition of spatial knowledge.  In this module,
presentations will be made and discussion lead by Michael Eisenberg (CS),
Lisa Menn (Linguistics), Immanuel Barshi (Psychology, Linguistics), and
possibly a representation from Education.  Students will be asked to read
journal literature relevant to these topics in the various disciplines.

        (b) We will discuss a variety of subtopics in second language
learning, such as experimental psycholinguistic field work with the  Maasai
(Barshi and Doris Payne of the Department of Linguistics, University of
Oregon), the relevance of psycholinguistic research to educational practice
in second language learning (Barry McLaughlin of the National Center for
Research on Cultural Diversity and Second Language Learning, University of
California, Santa Cruz, CA), and structural and functional models of
bilingualism (Judith Kroll, Morton Ann  Gernsbacher).

  These topics will be chosen from the table of contents of a recently
completed and in press research monograph edited by Healy and Bourne
entitled Foreign Language Acquisition: Psycholinguistic Experiments on
Training and Retention (Erlbaum).

Prof. L. E. Bourne, Jr.
Department of Psychology
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0345
303-492-4210
FAX: 303-492-8895