Neuroscience (DR)
PhD TR-NQF-HE: Level 8 QF-EHEA: Third Cycle EQF-LLL: Level 8

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code: SBY6013
Course Name: Language and Informatics
Semester: Spring
Course Credits:
ECTS
8
Language of instruction: Turkish
Course Condition:
Does the Course Require Work Experience?: No
Type of course: Departmental Elective
Course Level:
PhD TR-NQF-HE:8. Master`s Degree QF-EHEA:Third Cycle EQF-LLL:8. Master`s Degree
Mode of Delivery: Face to face
Course Coordinator: Dr. Öğr. Üy. GÖKÇER ESKİKURT
Course Lecturer(s): Asst. Prof. Gökçer Eskikurt
Course Assistants:

Course Objective and Content

Course Objectives: The aim of this course is to provide some initial answers to basic questions about native speakers' knowledge of language and its place in the mind. Some of the basic questions to be addressed are: (i) What does a native speaker of one or more languages actually know? (ii) How do native speakers acquire this knowledge? (iii) How is this knowledge used by speakers? (iv) What is the location of this knowledge in the brain? (v) How did this knowledge arise in the human species?
Course Content: This course provides a general introduction to the 'Principles and Modifiers' theory proposed by Noam Chomsky and other researchers in the 1980s, and focuses on the problem of how the process of the child's mother tongue acquisition is treated within this model. The study of the syntax of natural languages within the framework of 'Principles and Modifiers' theory (or any other formal linguistic theory) is important for Cognitive Science because the main purpose of these theories is to present formally a set of knowledge that resides in the human mind. Our starting assumption is that speakers' knowledge of their native language has operational commonalities with other cognitive processes in the mind.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1) define basic concepts and approaches in linguistics
2) can explain Chomsky's approach to language as a mental object.
3) an explain how Chomsky's view of the phenomenon of language differs from traditional approaches.
4) distinguish the special position of language in informatics business
5) can determine the nature of the question(s) that arise when language is studied from a cognitive perspective

Course Flow Plan

Week Subject Related Preparation
1) Cognition: Concepts & Categories -
2) Language: Structure & Meaning -
3) Speech Perception -
4) Word Learning -
5) Category Formation -
6) Syntactic Priming -
7) Language and Memory -
8) Midterm -
9) Speech Errors & Disfluencies -
10) Language and Thought -
11) Color -
12) Space -
13) Grammatical Gender, Time -
14) Number, Language Universals -

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks: Language and Cognition
A. R. Luria (Author), James V. Wertsch (Editor)
References: İlgili makaleler

Course - Program Learning Outcome Relationship

Course Learning Outcomes

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Program Outcomes
1) 1) To be able to define the basic concepts of neuroscience, understand and express neurophysiological functions of brain and neuroanatomical structures, functional organization of central nervous system and basic principles of normal functioning.
2) 2) To have theoretical knowledge about etiopathogenesis of neurological and psychiatric diseases and to have knowledge of neurological and cognitive impairments and central nervous system pathology knowledge in these diseases. 2 2
3) 1) To be able to have basic theoretical knowledge about transcranial neuromodulation methods and to use these methods in the field of study, such as radiological and electrophysiological research and investigation methods used in neurological and psychiatric diseases such as electronomyfromography, electroencephalography, evoked potentials and neuroimaging methods. 2
4) 1) Ability to work within the team in the field of neuroscience research
5) 1) Transcribe and present the findings and research results verbally or in writing 2 3
6) 1) Ability to use communication and computer technologies efficiently in their work. 2
7) 2) Having a sense of ethical responsibility in research. 2
8) 1) Undertake the responsibility of the task alone and carry out independent work. 3

Course - Learning Outcome Relationship

No Effect 1 Lowest 2 Average 3 Highest
       
Program Outcomes Level of Contribution
1) 1) To be able to define the basic concepts of neuroscience, understand and express neurophysiological functions of brain and neuroanatomical structures, functional organization of central nervous system and basic principles of normal functioning. 1
2) 2) To have theoretical knowledge about etiopathogenesis of neurological and psychiatric diseases and to have knowledge of neurological and cognitive impairments and central nervous system pathology knowledge in these diseases. 3
3) 1) To be able to have basic theoretical knowledge about transcranial neuromodulation methods and to use these methods in the field of study, such as radiological and electrophysiological research and investigation methods used in neurological and psychiatric diseases such as electronomyfromography, electroencephalography, evoked potentials and neuroimaging methods.
4) 1) Ability to work within the team in the field of neuroscience research 3
5) 1) Transcribe and present the findings and research results verbally or in writing
6) 1) Ability to use communication and computer technologies efficiently in their work. 3
7) 2) Having a sense of ethical responsibility in research.
8) 1) Undertake the responsibility of the task alone and carry out independent work. 1

Assessment & Grading

Semester Requirements Number of Activities Level of Contribution
Midterms 1 % 40
Final 1 % 60
total % 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK % 40
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK % 60
total % 100

Workload and ECTS Credit Calculation

Activities Number of Activities Workload
Course Hours 16 32
Study Hours Out of Class 16 48
Midterms 1 50
Final 1 60
Total Workload 190