Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)
Study Course Description
Language, Spatial Cognition and Communication
Course Code
DN_143
Branch of Science
Psychology
ECTS
3.00
Target Audience
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LQF
Level 8
Study Type And Form
Full-Time
Study Course Implementer
Course Supervisor
Jurģis Šķilters
Structure Unit Manager
Dace Bandere
Structural Unit
Department of Doctoral Studies
Contacts
Riga, 16 Dzirciema Street, dn@rsu.lv, +371 67409159
About Study Course
Objective
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Preliminary Knowledge
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Learning Outcomes
Knowledge
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Skills
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Competences
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Assessment
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Study Course Theme Plan
FULL-TIME
Part 1
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Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
3.00
Contact hours:
16 Academic Hours
Final Examination:
Exam
Bibliography
Required Reading
1.
Coventry, K. R., Garrod, S. C. Seeing, Saying and Acting. The psychological semantics of spatial preposition. Hoveand New York: Psychology Press, 2004.
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Waller, D. E., & Nadel, L. E. Handbook of spatial cognition. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2013.
3.
McDonough, L. Understanding Spatial Relations: Flexible infants, lexical adults. Cognitive Psyschology Nr. 46, 229-259, 2003.
4.
Landau, B., Jackendoff, R. ‘What’ and ‘where’ in spatial language and cognition. Behavioural and Brain Sciences 16, 217-265, 1993.
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Levinson, S. C., Wilkins, D. P. The background to the study of the language of space. In Levinson, S. C., Wilkins, D. P. (Eds.), Grammars of space: Explorations in cognitive diversity (pp. 1-23). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Additional Reading
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Carlson, L. A. & Hill, P. L. Experimental methods for studying language and space. In M. Gonzalez-Marquez, I. Mittelberg, S. Coulson, & M. Spivey (Eds.) Methods in Cognitive Linguistics (pp. 250-276). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2007.
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Herskovits, A. Language and spatial cognition: An interdisciplinary study of the prepositions in English. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1986.
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Montello, D. R. Spatial cognition. Smelser, N. J., Baltes, P. B. (Eds.) In: International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (pp. 14771-14775). Oxford: Pergamon Press, 2001.
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Downs, R., Stea, D. Image and Environment: Cognitive Mapping and Spatial Behavior. Chicago: Aldine, 1973.
Other Information Sources
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
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Cognitive Psychology.
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Cognition.