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 Descriptive Summary Record Group Number 04.280 Records of the Department of Cognitive Science 1975-1990 Department of Cognitive Science, The Johns Hopkins University The Ferdinand Hamburger Archives, The Milton S. Eisenhower Library, The Johns Hopkins University 1.5 cubic feet (4.5 document cases) English The records of the Department of Cognitive Science, ranging in date from 1975 to 1990, consist of materials assembled by Alfonso Caramazza, Director. Most of these records date from before 1983 and document attempts by faculty to promote studies in cognitive science. The record group is divided into two series: (1) Departmental Records, 1983-1989, and (2) Reports, 1975-1990. Because the Cognitive Science Center only became the Department of Cognitive Science, and thus began offering classes, in 1990, there are no records relating to instructional aspects of cognitive science. Administrative Information Provenance

These records were transferred by Kathy Yantis, Administrative Assistant, Department of Cognitive Science.

 Accession Number

90.54

 Use Restrictions

Administrative Records in series 1 are restricted for twenty-five years from their date of creation. For details, see Regulations Governing Access to Restricted Records, at the front of each binder.

Preferred Citation

The Ferdinand Hamburger Archives of The Johns Hopkins University, Record Group Number 04.280, Department of Cognitive Science, series number and title, file title and inclusive dates.

History

The Department of Cognitive Science began as the Cognitive Science Center in July 1987. Studies in cognitive science were already being done in other departments, including psychology, philosophy, biophysics, and computer science. In March 1985, Alfonso Caramazza, Professor of Psychology, and Shin Lin, Professor of Biophysics, recommended to the president that an institute be created for the study of the brain and cognition. They proposed to build two centers, one for neuroscience and one for cognitive science, which would be integrated at a later time.

The center for neuroscience became the Mind/Brain Institute, for which the Homewood Committee made a proposal in December 1985. The committee wrote that the Mind/Brain Institute would "facilitate the synthesis and integration" of studies of mind and brain which were already being done in other disciplines, and foster more interdisciplinary research and training programs. The Mind/Brain Institute would employ neuroscientists, who study the physical parts of the body, the nervous system, its cellular and molecular properties, and electrical and chemical mechanisms of neurons.

In contrast with neuroscience, cognitive scientists study the structure and content of intelligent processes independent of the physical parts of the body in which they take place. The Cognitive Science Center was formed to study how organisms (especially humans) represent, use, manipulate, and acquire information. In their January 1987 proposal for the Cognitive Science Center, Alfonso Caramazza, David Olton, Joseph O'Rourke, Terrence Sejnowski, and George Wilson recommended that the Center's faculty be drawn from among members of current departments at Homewood and at the School of Medicine: Psychology, Neurology, Philosophy, Biophysics, and Neuroscience. The Center would also promote a new discipline, Artificial Intelligence. The Center began offering courses leading to the BA and PhD in 1990, and in the same year became the Department of Cognitive Science. The faculty of the department are currently:

Alfonso Caramazza, Professor and Director Stephen R. Anderson, Professor Michael E. McCloskey, Professor Luigi Burzio, Visiting Associate Professor William Badecker, Associate Research Scientist and Assistant Professor Howard Egeth, Professor (joint appt. with Psychology) Simon Kasif, Assistant Professor (joint appt. with Computer Science) Guy McKhann (joint appt. with Neurology, Neuroscience, and Director of Mind/Brain Institute) Steven Salzberg, Assistant Professor (joint appt. with Computer Science) George Wilson, Professor (joint appt. with Philosophy) Steven Yantis, Assistant Professor (joint appt. with Psychology)

Description of Series/Container List Departmental Records Departmental Records, 1983-1989

Series 1, Departmental Records, 1983-1989, consists of correspondence, reports, and minutes of departmental meetings. Some of the records pertain to more general aspects of University administration and governance, rather than the operation of the Cognitive Science Center.

 Box Folder Contents 1 1 Arts and Sciences Chair's Meetings, August 1987 - March 1989 1 2 Center for Hearing Sciences, September 1986 - December 1987 1 3 Correspondence, January 1983 - October 1984 1 4 Correspondence, December 1985 - September 1986 1 5 Correspondence, February 1986 - December 1988 1 6 Continuing Studies Lecture Series, January-May, 1989 1 7 Dana Foundation Grant Proposal (Guy McKhann), January-June, 1986 1 8 Hopkins Today, "Bridging the Cognitive and Brain Sciences,"March-April 1989 1 9 Long Range Planning Reports for Dean, Fall 1987, January 1988 1 10 Massachusetts General Hospital Neurolinguistics Lab--John Locke, December 1988 - February 1989 1 11 Mind/Brain Institute, March 1985 - September 1988 1 12 PEW Foundation--Guy McKhann, March-April, 1988 1 13 Proposal for a Cognitive Science Center, October 1984 – October 1988 1 14 Sloan Group Meetings, September-December 1984, April 1986 1 15 Special Meeting of The General Assembly of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences & the Faculty of Engineering, October 1988 1 16 Steering Committee Meeting Minutes--Faculty & Faculty/Student, April, December 1987, January 1989 Reports Reports, 1975-1990

Series 2, Reports, 1975-1990, contains Reports of the Cognitive Neuropsychology Laboratory, arranged in numerical order, primarily from the period 1984 to 1990. Reports numbered 35 and 48 are missing. After Report 50, a new numbering system begins with report number 90-1. In addition, there are two reports from 1975 and 1980, concerning experiments in language processing, experimental theory, knowledge and reasoning, and artificial intelligence.

 Box Folder Contents 1 1 Green, et. al, "Representation & Use of Complex Knowledge: Knowing and Reasoning in Physics," c. 1975 1 2 Gupta, S. et. al., "The Influence of Sentential Connectives on Pronoun Assignment," June 1980 1 3 Caramazza, "On Drawing Inferences about the Structure of Normal Cognitive Systems from the Analysis of Patterns of Impaired Performance: The Case for Single-Patient Studies," #1, 1986 1 4 Badecker & Caramazza, "On Considerations of method and theory governing the use of clinical categories in Neurolinguistics and Cognitive Neuropsychology: The Case against Agrammatism," #2, 1985 1 5 Caramazza et. al., "The Role of the (output) phonological buffer in reading, writing, and repetition," #3, 1986 1 6 Caramazza & McCloskey, Number System Processing: Evidence from dyscalulia," #4, March 1984 1 7 Cognitive Mechanisms in Normal and Impaired Number Processing," #5, c. 1985 1 8 Caramazza & McCloskey, "Dissociations of a Calculation Process," #5, c. 1985 1 9 Gordon & Caramazza, "Lexical Access and Frequency Sensitivity: Frequency Saturation and Open/Closed Class Equivalence," #7, 1985 1 10 Goodman & Caramazza, "Dissociation of spelling errors in written and oral spelling: The role of allographic conversion in writing," #8, c. 1986 1 11 Sejnowski, "Open Questions about Computation in Cerebral Cortex," #9, 1986 1 12 "Learning Symmetry Groups with Hidden Units: Beyond the Perceptron," #10, c. 1986 1 13 Goodman & Caramazza, "Phonologically plausible errors: Implications for a model of the phoneme-grapheme conversion mechanism in the spelling process," #11, 1985 1 14 Caramazza, Reading and Lexical Processing Mechanisms," #12, 1985 1 15 Sejnowski & Rosenberg, "NETtalk: A Parallel Network that Learns to Read Aloud," #13, c. 1986 1 16 McCloskey et. al., "Cognitive Process in Verbal Number Production: Inferences from the Performance of Brain-Damaged Subjects," #14, c. 1986 2 1 Goodman & Caramazza, "Aspects of the spelling process: Evidence from a case of acquired dysgraphia," #15, c. 1987 2 2 Berndt et. al., "Dissociation of Function in a Case of Transcortical Sensory Appraisal," #16, c. 1986 2 3 Caramazza et. al., "The Role of the Graphemia Buffer in Spelling: Evidence from a case of acquired dysgraphia," #17, c. 1987 2 4 Miceli et. al., "Patterns of Dissociation in comprehension and production of nouns and verbs," #18, c. 1987 2 5 Caramazza, "On Inferring the Structure of normal cognitive systems from patterns of impaired performance consequent to brain damage," #19, c. 1987 2 6 Rosenberg & Sejnowski, "The Spacing Effect on NETtalk, A Massively-Parallel Network," #20, August 1986 2 7 Hatfield, "Representation and content in some (actual) theories of perception," #21, c. 1987 2 8 Badecker & Caramazza, "The Analysis of Morphological Errors in a case of Acquired Dyslexia," #22, c. 1986 2 9 Miceli & Caramazza, "Dissociation of Inflectional and Derivational Morphology," #23, c. 1986 2 10 Caramazza, "Some Aspects of Language Processing Revealed Through the Analysis of Acquired Aphasia: The Lexical System," #24, 1987 2 11 Burani & Caramazza, "Representation and processing of derived words," #25, c. 1987 2 12 Caramazza et. al., Lexical access and inflectional morphology," #26, c. 1988 2 13 Badecker & Caramazza, "Neurolinguistic Studies of Morphological Processing: Toward a Theory-Based Assessment of Language Deficit," #27, c. 1988 2 14 Gordon, et. al., "Separating the Stages of Reading Errors," #28, c. 1988 3 1 Sokol & McCloskey, "Levels of Representation in Verbal Number Production," #29, c. 1987 3 2 Hillis and Caramazza, "The Graphemic Buffer and Attentional Mechanisms," #30, c. 1988 3 3 "Learning and Representation in Connectionist Models, #31, May 1987 3 4 "Problems and perspectives in the study of acquired and developmental disorders of language," #32, June 1987 3 5 Egeth et. al., "Spatial parallelism in the processing of lines, letters, and lexicality," #33, c. 1988 3 6 "Churchland & Sejnowski, "Neural representation and neural computation," #34, 1988 3 7 Caramazza & Hillis, The Disruption of sentence production: A case of selective deficit to positional level processing," #36, c. 1988 3 8 McCloskey & Cohen, "The Sequential learning problem in connectionist modeling: Can Connectionist Networks learn sequentially?" #37, November 1987 3 9 Rapp & Caramazza, "General to specific access to word meaning: A claim re-examined," #38, c. 1988 3 10 Sejnowski & Churchland, "Brain and Cognition," #39, c. 1989 3 11 Caramazza & Hillis, "Orthographic Structure, the Graphemic Buffer and the Spelling Process," #40, c. 1989 3 12 Hillis et. al., Selective impairment of semantics in lexical processing," #41, c. 1989 3 13 Rapp & Caramazza, Cognitive Neuropsychology: From impaired performance to normal cognitive structure," #43, c. 1989 3 14 Caramazza & Miceli, "The Structure of the Lexicon: Functional Architecture and Lexical Representation," #45, c. 1990 3 15 Badecker & Hillis, "Lexical Morphology and Its Role in the Writing Process: Evidence from a Case of Acquired Dysgraphia," #46, c. 1990 3 16 Laudonna et. al., "Priming Homographic Stems," #47, c. 1989 3 17 Olson & Caramazza, "The Role of Cognitive Theory in Neuropsychological Research," #49, c. 1990 3 18 Caramazza & Miceli, "The Structure of Orthographic Representations in Spelling," #50, 1990 4 1 Badecker & Caramazza, "Morphological Composition in the Lexical Output System," #90-1, 1990 4 2 Caramazza & Hillis, "Levels of Representation, Coordinate Frames, and Unilateral Neglect," #90-2, 1990 4 3 Rapp & Caramazza, "Lexical deficits," #90-3, 1990 4 4 Rapp & Caramazza, "Spatially determined deficits in letter and word processing," #90-4, 1990 4 5 Miceli et. al., The interaction of lexical and non-lexical processing mechanisms: Evidence from anomia," #90-5, 1990 4 6 Hillis & Caramazza, Category-specific Naming and Comprehension Impairment: A Double Dissociation," #90-6, 1990 4 7 Hillis & Caramazza, "Mechanisms for accessing lexical representations for output Evidence from a category-specific semantic deficit," #90-7, 1990 4 8 Miceli & Caramazza, "The Assignment of word stress: Evidence from a case of acquired dyslexia," #90-8, 1990 4 9 Badecker et. al., "Varieties of Sentence Comprehension Deficits: A Case Study," #90-9, 1990 4 10 Caramazza & Hillis, "Lexical organization of nouns and verbs in the brain," #90-10, 1990 4 11 Caramazza, "Data, statistics, and theory: A comment on Bates et. al.," #90-11, 1990 4 12 Caramazza & Miceli, "Selective Impairment of thematic role assignment in sentence processing," #90-12, 1990