Assigned Readings
Week 1
Tuesday: Introduction/Course Requirements/Assign Student Presentations
Thursday: Required Readings (chapter + article):
Text: Chapter 1 “The Science of Cognition”
Week 2
Text: Chapter 2 “Perception”
Required Articles “Perception” on Tuesday (2):
Goodale & Humphrey (1998) (student presentation)
For more information on Goodale’s work go to “past highlights”: http://psychology.uwo.ca/faculty/goodale/research/
Westwood_Goodale_2011 (class discussion)
Required Articles “Pattern Recognition” on Thursday (2):
Tanaka_Farah_1993 (class discussion)
Richler_Wong_&_Gauthier_2011 (student presentation)
Required Presentation Attendance Thursday Eve: Potter Lecture Speaker, Alfred Mele
“Free Will and Neuroscience: What do Old-School and New Wave Studies Show?”
Location/Time: CUB AUDITORIUM 177, 7 PM on Thursday, 1/23/2014
Optional Articles for “Perception” (Discussed in Lecture):
Other Resources:
Bullier, J. (2001). Feedback connection and conscious vision. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 5, 369-370. Available in library online.
Quiroga, Reddy, Kreiman, Koch & Fried (2005). Invariant visual representation by single neurons in the human brain. Nature, 435 (23), 1102-1107. Available in library online. “The Halle Berry Cell”
Week 3
Text Chapter 3 (pps. 63-81): Selective Attention and Performance
Required Articles (3): Tuesday
See also demos for change blindness on the “video” tab at: www.simonslab.com.
Simons_Chabris_1999 (student presentation) — attention and perception
Simons_Levin_1998: (class discussion) — context
See Demos at the “video” tab on: www.simonslab.com
Horowitz_et_al_(2010): (class discussion, complements chapter reading) — Attention Review
Required Articles (3): Thursday
Hommel_2004 (student presentation) — binding
Cattaneo_et_al_2009 (student presentation) — goals
Ohman_et_al. (2001) (student presentation) — emotion
Optional Articles:
Good Overviews of Attention:
Carrasco_Review_Attention_last_25_years
Other good articles:
Change_Blindness_Trends_Cog_Sci_2005
Reed_et_al. (2010) (embodied cognition; attention space around hands)
Treisman, A. (1999) — Attention and binding of visual features
Riddoch_Humphreys_2003
Reese_et_al_1997 (Discussed in lecture)
Egly, Driver, & Rafal (1994). Shifting visual attention between objects and locations—evidence from normal and parietal lesion subjects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 123, 161-177. Available in library online.
Saenz M., Buracas G.T., Boynton G.M. (2002). Global effects of feature-based attention in human visual cortex. Nature Neuroscience. 5(7), 631-2. Available in library online.
Other Resources:
Moran & Desimone (1985). Selective attention gates visual processing in the extrastriate cortex, Science, 229, 782-784. Available in library online.
Engel, A.K. and W. Singer (2001). Temporal binding and the neural correlates of sensory awareness. Trends in Cognitive Science, 5(1): 16-25. Available in library online.
Wolfe, J.M. (1994) Visual Search
Klein, R. (2000). Inhibition of return. Trends in Cognitive Science, 4(4), 138-147. Available in library online.
Week 4
Text Chapter 3 (pps. 81-91) Attention and Executive Control
Required Articles Tuesday (1):
Strayer_et_al_2003 (student presentation)
Required Articles Thursday (3):
MacDonald_et_al_2000 (student presentation)
Kerns_Cohen_MacDonald_et al_2004 (class reading/discussion)
Glascher_Adolphs_Demasio_et_al_2012 (student presentation) — cognitive control/value-based decision making
Other relevant articles (not required)
The Bridge Between Attention and Memory (2012)
Week 5
Required Readings
Text Chapter 4: Mental Imagery (visual imagery)
Required Article:
Slotnick_Thompson_Kosslyn_2005
Optional Articles: (Chapter 4):
Thompson Kosslyn_Hoffman_vanderKoolg 2008
Kosslyn, S.M. (2005). Mental images and the brain. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 22, 333-347. Available in Library Online
Week 6
Required Text and article for Tuesday:
Text Chapter 5: Representation of Knowledge
Barsalou, Simmons, Barbey & Wilson (2003). Grounding conceptual knowledge in modality-specific systems. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7(2), 84-91. (student presentation)
Required Text and article for Thursday:
Tipper_2010 (student presentation)
Optional Reading (cited in textbook)
Smith, Patalano, & Jonides (1998). Alternative strategies of categorization. Cognition, 65, 167-196.
Week 8
Required Readings:
Text Chapter 6: Human Memory (Encoding and Storage)
Some Short-Term Memory Demos go to: http://human-factors.arc.nasa.gov/cognition/tutorials/index.html
Required Articles Thursday:
Baddeley_2003 (student presentation)
Cowan_2008 (student presentation)
Other articles of interest:
Engle_2003 discusses the relationship between working memory and intelligence
Week 9
Text Chapter 6 (finish) and Chapter 7: Memory (Retention and Retreival)
Tuesday’s Optional Articles (Discussed in Lecture):
Brewer, Zhao, Desmond, Glover, Gabrieli (1998). Making memories: Brain activity that predicts how well visual experience will be remembered. Science, 281, 1185-1187. Available online in library.
Wagner, A. D., Schacter, D. L., Rotte, M., Koutstaal, W., Maril, A., Dale, A. M., Rosen, B. R., & Buckner, R. L. (1998). Building memories: Remembering and forgetting of verbal experiences as predicted by brain activity. Science, 281, 1188-1191. Available online in library.
Thursday’s Required Articles (2):
Karpicke_et_al_2008 “Retrieval Enhances LTM” (student presentation)
Rhorer & Pashler (2010) (discussion)
Other Resources (not required)
Roediger Talk Psychonomics (compliments of Psychonomic Society)– “Retrieval Enhances Memory”
http://www.psychonomic.org/annual-meeting.html
Optional Articles (Discussed in Lecture):
Brewer, Zhao, Desmond, Glover, Gabrieli (1998). Making memories: Brain activity that predicts how well visual experience will be remembered. Science, 281, 1185-1187. Available online in library.
Wagner, A. D., Schacter, D. L., Rotte, M., Koutstaal, W., Maril, A., Dale, A. M., Rosen, B. R., & Buckner, R. L. (1998). Building memories: Remembering and forgetting of verbal experiences as predicted by brain activity. Science, 281, 1188-1191. Available online in library.
Other Resources:
Aging, source memory, and misrecollections (2007). Dodson, C. S.; Bawa, S., & Slotnick, S. D. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Vol 33(1), 169-181.
Week 10
Chapter 7 in textbook: False memories; Hippocampal formation and Amnesia, Implicit vs. Explicit Memory
Required Articles Tuesday (2):
Loftus_2005 (background/discussion)
Dodson, Koustaal, & Schacter (2000). Escape from illusion: reducing false memories, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 4(10), 391- 395. Available Online [This article discusses sources of false memories and ways to avoid] (class discussion)
Required Articles Thursday (2):
Squire_2004 (student presentation)
Squire_Wixted_2011 (student presentation)
Other Relevant Articles:
Cabeza et al_2001 (discussion/lecture) — discussed in lecture (Thursday)
Phelps_et_al_2004 “emotion and memory”
Squire_2006 “The nature of memory impairment”
Week 11
Text: Chapter 10 “Reasoning”
Text: Chapter 11 “Judgment and Decision Making”
Thursdays Required Article:
Norenzayan_et_al_2002 “Cultural Differences in Reasoning” (student presentation)
Week 12
Dr. John Hinson (Guest Lecturer) Emotion and Decision Making
Required Articles (discussion led) for Tuesday (2)
Bechara et al. 1997 SMH_1
Lowenstein et al. 2001 Affect heuristic_1
Required Article for Thursday (1)
Neidenthal_2007 (student presentation) — Emotional information and comprehension
Optional Article (Discussed in Lecture):
Hogarth_2002 “Intuitive Reasoning”
Week 13
Tuesday Reading:
Text: Chapter 8 “Problem Solving”
Text: Chapter 9 “Expertise”
Thursday Required Articles (1):
Week 14
Text Chapter 12: Language Structure
- Can other primate species learn a language?
- Go to the following website and read the “chat with Koko”.
- http://pubpages.unh.edu/~jel/kokotranscript.html
- Evaluate for presence oflinguistic universals
- Compare with:http://www.santafe.edu/~johnson/articles.chimp.html
We will discuss in class (Required)
Text Chapter 13: Language Comprehension (Thursday)
Required Article:
Cubelli_et_al_(2011) “gender and grammar” (student presentation)
Optional Articles (language structure):