Psy 402 Brain & Cognition Spring 2005
REVISED
SYLLABUS
T/Th 2-3:15
Modern Languages room 202
Instructor: Dr. Cyma Van Petten, Psychology Rm 109,
vanpettc@u.arizona.edu
Office hours: Tuesdays
with possible times.
Or if you have a quick question, just send e-mail)
How to get the readings: All of the regular assigned readings will be available
electronically, in PDF format. You will
need a computer with a web browser and Adobe Acrobat Reader (free) installed,
and some way to print out the articles.
If you’re struggling with any of these, ask your favorite computer guru,
or consult me.
- In your
browser, go to
http://eres.library.arizona.edu
- Use the
boxes to locate our course
- Password
for the course is bac You may be asked for a password at
several points, bac seems to always work.
- Regular
readings are in folders filed by the class meeting date. Plan to do the reading BEFORE the schedule class date.
- When you go to print out the readings,
please note that some have color figures,
so that you’ll need to find a color printer to handle those.
- The
website will also include the figures I show in class. Under each date, look for a file called [date]-fig (for
instance, “jan18-fig”. Note that the
website will NOT include lecture notes, you will be
responsible for taking your own.
DATE, TOPIC,
Jan 13 Introductions
Jan 18 Cortical
organization
1)
Kolb & Wishaw (1990). Principles of Neocortical Organization.
2)
Figures (jan18-fig)
Jan 20-25 Basics
of the visual system
1) Beatty (1995). Vision. Pages 6-8, 13-17, and 24-41 are the most
important (beatty-vision)
2) Figures shown in class
(jan20-fig)
Jan 27 Even primary visual cortex
is not so simple
1) Lamme & Spekreijse (2000), Contextual modulation in primary visual
cortex and scene perception.
Feb 1 Secondary visual cortex makes
perceptual inferences
1) von der Heydt, Peterhans, &
Baumgartner (1992), Illusory contours and cortical
neuron responses.
Feb 3-8 Overview
of methods in cognitive neuroscience
1) Banich
(2004). Methods
Feb 10 FIRST
EXAM
Feb 15 Visual
perception after brain damage shows that vision is several different
abilities
1)
Sacks (1985). The man who mistook his wife for a hat.
2) Ellis & Young (1988). Visual and spatial
abilities.
Feb 17 Two streams of visual processing in
the cortex
1)
Mishkin, Ungerleider, &
Macko (1983). Object vision and spatial vision: Two
cortical pathways.
2)
DeYoe & Van Essen (1988). Concurrent processing streams
in monkey visual cortex
Feb 22 Why two
streams?
1)
Goodale & Milner (1992). Separate visual pathways
for perception and action.
Feb 24 Introduction to event-related potentials
(ERPs)
1) See web notes
March 1 Attention
alters visual processing
1)
Moran & Desimone (1985). Selective attention gates visual processing
in the extrastriate cortex.
2)
Luck, Woodman, & Vogel (2000). Event-related potential studies of attention.
March 3 Introduction
to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
1)
Cohen & Bookheimer (1994). Localization of brain function
using magnetic resonance imaging.
2)
Sereno et al (1995).
Borders of multiple visual in humans revealed by functional
magnetic resonance imaging.
March 8 Motion
perception:
1)
Kourtzi & Kanwisher
(2000). Activation of human MT/MST by static images with implied motion.
2)
Trueu (2003).
Climbing the cortical ladder from sensation to perception
March 10 SECOND
EXAM
SPRING BREAK
March 22 Face
perception
1)
Farah (1996).
Is face perception ‘special’? Evidence from neuropsychology.
March 24 Face
perception II
1)
Gauthier et al (2000). Expertise for cars and birds recruits brain areas involved in face
recognition.
2)
Tarr & Cheng (2003). Learning to see faces and
objects.
2) Kandel, E.R.
(1985). Early experience, critical
periods, and developmental fine tuning of brain architecture. From E.R. Kandel
& J.S. Schwartz (Eds.),
Principles of Neural Science, 2nd
edition (pp 757-770). New York: Elsevier. ISBN 0-444-00944-2 Pages 759-766 are the most important.
April 5 Effects of sensory experience in the
adult cerebral cortex
1)
Merzenich, M.M., & Kaas,
J.H. (1982). Reorganization
of mammalian somatosensory cortex following peripheral
nerve injury. Trends in Neurosciences, 5, 434-436.
2)
Ramachandran, V.S., Stewart, M, & Rogers-Ramachandran, D.C. (1992). Perceptual correlates of massive
cortical reorganization. Neuroreport, 3, 583-586.
1)
Two figures demonstrating the difference between amplitude, fundamental frequency, and timbre (overtones) in sound waves
2) Pantev, C.,
Roberts, L.E., Schulz, Engelien, A., & Ross, B. (2001). Timbre-specific
enhancement of auditory cortical representations in musicians. Neuroreport, 12, 169-174.
3) Recanzone, G.H.
(2000). Cerebral cortical plasticity:
Perception and skill acquisition. From
M.S. Gazzaniga (Ed.), The New Cognitive Neurosciences (pp 237-247). Cambridge MA: MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-07195-9
1)
Rauschecker, J.F (1995). Compensatory
plasticity and sensory substitution in the cerebral cortex. Trends
in Neurosciences, 18, 36-43.
2)
Neville, H.J. (1990). Intermodal competition and compensation in development:
Evidence from studies of the visual system in congenitally deaf adults. Annals
of the
April 14 THIRD
EXAM
April 19 Declarative
vs procedural memory: Human amnesia and the medial
temporal lobe
1) Eichenbaum,
H. (2002). Chapter 4 from The Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory
April 21 Animal
research on declarative memory
1)
Eichenbaum, H. (2002). Chapter 5 from The Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory
April 26 Neural
mechanisms of learning: Long-term potentiation and the NMDA
receptor
1)
Eichenbaum, H. (2002). Chapter 3 from The Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory
April 28 Human
memory: event-related potential studies
May 3 Human memory: functional magnetic
resonance imaging studies
May 12 FINAL
EXAM
Exams & Grading.
Your grade will be
based on four tests, each contributing a quarter of your grade. Three of the
tests will occur during class time, and the last one during final exams
week. Each exam will cover the preceding
section of the course. Exam questions
will be a combination of multiple-choice and short-answer questions which
require writing a one-paragraph answer. Grades will based on alternative #1 or #2
below, whichever produces the largest number of A’s.
Grading alternative #1 -- the curve. The top 20% of the class will get A’s, the next 25% will get
B’s, the 40% will get C’s, the next 10% D’s, and the bottom 5% E’s (but no one
who scores higher than 50% on average will get a D or E).
Grading
alternative #2 – criterion.
A
= 83% or above
average of the four tests; B = 71 to 82;
C = 58 to 70; D = 50 to 57; E
< 50
Where to find your scores. Tests
will be returned in class. After each
exam, a key with “perfect answers” will be posted on the class website.
If you miss a test.
You must contact Dr.
Van Petten by phone (621-8830) or by e-mail (above)
within 48 hours
if you miss a test to arrange for a makeup exam. Makeup exams may have a different format than
the class exams at the instructor’s discretion:
for instance, a makeup exam may be oral.
If you don’t arrange for a makeup test within 48 hours of a missed test,
your score on that test will be 0.