cogcom course syllabus fall 2015

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BA-IMK: Cognition and Communication: An Introduction Preliminary course plan for Autumn 2015 (24-08-2015) Teacher: Daniel Barratt, [email protected] Time: Mondays, 10:45–13:20 Dates: Starting Week 37, ending Week 47; Autumn break Week 42 Location: Room SPs07 Primary reading Eysenck, M. W., & Keane, M. T. (2015). Cognitive Psychology: A Student’s Handbook (7th Ed.). Routledge: Psychology Press. ISBN: 978-1-84872-416-7. Course overview and schedule

Date Topic Chapters Secondary reading

1 Week 37: Mon 7 Sep

Introduction: Approaches to human cognition

1 Linking mind and brain: Churchland (2002), Ch.1


Visual perception and attention (I)

2, 3 Modularity of mind: Fodor (1985)


Visual perception and attention (II)

4, 5 Visual attention and eye movements: Land & Tatler (2009), Ch.3 Visual attention and change blindness: Simons (2000)


Memory (I) 6, 7 Working memory: Baddeley (2003) Long-term memory: Patterson, Nestor, & Rogers (2007)

5 Week 41: Mon 5 Oct

Memory (II) 8 Eyewitness testimony: Loftus (2003)

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Date Topic Chapters Secondary reading


Language, evolution, and culture

Intro., Part III

Q1: To what extent is language innate? Pinker & Jackendoff (2005) Q2: How does language influence thought? Regier & Kay (2009)


Executive functions

12, 13, 14

Dual-processing accounts of cognition: Evans (2008)

8 Week 45: Mon 2 Nov

Emotion 15 Emotion (a cognitive perspective): Frijda (1988) Emotion (a neurobiological perspective): Phelps (2006)


Consciousness 16 Consciousness (Global Workspace Theory): Baars & Franklin (2007) Consciousness (access vs. phenomenal): Block (2005)


Conclusion and summary

–– Reading to be announced

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CLASS 1: Introduction: Approaches to human cognition Primary reading (Eysenck & Keane, 2010) Chapter 1: Approaches to human cognition • All sections Secondary reading Linking mind and brain: • Churchland, P. (2002). Chapter 1: Introduction. In Brain-Wise: Studies in Neurophilosophy (pp. 1-34).

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

CLASS 2: Visual perception and attention (I) Primary reading (Eysenck & Keane, 2010) Chapter 2: Basic processes in visual perception • Introduction (p. 35) • Brain systems (pp. 35-47) • Two visual systems: perception and action (pp. 47-56) • Colour vision (pp. 56-62) • Depth and size perception (pp. 68-77) Chapter 3: Object and face recognition • Introduction (pp. 79-80) • Perceptual organisation (pp. 80-85) • Theories of object recognition (pp. 85-92) • Cognitive neuroscience approach to object recognition (pp. 92-96) • Cognitive neuropsychology of object recognition (pp. 96-100) • Face recognition (pp. 100-110) Secondary reading Modularity of mind: • Fodor, J. A. (1985). Précis of The Modularity of Mind. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 8(1), 1-5.

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CLASS 3: Visual perception and attention (II) Primary reading (Eysenck & Keane, 2010) Chapter 4: Perception, motion, and action [Main topics: Perception and action] • Introduction (p. 121) • Direct perception (pp. 121-125) • Visually guided action (pp. 125-133) • Change blindness (pp. 143-149) Chapter 5: Attention and performance [Main topic: Attention] • Introduction (pp. 153-154) • Focused auditory attention (pp. 154-158) • Focused visual attention (pp. 158-170) Secondary reading Visual attention and eye movements: • Land, M. F. & Tatler, B. W. (2009). Chapter 3: How our eyes question the world. In Looking and

Acting: Vision and Eye Movements in Natural Behaviour (pp. 27-55). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Visual attention and change blindness: • Simons, D. J. (2000). Current approaches to change blindness. Visual Cognition, 7(1/2/3), 1-15.

CLASS 4: Memory (I) Primary reading (Eysenck & Keane, 2010) Chapter 6: Learning, memory, and forgetting [Main topic: Working memory] • Introduction (p. 205) • Architecture of memory (pp. 205-211) • Working memory (pp. 211-223) Chapter 7: Long-term memory systems • Introduction (pp. 251-256) • Episodic memory (pp. 259-263) • Semantic memory (pp. 263-272) • Non-declarative memory (pp. 272-278)

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Secondary reading Working memory: • Baddeley, A. (2003). Working memory: Looking back and looking forward. Nature Reviews

Neuroscience, 4, 829-839. Long-term memory: • Patterson, K., Nestor, P. J., & Rogers, T. T. (2007). Where do you know what you know? The

representation of semantic knowledge in the human brain. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 8, 976-988. CLASS 5: Memory (II) Primary reading (Eysenck & Keane, 2010) Chapter 8: Everyday memory • Introduction (pp. 289-291) • Autobiographical memory (pp. 291-305) • Eyewitness testimony (pp. 305-315) Chapter 10: Language comprehension • Schema theories/Bartlett’s theory (pp. 401-406) [re. reconstructive memory] Secondary reading Eyewitness testimony: • Loftus, E. F. (2003). Make-believe memories. American Psychologist, 58(11), 867-873.

CLASS 6: Language, evolution, and culture Primary reading (Eysenck & Keane, 2010) Introduction to Part III: Language (pp. 327-332) Secondary reading Question 1: To what extent is language innate? • Pinker, S., & Jackendoff, R. (2005). The faculty of language: What’s special about it? Cognition, 95,

201-236. Question 2: To what extent does language influence thought? • Regier, P., & Kay, P. (2009). Language, thought, and color: Whorf was half right. Trends in Cognitive

Sciences, 13(10), 439-446.

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CLASS 7: Executive functions Primary reading (Eysenck & Keane, 2010) Chapter 12: Problem solving and expertise [Main topic: Problem solving] • Introduction (pp. 459-460) • Problem solving (pp. 460-477) Chapter 13: Judgement and decision making • Introduction (p. 499) • Judgement research (pp. 499-513) • [Basic] decision making (pp. 513-525) Chapter 14: Inductive and deductive reasoning • Introduction (p. 533) • Inductive reasoning (pp. 534-539) • Deductive reasoning (pp. 539-546) Secondary reading Dual-processing accounts of cognition: • Evans, J. St. B. T. (2008). Dual-processing accounts of reasoning, judgment, and social cognition.

Annual Review of Psychology, 59, 255-278.

CLASS 8: Emotion Primary reading (Eysenck & Keane, 2010) Chapter 15: Cognition and emotion • All sections Secondary reading Emotion (a cognitive perspective): • Frijda, N. H. (1988). The laws of emotion. American Psychologist, 43(5), 349-358. Emotion (a neurobiological perspective): • Phelps, E. A. (2006). Emotion and cognition: Insights from studies of the amygdala. Annual Review of

Psychology, 57, 27-53.

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CLASS 9: Consciousness Primary reading (Eysenck & Keane, 2010) Chapter 16: Consciousness • All sections Secondary reading Consciousness (Global Workspace Theory): • Baars, B. J., & Franklin, S. (2007). An architectural model of conscious and unconscious brain

functions: Global Workspace Theory and IDA. Neural Networks, 20, 955-961. Consciousness (access vs. phenomenal): • Block, N. (2005). Two neural correlates of consciousness. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9(2), 46-52.

CLASS 12: Conclusion and summary Reading • To be announced.

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