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Cognitive Science
Q301

Brain & Cognition

Course Overview: course description, information about the instructor
Syllabus: class time & place, instructor information, schedule, instructional format, required textbook, additional readings, where to find readings, evaluation & grading, tips for success
Units: assignments, required & suggested readings, feedback forms
(please note: unit assignments below may not be updated for Fall 2002 yet)
Unit #1: What does neuroscience tell us about human cognition?
Unit #2: Prosthetic Vision
Unit #3: Human Memory
Unit #4: Advising a patient about to undergo elective brain resection

Readings:

Unit 1 (Introduction, Neuroscience and Brain Scanning Techniques):
Cognitive Neuropsychology as a Science
ERP: Conceptual Issues
Overheads from brainscan section
Scanning methods- Posner & Raichle
(optional and long) Basics of EEG/ERP




Unit 2 (Prosthetic Vision):
Visual Object Recognition- Logothetis
fMRI of Visual Cortex- Engel
Object Recognition Models- Commentary
Object Recognition Models- Model Description
Tanaka Object Recognition in IT paper (PDF)
Vision slides in powerpoint format


Unit 3 (Human Memory):
Long-Term Potentiation
Organization of Memory (Tulving)
Memory, Hippocampus and Brain Systems (Squire)
Role of the Hippocampus in Memory (McClelland)
Ball Dropping Example from Class
EEG Memory Papers:
Introduction to EEG and Memory (Rugg)
EEG Dissociations of Explicit and Implicit Memory (Rugg)
Chapter on EEG retrieval processes
Memory Handbook (more in-depth coverage of previous material) (Rugg)
EEG Project:
How to create your memory list for your EEG experiment.
EEG Project Analysis and Hints
Sample EEG Presentation

Cognitive Neuroscience in the Media assignment and grading rubric


Unit 4 (Language):
Dyslexia and Neural Networks (Hinton and Shallice)


Unit 5 (Development):
Development of LGN and Visual System (Carla Shatz)



Resources: books, journal articles, and internet sites relevant to the course

Email: send e-mail to Dr. Busey (busey@indiana.edu)
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