This course provides a broad overview of topics in Cognitive Psychology ranging from low-level processes like attention and perception to high-level processes like categorization, reasoning, and decision making. Topics will be taught by faculty with specific expertise in those areas.
Each week, there will be lectures on Tuesday and Thursday. On Tuesday of each week, you will be expected to turn in a one-page reaction paper to the week's readings. The reaction papers will be used to stimulate discussion in class.
There will be two take-home exams. The first will be given out March 9 and
will be due on March 21, and will cover the material from the first half of the
class. The second will be given out on the last day of class and will be due on
the scheduled date of the final exam, and will cover the material from the
second half of the class.
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Date |
Topic |
Lecturer |
Readings |
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Jan. 17 |
Introduction |
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Jan. 19 |
Foundations |
Markman |
Marr, D. (1982). Vision. New York: W.H. Freeman and Company. Chapter 1. |
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Jan. 24 |
Foundations |
Markman |
Markman, A.B. (2002). Knowledge Representation. H. Pashler & D.L. Medin (Eds.) Stevens Handbook of Psychology (3rd Edition) Vol. 2. (pp. 165-208). New York: John Wiley & Sons. Barsalou,
L.W. (1999). Perceptual Symbol Systems. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, 577-660. |
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Jan. 26 |
Foundations |
Markman |
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Jan. 30 |
Perception |
Stankiewicz |
Shepard, R., & Metzler, J. (1971) Mental rotation of three-dimensional objects. Science, 171, 701-703. Tarr, M.J. & Pinker, S. (1989), Mental rotation and
orientation-dependence in shape recognition, Cognitive Psychology. 21 (2) 233-282. |
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Feb. 2 |
Perception |
Stankiewicz |
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Feb. 7 |
Perception |
Stankiewicz |
Biederman, I. & Cooper, E.E. (1991) Priming contour deleted images: Evidence
for intermediate representations in visual ob ject recognition. Cognitive
Psychology, 23, 393-419. |
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Feb. 9 |
Perception |
Stankiewicz |
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Feb. 14 |
Attention |
Gilden |
Treisman, A., & Gelade, G. (1980). A feature-integration theory of attention. Cognitive Psychology, 12, 97-136. Wolfe, JM, (1998). What can 1 million trials tell us about visual search? Psychological_Science,
9, 33-39. Thornton, T., & Gilden, D. L. How Attention is used in Visual Search,
in review at Psychological Review. Pashler, H., & Johnston, J. C. (1998). Attentional limitations in
dual-task performance. In Attention, edited by H. Pashler. |
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Feb. 16 |
Attention |
Gilden |
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Feb. 22 |
Working Memory |
Gilden |
Baddeley, A. D., & Logie, R. H. (1999). Working Memory: The Multiple Component Model. In Models of Working Memory, edited by A. Miyake and P. Shah. Neath, I., Bireta, T., & Surprenant, A. M. (2003). The time based word
length effect and stimulus set specificity. Psychonomic Bulletin &
Review, 10, 430-434. |
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Feb. 24 |
Working Memory |
Gilden |
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Feb. 28 |
Cognitive Neuroscience |
Huk |
Sugrue LP, Corrado GS, and Newsome WT (2005). Choosing the greater of two goods: neural currencies for valuation and decision making. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 6, 363-375. |
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Mar. 1 |
Cognitive Neuroscience |
Huk |
Brett M, Ingrid IS, and Owen AM (2002). The problem of functional localization in the human brain. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 3, 243-249. Kosik KS (2003). Beyond phrenology, at last. Nature Reviews
Neuroscience, 4, 234-239. |
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Mar. 7 |
Memory |
Maddox |
Roediger, H.L., Marsh, E.J., & Lee, S.C. (2002). Kinds of memory. In J. Pashler and D. Medin (Eds.) Stevens&Mac226; Handbook of Experimental Psychology, Volume 2: Memory and Cognitive Processes (pgs. 1 - 41), John Wiley & Sons, Inc Gabrieli, J.D.E. (1998). Cognitive neuroscience of human memory. Annual
Review of Psychology, 49, 87 - 115. |
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Mar. 9 |
Memory |
Maddox |
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Mar 21 |
Perceptual Categorization |
Maddox |
Ashby, F.G., & Maddox, W.T. (2005). Human category learning. Annual
Review of Psychology, 56, 149 -178. |
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Mar. 24 |
Perceptual Categorization |
Maddox |
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Mar 28 |
Speech & Language |
Diehl |
Diehl, R.L., Lotto, A.J., Holt, L.L. (2004). Speech Perception. Annual Review of Psychology, 55, 149-179. |
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Mar. 30 |
Speech & Language |
Diehl |
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Apr. 4 |
Speech & Language |
Diehl |
Chomsky, N. |
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Apr. 6 |
Speech & Language |
Diehl |
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Apr. 11 |
Categorization |
Love |
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Apr. 13 |
Categorization |
Love |
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Apr. 18 |
Motivation |
Markman |
Markman, A.B., Maddox, W.T., & Baldwin, G.C. (2005). The implications of advances in research on motivation for cognitive models. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, 17(4), 371-384. Phelps, E.A. (2006). Emotion and cognition: Insights from studies of the human
amygdala. Annual Review of Psychology, 57,
27-53. |
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Apr. 20 |
Culture and Cognition |
Markman |
Hong, Y.Y., & Chiu, C.Y. (2001). Toward a paradigm shift: From cross-cultural differences in social cognition to social-cognitive mediation of cultural differences. Social Cognition, 19(3), 181-196. Nisbett, R.E., & Norenzayan, A. (2002). Culture and cognition. In D.L.
Medin & H. Pashler (Eds.) Stevens Handbook of Experimental Psychology
(3rd Edition), Volume 2. (pp.561-597),
New York: John Wiley and Sons. |
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Apr. 25 |
Reasoning |
Love |
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Apr. 27 |
Reasoning |
Love |
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May 1 |
Decision Making |
Markman |
Kahneman, D., & Tversky, A. (1984). Choices, values, and frames. American Psychologist, 39(4), 341-350. Markman, A.B., & Medin, D.L. (2002). Decision Making. In D.L. Medin
& H. Pashler (Eds.) Stevens Handbook of Experimental Psychology (3rd
Edition), Volume 2. (pp. 413-466). New
York: John Wiley and Sons. |
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May 3 |
Decision Making |
Markman |
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