PSY 355 Cognition


Professor: David Gilden
Office: SEA 5.118
Email: gilden@psy.utexas.edu
Phone: 232.4641
Office hours: MWF 12:30-1:00 and by appointment

TA: Llewyn Paine
Office: SEA 5.118
Email:
Office hours: TTH 2:30-3:30 and by appointment

TA: Laura Marusich
Office: SEA 5.118
Email:
Office hours: MF 12:00-1:00 and by appointment

Spring 2009 syllabus
Study questions (updated 04/28/09)

Radiolab - Memory and Forgetting

Philosophical issues
Magic Number Seven (Miller)
Psychological science can improve diagnostic decisions

Perception
What the frog's eye tells the frog's brain
Basic perception
Brain Mechanisms of Vision (Hubel & Wiesel)
The Ketchup Conundrum
*Retinal illusions
*Contrast phenomena
*Checkerboard image
*The primary visual cortex
*Homunculus diagrams
*Auditory tonotopic organization (first figure)
*Auditory tonotopic organization
The neuronal representation of pitch in primate auditory cortex (Bendor & Wang)
*Interactive receptive field mapping
*Interactive Reichardt detector
*Equiluminance effects
Gestalt intro: Download
One-sided edge assignment in vision (Driver & Baylis)
Perception of symmetry and repetition within and across visual shapes (Baylis & Driver)
Theoretical approaches to perceptual organization: 
1-20 21-40 41-46
(Acrobat 6 required)
White, brown, and fractal music (Gardner)
The interpretation of visual illusions (Hoffman)

Time
What is working memory and what is it good for? (Dr. Gilden's faculty page)
Neuropharmacology of timing and time perception (Meck)

Attention
A feature integration theory of attention (Treisman & Gelade)
What can 1 million trials tell us about visual search? (Wolfe)
Parallel and Serial Processes in Visual Search (Thornton & Gilden)
The Serial Process in Visual Search (Gilden, Thornton, & Marusich)
Spatial Attention in Visual Search for Features and Feature Conjunctions (Kim & Cave)
Distribution of Attention over Noncontiguous Regions of the Visual Field (Kramer & Hahn)
On the Nature of Streaks in Signal Detection (Gilden & Wilson)

Imagination
Visual Functions of Mental Imagery (selection from Finke & Shepard)
Neural Adaptation of Imaginary Visual Motion (Gilden)

Working Memory
Working Memory (Baddeley)
Baddeley Experiments
The Word-Length Effect and Disyllabic Words (Lovatt)
The time-based word length effect and stimulus set specificity (Neath et al.) (must be viewed in Acrobat)
A serial position effect in recall of United States presidents (Roediger & Crowder)
What is working memory and what is it good for? (Dr. Gilden's faculty page)
Change blindness demonstrations
Spatiotemporal characteristics of dynamic feature binding in visual working memory (Saiki)
Gilden lab experiments

Long Term Memory
Creating false memories: Remembering words not presented in lists (Roediger & McDermott)
Transformations of memory in everyday life (Linton)
Reconstruction of automobile deconstruction (Loftus & Palmer)
An adult eidetiker (Stromeyer)
Toscanini's memory (Marek)
An exceptional memory (Hunter)
Unconscious perception: Attention, awareness, and control (Jacoby)
The death of implicit memory (Willingham & Preuss)
Experiments from Lecture:  1   2   3

Reasoning and decision making
The hot hand in basketball: On the misperception of random sequences (Gilovich, et al.)
Subjective probability (Falk)
Choices, values, and frames (Kahneman & Tversky)
Understanding collision dynamics (Gilden & Proffitt)