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BCS 153: Lecture Schedule

Only students who are enrolled in the course may access the readings online. You must be logged into Blackboard to download the course readings.

Note: All readings are from Gazzaniga, Cognitive Neuroscience unless otherwise specified

Date Topic Readings/Events
01/19 Introduction | pdf Review Ch 2-3 to pg. 88;
Video-Brain Story: All in the Mind, BBC 2000
01/24 Vision | pdf Ch 5, start pg. 177;
Stein & Walsh 1997
01/26 Objects | pdf Ch 6
01/31 Objects | pdf Ch 6
02/02 Face Recognition/Attention | pdf Ch 6;
Start Ch 12
02/07 Attention | pdf Ch 12
02/09 Attention | pdf Ch 12, stop pg. 249
02/14 Exam 1  
02/16 Executive Control | pdf Ch 8, 312-321;
Baddeley 1, 2, 3
02/21 Executive Control | pdf Ch 13
02/23 Executive Control | pdf Ch 13
02/28 Guest Speaker Sarah Heilbronner: Decision Making | pdf Rangel et al. 2008
03/01 Motor Control | pdf Ch 7
03/06 Motor Control Examples Videos-The Man Who Lost His Body, BBC 1997, first 30min;
My Father, My Brother, & Me, Frontline 2009, first 3 Ch
03/08 Exam 2  
Spring Break
03/20 Learning & Long-term Memory | pdf Writing Topic Due;
Baddeley 4, 6, 8, 9
03/22 Learning & Long-term Memory | pdf Ch 8, start pg. 322
03/27 Learning & Long-term Memory | pdf Baddeley 10, 11, 12, 13
03/29 Emotion | pdf Ch 9
04/03 Emotion | pdf Ch 9
04/05 Exam 3  
04/10 Social Cognition | pdf Ch 14
04/12 Social Cognition Ch 14
04/17 Development | pdf Ch 3, start pg. 88
04/19 Development/Concepts | pdf Spelke & Kinzler 2007;
Carey 2009
04/24 Concepts | pdf Essay Due;
Mahon & Caramazza 2011;
Binder & Desai 2011
04/26 The Encultured Brain | pdf Han & Northoff 2008;
Video-BBC Horizon: Do You See What I See? 2011
05/02 Exam 4  

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