BCS 502: Lecture Schedule
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| Date |
Topic |
Primary Readings (required for all students) |
| 09/05 |
Introduction & Organization | pdf |
Gardner, H. (1985). Psychology: The wedding of methods to substance. In H. Gardner, The Mind's New Science: A history of the cognitive revolution, pp. 89-137.
Basic Books, New York. |
| 09/12 |
Prep Presentations
Individual Meetings (no class) |
Reynolds, G. (2008). Presentation Zen. Berkeley: New Riders Press. |
| 09/19 |
Representations & Mental
Chronometry | pdf | pdf2 |
Tolman, E.C. (1948). Cognitive maps in rats and men. Psychological Review, 55, 189-208.
Donders, F. C. (1898). On the speed of mental processes, Acta Psychologica 30, 412-431.
Sternberg, S. (1969). Memory Scanning: Mental Processes Revealed by Reaction- Time Experiments. American Scientist, 57, 421-457.
Kutas, M., Donchin, E., & McCarthy, G. (1977). Augmenting mental chronometry - P300 as a measure of stimulus evaluation time. Science 197, 792-795. |
| 09/26 |
Attention & Bottlenecks | pdf | pdf2 |
Posner, M.I., Davidson, B.J. & Snyder, C.R.R. (1980). Attention and the detection of signals. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 109: 160-174.
Treisman, A. & Gelade, G. (1980) A feature integration theory of attention. Cognitive Psychology, 12, 97-136.
Stroop, J. R. (1935). Studies of interference in serial verbal reactions. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 18, 643– 662. |
| 10/03 |
Objects | pdf | pdf2 |
Spelke, E. S. (1990). Principles of object perception. Cognitive Science, 14, 29-56.
Heider, F., & Simmel, M. (1944). An experimental study of apparent behavior. American Journal of Psychology, 57, 243 – 249.
Johansson, G. (1973). Visual perception of biological motion and a model for its analysis. Perception & Psychophysics, 14, 201-211. |
| 10/10 |
Imagery | pdf | pdf2 |
Shepard, R., & Metzler. J. (1971). Mental rotation of three dimensional objects. Science, 171(972), 701-3.
Kosslyn, S. M., Ball, T. M., and Reiser, B. J. (1978). Visual images preserve metric spatial information: evidence from studies of image scanning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 4, 47-60. |
| 10/17 |
Dimensions | pdf | pdf2 |
Moyer, R. S., & Landauer, T. K. (1967). Time required for judgments of numerical inequality. Nature, 215, 1519-1520.
Zorzi M, Priftis K, Umilta C (2002) Brain damage: Neglect disrupts the mental number line. Nature 417: 138-139.
Gallistel, C. R. (1989). The representation of space, time and number. Annual Review of Psychology, 40, 155-189. |
| 10/24 |
Midterm Exam: No class, Take-home Essay, 48 hours to complete |
| 10/31 |
Memory |
Milner, B. (1959). The memory deficit in bilateral hippocampal lesions. Psychiatric Research Reports.
Tulving, E. (1985). How Many Memory Systems are there? American Psychologist, 40, 385-398.
Roedigger, H., & McDermott, K. (1995). Creating false memories: Remembering words not presented in lists. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 21(4), 803-814.
Loftus, E. F. (1975). Leading questions and eyewitness report. Cognitive Psychology, 7(4), 560-572. |
| 11/07 |
Memory |
Baddeley, A. (1992). Working memory. Science, 255. 556-559.
Collins, A. M., & Loftus, E. F. (1975). A spreading-activation theory of semantic processing. Psychological Review, 82(6), 407-428.
Graf, P., Shimamura, A. P., and Squire, L. R. (1985). Priming across modalities and priming across category levels: Extending the domain of preserved function in amnesia. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 11(2), 386-396. |
| 11/14 |
Categorization & Concepts |
Rosch, E., Mervis, C.B., Gray, W., Johnson, D., & Boyes-Braem, P. (1976). Basic Objects in Natural Categories. Cognitive Psychology, 8(3), 382-439.
Warrington, E.K., & Shallice, T. (1984). Category specific semantic impairments. Brain, 107, 829-853. |
| 11/21 |
Thanksgiving: No Class |
| 11/28 |
Insight & Introspection |
Simon, H. A., & Chase, W. G. (1973). Skill in chess. American Scientist, 61: 394-403.
Knoblich, G., Ohlson, S., Haider, H., & Rhenius, D. (1999). Constraint relaxation and chunk decomposition in insight problem solving. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 25(6), 1534-1555.
Brown, R., & McNeil, D. (1966). The "tip of the tongue" phenomenon. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 5, 326-337.
Koriat, A. (1993). How do we know that we know? The accessibility model of the feeling of knowing. Psychological Review, 100(4), 609-639. |
| 12/05 |
Logic |
Wason, P. C., & Shapiro, D. (1971). Natural and contrived experience in a reasoning problem. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 23, 63-71.
Tversky, A. & Kahneman, D. (1974). Judgment under uncertainty: Heuristics and biases. Science, 185, 1124-1131. |
| 12/12 |
Culture & Cognition |
Heider, E. R., & Olivier, D. C. (1972). The structure of the color space in naming and
memory for two languages. Cognitive Psychology, 3(2), 337-354.
Hunt, E., and Agnoli, F. (1991). The Whorfian hypothesis: A cognitive psychology perspective. Psychological Review, 98(3), 377-389.
Lakoff, G., & Johnson, M. (1980). The metaphorical structure of the human conceptual system. Cognitive Science, 4, 195-208. |
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Final: Take-home Essay, 48 hours to complete |
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