COGNITIVE SCIENCE

PSYCH 140C, Course Code: 68530
P192G, Course Code:
50930
Winter Quarter 2007


This is a core course in the psychology major and introduces students to research in cognitive science with an emphasis on experimental cognitive psychology. We will address three broad questions. How do we acquire knowledge? How do we retain knowledge? How do we use knowledge? Throughout the course, we will discuss experimental findings in areas such as perception, attention, memory, reasoning, and problem solving. Explanations for these findings will come from an interdisciplinary perspective, providing insights from experimental cognitive psychology as well as computer science and cognitive neuroscience. This course serves as an introduction to additional courses in the learning and cognition area. This course is not intended to be a special-topic course for students who seek to gain in-depth knowledge in specific areas of cognitive science.


"The Thinker" (1880)
Syllabus:

PDF

Instructor

Mark Steyvers (webpage)
Email: msteyver@uci.edu
Office hours: Friday 10:30 - 11:30am Location: SSPA 2109

TA

Assal Habibi
Email: habibia@uci.edu

Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 5-6pm
Location: SSL 402

Schedule

Wk

Date

Topic & Lecture Notes

Demo files

Readings

Activity

1

1/9

Introduction 
PPT, PDF

sinewave speech

natural speech

sound induced illusory flashes

Ch. 1

 

1/11

Brain & Neural Networks

PPT, PDF
CogNeuro Review PPT

LGN off cell
LGN on cell
simple cell
complex cell
directional cell

Nettalk demo

 

2

1/16

Visual Cognition I: basic processes

PPT, PDF

fMRI retinotopic mapping
ring stimulus, wedge stimulus

Word superiority effect

Interactive Activation Model demo1demo2

Ch. 2

 

1/18

Visual Cognition II: object recognition

PPT, PDF

 

3

1/23

Attention I: failures of selection

PPT, PDF

Change blindness: movie examples

Attentional Blink: demo1, demo2

Ch. 3

Writing Assignment #1 due in electronic DropBox (12pm deadline)

1/25

Attention II: selective attention and visual search

PPT, PDF 

 

4

1/30

Visual Imagery

PPT, PDF

 

Ch. 4

 Writing Assignment #2 due in electronic DropBox (12pm deadline)

2/1

Concept and Knowledge Representation

 

5

2/6

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MIDTERM
covers Ch. 1, 2, 3, and 4

Please bring pencil and scantron form F-288

2/8

Memory I: amnesia, implicit/explicit memory, encoding specifity

PPT, PDF

 

 Ch. 5

 

6

2/13

Memory II: reconstructive memory, forgetting

PPT, PDF

 

2/15

Memory III: working memory

PPT, PDF

Neural network model for working memory applied to delayed saccade task

Ch. 6 (up to page 273)

 

7

2/20

Decision Making I: choosing between gambles

PPT, PDF

Lecture by Paul Glimcher (NYU)

Ch. 9

 

2/22

Decision Making II

PPT, PDF

 

8

2/27

NO CLASS

 

 

 

3/1

Problem Solving

PPT, PDF

 

Ch. 10

 

9

3/6

Induction & Hypothesis Testing

PPT, PDF

 

3/8

Language I

PPT, PDF

McGurk I (mov, avi)
McGurk II (mov)

ba-da-ga transitions (PPT)

Ch. 12

Writing Assignment #3 due in electronic DropBox (12pm deadline)

10

3/13

Language II

PPT, PDF

 

3/15

NO CLASS

 

 

 

 

11

3/23

10:30 am - 12:30 p.m.

 

 

FINAL EXAM
covers Ch. 5, 6, 9, 10, 12

Please bring pencil and scantron form F-288

 

Additional Readings (not required for any exams):

Introduction

Schunn, C. D., Crowley, K., & Okada, T. (1998). The growth of multidisciplinarity in the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science, 22(1), 107-130. PDF

Rapaport, W.J. (1996). Cognitive Science. Draft of the article in Encyclopedia of Computer Science, 4th edition. PDF

Kosslyn, S.M., Pascual-Leone, A., Felician, O., Camposano, D.S., Keenan, J.P., Thompson, W.L.,  Ganis, G., Sukel, K.E., Alpert, N.M. (1999). The Role of Area 17 in Visual Imagery: Convergent Evidence from PET and rTMS. Science, 2(284), 167-170. PDF
 
Kleffner, D.A., & Ramachandran, V.S. (1992). On the perception of shape from shading. Perception & Psychophysics, 52(1), 18-36. PDF

Hasson U, Nir Y, Levy I, Fuhrmann G, Malach R (2004). Intersubject synchronization of cortical activity during natural vision. Science, 303(5664), 1634-40. PDF

Shams, L., Kamitani, Y. & Shimojo, S. (2000). What you see is what you hear. Nature, 408, 788. PDF.

Neural Network Models

Sejnowski, T. J. and Rosenberg, C. R., Parallel networks that learn to pronounce English text, Complex Systems 1, 145-168(1987). PDF. Audiotape

Hinton, G. E., McClelland, J. L., & Rumelhart, D. E. (1986). Distributed representations. PDP1, Chapter 3. PDF

Brain systems in visual perception

Hamilton, R.H., Pascual-Leone, A. (1998). Cortical Plasticity Associated with Braille Learning. Trends in Cognitive in Sciences, 2(5), 168-174. PDF

Demb, J.B., Boynton, G.M., Heeger, D.J. (1999). Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Early Visual Pathways in Dyslexia.  Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 96:3314-3319. PDF.

Object Recognition

Geisler, W. S., Perry, J.S., Super, B. J. and Gallogly, D. P. (2001) Edge co-occurrence in natural images predicts contour grouping performance. Vision Research, 41, 711-724. PDF

Maurer, D., Le Grand, R., and Mondloch, C.J. (2002). The many faces of configural processing. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 6(6), 255-260. PDF

Attention

Behrmann, M., & Tipper, S.P. (1999). Attention accesses multiple reference frames: evidence from visual neglect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 25(1), 83-101. PDF

Memory

Bower, G.H. (2000). A brief history of memory research. In E. Tulving & F.I.M. Craik (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Memory, pp. 3-32. Oxford University Press. PDF

Farah, M. J. and McClelland, J. L. (1991). A computational model of semantic memory impairment: Modality specificity and emergent category specificity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 120, 339-357. PDF

Concepts and Categories

Landauer, T. K., Foltz, P. W., & Laham, D. (1998). Introduction to Latent Semantic Analysis. Discourse Processes, 25, 259-284. PDF

Landauer, T. K., and Dumais, S. T. (1997). A solution to Plato's problem: the Latent Semantic Analysis theory of acquisition, induction, and representation of knowledge. Psychological Review, 104, 211-240. PDF

Palmeri, T.J., & Blalock, C. (2000). The role of background knowledge in speeded perceptual categorization. Cognition, 77, B45-B57. PDF

McClelland, J. L. and Rogers, T. T. (2003). The Parallel Distributed Processing Approach to Semantic Cognition. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 4, 310-322. PDF

Goldstone, R. L., & Rogosky, B. J. (2002). Using relations within conceptual systems to translate across conceptual systems, Cognition, 84, 295-320. PDF

Reading and Speech Perception

McClelland, J. L. & Rumelhart, D. E. (1981). An interactive activation model of context effects in letter perception: Part 1. An account of basic findings. Psychological Review, 88, 375-407. PDF

McClelland, J. L. & Elman, J. L. (1986). The TRACE model of speech perception. PDP2, Chapter 15. PDF

Dell, G. S., Schwartz, M. F., Martin, N., Saffran, E. M., & Gagnon, D. A. (1997). Lexical access in normal and aphasic speakers. Psychological Review, 104, 801-838. PDF

Plaut, D. C. (1999). Computational modeling of word reading, acquired dyslexia, and remediation. In R. Klein and P. A. McMullen (Eds.), Converging methods in reading and dyslexia (pp. 339-372). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. PDF

Plaut, D. C., McClelland, J. L., Seidenberg, M. S., & Patterson, K. (1996). Understanding normal and impaired word reading: Computational principles in quasi-regular domains. Psychological Review, 103, 56-115. PDF

Coltheart, M., Rastle, K., Perry, C. and Langdon, R. & Ziegler, J. (2001). DRC: A dual route cascaded model of visual word recognition and reading aloud. Psychological Review, 108, 204-256. PDF

Plaut, D. C. and Shallice, T. (1993). Deep dyslexia: A case study of connectionist neuropsychology. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 10, 377-500. PDF

Hinton, G. E., Plaut, D. C., and Shallice, T. (1993). Simulating brain damage. Scientific American, 269, 76-82. PDF

Dahan, D., Magnuson, J. S., & Tanenhaus, M. K. (2001). Time course of frequency effects in spoken-word recognition: Evidence from eye movements. Cognitive Psychology, 42, 317-367. PDF

Problem Solving

Jung-Beeman, M. et al. (2004). Neural Activity When People Solve Verbal Problems with Insight. Public Library of Science -- Biology, 2, 500-510. PDF

Haller, S., & Radue, E.W. (2005). What Is Different about a Radiologist's Brain? Radiology,  236(3), 983 - 989. PDF

Kelly, A. M. C. & Garavan, H. (2005). Human Functional Neuroimaging of Brain Changes Associated with Practice. Cereb Cortex, 15(8), 1089 - 1102. PDF

Maguire, E.A., Gadian, D.G., Johnsrude, I.S., Good, C.D., Ashburner, J., Frackowiak, R.S., & Frith, C.D. (2000). Navigation-related structural change in the hippocampi of taxi drivers. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A., Apr 25, 97(9),4414-6. PDF