Cognitive Neuroscience syllabus

Psyc 576 Cognitive Neuroscience II

Fall 2007

Instructor: R. Martin

This course will provide a survey of current research in cognitive neuroscience on language, memory and other higher cognitive functions. The course will cover a functional analysis of disorders in terms of cognitive theory and the relation between brain and behavior. The latter will be addressed through studies of lesion localization and neuroimaging of the intact brain.

Requirements: This course will be a combination of lecture and discussion format. At each class meeting, the instructor will provide an overview of a particular area and lead a discussion of the readings. Starting with the fourth week of class, 1 hr. of each class period will be devoted to a presentation by one of the students. Students will focus on a particular aspect of the topic for that week and assign at least one reading to the students in the class. Topics for student presentation need to be aproved by the instructor.

Starting with the fourth week, there will be a brief quiz on the readings.at the beginning of each class.There will be two take-home exams, one at mid-term and one during finals weeks. The grade for the course will be determined by the following:

Mid-term 25%

Final 25%

Presentation 25%

Quizzes 10%

Class participation 15%

Prerequisities: Psyc 203 or Psyc 520, Psyc 362 or Neur 577

We will read several chapters from Rapp, B. (2001). The Handbook of Cognitive Neuropsychology. Philadelphia: Psychology Press. Chapters from this text are listed below as HCN: followed by the chapter number. You may wish to purchase this book; however, we will be reading less than half of the chapters.

Students with disabililties:Any student with a documented disability needing academic
adjustments or accommodations is requested to speak with meduring the first two weeks of class. All discussions will remain confidential. Students with disabilities will need to also contact Disability Support Services in the Ley Student Center.

Tentative schedule:

Date

Topic

Reading

Aug 30
Introduction

Sept 6

Neuroanatomy

Cognitive Neuropsychology

Gazzaniga et al.(pp. 44-68)

HCN: 1

Robertson et al; McCloskey

Sept 13

Neuroimaging approaches

Guest lecture: Dr. Michael Beauchamp

Savoy:

Dobbs; Cohen & Tong

Sept 20

Reading & Spelling

Guest lecture: Darcy Burgund

HCN: 10, 11

Coltheart; Plaut et al.; Shaywitz et al.

Sept 27

Word Production

Bilingualism

Guest lecture: Tatiana Schnur

HCN: 12,13

Dell et al.; Bailystok, Craik et al.

Oct 4

Sentence Comprehension & Production

HCN: 14

Breedin & Saffran, Indefrey PNAS

Oct 11
Exam I

Oct. 18

Short-term memory

Martin et al., Vallar & Papagno

Oct 25

Long-term memory

Guest lecture: Jes Logan

HCN: 16

Hedden & Gabrieli; Logan & Buckner

Nov 1

Semantic memory

HCN: 17

Gadian et al.; Thompson-Schill

Nov 8

Numerical cognition, Music

HCN: 20,21

Pinel et al.

Nov 15

class cancelled (Psychonomics)

Nov. 29
Executive function

Presentation:

Gomez-Baldarrain et al.

Dec 6

Theory of Mind/Reasoning/Decision Making

Dec 13 Exam II

Additional Readings

Week

Readings

Sept. 6

Robertson, L. C., Knight, R. T., Rafal, R. & Shimamura, A. P. (1993). Cognitive neuropsychology is more than single-case studies. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 19(3), 710-717.

McCloskey, M. (1993). Theory and evidence in cognitive neuropsychology: A "radical" response to Robertson, Knight, Rafal and Shimamura (1993), Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition,19(3), 718-734.

Sept 13

Savoy, R. (2001). History and future directions of human brain mapping and functional neuroimaging. Acta Psychologica, 107, 9 -42.

Gazzaniga, M., Ivry, R.., & Mangum, G. (1998). Cognitive neuroscience: The biology of mind. New York: Norton. Chap 2

Dobbs, D. (2005). Fact or phrenology? http://www.sciammind.com/article.cfm?articleID=000E16AE-4426-123A-822283414B7F4945

Cohen, J., & Tong, F.(2001). The face of controversy. Science, 293, 2405-2407.

Sept 13

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

Plaut, D. (1999). Cognitive Science, 23, 543-568.

Shaywitz, S., Shaywitz, B., Pugh, K., et al. (1998). Functional disruption in the organization of the brain for reading in dyslexia. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 95, 2636-2641.

Sept 20

Laiacona, M., & Caramazza, A. (2004). the noun/verb dissociation in language production: Varieties of causes. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 21, 103-123.

Ullmann, M. T., Corkin, S., Coppola, M., Hickock, G., et al. (1997). A neural dissociation within langauge: Evidence that the mental dictionary is part of declartive memory and that grammatical rules are processed by the procedural system. J. of Cognitive Neuroscience, 9, 266-276.

Sept 27

Dell, G., Schwartz, M., Martin, N., Saffran, E., & Gagnon, D. (1997). Lexical accss in normal and aphasic speech. Psychological Review, 104, 808-838.

Bailystok, E., Craik, F., Grady, C., Wilkin, C., Ishii, R., Gunji, a., Pantev, C. (2005). Effect of bilingulaism on cognitive control in the Simon Task: evidence from MEG. NeruoImage, 24, 40-49.

Oct 4

Breedin, S. D., & Saffran, E. M. (1999). Sentence processing in the face of semantic loss: A case study. J. of Experimental Psychology, 128, 547-561.

Indefrey et al. Neural correlate of syntactic encoding. PNAS

Oct. 18

Martin, Lesch & Bartha (1999). Independence of input and output phonology in short-term memory and word processing. J. of Memory and Language, 41, 3-29.

Vallar, G., & Papagno, C. (1995). Neuropsychological impairments of short-term memory. In A. D. Baddeley and B. Wilson (Eds.), Handbook of memory disorders. London: John Wiley & Sons.

Oct. 25

Kitchener, E., & Hodges, J. (1999)., Impaired knowledge of famous people and events with intact autobiographical memory in a case of progressive right temporal lobe degeneration: implications for the organisation of remote memory. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 16, 589-607.

Nov. 1

Gadian, D., Aicardi, J., Watkins, K., Porter, D., Mishkin, M. and Vargha-Khadem, F. (2000), Developmental amnesia associated with early hypoxic–ischaemic injury. Brain, 123, 499-507.

Thompson-Schill, S. (2003). Neuroimaging studies of semantic memory: Inferring how from where. Neuropsychologia, 41, 280-292.

Nov. 8

Pinel, P., Rivier, D., Le Bihan, D., & Dehaene, S. (2001). Modulation of parietal activation by semantic distance in a number comparison task. Neuroimage, 14, 1013-1026

Nov. 15

Leslie, A. (2000). "Theory of Mind" as a mechanisms of selective attention. In M.S. Gazzaniza (ed.), The New Cognitive Neurosciences, 2nd edition, pp. 1235-1247.

Baron-Cohen, S. (2000). The cognitive neuroscience of autism: Evolutionary approaches. In M.S. Gazzaniza (ed.), The New Cognitive Neurosciences, 2nd edition, pp. 1249-1257

Birch, S., & Bloom, P. (2004). Understanding children's and adults' limitations in mental reasoning. Trends in Cognitive Science, 8, 255-260.

Nov. 29

Gomez-Baldarrain, Harries,Garcia-Monco, Ballus, & Grafman. (2004). Patients with right frontal lesions are unable to assess and use advice to make predictive judgments. J. of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16, 74-89

Date	Topic	Reading
Aug 30	Introduction
Sept 6	Neuroanatomy Cognitive Neuropsychology	Gazzaniga et al.(pp. 44-68) HCN: 1 Robertson et al; McCloskey
Sept 13	Neuroimaging approaches Guest lecture: Dr. Michael Beauchamp	Savoy: Dobbs; Cohen & Tong
Sept 20	Reading & Spelling Guest lecture: Darcy Burgund	HCN: 10, 11 Coltheart; Plaut et al.; Shaywitz et al.
Sept 27	Word Production Bilingualism Guest lecture: Tatiana Schnur	HCN: 12,13 Dell et al.; Bailystok, Craik et al.
Oct 4	Sentence Comprehension & Production	HCN: 14 Breedin & Saffran, Indefrey PNAS
Oct 11	Exam I
Oct. 18	Short-term memory	Martin et al., Vallar & Papagno
Oct 25	Long-term memory Guest lecture: Jes Logan	HCN: 16 Hedden & Gabrieli; Logan & Buckner
Nov 1	Semantic memory	HCN: 17 Gadian et al.; Thompson-Schill
Nov 8	Numerical cognition, Music	HCN: 20,21 Pinel et al.
Nov 15	class cancelled (Psychonomics)
Nov. 29	Executive function Presentation:	Gomez-Baldarrain et al.
Dec 6	Theory of Mind/Reasoning/Decision Making
Dec 13	Exam II

Week	Readings
Sept. 6	Robertson, L. C., Knight, R. T., Rafal, R. & Shimamura, A. P. (1993). Cognitive neuropsychology is more than single-case studies. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 19(3), 710-717. McCloskey, M. (1993). Theory and evidence in cognitive neuropsychology: A "radical" response to Robertson, Knight, Rafal and Shimamura (1993), Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition,19(3), 718-734.
Sept 13	Savoy, R. (2001). History and future directions of human brain mapping and functional neuroimaging. Acta Psychologica, 107, 9 -42. Gazzaniga, M., Ivry, R.., & Mangum, G. (1998). Cognitive neuroscience: The biology of mind. New York: Norton. Chap 2 Dobbs, D. (2005). Fact or phrenology? http://www.sciammind.com/article.cfm?articleID=000E16AE-4426-123A-822283414B7F4945 Cohen, J., & Tong, F.(2001). The face of controversy. Science, 293, 2405-2407.
Sept 13	Coltheart, M., Rastle, K., Perry, C., Langdon, R., & Ziegler, J. (2001). DRC: A dual route cascaded model of visual word recognition and reading aloud. Psychological Review, 108, 204-256. Plaut, D. (1999). Cognitive Science, 23, 543-568. Shaywitz, S., Shaywitz, B., Pugh, K., et al. (1998). Functional disruption in the organization of the brain for reading in dyslexia. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 95, 2636-2641.
Sept 20	Laiacona, M., & Caramazza, A. (2004). the noun/verb dissociation in language production: Varieties of causes. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 21, 103-123. Ullmann, M. T., Corkin, S., Coppola, M., Hickock, G., et al. (1997). A neural dissociation within langauge: Evidence that the mental dictionary is part of declartive memory and that grammatical rules are processed by the procedural system. J. of Cognitive Neuroscience, 9, 266-276.
Sept 27	Dell, G., Schwartz, M., Martin, N., Saffran, E., & Gagnon, D. (1997). Lexical accss in normal and aphasic speech. Psychological Review, 104, 808-838. Bailystok, E., Craik, F., Grady, C., Wilkin, C., Ishii, R., Gunji, a., Pantev, C. (2005). Effect of bilingulaism on cognitive control in the Simon Task: evidence from MEG. NeruoImage, 24, 40-49.
Oct 4	Breedin, S. D., & Saffran, E. M. (1999). Sentence processing in the face of semantic loss: A case study. J. of Experimental Psychology, 128, 547-561. Indefrey et al. Neural correlate of syntactic encoding. PNAS
Oct. 18	Martin, Lesch & Bartha (1999). Independence of input and output phonology in short-term memory and word processing. J. of Memory and Language, 41, 3-29. Vallar, G., & Papagno, C. (1995). Neuropsychological impairments of short-term memory. In A. D. Baddeley and B. Wilson (Eds.), Handbook of memory disorders. London: John Wiley & Sons.
Oct. 25	Kitchener, E., & Hodges, J. (1999)., Impaired knowledge of famous people and events with intact autobiographical memory in a case of progressive right temporal lobe degeneration: implications for the organisation of remote memory. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 16, 589-607.
Nov. 1	Gadian, D., Aicardi, J., Watkins, K., Porter, D., Mishkin, M. and Vargha-Khadem, F. (2000), Developmental amnesia associated with early hypoxic–ischaemic injury. Brain, 123, 499-507. Thompson-Schill, S. (2003). Neuroimaging studies of semantic memory: Inferring how from where. Neuropsychologia, 41, 280-292.
Nov. 8	Pinel, P., Rivier, D., Le Bihan, D., & Dehaene, S. (2001). Modulation of parietal activation by semantic distance in a number comparison task. Neuroimage, 14, 1013-1026
Nov. 15	Leslie, A. (2000). "Theory of Mind" as a mechanisms of selective attention. In M.S. Gazzaniza (ed.), The New Cognitive Neurosciences, 2nd edition, pp. 1235-1247. Baron-Cohen, S. (2000). The cognitive neuroscience of autism: Evolutionary approaches. In M.S. Gazzaniza (ed.), The New Cognitive Neurosciences, 2nd edition, pp. 1249-1257 Birch, S., & Bloom, P. (2004). Understanding children's and adults' limitations in mental reasoning. Trends in Cognitive Science, 8, 255-260.
Nov. 29	Gomez-Baldarrain, Harries,Garcia-Monco, Ballus, & Grafman. (2004). Patients with right frontal lesions are unable to assess and use advice to make predictive judgments. J. of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16, 74-89