Psyc 520: Foundations of Cognitive Psychology Fall 2001 Wed. 3:00 - 5:30, Sewall 462 Instructor: R. Martin   Course Description: This course will cover topics in cognitive psychology including perception, attention, memory, knowledge, problem solving, reasoning, and language comprehension and production. Classical theories and experiments in these areas will be reviewed, in addition to applications of this work to practical problems. Some cognitive issues will be discussed from a cognitive science or neuropsychological perspective. Although the course overviews a broad range of topics, an attempt will be made to focus in detail on at least one selected issue each week. The class will typically be half lecture and half seminar format, although this may vary for guest lecturers. Course Requirements Class Participation (25%). About half of each class period will be devoted to class discussion. (This may vary when we have guest lecturers.) Therefore, it is critical that you come to class prepared to discuss the readings and topics for that week. For the readings assigned for a particular week, students will be asked to turn in discussion questions via e-mail on the day before class. In order to further encourage class participation, members of the class will be designated as being in charge of leading the discussion on an additional. Students will be allowed to choose the reading they would like to cover. Everyone in the class will have this responsibility at least once during the semester, and probably more often. It is fine to choose a topic that is closely related to your own research interests. Students in applied areas can choose a paper that demonstrates the application of cognitive psychology in their area. All papers to be presented need to be approved by the instructor. Your grade for class participation will be based both on your performance in leading a discussion and on your general contribution to class discussion. Exams (25% each). There will be three closed book, essay exams on the dates scheduled. Exams will not be cumulative. They will cover material from the text, the readings, lectures, and class discussion. Textbook: Eysenck, M., & Keane, M. (2000). Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook, 4th Edition. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum. Readings: Assigned readings are listed below the schedule. Additional papers will be assigned by the student leading discussion of the paper. Prerequisities: Graduate standing in psychology or permission of instructor Tentative schedule: Date Topic Chapters in text Aug. 29 Historical Background Perception Guest speaker: Jim Pomerantz 1 Sept. 5 Perception Presenter: Mary Portillo 2, 4 Sept. 12 Action, Attention Guest speaker: Tony Ro Presenter: Laura Martin 3,5 lecture overheads Sept. 19 Attention Guest speaker: Geoff Potts Presenter: Delia Kothmann (my) lecture overheads Sept. 26 Exam I Oct. 3 Working Memory Theories of Memory Guest Lecturer: Mike Byrne Presenter: Phil Chung 6, 7 (185-201)   Oct. 10 Everyday memory Guest Lecturer: Mike Watkins Presenter: Madeliene Campbell 7 (202-213), 8 Oct. 17 No class (Wed is Mon) Oct. 24 Neuropsychology of memory Mental Representations - Imagery Presenter: Sebastian Ross-Hagebaum Review Chap, 7, Chap. 9 Oct. 31 Categories, Schemas Presenter: Kelly De Chermont 10 Nov. 7 Exam II Nov. 14 Speech Perception, Language Comprehension Presenters: Janliu Huang Lecture: speech perception, reading & sentence comprehension 11,12 Nov. 21 class 9 -11am Language production Presenter: Yan Chang, Kelly Biegler 13 Lecture: word prod., sentence prod., patient pro. Nov. 28 Problem Solving, Reasoning Guest speaker: David Lane Presenter: Camille Peres 14,15 Dec. 5 Decision Making Guest speaker: Dan Osherson Presenter: Aniko Sandor 16,17 Dec. 12 Exam III (during finals week) Readings Aug. 29 Pomerantz, J. Perceptual organization in information processing. pp. 127-158. In A. M. Aitkenhead and J. M. Slack (Eds.), Issues in Cognitive Modeling (1985), Hillsdale, N. J.: Erlbaum. Sept. 5 Perception Yantis, S. (1995). Perceived continuity of occluded visual objects. Psychological Science, 6, 182-186. Caramazza, A. & Shelton, J. (1998). Domain-specific knowledge systems in the brain: The animate-inanimate distinction. J. of Cognitive Neuroscience, 10, 1-34. Sept. 12 Action/Attention Ro, T., Borden, C., Driver, J., & Rafal, R. (In press). Ipsilesional biases in saccades but not perception after lesions of the inferior parietal lobule. J. of Cognitive Neurosicence. Sept. 19 Attention Goodale, M., Humphreys, G. K. (1998). The objects of action and perception. Cognition, 67, 181-207. Potts, G.F. & Tucker, D.M. (2001). Frontal evaluation and posterior representation in target detection. Cognitive Brain Research, 11, 147-156. Simons, D. (1996). In sight, out of mind: When object representations fail. Psychological Science, 7, 301-305. Luck, S., Girelli, M., McDermott, M., and Ford, M. (1997). Bridging the gap between monkey neurophysiology and human perception: An ambiguity resolution theory of visual selective attention. Cognitive Psychology, 33, 64&endash;87. Oct. 3 Working Memory, Theories of Memory Engle, R., Tuholski, S., Laughlin, J., & Conway, A. (1999). Working memory, short-term memory, and general fluid intelligence: A latent-variable approach. J. of Experimental Psychology: General, 128, 309-331. Byrne, M. D., & Bovair, S. (1997). A working memory model of a common procedural error. Cognitive Science, 21, 31-61. Lovett, M. C., Reder, L. M., & Lebiere, C. (1999). Modeling working memory in a unified architecture: An ACT-R perspective. In A. Miyake & P. Shah (Eds.) Models of working memory: Mechanismsof active maintenance and executive control (pp. 135-184). New York: Cambridge. Oct. 10 Memory Watkins, M. (1990). Mediationism and the obfuscation of memory. American Psychologist, 45, 328-335. Schmidt, R. A., & Bjork, R. A. (1992). New conceptualizations of practice: Common principles in three paradigms suggest new concepts for training. Psychological Science, 3, 207-217. Loftus, E. F. (1997). Memory for a past that never was. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 6, 60-65. Oct. 24 Neuropsychology of memory McClelland, J. L., McNaughton, B. L., & O'Reilly, R. (1995). Why there are complementary learning systems in the hippocampus and neocortex: Insights from the successes and failures of connectionist models of learning and memory. Psychological Review, 102, 419-457. Mental Representations/Imagery Pinker, S. (1994). The language instinct. New York: William Morrow & Co. Chapter 3: Mentalese, pp. 55-82. Farah, M. J. (1995). Current issues in the neuropsychology of image generation. Neuropsychologia, 33, 1455-1471. Oct. 31 Categories and schemas Lopez, Atran, Coley, Medin & Smith (1997). The tree of life: Universal and cultural features of folkbiological taxonomies and inductions. Cognitive Psychology, 32, 251-295. Breedin, S., Saffran, E., Coslett, H. B.. (1994). Reversal of the concreteness effect in a patient with semantic dementia. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 11, 617-660. Nov. 14 Speech Perception/Language Comprehension Aslin, Richard N; Saffran, Jenny R; Newport, Elissa L. (1998). Computation of conditional probability statistics by 8-month-old infants. Psychological Science, 9, 321-324. Spivey, Michael J; Marian, Viorica. (1999). Cross-talk between native and second languages: Partial activation of an irrelevant lexicon. Psychological Science, 10, 281-284. Nov. 21 Language Production Martin, R. & Freedman, M. (2001). Short-term retention of lexical-semantic representations: Implications for speech production. Memory, 9, 261-280. Damian, M., & Martin, R. (1999). Semantic and phonological codes interact in single word production. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 25, 345-361. Nov. 28 Problem Solving, Reasoning G. T. Fong, D. H. Krantz, and R. E. Nisbett, The effects of statistical training on thinking about everyday problems. Cognitive Psychology, 18, 253-292, 1986. Douglas K. Detterman. 1993. The case for the prosecution: Transfer as epiphenomenon. In Detterman and Sternberg, 1993 (Eds). Transfer on Trial: Intelligence, Cognition, and Instruction. Ablex, Norwood, NJ, pp. 1-38. Dec. 5 Decision Making Review: Lopez, Atran, Coley, Medin & Smith (1997). The tree of life: Universal and cultural features of folkbiological taxonomies and inductions. Cognitive Psychology, 32, 251-295. Cosmides, L, & Tooby, J. (1996). Are humans good intuitive statisticians after all? Rethinking some conclusions from the literature on judgment under undertainty. Cognition, 58, 1-73.