Psych 202: Cognitive Neuroscience

Spring, 2001 
Lectures: T Th 1:15-2:30
Labs: F 1-3 
Jordan Hall, room 100

Instructors

Professor Brian Wandell
Email: wandell@stanford.edu
Room 484 Jordan Hall

Professor Jeffrey Wine
Email: wine@stanford.edu
Room 450 Jordan Hall

Professor John Gabrieli
Email: gabrieli@psych.stanford.edu,
Room 448, Jordan Hall
 

Teaching Assistants

Kalina Christoff
725-0797
Email:  kalina@psych.stanford.edu
rm 478
Office hours: XXX

Alison Preston
Email:  alison@psych.stanford.edu
725 5487
Office hours: XXX

Limited enrollment (email list)

To enroll in the course, you must subscribe to the email list by sending email to majordomo@lists with the one line message:

                subscribe psych202

Because there is a lab component to this course, we must limit enrollment to 20 students. First priority will be given to Psych Department graduate students (because this is a core course in the graduate program, many of the psych grad students have to take it). After that, enrollment will depend on the order in which you subscribe to the email list.

Grading

There will be a series of assignments associated with the labs, a takehome midterm, and a final paper.

Readings

Text book (recommended): Cognitive Neuroscience: The Biology of the Mind, M. S. Gazzaniga, R. B. Ivry, & G. R. Mangun, Norton, 1998. This is an introductory, undergraduate level text book, hence it will be useful only for filling in background that you have not seen before.

Most of the required readings will be a combination of handouts and review articles.  Many of them are available online (see schedule below for links).  Others are in the course reader (available at the Stanford Bookstore).

Schedule


Day Topic Reading
4/3 Course Overview (Wandell and Wine)
4/5* Themes in Cognitive Neuroscience (Gabrieli)
4/7 No lab meeting
4/10* Methods: Neuronal signaling, pharmacology, anatomy, genomics (Wine)
  • Gazzaniga, Chapter 2 
4/12* Methods: Neuronal signaling, pharmacology, anatomy, genomics (Wine)
4/14 Lab: Anatomy (med school)
4/17 The Functional MRI  Signal; EEG; PET; Optical Imaging; Single-unit recordings; Microstimulation (Wandell)
4/19 Visual and Auditory Pathways I (Wandell)
  • Gazzaniga, Ch. 4 
  • Wandell, Foundations of Vision, Ch 6  (in reader) 
4/21 Lab: Signal Detection Theory and related methods (Wandell)
4/24 Visual and Auditory Pathways II (Wandell)
4/26 Object recognition (Wandell)
  • Gazzaniga, Ch. 5 
  • Logothetis & Sheinberg, Visual object recognition, Annu. Rev. Neurosi., 19:577-621, 1996 (in reader) 
4/28 Lab: Psychophysics
5/1 Attention and Decisions (Wandell)
  • Parker & Newsome, Sense and the single neuron, probing the physiology of perception, Annu. Rev. Neurosci., 21:227-277, 1998 
  • Schall & Thompson, Neural selection and control of visually guided eye movements, Annu. Rev. Neurosci., 22:241-259, 1999 
  • Platt & Glimcher, Neural correlates of decision variables in parietal cortex, Nature, 400:233-238, 1999 (optional) 
  • Kim & Shadlen, Neural correlates of a decision in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex of the macaque, Nature Neurosci., 2:176-185, 1999 (optional) 
  • lecture notes Gazzaniga, Ch. 6 
  • Desimone & Duncan, Neural mechanisms of selective visual attention, Annu. Rev. Neurosci., 18:193-222, 1995 (in reader) 
  • Palmer, Attention in visual search: Distinguishing four causes of a set-size effect, Current Directions in Psych. Sci., 4:118-123, 1995 (in reader) 
  • Shadlen/Gold review article
  • lecture notes 
5/3 Implicit memory (Gabrieli)
  • Gazzaniga, Ch. 11 
  • Goldman-Rakic, Circuitry of primate prefrontal cortex and regulation of behavior by representational memory, Handbook of Physiology Section 1, The Nervous System: Vol. 5. Higher functions of the brain, Mountcastle et al (Eds.), pp. 373-417, Bethesda, Maryland: American Psychological Society, 1987 
  • Baddeley, Working memory, in The Cognitive Neurosciences, Gazzaniga (Ed), pp. 755-764, Cambridge: The Mit Press, 1995 
  • D'Esposito et al, Functional MRI studies of spatial and nonspatial working memory, Cognitive Br Res, 7:1-13, 1998 
  • Smith and Jonides, Storage and executive processes in the frontal lobes, Science, 283:1657-1661, 1999 (optional)
5/5 Lab:   
5/8 Working memory (Gabrieli)
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5/10 Memory (Gabrieli)/Raymond offer
  • Gazzaniga, Ch. 7 
  • Gabrieli, Cognitive neuroscience of human memory, Annu. Rev. Psychol., 49:87-115, 1998 
  • Milner, Squire, & Kandel, Cognitive neuroscience of the study of memory, Neuron, 20:445-468, 1998 
5/12 Lab: working memory (Gabrieli lab, Jordan, 4th floor)
5/15 Learning (Tenenbaum)
5/17 Plasticity (Wandell)
5/19 Lab: fMRI (Lucas center)
5/22 Language (Wandell)
  • TBA 
5/24  Reading (Wandell)
  • Bruer, Education and the brain: a brige too far, Educational Researcher, 26:4-16, 1991. 
  • Miller, Delaney, & Tallal, P, Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 5:198-204, 1995. 
  • Rumsey & Eden, Functional neuroimging of developmental dyslexia, in Specific Reading Disability, Shapiro, Accardo, and Capute (Eds.) 
  • Posner & Abdullaev, Neuroanatomy, circuitry and plasiticity of word reading, NeuroReport, 10:R12-R23, 1999 
5/26 Lab: fMRI data analysis (ISEP lab, basement of EE)
5/29 Emotion
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5/31 Sanger Motor Pathways Offer
6/2 Lab: fMRI data analysis (ISEP lab, basement of EE)
6/5 Class Discussion
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6/1 Wrapup, final papers due (see instructions for final paper and review panels) 
6/6 Review panels (3:30-6:30)

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Brian Wandell