{"id":65,"date":"2016-03-23T17:06:02","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T17:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.la.utexas.edu\/gilden\/?page_id=65"},"modified":"2020-05-05T20:02:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T20:02:42","slug":"psy-355-cognition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/labs.la.utexas.edu\/gilden\/psy-355-cognition\/","title":{"rendered":"PSY 355 Cognition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor: David Gilden
\nOffice: SEA 5.118
\nEmail: dgilden@utexas.edu<\/a>
\nPhone: 512.232.4641
\nOffice hours: MWF 2:00-2:30 and by appointment<\/p>\n

TA: Zo\u00eb Feygin
\nOffice: SEA 5.118
\nEmail: zoe.feygin@gmail.com
\nOffice hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:30-4:30 PM and by appointment<\/p>\n

Spring 2020 syllabus<\/a><\/p>\n

Study questions (*Updated 05\/5\/20*)<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

Exam Dates (tentative):<\/h4>\n

02\/20\/20<\/p>\n

04\/02\/20<\/p>\n

05\/07\/20<\/p>\n

\n

Radiolab – Memory and Forgetting<\/a><\/p>\n

Philosophical issues<\/span><\/b>
\nMagic number seven<\/a>\u00a0(Miller)
\nChinese Room <\/a>
\nPsychological science can improve diagnostic decisions<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n

Perception<\/span><\/b>
\nWhat the frog’s eye tells the frog’s brain<\/a>
\nBasic perception<\/a>
\nBrain Mechanisms of Vision (Hubel & Wiesel)<\/a>
\nSpatial Frequency Analysis<\/a>
\nThe Ketchup Conundrum<\/a>
\n*Checkerboard image1<\/a>
\n*Checkerboard image2<\/a>
\n*Homunculus diagrams<\/a>
\n*Auditory tonotopic organization (first figure)<\/a>
\nThe neuronal representation of pitch in primate auditory cortex (Bendor & Wang)<\/a>
\n*Equiluminance effects <\/a>
\nGestalt intro: Download<\/a>
\nOne-sided edge assignment in vision (Driver & Baylis)<\/a>
\nPerception of symmetry and repetition within and across visual shapes (Baylis & Driver)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Theoretical approaches to perceptual organization:<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n
1-20<\/a><\/td>\n21-40<\/a><\/td>\n41-46<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n(Acrobat 6 required)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The interpretation of visual illusions (Hoffman)<\/a><\/p>\n

Attention<\/span><\/b>
\nA feature integration theory of attention (Treisman & Gelade)<\/a><\/span>
\nWhat can 1 million trials tell us about visual search? (Wolfe)<\/a>
\nSerial vs. Parallel Processing: Sometimes They Look like Tweedledum and Tweedledee but They Can (And Should) be Distinguished (Townsend)<\/a>
\nParallel and Serial Processes in Visual Search (Thornton & Gilden)<\/a>
\nThe Serial Process in Visual Search (Gilden, Thornton, & Marusich)<\/a>
\nSpatial Attention in Visual Search for Features and Feature Conjunctions (Kim & Cave)<\/a>
\nDistribution of Attention over Noncontiguous Regions of the Visual Field (Kramer & Hahn)<\/a>
\nOn the Nature of Streaks in Signal Detection (Gilden & Wilson)<\/a><\/p>\n

Imagination<\/b>
\nVisual Functions of Mental Imagery (selection from Finke & Shepard)<\/a>
\nNeural Adaptation of Imaginary Visual Motion (Gilden)<\/a><\/p>\n

Time
\n<\/span><\/b>Moving to the Beat of Seconds (Schleidt)<\/a>
\nEvidence of a Time Constant (Gerstner)<\/a>
\nContraction of time in ADHD (Gilden & Marusich)<\/a>
\nNeuropharmacology of timing and time perception (Meck)<\/a>
\nChapter on Timing<\/a>
\nDelay of Reinforcement Gradient (Perin)<\/a>
\nTemporal Dynamics of Chewing (Gerstner)<\/a>
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Complex Systems in Aesthetics<\/b>
\nWhite, brown, and fractal music (Gardner)<\/a><\/p>\n

Working Memory<\/b>
\nWhat is working memory and what is it good for?<\/a>
\nWorking Memory (Baddeley)<\/a>
\nBaddeley Experiments<\/a>
\nBaddeley Experiments Video<\/a>
\nThe Word-Length Effect and Disyllabic Words (Lovatt)<\/a>
\nThe time-based word length effect and stimulus set specificity (Neath et al.)<\/a> (must be viewed in Acrobat)
\nA serial position effect in recall of United States presidents (Roediger & Crowder)<\/a>
\nWhat limits working memory capacity?<\/a>
\n<\/a>Is the superior verbal memory span of Mandarin speakers due to faster rehearsal?<\/a><\/p>\n

Long Term Memory<\/b>
\nCreating false memories: Remembering words not presented in lists (Roediger & McDermott)<\/a>
\nContextual Prerequisites for Understanding: Some Investigations of Comprehension and Recall (Bransford & Johnson)<\/a>
\nAssessing the distinguishability of models and the informativeness of data (Navarro, Pitt, & Myung)<\/a>
\nFaciliation in Recognizing Pairs of Words (Meyer & Schvaneveldt)<\/a>
\nTransformations of memory in everyday life (Linton)<\/a>
\nReconstruction of automobile deconstruction (Loftus & Palmer)<\/a>
\nAn adult eidetiker (Stromeyer)<\/a>
\nToscanini’s memory (Marek)<\/a>
\nAn exceptional memory (Hunter)<\/a>
\nUnconscious perception: Attention, awareness, and control (Jacoby)<\/a>
\nThe death of implicit memory (Willingham & Preuss)<\/a>
\nExperiments from Lecture:\u00a0 1<\/a>\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 2<\/a> \u00a0 3<\/a><\/p>\n

Reasoning and decision making<\/b>
\nThe hot hand in basketball: On the misperception of random sequences (Gilovich, et al.)<\/a>
\nStreaks in skilled performance (Gilden & Wilson)<\/a>
\nSubjective probability (Falk)<\/a>
\nChoices, values, and frames (Kahneman & Tversky)<\/a>
\nUnderstanding collision dynamics (Gilden & Proffitt)<\/a><\/p>\n

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