Course description: Untangling
the relation between human brain structure and cognitive function
is one of the great challenges facing scientific psychology. In
this seminar we will use human brain damage and brain-imaging
data as a guide to understanding human functional neuroanatomy
and the structure of human cognition. The focus will be on case
studies that illustrate how human cognitive functions can break
down following brain damage, with an emphasis on disorders of
knowledge and understanding. A neuroanatomical or neuropsychological
background is not an absolute requirement, but a willingness to
learn to take a neurological perspective to psychological questions
is. Students will each make at least one detailed class presentation,
and write one analytical review paper on a relevant topic of their
choice.
Please note that there will be no 576 class on
Wednesday October 9th, Wednesday November 20, or Friday November 22.
| DATE |
TOPIC |
READING |
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Wednesday, September 4 |
Introduction
to the class |
No
reading |
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Friday, September 6 |
Introduction
to the human brain |
The
Architecture of the Brain- R. Ornstein & R. Thompson (1984). The
Amazing Brain (Chapter 1), Boston: Houghton Mifflin. & Neuroscience
Overview- P. Churchland & T. Sejnowski (1992). The Computational
Brain (Chapter 2). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. |
|
Wednesday September 11 |
Computation
& functionalism |
•
Minds, brains, and programs- J. Searle (1980) Behavioral and Brain Sciences
3 (3):417-457 |
|
Friday September 13 |
Phenomenology
and the binding problem |
•
Time and the observer: the Where and When of Consciousness in the Brain-
D. Dennett & M. Kinsbourne (1992). Behavioral and Brain Sciences,
15, 183-247. |
|
Wednesday September 18 |
Techniques
I: Human lesion studies |
Is
cognitive neuropsychology possible?- A. Caramazza (1992). Journal of
Cognitive Neuroscience, 4, 80-95. & Is cognitive neuropsychology
plausible?- S. Kosslyn & J. Intriligator (1992). Journal of Cognitive
Neuroscience, 4, 96-106. |
|
Friday September 20 |
Techniques
II: Functional brain imaging |
Behind
the scenes of functional imaging- A historical and physiological perspective-
M. Raichle (1998). Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 95:765-772 |
|
Wednesday September 25 |
Why
do we like doing cross-word puzzles? (Dorsolateral pre-frontal cortex) |
• "Sculpting the Response Space"- An Account of
Left Prefrontal Activation at Encoding- P. Fletcher, T. Shallice, &
R.J. Dolan (2000). Neuroimage,
12, 404-417. |
|
Friday, September 27 |
Personality
and frontal lobe functioning (Cingulate gyrus, Executive functions) |
ļ
Anatomical
Variability of the Anterior Cingulate Gyrus and Basic Dimensions of
Human Personality- J. Pujol, A. LŪpez, J. Deus, N. Cardoner, J.
Vallejo, A. Capdevila, T. Paus (2002). NeuroImage, 15:4, 847-855 |
|
Wednesday October 2 |
When
does our brain see? (Frontal eye fields) |
Inverted
vision after frontal lobe disease- M. Solms, K. Kaplan-Solms, M. Saling,
& Percy M. (1988). Cortex, 24, 499-509. |
|
Friday October 4 |
Our
ever-changing brain (Cortical plasticity in sensory-motor cortex) |
Large
scale reorganization at multiple levels of the somatosensory pathway
follows therapeutic amputation of the hand in monkeys- S. Florence &
J. Hass (1995). The Journal Of Neuroscience, 15(12), 8083-8095. |
|
Wednesday October 9 |
NO
CLASS |
NO
CLASS |
|
Friday October 11 |
Ignoring
half the world (Hemi-neglect) |
The
Sound of One Hand Clapping- V. Ramachandran & S. Blakeslee (1998).
Phantoms In the Brain (Chapter 7), New York: William Morrow |
|
Wednesday October 16 |
The
body has a mind of its own (Alien hand syndrome) |
Two
alien hand syndromes- T. Feinberg, R. Schindler, N. Flanagan, L. Haber
(1992). Neurology, 42, 19-24. |
|
Friday October 18 |
Class cancelled due to lack of quorum. |
|
|
Wednesday October 23 |
Learned
movement disorders (Ideomotor apraxia) |
Neuropsychological
and neuroanatomical dimensions of ideomotor apraxia- M. Alexander, E.
Baker, M. Naeser, E. Kaplan, & C. Plumbo (1992). Brain, 115, 87-107 |
|
Friday October 25 |
An
odd Grundstrung (Gerstmann's syndrome) |
•
A
pure case of Gerstmann syndrome with a subangular lesion- E. Mayer,
M-D. Martory, A. Pegna, T. Landis, J. Delavelle, and J-M Annoni (1999).
Brain 122: 1107-1120 |
|
Wednesday October 30 |
Play
it again (Music agnosia) |
•
Music Agnosias: Selective Impairment of Music Recognition after Brain
Damage- S. Dalla Bella
& I. Peretz (1999). Journal of New Music Research, 28, 209-216. |
|
Friday November 1 |
The
man who mistook his strawberry for a pear (Category-specific agnosia) |
Shape
integration for visual object recognition and its implication in category-specific
agnosia- M. Arguin, D. Bub, & G. Dudek (1996). Visual Cognition,
3(3):221-275. |
|
Wednesday November 6 |
Who
do you know? Who do you love? (Prosopagnosia & Capgras Syndrome) |
Prosopagnosia:
anatomic basis and behavioral mechanisms- A. Damasio, H. Damasio, &
G. Can Hoesen (1982). Neurology, 32, 331-341. & Edelstyn, N. &
Oyebode, F. (1999). A review of the phenomenology & cognitive neuropsychological
origins of Capgras Syndrome. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry,
14, 48-59. |
|
Friday November 8 |
I
don't believe my eyes (Blindsight & Blindness denial) |
•
Blindsight
in man and monkey- Stoerig, P. & Cowey, A. (1997). Brain, 120,
535:559. |
|
Wednesday November 13 |
I
don't see it that way (Motion & Color Blindness) |
Cerebral
akinetopsia (Visual motion blindness): A Review- S. Zeki (1991). Brain,
114, 811-824. |
|
Friday November 15 |
Seeing
is not always believing (Visual hallucinations) |
•
Complex
visual hallucinations: Clinical and neurobiological insights- Manford,
M. & Andermann, F. (1998). Brain, 121: 1819-1840. |
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Wednesday November 20 |
NO
CLASS |
NO
CLASS |
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Friday November 22 |
NO
CLASS |
NO
CLASS |
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Wednesday November 27 |
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Friday November 29 |
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Tuesday December 3 @ 4 PM |
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Wednesday December 4 |
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