Cognitive Psychology

Spring 2009

  Syllabus

  Required to purchase:

1. Goldstein, E. B. (2006). Cognitive Psychology. Second Edition. California: Thomson Wadsworth.
2. Access Code for Online Access to CogLab. California: Thomson Wadsworth.

  PPT slides

  Class Schedule

  Handouts:

    Term paper instructions and information

    How to read a journal article   

    Writing in APA style for literature reviews

    Critically reading journal articles

    Examples of writing from "check plus" reaction papers

  Announcements:

  Grades:

    Mid-term grades

   Final grades

  Links:

   Webpage to play with CORRELATION demos:

     http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~stark/Java/Html/Correlation.htm

   Michael Bach's website of optical illusions and visual phenomenon

     http://michaelbach.de/ot/index.html

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  CogLab and CogLab presentations:

     CogLab website

     Date indicates day CogLab must be finished by (before noon).

      Do not complete CogLabs more than 2wks before due date.

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  Articles

Brain Asymmetry:

  Heller , W., & Levy, J. (1981). Perception and expression of emotion in right-handers and left-handers. Neuropsychologia, 19(2), 263-272. (Hard copy only)

  Ashwin, C., Wheelwright, S., & Baron-Cohen, S. (2005). Laterality biases to chimeric faces in Asperger syndrome: What is "right" about face-processing? Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 35(2), 183-196.  (PDF)

Metacontrast Masking:

  Enns, J. T., & DiLollo, V. (1997). Object substitution: A new form of masking in unattended visual locations. Psychological Science, 8(2), 135-139.  (PDF)

  Shelley-Tremblay, J., & Mack, A. (1999). Metacontrast masking and attention. Psychological Science, 10(6), 508-515.  (PDF)

Attentional Blink:

  Raymond, J. E., Shapiro, K. L., & Arnell, K. M. (1992). Temporary suppression of visual processing in an RSVP task: An attentional blink?  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 18(3), 849-860.  (PDF)

  Li, C. R., Lin, W., Chang, H., & Hung, Y. (2004). A psychophyisical measure of attention deficit in children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity disorder.  Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 113(2), 228-236.  (PDF)

Working Memory:

  Conway, A. R. A., & Engle, R. W. (1996). Individual differences in working memory capacity: More evidence for a general capacity theory. Memory, 4(6), 577-590.  (PDF)

  Conway, A. R. A., Cowan, N., & Bunting, M. F. (2001). The cocktail party phenomenon revisited: The importance of working memory capacity. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 8(2), 331-335. (Hard copy only)

Implicit Memory:

  Destrebecqz, A., & Cleeremans, A. (2001). Can sequence learning be implicit? New evidence with the process dissociation procedure. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 8(2), 343-350. (Hard copy only)

  Coates, S. L., Butler, L. T., & Berry, D. C. (2006). Implicit memory and consumer choice: The mediating role of brand familiarity. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 20, 1101-1116. (PDF)

False Memory:

  Roediger, H. L., & McDermott, K. B. (1995). Creating false memories: Remembering words not presented in lists. Journal of Experimenal Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 21(4), 803-814. (PDF)

  Dehon, H., & Bredart, S. (2004). False memories: Young and older adults think of semantic associates at the same rate, but younger are more successful at source monitoring. Psychology and Aging, 19, 191-197. (PDF)

Bilingualism:

  Kim, K. H. S., Relkin, N. R., Lee, K., & Hirsch, J. (1997). Distinct cortical areas associated with native and second languages. Nature, 388, 171-174. (PDF)

  Sebastian-Galles, N., Echeverria, S., & Bosch, L. (2005). The influence of initial exposure on lexical representation: Comparing early and simultaneous bilinguals. Journal of Memory and Language, 52, 240-255. (PDF)

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YOUR CHOICE TOPICS

  1.

      We're reading this one - the 2003 paper!  Topic: Modification of spatial attention

      Green, C. S., & Bavelier, D. (2003). Action video game modifies visual selective attention. Nature, 423, 534-537. (PDF)

      Green, C. S., & Bavelier, D. (2007). Action video game experience alters the spatial resolution of vision. Psychological Science, 18(1), 88-94. (PDF)

     (I'll leave this link up in case you're interested...) Topic: Change blindness

      Tse, P. U. (2004). Mapping visual attention with change blindness: New directions for a new method. Cognitive Science, 28, 241-258. (PDF)

  2.

      Suggested: Strategies for face memory

      Coin, C., & Tiberghien, G. (1997). Encoding activity and face recognition. Memory, 5(5), 545-568. (PDF)

      Bernstein, L. J., Beig, S., Slegenthaler, A. L., & Grady, C. L. (2002). The effect of encoding strategy on the neural correlates of memory for faces. Neuropsychologia, 40, 86-98. (PDF)

3.

     Suggested: Prospective memory and aging

     Einstein, G. O., McDaniel, M. A., Thomas, R., Mayfield, S., Shank, H., Morrisette, N., & Breneiser, J. (2005). Multiple processes in prospective memory retrieval: Factors determining monitoring versus spontaneous retrieval. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 134(3), 327-342. (PDF)

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