Required reading
Optional, extended reading
8/27 - Introduction to cognitive psychology and visual perception
Marr, D. (1982). Vision. San Francisco, CA: W. H. Freeman. Chapter 1
Palmer, S. E. (1999). Vision science: Photons to phenomenology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Chapter 1
8/29 - What is Visual Attention and what does it do? / Attention and Visual Awareness
Palmer, S. E. (1999). Vision science: Photons to phenomenology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Chapter 11 selection
Cohen, M. A., Cavanagh, P., Chun, M. M., & Nakayama, K. (2012). The attentional requirements of consciousness. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 16(8), 411-417.
Ned Block's view (high capacity awareness of identity, low capacity report) Block, N. (2011). Perceptual consciousness overflows cognitive access. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 15(12), 567-575.
Kouider et al.'s view (high capacity awareness of rudimentary features, low capacity awareness of identity, low capacity report) Kouider, S., de Gardelle, V., Sackur, J., & Dupoux, E. (2010). How rich is consciousness? The partial awareness hypothesis. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 14(7), 301-307.
9/3 - How is visual attention guided efficiently to goal-relevant objects?
Olivers, C. N. L., Peters, J., Houtkamp, R., & Roelfsema, P. R. (2011). Different states in visual working memory: When it guides attention and when it does not. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 15(7), 327-334.
Anderson, B. A., Laurent, P. A., & Yantis, S. (2011). Learned value magnifies salience-based attentional capture. Plos One, 6(11), e27926.
A computational approach to defining 'salience' Itti, L., & Koch, C. (2000). A saliency-based search mechanism for overt and covert shifts of visual attention. Vision Research, 40(10-12), 1489-1506.
My review paper on he role of memory in guiding attention Hollingworth, A. (2012). Guidance of visual search by memory and knowledge. In M. D. Dodd & J. H. Flowers (Eds.), The Influence of Attention, Learning, and Motivation on Visual Search, Nebraska Symposium on Motivation (pp. 63-89). New York: Springer.
9/5 - Top-down, embodied, affective, and social effects on perception
Proffitt, D. R. (2006). Embodied Perception and the Economy of Action. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 1(2), 110-122.
Firestone, C., & Scholl, B. J. (in press). “Top-down” effects where none should be found: The El Greco fallacy in perception research. Psychological Science.
9/10 - Object Recognition
Biederman, I. (1987). Recognition-by-components: A theory of human image understanding. Psychological Review, 94, 115-147.
Riesenhuber, M., & Poggio, T. (1999). Hierarchical models of object recognition in cortex. Nature Neuroscience, 2, 1019-1025.
9/12 - Face Recognition
Leopold, D. A., O'Toole, A. J., Vetter, T., & Blanz, V. (2001). Prototype-referenced shape encoding revealed by high-level after effects. Nature Neuroscience, 4, 89-94.
Rhodes, G., Jeffery, L., Watson, T. L., Clifford, C. W. G., & Nakayama, K. (2003). Fitting the mind to the world: Face adaptation and attractiveness aftereffects. Psychological Science, 14, 558-566.
A paper that connects face adaptation with the type of crossmodal effects explored by Proffitt Matsumiya, K. (in press). Seeing a haptically explored face: Visual facial-expression aftereffect from haptic adaptation to a face. Psychological Science.
9/17 - Categorization
Murphy, 2003, chp 2 for background
Murphy, 2003, chp 3 the focus
9/19 - Working Memory
Baddeley, A. (2000). The episodic buffer: a new component of working memory? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 4, 417-423.
Awh, E., & Jonides, J. (2001). Overlapping mechanisms of attention and spatial working memory. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 5, 119-126.
9/24 - Working Memory II
Rerko, L., & Oberauer, K. (2013). Focused, unfocused, and defocused information in working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 39(4), 1075-1096.
Luck, S. J., & Vogel, E. K. (in press). Visual working memory capacity: from psychophysics and neurobiology to individual differences
9/26 - Spatial Cognition and Memory
Wang, R. F., & Spelke, E. S. (2002). Human spatial representation: Insights from animals - Ranxiao Frances Wang and Elizabeth S. Spelke. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 6, 376-382.
focus on the first experiment of Waller, D., & Hodgson, E. (2006). Transient and enduring spatial representations under disorientation and self-rotation. [Article]. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 32, 867-882.
optional: Dyer, F. C., & Dickinson, J. A. (1996). Sun-compass learning in insects: Representation in a simple mind. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 5, 67-72.
10/1 - Spatial Cognition to Episodic Memory via the Hippocampus
Hartley, T., Bird, C. M., Chan, D., Cipolotti, L., Husain, M., Vargha-Khadem, F., et al. (2007). The hippocampus is required for short-term topographical memory in humans. Hippocampus, 17, 34-48.
Squire, L. R. (1986). Mechanisms of Memory. Science, 232, 1612-1619.
Chun, M. M., & Phelps, E. A. (1999). Memory deficits for implicit contextual information in amnesic patients with hippocampal damage. Nature Neuroscience, 2, 844-847.
10/3 - No Class
10/8 - Memory Consolidation and Re-Consolidation
Roediger, H. L., & Karpicke, J. D. (2006). Test-enhanced learning: Taking memory tests improves long-term retention. Psychological Science, 17(3), 249-255. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01693.x
Hupbach, A., Gomez, R., Hardt, O., & Nadel, L. (2007). Reconsolidation of episodic memories: A subtle reminder triggers integration of new information. Learning & Memory, 14, 47-53.
10/10 - False Memory and Source Monitoring
Mitchell, K.J., & Johnson, M.K. (2000). Source monitoring: Attributing mental experiences. In E. Tulving & F.I.M. Craik (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Memory (pp. 179-195). New York: Oxford University Press.
Roediger, H. L., & McDermott, K. B. (1995). Creating false memories: Remembering words not presented in lists. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 21, 803-814.
Roediger paper relevant to exp design project Finn, B., & Roediger, H. L. (2011). Enhancing retention through reconsolidation: Negative emotional arousal following retrieval enhances later recall. Psychological Science, 22(6), 781-786.
10/15 - Segmenting Complex Events
Ezzyat, Y., & Davachi, L. (2011). What Constitutes an Episode in Episodic Memory? Psychological Science, 22, 243-252.
Sargent, J. Q., Zacks, J. M., Hambrick, D. Z., Zacks, R. T., Head, D., Kurby, C. A., et al.. (2013). Event segmentation ability uniquely predicts memory across the lifespan. Cognition, 129(2), 241-255.
Radvansky, G. A., & Copeland, D. E. (2006). Walking through doorways causes forgetting: Situation models and experienced space. Memory & Cognition, 34, 1150-1156.
10/17 - Event Models, Text Comprehension, Perceptual Simulation, and Emodied Cognition Zwaan, R. A., Stanfield, R. A., & Yaxley, R. H. (2002). Language comprehenders mentally represent the shapes of objects. Psychological Science, 13(2), 168-171.
Rommers, J., Meyer, A. S., & Huettig, F. (in press). Object Shape and Orientation Do Not Routinely Influence Performance During Language Processing. Psychological Science.
Barsalou, L. W., Simmons, W. K., Barbey, A. K., & Wilson, C. D. (2003). Grounding conceptual knowledge in modality-specific systems. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 84-91.
10/22 - No Class
10/24 - Sentence Comprehension Jackendoff (1994). Patterns in the Mind, selection
Tanenhaus, M. K., Spiveyknowlton, M. J., Eberhard, K. M., & Sedivy, J. C. (1995). Integration of visual and linguistic information in spoken language comprehension. Science, 268, 1632-1634.
Altmann, G. T. M., & Kamide, Y. (1999). Incremental interpretation at verbs: restricting the domain of subsequent reference. Cognition, 73, 247-264.
10/29 - Conversation Lane, L. W., Groisman, M., & Ferreira, V. S. (2006). Don't talk about pink elephants! Psychological Science, 17(4), 273-277.
Ferreira, F., Bailey, K. G. D., & Ferraro, V. (2002). Good-enough representations in language comprehension. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 11, 11-15.
10/31 - Social Apsects of Conversation -- Perspective Taking Galati, A., & Brennan, S. E. (2010). Attenuating information in spoken communication: For the speaker, or for the addressee? Journal of Memory and Language, 62(1), 35-51.
Lin, S. H., Keysar, B., & Epley, N. (2010). Reflexively mindblind: Using theory of mind to interpret behavior requires effortful attention. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46(3), 551-556.
11/5 - Effect of Language Structure on Other Forms of Cognition Winawer, J., Witthoft, N., Frank, M. C., Wu, L., Wade, A. R., & Boroditsky, L. (2007). Russian blues reveal effects of language on color discrimination. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 104(19), 7780-7785.
Roberson, D., Hanley, J. R., & Pak, H. (2009). Thresholds for color discrimination in English and Korean speakers. Cognition, 112(3), 482-487.
11/7 - Effect of Language Structure on Other Forms of Cognition II Fausey, C. M., & Boroditsky, L. (2011). Who dunnit? Cross-linguistic differences in eye-witness memory. Psychon Bull Rev, 18(1), 150-157. doi: 10.3758/s13423-010-0021-5
Caparos, S., Ahmed, L., Bremner, A. J., de Fockert, J. W., Linnell, K. J., & Davidoff, J. (2012). Exposure to an urban environment alters the local bias of a remote culture. Cognition, 122(1), 80-85.
11/12 - Cultural and Social Influences on Attention Anguera, J. A. et al. Nature 501, 97–101 (2013)
Dan Simons HIBAR Repsonse
Kuhn, G., & Kingstone, A. (2009). Look away! Eyes and arrows engage oculomotor responses automatically. Attention Perception & Psychophysics, 71(2), 314-327.
11/14 - Joint Action Sebanz, N., Bekkering, H., & Knoblich, G. (2006). Joint action: bodies and minds moving together. Trends Cogn Sci, 10(2), 70-76.
Flanagan, J. R., Rotman, G., Reichelt, A. F., & Johansson, R. S. (2013). The role of observers' gaze behaviour when watching object manipulation tasks: predicting and evaluating the consequences of action. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 368(1628)
11/19 - Joint Action II Dolk, T., Hommel, B., Prinz, W., & Liepelt, R. (2013). The (not so) Social Simon effect: A referential coding account. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 39, 1248-1260.
Engbert K, Wohlschläger A, & Haggard P (2008). Who is causing what? The sense of agency is relational and efferent-triggered. Cognition, 107, 693–704.
11/21 - The Scope of Embodied Cognition Barsalou, L. W. (2008). Grounded cognition. Annu Rev Psychol, 59, 617-645.
Doyen, S., Klein, O., Pichon, C. & Cleeremans, A. (2012). Behavioural priming: It's all in the mind, but whose mind? PLoS One, 7, 1, e29081
11/26 - No Class, Thanksgiving Recess
11/28 - No Class, Thanksgiving Recess
12/3 - Recognition of Facial Expression Adolphs, R. (2002) Recognizing emotion from facial expressions: psychological and neurological mechanisms. Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Reviews 1: 21–62.
Young AW, Rowland D, Calder AJ, Etcoff NL, Seth A, Perrett DI. Facial expression megamix: tests of dimensional and category accounts of emotion recognition. Cognition. 1997 Jun; 63(3):271-313.
12/5 - No Class, Andrew at NIH
12/10 - Attentional Biases in Anxiety Fox, E., Russo, R., Bowles, R., & Dutton, K. (2001). Do threatening stimuli draw or hold visual attention in subclinical anxiety? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 130(4), 681-700
MacLeod, C., & Mathews, A. (2012). Cognitive Bias Modification Approaches to Anxiety. In S. NolenHoeksema (Ed.), Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, Vol 8 (Vol. 8, pp. 189-217)
12/12 - Pre-Attentive processing of fear-relevance? Pessoa, L., McKenna, M., Gutierrez, E., & Ungerleider, L. G. (2002). Neural processing of emotional faces requires attention. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 99(17), 11458-11463
Ohman, A., Flykt, A., & Esteves, F. (2001). Emotion drives attention: Detecting the snake in the grass. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 130(3), 466-478.
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