THE SCIENCE OF PSYCHOLOGY
Prerequisites: BLOCKED CLASS. EVERYONE MUST JOIN WAITLIST TO BE ADMITTED Broad survey of psychological science including: sensation and perception; learning, memory, intelligence, language, and cognition; emotions and motivation; development, personality, health and illness, and social behavior. Discusses relations between the brain, behavior, and experience. Emphasizes science as a process of discovering both new ideas and new empirical results. PSYC UN1001 serves as a prerequisite for further psychology courses and should be completed by the sophomore year.
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Patricia G Lindemann
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Instructor:
John N Thorp
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RESEARCH METHODS - HUMAN BEHAVIOR
Prerequisites: PSYC UN1001 and a statistics course (PSYC UN1610 or the equivalent), or the instructor's permission. Corequisites: PSYC UN1421 Introduction to the techniques of research employed in the study of human behavior. Students gain experience in the conduct of research, including design of simple experiments, observation and measurement techniques, and the analysis of behavioral data.
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Instructor:
Patricia G Lindemann
CULPA: 64 Info - 4 points
RESEARCH METHODS-HUM BEHAV LAB
Corequisites:
PSYC UN1420
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Instructor:
Patricia G Lindemann
CULPA: 64 Info - 0 points
RESEARCH METHODS-HUM BEHAV LAB
Corequisites:
PSYC UN1420
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Instructor:
Patricia G Lindemann
CULPA: 64 Info - 0 points
RESEARCH METHODS: SOCIAL/PERSONALITY
RESEARCH METHODS:SOC/PERS
Prerequisites: PSYC UN1001 or PSYC UN1010 and a statistics course (PSYC UN1610 or the equivalent), or the instructors permission. Corequisites: PSYC UN1456 Methodology and procedures of personality and social psychological research and exercises in data analysis and research design. Ethical issues in psychological research. Statistical concepts such as parameter estimation and testing, measurement reliability and validity, merits and limitations of correlational and experimental research designs, and empirical evaluation of theories.
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Instructor:
Niall Bolger
CULPA: 4 h-index: 55 Info - 4 points
RESEARCH METHODS:SOCIAL/PERSONALITY
RESEARCH METHODS:SOC/PERS
Corequisite: PSYC UN1455.
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Instructor:
Niall Bolger
CULPA: 4 h-index: 55 Info - 0 points
STATISTCS-BEHAVIORL SCIENTISTS
Prerequisites: PSYC UN1001 or PSYC UN1010 Recommended preparation: one course in behavioral science and knowledge of high school algebra. Corequisites: PSYC UN1611 Introduction to statistics that concentrates on problems from the behavioral sciences.
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Instructor:
Christopher Baldassano
h-index: 13 Info - 4 points
STATISTCS-BEHAV SCIENTISTS-LAB
Corequisites: PSYC UN1610 Required lab section for PSYC UN1610.
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Instructor:
Christopher Baldassano
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STATISTCS-BEHAV SCIENTISTS-LAB
Corequisites: PSYC UN1610 Required lab section for PSYC UN1610.
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Instructor:
Christopher Baldassano
h-index: 13 Info - 0 points
Neuroscience Methods: Cells and Circuits
Neuro Methods: Cell & Cir
Research Methods in Neuroscience: Circuits and Cells offers students a unique opportunity to combine theoretical knowledge with practical skills development. This course pairs a weekly lecture with hands-on laboratory experiences, giving students a chance to see what day to day neuroscience research entails. The first three weeks of the semester will cover introductory topics in neuroscience, the scientific method, and experimental design. Then students will participate in three 3-week long modules covering human cognition, animal behavior, and neurological disease. The last two weeks of the course will be spent preparing students for a successful undergraduate research experience. Throughout the semester students will read scientific review articles to deepen their understanding of the lecture material and to contextualize that week’s lab experience.
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Instructor:
Sarah Demoya
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Cells and Circuits Lab
This is the lab component for PSYC UN1950 Neuroscience Methods: Cells and Circuits.
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Instructor:
Sarah Demoya
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COGNITION: BASIC PROCESSES
An introduction to basic concepts in cognitive psychology. Topics include theories and
phenomena in areas such as attention, memory, concepts and categories, language, reasoning,
decision making, and consciousness.
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Instructor:
Nora Isacoff
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
THINKING AND DECISION MAKING
Prerequisites: an introductory course in psychology. Models of judgment and decision making in both certain and uncertain or risky situations, illustrating the interplay of top-down (theory-driven) and bottom-up (data-driven) processes in creating knowledge. Focuses on how individuals do and should make decisions, with some extensions to group decision making and social dilemmas.
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Instructor:
Katherine T Fox-Glassman
CULPA: 6
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Perception and Cognition in Social Life
Percept/Cognit in Social
This course focuses on perception and cognition in social life. We start by addressing the core social motivations we experience in everyday life (e.g., our desire to feel like we belong to a group). Next, we examine how these motivations shape our basic sensory experiences—for example why we can’t help but anthropomorphize inanimate objects or enjoy holding hands with our partner. We then examine the mental strategies we use to meet our social needs, such as how we figure out other people’s thoughts and feelings, as well as our own. Finally, we wrap up by examining how these motivations, perceptions, and cognitions play out not just within one mind – but also between minds in everyday social interaction. This course will not only teach you the fundamental science behind the social mind. It will also let you see your own social life through a whole new lens.
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Instructor:
Meghan Meyer
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COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
Prerequisites: PSYC UN1001 or equivalent introductory course in Psychology This course provides an in-depth survey of data and models of a wide variety of human cognitive functions. Drawing on behavioral, neuropsychological, and neuroimaging research, the course explores the neural mechanisms underlying complex cognitive processes, such as perception, memory, and decision making. Importantly, the course examines the logic and assumptions that permit us to interpret brain activity in psychological terms.
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Instructor:
Lila Davachi
CULPA: 1 h-index: 59 Info - 3 points
Social Neuroscience
This course will provide a broad overview of the field of social neuroscience. We will consider how social processes are implemented at the neural level, but also how neural mechanisms help give rise to social phenomena and cultural experiences. Many believe that the large expansion of the human brain evolved due to the complex demands of dealing with social others—competing or cooperating with them, deceiving or empathizing with them, understanding or misjudging them. What kind of “social brain” has this evolutionary past left us with? In this course, we will review core principles, theories, and methods guiding social neuroscience, as well as research examining the brain basis of processes such as theory of mind, emotion, stereotyping, social group identity, empathy, judging faces and bodies, morality, decision-making, the impact of culture and development, among others. Overall, this course will introduce students to the field of social neuroscience and its multi-level approach to understanding the brain in its social context.
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Instructor:
Jon B Freeman
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BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE
Prerequisites: PSYC UN1001 or PSYC UN1010 or the instructors permission. Examines the principles governing neuronal activity, the role of neurotransmitter systems in memory and motivational processes, the presumed brain dysfunctions that give rise to schizophrenia and depression, and philosophical issues regarding the relationship between brain activity and subjective experience.
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Instructor:
Sarah Demoya
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ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR
Prerequisites: An introductory psychology course. Examines definitions, theories, and treatments of abnormal behavior.
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Instructor:
Jeffrey M Cohen
h-index: 5 Info - 3 points
Industrial-Organizational Psychology
Study of behavior in organizational and business-related settings. Examination of such topics as employee motivation and satisfaction, communication patterns, effective leadership strategies, and organization development.
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Instructor:
Joshua M Feinberg
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Moral Psychology
Prerequisite: An introductory psychology course.
An introduction to basic concepts in moral psychology. Topics include controversies around the definition of morality, foundations of moral thought and behavior, and connections between morality and other areas of life, among other subjects.
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Instructor:
Larisa H Solomon
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Bilingualism
Many of us know a second language. How we use it varies – some use it occasionally, others routinely. Recent research in cognitive neuroscience has shed light on the mechanisms associated with the various types of bilingualism, and has shown that using two languages affects a variety of cognitive abilities, starting in infancy and continuing until an old age. The primary findings of recent research in cognitive neuroscience are reviewed and discussed in this course. Bilingualism also has a political facet – governments decide what languages are used in public institutions and taught in schools. This course also evaluates scientific findings on bilingualism for their potential implications on informing parents, educators, and policy makers.
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Instructor:
Michele Miozzo
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Prenatal Programming
This seminar course will focus on the impact of the prenatal period in programming lifelong health and development through altering physiology starting from the molecular level.
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Instructor:
Elif A Duman
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Evolution of Intelligence, Animal Commun
Prerequisites: PSYC UN1001, and the instructors permission.
A systematic review of the evolution language covering the theory of evolution, conditioning theory, animal communication, ape language experiments, infant cognition, preverbal antecedents of language and contemporary theories of language.
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Instructor:
Herbert S Terrace
CULPA: 29 Wikipedia Info - 3 points
Music and Cognitive Neuroscience
Music & Cognitive Neurosc
This seminar will provide a broad survey of how principles of cognition are represented
in music and the ways music has been used to study those principles in the psychology
and neuroscience literature.
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Instructor:
John N Thorp
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SEM-DEVELOPMNTL PSYCHOPATHOLGY
Prerequisites: at least two of the following courses: (UN1001, UN1010, UN2280, UN2620, UN2680, UN3280) and the instructor's permission. Developmental psychopathology posits that it is development itself that has gone awry when there is psychopathology. As such, it seeks to understand the early and multiple factors contributing to psychopathology emerging in childhood and later in life. We will use several models (e.g. ones dominated by biological, genetic, and psychological foci) to understand the roots of mental illness.
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Instructor:
Hannah E Hoch
CULPA: 27 Info - 4 points
TOPICS IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
Prerequisites: (PSYC UN1001) Instructor permission required. A seminar for advanced undergraduate students exploring different areas of clinical psychology. This course will provide you with a broad overview of the endeavors of clinical psychology, as well as discussion of its current social context, goals, and limitations.
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Usha Barahmand
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Irit Felsen
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CLINICAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
Prerequisites: an introductory course in neuroscience, like PSYC UN1010 or PSYC UN2450, and the instructor's permission. Analysis of the assessment of physical and psychiatric diseases impacting the central nervous system, with emphasis on the relationship between neuropathology and cognitive and behavioral deficits.
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Instructor:
E'Mett McCaskill
CULPA: 38
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Psychology/Neuroscience Senior Thesis Ad
Advanced Research Seminar
The seminar component of the Psych/Neuro Senior Thesis Advanced Research program. Students admitted to the research program should plan to take this seminar in the spring of their junior year and in the fall and spring semesters of their senior year. Students are expected to be working in a lab as part of their participation in this program. In addition to supporting students throughout their independent research project, this seminar will introduce students to some of the big questions in the field through its connection with the Psychology Department Colloquium and will train students in reading and evaluating scientific research and communicating their own research findings.
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alfredo Spagna
CULPA: 3
h-index: 15
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Instructor:
Lila Davachi
CULPA: 1 h-index: 59 Info - 1-3 points
SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH
1-4 points. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Except by special permission of the director of undergraduate studies, no more than 4 points of individual research may be taken in any one term. This includes both PSYC UN3950 and PSYC UN3920. No more than 8 points ofPSYC UN3950 may be applied toward the psychology major, and no more than 4 points toward the concentration. Readings, special laboratory projects, reports, and special seminars on contemporary issues in psychological research and theory.
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Dima Amso
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Christopher Baldassano
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Niall Bolger
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Lila Davachi
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Instructor:
Geraldine Downey
CULPA: 9
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Katherine T Fox-Glassman
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Jon B Freeman
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Carl Hart
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Tory Higgins
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Sheena Iyengar
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Nikolaus Kriegeskorte
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Patricia G Lindemann
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Bianca J Marlin
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Janet Metcalfe
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Michael W Morris
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Kevin Ochsner
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Valerie J Purdie-Greenaway
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Daphna Shohamy
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Rae Silver
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Larisa H Solomon
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Alfredo Spagna
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Yaakov Stern
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Herbert S Terrace
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Nim L Tottenham
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Sarah Woolley
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Sarah Demoya
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John N Thorp
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Nora Isacoff
CULPA: 1 Info - 0-4 points
Theories of Change in Human Development
Theories of Change-Human
What are the agents of developmental change in human childhood? How has the scientific community graduated from nature versus nurture, to nature
and
nurture? This course offers students an in-depth analysis of the fundamental theories in the study of cognitive and social development.
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Instructor:
Dima Amso
CULPA: 1 h-index: 31 Info - 4 points
Consciousness and Cognitive Science
Consciousness & Cognitive
Our human experience is rich: the thrill of falling in love, the spark of a new idea, the zing of table salt, the sharpness of pain. For thousands of years, philosophers, artists, and religious scholars have tried to explain our subjective experience. More recently, neuroscientists and artificial intelligence experts have contributed to this discussion, weighing in on whether we are “more than meat” (as Descartes famously put it), and whether computers can ever be sentient. In this class, we will begin with the big questions and an interdisciplinary overview of consciousness, then delve into psychology’s role. Using literature from perception, memory, emotion, metacognition, attention, and symbolic development, among other areas of psychology, we will see what empirical evidence can tell us about who we are, what we are able to know, and why we even have an experience of the world at all.
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Instructor:
Nora Isacoff
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
Evolution of Language (seminar)
EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE
This seminar will consider the evolution of language at the levels of the word and grammar, in each instance, phylogenetically and ontogenetically. Since humans are the only species that use language, attention will be paid to how language differs from animal communication.
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Instructor:
Herbert S Terrace
CULPA: 29 Wikipedia Info - 3 points
AUDITORY PERCEPTION
Prerequisites: PSYC UN1010 PSYC UN1010 or equivalent; background in statistics/research methods recommended How does the human brain make sense of the acoustic world? What aspects of auditory perception do humans share with other animals? How does the brain perform the computations necessary for skills such as soundlocalization? How do we focus our auditory attention on one voice in a crowd? What acoustic cues are important for speech perception? How is music perceived? These are the types of questions we will address by studyingthe basics of auditory perception from textbook readings and reviews, and reading classic and current literatureto understand scientific progress in the field today.
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Instructor:
Sarah Woolley
CULPA: 13 Wikipedia h-index: 31 Info - 3 points
COGNITIVE PROCESSES
Prerequisites: For undergraduates: one course in cognitive psychology or cognitive neuroscience, or the equivalent, and the instructors permission. Metacognition and control processes in human cognition. Basic issues include the cognitive mechanisms that enable people to monitor what they know and predict what they will know, the errors and biases involved in self-monitoring, and the implications of metacognitive ability for peoples self-determined learning, behavior, and their understanding of self.
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Instructor:
Janet Metcalfe
CULPA: 31 h-index: 70 Info - 3 points
Psychology of Procrastination
Why do we put off things until later—even things we know are important; even in cases where we know the cost of delaying; even when doing the work more gradually over time would be less unpleasant; even sometimes on tasks we anticipate enjoying? Everyone procrastinates sometimes, but why do some people seem to procrastinate a lot while others don’t have much of an issue with task delaying? This course reviews current research on selected cognitive and motivational theories of procrastination, as well as interaction of task delay with mental health and neurodiversity. We will close with an examination of some potential interventions that may help people reduce or avoid procrastination, both at the individual level and in academic settings such as course design.
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Instructor:
Katherine T Fox-Glassman
CULPA: 6
h-index: 4
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CORE KNOWLEDGE
Prerequisites: For undergraduates: courses in introductory psychology, cognitive or developmental psychology, and the instructors permission. Core Knowledge explores the origins and development of knowledge in infants and children, with an additional emphasis on evolutionary cognition. In this course, we will examine evidence from cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, comparative psychology, neuroscience, and linguistics to look at the childs conception of objects, number, space, language, agency, morality and the social world. We will look at which aspects of knowledge are uniquely human, which are shared with other animals, and how this knowledge changes as children develop.
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Instructor:
Koleen McCrink
CULPA: 6
h-index: 17
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The Psychology of Curiosity
PSYCH OF CURIOSITY
Prerequisites: PSYC UN1001 or equivalent introductory psychology course What is curiosity and how do we study it? How does curiosity facilitate learning? This course will explore the various conceptual and methodological approaches to studying curiosity and curiosity-driven learning, including animal and human studies of brain and behavior.
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Instructor:
Janet Metcalfe
CULPA: 31 h-index: 70 Info - 4 points
TOPICS-NEUROBIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR
Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Examines current topics in neurobiology and behavior.
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Instructor:
Carl Hart
CULPA: 43 Wikipedia h-index: 54 Info - 3 points
Neuroscience of Imagination
Visual Mental Imagery (VMI) is perceptual processing in the absence of direct sensory input – a quintessentially human faculty. It is our “Mind’s Eye” - the faculty we use to relive our memories, enjoy a novel, create a painting, or predict whether our car will fit in a parking spot. As William Blake famously stated: “The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself”. In short, VMI simulates the content of perceptual experiences, perhaps by translating conceptual knowledge into a visual format. Nobody has yet provided a convincing theory as to how to explain the subjective nature of our mental lives in objective physical terms. In this seminar, we will get a detailed understanding of the underlying neural processes responsible for conscious processing and awareness - one of the hottest topics in contemporary neuroscience
Discussion will be related of current issues in the scientific studies of mental imagery, particularly in the visual modality, including the search for the neural correlates of visual imagination, and the various kinds of impairments of VMI in clinical and non-clinical cases.
A crucial aspect of this seminar is to help students develop their ability to critically read and evaluate the latest published research in this field.
Prerequisites
Open to Ph.D. students in the Psychology department and graduate students in other related departments, with instructor’s permission. Open to advanced undergraduate students who have taken an introductory course in neuroscience or cognitive psychology (e.g., UN2430), with instructor’s permission
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Instructor:
Alfredo Spagna
CULPA: 3
h-index: 15
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PSYCHOBIOLOGY OF INFANT DEVPT
Prerequisites: (PSYC UN1001 or PSYC UN1010) and a course in developmental psychology, and the instructors permission. The focus of the seminar is on human development during the fetal period and early infancy. We will examine the effects of environmental factors on perinatal perceptual, cognitive, sensory-motor, and neurobehavioral capacities, with emphasis on critical conditions involved in both normal and abnormal brain development. Other topics include acute and long term effects of toxic exposures (stress, smoking, and alcohol) during pregnancy, and interaction of genes and the environment in shaping the developing brain of high-risk infants, including premature infants and those at risk for neurodevelopmental disorders such as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
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Neural Plasticity
This seminar provides an overview of the mechanisms and behaviors associated with neural plasticity. Students will obtain a basic working knowledge of the different types of neural plasticity, and how these affect cognition and behaviors.
Emotional Brain Development
There is nothing more important to us than the feelings that we have. But where do our emotions come from and why do we sometimes feel differently from our peers? The reason usually involves an understanding of one’s developmental history. This course uses a developmental approach to address emotional brain-behavior relationships. We will discuss theoretical papers and empirical work that covers typical and atypical behavior and the neurobiology that supports behavioral change across age. A translational approach is taken that uses animal models and human examples to illustrate these developmental trajectories. We will cover experimental approaches during discussion of each topic.
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Instructor:
Nim L Tottenham
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Stress and the Brain
This course will use clinical studies and experimental research on animals to understand the impact of stress during various periods of development on brain function and behavior. We will address the long- and short-term consequences of stress on cognition, emotion, and ultimately psychopathology through investigating how various stressors can induce neurobiological and behavioral outcomes through genetic, epigenetic, and molecular mechanisms in the brain.
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Instructor:
Jennifer Blaze
Info - 4 points
Frontiers of Justice
Frontiers of Justice is designed to encourage students and equip them with the skills to become active and effective “Change Agents” within their academic institutions and larger communities.. Oriented by the question,
What does justice look like?
, this course aims to raise political and social awareness and engagement with the challenges facing New York City and strengthen ties between Columbia University, disadvantaged communities, and city government agencies and community organizations. Through sharing ideas about how to make structural and systemic change in ways that integrate science, law, politics, history, narrative and community engagement, the course is intended to support students in working to break down racial and ethnic barriers and toward a more fair and just society.
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Peter Dixon
Info - 4 points
PSYCH OF CULTURE & DIVERSITY
Prerequisites: the instructors permission; some basic knowledge of social psychology is desirable. A comprehensive examination of how culture and diversity shape psychological processes. The class will explore psychological and political underpinnings of culture and diversity, emphasizing social psychological approaches. Topics include culture and self, cuture and social cognition, group and identity formation, science of diversity, stereotyping, prejudice, and gender. Applications to real-world phenomena discussed.
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Instructor:
Valerie J Purdie-Greenaway
Wikipedia h-index: 29 Info - 4 points
ADV SEM CURRENT PERS THRY
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Instructor:
Svetlana Komissarouk
CULPA: 3
h-index: 3
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SOCIAL COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
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Instructor:
Kevin Ochsner
CULPA: 12 h-index: 86 Info - 3 points
Machine Intelligence
This seminar will survey historical and modern developments in machine intelligence from fields such as psychology, neuroscience, and computer science, and from approaches such as cybernetics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, connectionism, neural networks, and deep learning. The emphasis is on the conceptual understanding of topics. The course does not include, nor require a background in, computer programming and statistics. The overall goal is for students to become informed consumers of applications of artificial intelligence.
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Instructor:
Trenton Jerde
h-index: 11 Info - 4 points
Philanthropy & Just Societies
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Philanthropy & Just Societies
will enable Columbia undergraduate students to learn about the history of philanthropy, to understand best practices and ethical underpinnings, to debate its potential in making more just societies, and to consider what it means to give and receive aid at different scales. Students will have the opportunity to participate directly in philanthropic work.
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COMMUNICATING SCIENCE
Prerequisites: the instructors permission. How to write about and present scientific information in a clear and interesting way. We will use: 1) individualized writing projects; 2) oral presentations; and 3) concise books on good writing to develop skills for communicating scientific ideas, design, results and theory.
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Instructor:
Sarah Woolley
CULPA: 13 Wikipedia h-index: 31 Info - 3 points
SUPERVISED TEACHING ASSISTANCE
Prerequisites: permission of the faculty member who will direct the teaching. Participation in ongoing teaching.
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Instructor:
Katherine T Fox-Glassman
CULPA: 6
h-index: 4
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SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH
Prerequisites: permission of the departmental adviser to Graduate Studies.
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Instructor:
Niall Bolger
CULPA: 4 h-index: 55 Info - 1-4 points
Research Seminar in Psychology
Monday seminars are open to the public and take place in Schermerhorn Hall on alternate Mondays in room 200B Schermerhorn from 12:10-1:30pm. The seminar series semester schedule can be found
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Instructor:
Niall Bolger
CULPA: 4 h-index: 55 Info - 0 points
DEPARTMENTAL COLLOQUIUM
Members of the staff, graduate students, and outside speakers present current research.
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Instructor:
Niall Bolger
CULPA: 4 h-index: 55 Info - 0 points