http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/33979 Brain and Cognitive Sciences (9) 2013-05-20T06:07:55Z http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76770 9.00P Introduction to Psychology, Fall 2001 Pinker, Steven A first course in psychology: how we think, see, feel, learn, talk, act, grow, fear, like, love, hate, lust, and interact. The great controversies: nature and nurture, free will, consciousness, human differences, self and society. Largely experimental and social psychology, with relevant ideas from biology, philosophy, linguistics, economics, anthropology, and the arts. 2001-12-01T05:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/58674 9.63 Laboratory in Cognitive Science, Fall 2005 Oliva, Aude 9.63 teaches principles of experimental methods in human perception and cognition, including design and statistical analysis. The course combines lectures and hands-on experimental exercises and requires an independent experimental project. Some experience in programming is desirable. To foster improved writing and presentation skills in conducting and critiquing research in cognitive science, students are required to provide reports and give oral presentations of three team experiments. A fourth individually conducted experiment includes a proposal with revision, and concluding written and oral reports. 2005-12-01T05:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/58671 9.14 Brain Structure and its Origins, Spring 2005 Schneider, Gerald This course covers major CNS structures with emphasis on systems being used as models for experimental studies of development and plasticity. Topics include basic patterns of connections in CNS, embryogenesis, PNS anatomy and development, process outgrowth and synaptogenesis, growth factors and cell survival, spinal and hindbrain anatomy, and development of regional specificity with an introduction to comparative anatomy and CNS evolution. A review of lab techniques (anatomy, tissue culture) is also covered as well as the trigeminal system, retinotectal system development, plasticity, regeneration, neocortex anatomy and development, the olfactory system, corpus striatum, brain transplants, the limbic system and hippocampal anatomy and plasticity. 2005-06-01T04:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/55911 9.68 Affect: Biological, Psychological, and Social Aspects of Feelings, Spring 2005 Chorover, Stephan L.; Ristic, Jovan Affect is to cognition and behavior as feeling is to thinking and acting or as values are to beliefs and practices. Subject considers these relations, both at the psychological level of organization and in terms of their neurobiological and sociocultural counterparts. From the course home page: In this class, diverse aspects of the current scientific paradigm which is based largely on a distrust of emotions is explored as well as other perspectives within a broader human-ecological context. Relevant issues are approached both experientially and theoretically through discussions in class and in study groups, and through field trips and assigned readings. 2005-06-01T04:00:00Z