The readings listed below are the foundation of this course. Where available, journal article abstracts from
PubMed (an online database providing access to citations from biomedical literature) are included.
Text
Reisberg, D. Cognition: Exploring the Science of the Mind. 2nd ed. New York: Norton, 2001.
Other Readings
Introduction: How We Read
Chap. 1
The Brain
Chap. 2
Object Recognition
Chap. 3
Attention I
Chap. 4
Attention II
Luck, S. J., E. K. Vogel, and K. L. Shapiro. "Word Meanings Can be Accessed but not Reported During the Attentional Blink." Nature, 383 (October 17, 1996): 616-618.
PubMed abstract: After the detection of a target item in a rapid stream of visual stimuli, there is a period of 400-600 ms during which subsequent targets are missed. This impairment has been labelled the 'attentional blink'. It has been suggested that, unlike an eye blink, the additional blink does not reflect a suppression of perceptual processing, but instead reflects a loss of information at a postperceptual stage, such as visual short-term memory. Here we provide electrophysiological evidence that words presented during the attentional blink period are analysed to the point of meaning extraction, even though these extracted meanings cannot be reported 1-2s later. This shows that the attentional blink does indeed reflect a loss of information at a postperceptual stage of processing, and provides a demonstration of the modularity of human brain function.
Memory I: Working Memory
Chap. 5
Memory III: Implicit Memory
Chap. 6
Memory IV: Remembering and Forgetting
Chap. 7
Memory V: Associative Memory
Chap. 8
Learning
Anderson, J. R. Learning and Memory. 2nd ed. N.Y.: Wiley, 2000.
Chap. 2 and some of 3
Concepts and Prototypes
Chap. 9
Language: Psycholinguistics
Chap. 10
Visual Knowledge
Chap. 11
Mental Codes I
Potter, M. C., and B. A. Faulconer. "Time to Understand Pictures and Words." Nature, 253 (1975): 437-438.
Judgment
Chap. 12
Reasoning
Chap. 13
Solving Problems
Chap. 14
Conscious and Unconscious Thought
Chap. 15