Topics in Cognitive Neuroscience
| Numbering Code | G-LAS10 80009 LE63 | Year/Term | 2022 ・ Second semester | |
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| Number of Credits | 2 | Course Type | Lecture | |
| Target Year | Graduate students | Target Student | For liberal arts students | |
| Language | English | Day/Period | Tue.1 | |
| Instructor name | SEKIYAMA KAORU (Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability Professor) | |||
| Outline and Purpose of the Course | 「This course introduces objective/empirical methods for understanding human mind (or cognition), by using psychological behavioral data together with brain activity data in cognitive neuroscience. To do so, we will examine several phenomena such as recognition of one’s own body, speech perception by face and voice, and working memory. In the examination, we will see connection between cognition and action (or body), and its plasticity as well as developmental and aging-related changes. | |||
| Course Goals |
-Understand the objective/empirical methods to investigate cognitive function -Understand the plastic and developmental aspects of mind, which is useful to deal with people in different ages and backgrounds |
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| Schedule and Contents |
1. Adaptive mind: Seeing and brain function 2. Experimenting body recognition (1) 3. Experimenting body recognition (2) 4. Body schema and its development 5. Development of brain and cognition 6. On experiments with reversing prisms 7. Brain imaging of cognition 8. Hearing sound and speech 9. Auditory-visual (AV) speech perception 10. Neural basis of interlanguage differences in AV speech perception 11. Processes of memory 12. Memory and brain 13. Cognitive aging 14. Lifestyles to protect our brain from aging 15. Summary and final remarks (The contents is subject to change.) |
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| Evaluation Methods and Policy | Evaluated by class participation (20%), and midterm (40%) and final (40%) reports. | |||
| Course Requirements |
Previous experience of basic psychological methods is desirable but not required. You will be asked to bring a laptop computer for an experiment. |
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| Study outside of Class (preparation and review) | Expected to read introduced literature in advance and related literatures afterwards. | |||
| Textbooks | Textbooks/References | Handout will be given. | ||
| References, etc. | Specified in the classroom. | |||
