Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Cognitive
Science
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
Cognitive Science 200: The Two
Sides of Perception
Fall 2006
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Cognitive Science 200 is an interdisciplinary seminar of
changing topics, and is used as a mechanism for
Ph.D. students in the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program and in
the Cognitive Science Department to achieve breadth.
This quarter, the topic is hemispheric asymmetries in the
brain. We are using Ivry and Robertson's book, "The Two Sides of Perception,"
as a way to organize our thinking around this topic.
The goal of the course is
to learn
more about the functional differences between the
hemispheres, how
they specialize, what the causes of these differences may
be.
Ivry & Robertson's book
proposes a
particular
theory of hemispheric processing, the Double Filtering by
Frequency (DFF) theory.
We will have speakers that are supportive and critical of
the
hypothesis, some with hypotheses (and models!) of their own. One of the
authors of the book, Lynn
Robertson will speak on October 23rd. This is a
confusing area, and we hope that this quarter will shed
some light on it!
The room for Cogsci 200 is Cognitive Science Building
180. The meeting times are 2-2:50PM for registered
students, and 3:00-4:30PM for the lectures (to which the
UCSD Cognitive Science community is invited). This will be
followed by a wine & cheese from 4:30-5:30, sponsored by me
(Gary Cottrell).
The first meeting is Monday, September 25th and the
last meeting will be November 27, 2006.
The graduate student section from 2-2:50 will involve the
professor using the dreaded index card method: students will
be asked questions about the papers that are intended to
generate some discussion and understanding of the
material. Students are therefore expected to have done the
reading before class. The method involves index cards with
every student's name on them. These are shuffled at the
beginning of class, and then students are asked questions in
order of their appearance on the card. The first question is
almost always, "What is the point of this paper?", and is
often asked several times until we converge on one or more
main themes of the paper.
The requirements for the class are: 1) reading
the assigned papers; 2) being able to answer questions about
them in discussion section; 3) asking the speaker a question
about 20% of the time (I'll be keeping track! I.e., you need to ask 2
questions all quarter) and 4) writing an
approximately 10 page paper on some topic of interest from
the course, that could be critical of the hemispheric
asymmetry hypotheses put forward during the course, in favor
of them, etc. Or, you could write a proposal for a research project on the subject of
the
seminar. It should be specific enough that there
are clear criteria for success or failure. It should certainly
address the issue of hemispheric asymmetry.
DATE |
PRESENTER |
PAPER
|
SLIDES |
September 25th |
Janet Hsiao, UCSD |
Chapter 1 of TTSOP and other sources |
Janet's slides |
October 2 |
David Peterzell, UCSD
|
Sergent, J. (1982) The cerebral balance of power:
Confrontation or cooperation? JEP:HPP 8(2):253-272
Peterzell,D.H. and Harvery, L.O. (1989) Spatial frequencies
and the cerebral hemispheres: Contrast sensitivity, visible
persistence, and letter classification Perception &
Psychophysics 46(5):443-455
Chapter 2 of TTSOP
David's Challenge to I&R
|
David's slides
|
October 9 |
Seana Coulson, UCSD
|
Seana Coulson and Ying Choon Wu (2005) Right Hemisphere
Activation of Joke-related Information:
An Event-related Brain Potential Study
J. Cog. Neuro 17(3):494-506
Coulson, S. & Williams, R.F. (2004) Hemispheric asymmetries and joke comprehension
Neuropsychologia43128-141
Chapter 2 of TTSOP (again!)
|
Seana's slides |
October 16 |
Janet Hsiao, UCSD
|
Hsiao, J. and Shillcock, R. (2005) Differences in split and
nonsplit architectures emerge from modelling Chinese character pronunciation
Proceedings of the 2005 Cognitive Science Society Meeting989-994
Hsiao, J. and Shillcock, R. (2006) Hemispheric differences
emerge from perceptual learning: Evidence from
modeling Chinese character pronunciation.
Proceedings of the 2006 Cognitive Science Society
Meeting
Chapter 7 of TTSOP.
|
Janet's slides
|
October 23 |
Lynn Roberston, UC Berkeley
|
Chapter 3 of TTSOP
Lynn and Rich's response to David's Challenge
|
Lynn's slides
|
October 30 |
Gary Cottrell
|
Dailey, Matthew N. and Cottrell, Garrison W. (1999)
Organization of Face and Object Recognition in Modular
Neural Networks. Neural Networks 12(7-8):1053-1074.
Chapter 3 of TTSOP (again, since many people missed it)
You should also look at Chapter 7 again for comparison
|
Gary's slides
|
November 6 |
Karen Emmorey, SDSU
|
Emmorey, Karen (2002) Sign Language in the Brain. In Emmorey,
Karen, Language, Cognition, and the Brain: Insights from Sign
Language Research.
LEA:Mahwah
Chapter 6 of TTSOP
|
Karen's slides
|
November 13 |
Chuansheng Chen, UC Irvine
|
Chuansheng Chen, Gui Xue, Qi Dong, Zhen Jin, Tian Li, Feng
Xue, Libo Zhao and Yi Guo (in press) Sex determines the
neurofunctional predictors of visual word learning. To
appear in Neuropsychologia
Chapter 6 of TTSOP again!
|
Chuansheng's slides
|
November 20 |
Mark Jung-Beeman, Northwestern
|
Required reading:
Mark Jung-Beeman (2005) Bilateral brain processes for
comprehending natural language TICS 9(11):512-518
Virtue, Sandra, Haberman, Jason, Clancy, Zoe, Parrish, Todd
and Mark Jung Beeman (2006)
Neural activity of inferences during story
comprehension. Brain Research 1084:104-114
Supplementary reading:
Mark Jung-Beeman, Edward M. Bowden, Jason Haberman, Jennifer L. Frymiare, Stella Arambel-Liu,
Richard Greenblatt, Paul J. Reber and John Kounios (2004)
Neural Activity When People Solve
Verbal Problems with Insight PLoS BIOLOGY 2(4):500-510.
John Kounios, Jennifer L. Frymiare, Edward M. Bowden, Jessica I. Fleck, Karuna Subramaniam,
Todd B. Parrish, and Mark Jung-Beeman (2006) The Prepared Mind:
Neural Activity Prior to Problem Presentation Predicts
Subsequent Solution by Sudden Insight. Psych
Science 17(10):882-890.
|
Mark's slides
|
November 27 |
Eran Zaidel, UCLA
|
Weekes, N.Y.,Carusi, D., & E. Zaidel (1997) Interhemispheric relations in hierarchical
perception: A second look. Neuropsychologia 35(1):37-44.
Chapter 4 of TTSOP
For a feeling of accomplishment, you can read the remaining
parts of the book we missed!
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The instructor is Professor
Gary Cottrell, whose office is CSE Building room 4130.
Feel free to send email to
arrange
an appointment, or telephone (858) 534-6640.
REGISTRATION
Students may take the seminar only for four units of S/U credit.
Students should register for COGS 200, section id 571970.
Most recently updated on September 25, 2006 by Gary Cottrell, gary@ucsd.edu