Temary

This course offers an overview of Cognitive Psychology, the basics of main cognitive processes and the neural correlates of these processes.

It is oriented to psychologists, biologists and psycholinguists interested in understanding the neural mechanisms underlying cognition. Language, attention, perception, emotion, learning and memory, will be the highlighted topics to be discussed within this course. Students will have an introduction to different methodological approaches applied in research about cognition such as behavioral, electrophysiological and neuroimaging methods. Through the analysis and discussion of previous empirical evidence, students will learn how these processes operate in the brain, as well as how it is possible to experimentally assess these processes in healthy and pathological human subjects.

Bibliography

Compulsory materials

There is no textbook for this class but the following manual can be used as a guide:

Goldstein, E. B. (2008, 2011). Cognitive Psychology. Wadsworth, USA.

A list of readings selected from scholarly articles and book chapters will be provided as well at the beginning of the course.

Basic bibliography

Anderson, J. R. (1995). Learning and Memory: An integrated approach. New York: John Wiley & Sons.

Anderson, M. C., & Neely, J. H. (1996). Interference and inhibition in memory retrieval. In E. L. Bjork, & R. A. Bjork (Eds.), Handbook of perception and memory, Vol. 10: Memory (pp. 237-313). San Diego: Academic Press.

Craik, F. I. M., & Tulving, E. (1975). Depth of processing and the retention of words in

episodic memory. J Exp Psychol Gen, 104, 268-294.

Cowan, N. (2005). Working memory capacity. New York: Psychology Press.

Craik, F. I. M., & Tulving, E. (1975). Depth of processing and the retention of words in

episodic memory. J Exp Psychol Gen, 104, 268-294.

Cowan, N. (2005). Working memory capacity. New York: Psychology Press.

Crowder, R. G. (1976). Principles of Learning and Memory. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Dosher, B. A. (1979). Empirical approaches to information processing: Speed-accuracy tradeoff functions or reaction time. Acta Psychologica, 43, 347-359.

Lachman, R., Lachman, J. L., & Butterfield, E. C. (1979). Cognitive Psychology and information processing: An introduction. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Macmillan, N. A., & Creelman, C. D. (2005). Detection Theory: A User's Guide (2nd ed.). Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Murphy, G. L. (2002). The big book of concepts. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Rayner, K., & Pollatsek, A. (1989). The psychology of reading. New York: Prentice-Hall.

Shipley, T. (1961) Classics in Psychology. New York: Philosophical Library.

Styles, E. A. (2005). Attention, Perception, and Memory: An integrated introduction. New York: Psychology Press.

Tulving, E. (1972). Episodic and semantic memory. In E. Tulving & W. Donaldson (Eds.), Organization of Memory (pp. 382-402). New York, NY: Academic Press, Inc.

Tulving, E., & Thomson, D. M. (1973). Encoding specificity and retrieval processes in episodic memory. Psychological Review, 80(5), 352-373.