FUNDAMENTALS OF COGNITION
PSY 387R (43845)
Spring 2007
SEA 2.108
Instructor
Dr. Randy Diehl
Office: SEA 4.312B
Phone: 475-7595
Office hours: 1:30-2:30 MW
January 17
I. Historical and conceptual background of cognitive psychology
Watson, J.B. (1913). Psychology as the behaviorist views it. Psych. Rev., 20,
158-177.
Miller, G.A. (1953). What is information measurement? The American
Psychologist, 8, 3-11.
Miller, G.A. (1956). The magical number seven, plus or minus two: Some limits
on our capacity for processing information. Psych. Rev., 63, 81-97.
Chomsky, N. (1959). Review of Verbal behavior. Language, 35, 26-58.
February 21: First Exam handed out; due February 23.
February 23
II. Visual processing and pattern recognition
Farah, M. (1995). Dissociable systems for recognition: A cognitive
neuropsychological approach. In S.M. Kosslyn & D.N. Osherson (Eds.),
An invitation to cognitive science: Visual cognition , Vol. 2 (101-120).
Biederman, I. (1995). Visual object recognition. In S.M. Kosslyn & D.N.
Osherson (Eds.), An invitation to cognitive science: Visual cognition ,
Vol. 2 (121-166).
Spelke, E.S., Gutheil, G., Van de Walle, G. (1995). The development of object
perception. In S.M. Kosslyn & D.N. Osherson (Eds.), An invitation to
cognitive science: Visual cognition , Vol. 2 (297-330). (Recommended).
March 5
III. Imagery
Kosslyn, S.M. (1995). Mental imagery. In S.M. Kosslyn & D.N. Osherson (Eds.),
An invitation to cognitive science: Visual cognition , Vol. 2 (267-296).
March 19
IV. Attention and automaticity
Schneider, W., Dumais, S.T., & Shiffrin, R.M. (1984). Automatic and control
processing and attention. In R. Parasuraman, & D.R. Davies (Eds.),
Varieties of attention (pp. 1-27). Orlando: Academic.
Pashler, H. (1995). Attention and visual perception: Analyzing divided attention.
In S.M. Kosslyn & D.N. Osherson (Eds.), An invitation to cognitive
science: Visual cognition , Vol. 2 (1-70).
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March 23
V. Memory (short-term)
Jonides, J. (1995). Working memory and thinking. In Smith, E.E. & Osherson,
An invitation to cognitive science: Thinking , Vol. 3 (215-265).
March 30: Second Exam handed out; due April 2.
April 2
VI. Memory (long-term)
Schacter, D.L. (1989). Memory. In M.I. Posner (Ed.), Foundations of
cognitive science (pp. 683-726). Cambridge, MA: MIT.
April 9
VII. Categorization
Rosch, E. (1977). Classification of real-world objects: Origins and
representations in cognition. In P.N. Johnson-Laird & P.C. Wason (Eds.),
Thinking: Readings in cognitive science (pp. 212-222). Cambridge:
Cambridge Univ. Press.
Medin, D.L., & Wattenmaker, W.D. (1987). Category cohesiveness, theories and
cognitive archeology. In U. Neisser (Ed.), Concepts and conceptual
development: Ecological and intellectual factors in categorization (pp. 2562). Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.
Smith, E.E. (1995). Concepts and categorization. In Smith, E.E. & Osherson,
An invitation to cognitive science: Thinking , Vol. 3 (3-34).
April 16
VIII. Judgment and reasoning
Osherson, D.N. (1995). Probability judgment. In Smith, E.E. & Osherson,
An invitation to cognitive science: Thinking , Vol. 3 (35-76).
Shafir, E. & Tversky, A. (1995). Decision making. In Smith, E.E. & Osherson,
An invitation to cognitive science: Thinking , Vol. 3 (77-100).
Holyoak, K.J. (1995). Problem solving. In Smith, E.E. & Osherson,
An invitation to cognitive science: Thinking , Vol. 3 (267-296).
Rips, L. (1995). Deduction and cognition. In Smith, E.E. & Osherson,
An invitation to cognitive science: Thinking , Vol. 3 (297-344).
Cosmides, L. (1989). The logic of social exchange: Has natural selection shaped
how humans reason? Studies with the Wason selection task. Cognition,
31, 187-276.
Gigerenzer, G. (1991). How to make cognitive illusions disappear:
Beyond heuristics and biases. European Review of Social Psychology,
2, 83-115.
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April 23
IX. Artificial intelligence and connectionism
Turing, A.M. (1963). Computing machinery and intelligence. In E. Feigenbaum
& J. Feldman (Eds.), Computers and thought (pp. 11-35). New York:
McGraw-Hill. (Originally published in Mind, 1950, 59, 433-460.)
Winograd, T. (1973). A procedural model of language understanding. In R.
Schank & K. Colby (Eds.), Computer models of thought and language (pp.
152-186). San Francisco: Freeman.
Dreyfus, H.L. (1981). From micro-worlds to knowledge representation: AI at an
impasse. In J. Haugeland (Ed.), Mind design: Philosophy, psychology,
artificial intelligence (pp. 161-204). Montgomery, VT: Bradford.
Artificial intelligence and connectionism (cont.)
Searle, J.R. (1981). Minds, brains, and programs. In J.Haugeland (Ed.), Mind
design: Philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence (pp. 282-306).
Montgomery, VT: Bradford.
McClelland, J.L., Rumelhart, D.E., Hinton, G.E. (1988). The appeal of parallel
distributed processing. In D.E. Rumelhart, J.L. McClelland, and the PDP
research group (Eds.), Parallel distributed processing. Explorations in the
microstructure of cognition, Vol. 1: Foundations (pp. 3-44). Cambridge,
MA: MIT.
May 4: Third Exam handed out; due May 7.
Textbooks:
Kosslyn, S.M. & Osherson, D.N. (Eds.) (1995), An invitation to cognitive
science: Visual cognition. Vol. 2.
Smith, E.E. & Osherson, D.N. (Eds.) (1995), An invitation to cognitive science:
Thinking. Vol. 3.
Photocopies of all other readings are available at University Duplicating, WEL 2.228,
471-1657.
Course grades will be determined by performance on the three exams, all equally
weighted. Exams are to be e-mailed to the instructor as an attachment by 11 a.m. on the
due date. Include the entire exam as a single attachment. Label attachment with your
first and last name and the exam number.