An introduction to the history of neuroscience as a work in progress, from prehistory to antiquity to phrenology and the 19th century to present times.
Pinel, J. P., & Barnes, S. (2021). Biopsychology. → Chapter
1. Biopsychology as a Neuroscience.
Feinberg, T. E., & Farah, M. J. (2005). A Historical
Perspective on Cognitive Neuroscience. In M. J. Farah & T. E.
Feinberg (Eds.), Patient-based approaches to cognitive neuroscience
(pp. 3–20). The MIT Press.
Bear, M., Connors, B., & Paradiso, M. A. (2016).
Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain. → Chapter 7. The structure of the
Nervous system, only sections between.
Bangalore, L. (2007). Brain development. Infobase Publishing. →
Chapter 3. Neurogenesis: Birth, Migration, and Differentiation of
Neurons.
Pinel, J. P., & Barnes, S. (2021). Biopsychology.
Pearson.Chapter 3. Anatomy of the Nervous system (only Anatomy of the
Central Nervous system section).
Bear, M., Connors, B., & Paradiso, M. A. (2016).
Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain. → Chapter 7 Appendix. An Illustrated
Guide to Human Neuroanatomy.
Bear, M., Connors, B., & Paradiso, M. A. (2016). Neuroscience:
Exploring the Brain. → Chapter 11. The Auditory and Vestibular
Systems.
Optional reading:
Sutter, M.L. & Shamma, S.A. (2011). The Relationship of Auditory
Cortical Activity to Perception and Behavior. In Winer, J.A., Schreiner,
C.E. (Eds.), The auditory cortex (pp. 617–641). Springer.
Week 11: Movement, motor control and motor learning
Keywords: motor neuron, basal ganglia, cerebellum, motor cortex,
motor command, forward models, efference copies, sensory-motor
interactions, motor learning, cerebellar degeneration
Required reading:
Bear, M., Connors, B., & Paradiso, M. A. (2016). Neuroscience:
Exploring the Brain. → Chapter 14. Brain Control of Movement.
Noppeney, U. (2020). Multisensory Perception: Behavior,
Computations, and Neural Mechanisms. In Poeppel, D., Mangun, G.R. &
Gazzaniga, M.S. (Eds.), The Cognitive Neurosciences (pp. 141–149). The
MIT Press.
Purves, D., …, & White, L. (2018). Neuroscience. → Chapter 28.
Cortical States.
Optional reading:
Massimini, M. (2014). Toward an Objective Index of Consciousness. In
Gazzaniga, M.S. & Mangun, G.R. (Eds.), The Cognitive Neurosciences
(pp. 801–809). The MIT Press.
Week 15: An introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience and methods
Keywords: brain lesions, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), transcranial electrical stimulation (tES), Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
Required reading:
Ward, J. (2020). The student’s guide to Cognitive Neuroscience. → Chapter 5. The lesioned brain and stimulated brain (pp. 87–101).
Optional reading:
Adolphs, R. (2016). Human Lesion Studies in the 21st Century. Neuron, 90(6), 1151–1153.
Joutsa, J., Lipsman, N., Horn, A., Cosgrove, G. R., & Fox, M. D. (2023). The return of the lesion for localization and therapy. Brain, 146(8), 3146–3155.
Kolb, B. (2022). Brenda Milner: Pioneer of the Study of the Human Frontal Lobes. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 15.
Graham, L., … & Stuart, S. (2022). The Eyes as a Window to the Brain and Mind. In Stuart, S. (Editor), Eye Tracking Background, Methods, and Applications (pp. 1–14). Humana Press.
Optional reading:
Carter, B. T., & Luke, S. G. (2020). Best practices in eye tracking research. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 155, 49–62.
Graham, L., … & Stuart, S. (2022). A Brief History of Eye Movement Research. In Stuart, S. (Editor), Eye Tracking Background, Methods, and Applications (pp. 15–29). Humana Press.
Keywords: skin conductance response, heart rate variability, electromyograpy, vagal tone
Required reading:
Levinson, A., & Hajcak, G. (2020). Peripheral Psychophysiology. The Cambridge Handbook of Research Methods in Clinical Psychology, 118–135.
Optional reading:
Tassinary, L. G., Hess, U., & Carcoba, L. M. (2012). Peripheral physiological measures of psychological constructs. In H. Cooper, P. M. Camic, D. L. Long, A. T. Panter, D. Rindskopf, & K. J. Sher (Eds.), APA handbook of research methods in psychology, Vol. 1. Foundations, planning, measures, and psychometrics (pp. 461–488). American Psychological Association.
Keywords: aphasia, semantic memory, language comprehension, language production, transfer abilities
Required reading:
Ward, J. (2020). The student’s guide to Cognitive Neuroscience. → Chapter 12. The speaking brain.
Optional reading:
Fedorenko, E., Hsieh, P.-J., Nieto-Castañón, A., Whitfield-Gabrieli, S., & Kanwisher, N. (2010). New Method for fMRI Investigations of Language: Defining ROIs Functionally in Individual Subjects. Journal of Neurophysiology, 104(2), 1177–1194.
Fedorenko, E., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2014). Reworking the language network. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 18(3), 120–126.
Week 22: Cognitive mechanisms of reading and writing
Ward, J. (2020). The student’s guide to Cognitive Neuroscience. → Chapter 13. The literate brain.
Optional reading:
Chakravarthi, R., Nordqvist, A., Poncet, M., & Adamian, N. (2023). Fundamental units of numerosity estimation. Cognition, 239, 105565.
Chung, P. J., Patel, D. R., & Nizami, I. (2020). Disorder of written expression and dysgraphia: definition, diagnosis, and management. Translational Pediatrics, 9(S1),
Hulme, C., & Snowling, M. J. (2016). Reading disorders and dyslexia. Current Opinion in Pediatrics, 28(6), 731–735.
Rapin, I. (2016). Dyscalculia and the Calculating Brain. Pediatric Neurology, 61, 11–20.
Keywords: the social brain, modularity, domain specificity, autism, psychopathy
Required reading:
Ward, J. (2017). The Student’s Guide to Social Neuroscience. → Chapter 1. Introduction to social neuroscience.
Optional reading:
Kilford, E.J. & Blakemore, S.-J. (2020). Social cognition and social brain development in adolescence. In Poeppel, D., Mangun, G.R. & Gazzaniga, M.S. (Eds.), The Cognitive Neurosciences (pp. 37–46). The MIT Press.
Ward, J. (2017). The Student’s Guide to Social Neuroscience. → Chapter 2. The methods of social neuroscience.
Wheatley, T. & Boncz, A. (2020). Interpersonal Neuroscience. In Poeppel, D., Mangun, G.R. & Gazzaniga, M.S. (Eds.), The Cognitive Neurosciences (pp. 987–995). The MIT Press.
Keywords: salience, covert and over orienting, exogenous and endogenous orienting, visual search, hemispatial neglect
Required reading:
Ward, J. (2020). The student’s guide to Cognitive Neuroscience. → Chapter 9. The attending brain
Optional reading:
Corbetta, M., & Shulman, G. L. (2002). Control of goal-directed and stimulus-driven attention in the brain. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 3(3), 201–215.
Keywords: precision psychiatry, machine learning, prediction, big data
Required reading:
Slides only
Optional reading:
Fernandes, B. S., Williams, L. M., Steiner, J., Leboyer, M., Carvalho, A. F., & Berk, M. (2017). The new field of ‘precision psychiatry.’ BMC Medicine, 15(1).
Huys, Q. J. M., Maia, T. V., & Frank, M. J. (2016). Computational psychiatry as a bridge from neuroscience to clinical applications. Nature Neuroscience, 19(3), 404–413.
Kriegeskorte, N., & Douglas, P. K. (2018). Cognitive computational neuroscience. Nature Neuroscience, 21(9), 1148–1160.