september 8 2010 neuroscience 3680 cognitive neuroscience matthew tata robert sutherland fall 2010
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September 8 2010
Neuroscience 3680 Cognitive Neuroscience
Matthew TataRobert Sutherland
Fall 2010
-Techniques of Cognitive Neuroscience-Some functional anatomy
-Vision-Attention -Memory
-Language and Music-Executive Control
-Emotions-Consciousness
Foundations
The Brain in Action
The Plan
•Cognitive Neuroscience, Second or Third Edition by Gazzaniga, Ivry and Mangun
Textbook
•www.uleth.ca -> Class Web Sites -> Neuroscience -> NEUR 3680 click on “A”
•Course outline will be available here
•Lecture slides will be available here
Website
• Class Participation 10%
• Mid-Term 1 20% Tentatively Oct 6; date to be adjusted slightly
• Mid-Term 2 20% Tentatively Nov 3; date to be adjusted slightly
• Final 25% Monday Dec 13, 9:00 to 12:00
• Project 25% Due in last class
Midterms will be in-class, location of final T.B.A.
Evaluation
• Project will be a written research proposal describing a research question, a theory that potentially answers this question and an experiment to test that theory…more details in the coming weeks
Evaluation
Your final Letter grade will be calculated as follows:Percentage Letter Grade90-100 A+84-89 A80-83 A-77-79 B+73-76 B70-72 B-67-69 C+63-66 C60-62 C-55-59 D+50-54 D<50 F
Rounding will be by convention except when we decide otherwise!
Grades
• Matt’s Office hours: immediately after class
• Email: [email protected] or [email protected]• Rules: • 1. No emailing the night before a test• 2. You must try to answer your question on your own first before
emailing me…trust me
Interaction
• TAs:
•Tine Gulbrandsen (tine.gulbrandsen@uleth)
•Wahab Hanif ([email protected])
• email them to make an appointment
Interaction
• Cognition = “Representing”, interpreting, using and storing information by the mind
• Neuroscience = the study of the nervous system
What is Cognitive Neuroscience?
• Cognition = “Representing”, interpreting, using and storing information by the mind
• Neuroscience = the study of the nervous system
• Cognitive Neuroscience = the study of the neurobiology that [“underlies” “creates”
“is” ]cognition
What is Cognitive Neuroscience?
• Cognition = “Representing”, interpreting, using and storing information by the mind
• Neuroscience = the study of the nervous system
• Cognitive Neuroscience = the study of the neurobiology that [“underlies” “creates”
“is” ]cognition
So why isn’t all Neuroscience “Cognitive Neuroscience”?
What is Cognitive Neuroscience?
•Methods of Cognitive Neuroscience•Perception (Mainly Vision)•Attention•Memory•Language and Music•Emotions•Consciousness
Topics we will (try) to cover
• How many of you have heard the statement that you only use 10% of your brain?
Start Thinking Like a Neuroscientist...
• How many of you have heard the statement that you only use 10% of your brain?
• What do you suppose this means? Would that be a bad thing?
Start Thinking Like a Neuroscientist...
• Does it refer to 10% of brain tissue or 10% of a more abstract “functional capacity”?
• If it refers to 10% of brain tissue, then which 10%!?
• Does it mean “at any moment” or “ever in your life”?
• If it means “at any moment” (and it were true), would it be a good thing to boost this number to 100%!?
• What does “use” mean?
Start Thinking Like a Neuroscientist...
• Is the 10% “myth” true? • More importantly, how could you go
about testing this proposition?
Start Thinking Like a Neuroscientist...