PSYC 593

Spring 2011

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Credit: 2 OR 4 hours.

Discussion of current topics in their historical setting, with special emphasis on research problems.

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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
46675
Lecture
A
3:30PM -4:50PM
TR
32 Psychology Building
Beck, D
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/18/11-05/04/11
Credit:
4 hours
Section Title:
Images of Mind
Section Info:
Introduction to brain imaging and cognitive neuroscience, with a particular emphasis on critically evaluating neuroscience in the media. This section is for graduate students only. This section meets with PSYC 220.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
37657
Lecture-Discussion
AK
10:00AM -11:30AM
F
2169 Beckman Institute
Kramer, A
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/18/11-05/04/11
Credit:
2 hours
Section Title:
Cognitive & Brain Plasticity
Section Info:
This seminar will focus on current topics in cognitive and brain plasticity and will include theories and empirical research on the following issues: cognitive and brain development in adolescence, the efficacy (and potential mechanisms) of various cognitive and brain training techniques for children, issues of relevance of cognitive decline during normal and pathological aging, the role of lifestyle factors and genetics in cognitive maintenance and decline in older adults. Students will be responsible for reading one to two manuscripts per week and discussing and critiquing the research and theories.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
54514
Lecture-Discussion
DA2
12:00PM -2:50PM
T
815 Psychology Building
Albarracin, D
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/18/11-05/04/11
Credit:
4 hours
Section Title:
Attitudes
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
43474
Lecture-Discussion
DB
10:00AM -11:50AM
M
Location Pending
Beck, D
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/18/11-05/04/11
Credit:
2 hours
Section Title:
Consciousness
Section Info:
Examination of the scientific study of consciousness, with topics including (but not limited to): the role of attention in visual awareness, neural correlates of consciousness, and perception without awareness.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
39859
Lecture-Discussion
DK
4:00PM -5:30PM
F
ARR Colonel Wolfe School
Korol, D
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/18/11-05/04/11
Special Approval:
Instructor Approval Required
Credit:
2 hours
Section Title:
Curriculum Design in Neuro
Section Info:
This seminar is designed to provide students the foundation for developing lesson plans for classroom instructional materials based on cutting edge neuroscience research. We will review and discuss science policy, federal and state science standards, principles of curriculum and instruction, and neuroscience content. Students will be required to develop and to present curriculum modules based on specific neuroscience topics and will have the opportunity to work with neuroscience researchers, science teacher educators, and K-12 classroom teachers. The course is taught in collaboration with Dr. Barbara Hug from the College of Education. Meets in Rm 104, Colonel Wolfe building
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
39648
Lecture-Discussion
DS
3:30PM -5:20PM
W
815 Psychology Building
Simons, D
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/18/11-05/04/11
Special Approval:
Instructor Approval Required
Credit:
4 hours
Section Title:
Writing&SpeakingGenAudience
Section Info:
Professional Issues - Writing and Speaking for a General Audience This seminar will provide hands-on experience with writing and speaking for an audience outside of your area of research specialization. It is intended for students who already can write competently within their sub-discipline, and it is open to students in all areas of psychology. Requires weekly writing and/or speaking, and will address written formats such as blogging, opinion/editorial writing, book reviewing, and magazine-style feature writing. Speaking will include TED-style science talks as well as talks for non-scientists. Students will provide stylistic, structural, and organizational feedback for their peers. The broader goal is to improve your ability to communicate with people outside of your specialty, a skill that generalizes to giving an effective job talk and to interviewing.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
48578
Lecture-Discussion
DS2
1:30PM -3:20PM
W
608 Psychology Building
Simons, D
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/18/11-05/04/11
Special Approval:
Instructor Approval Required
Credit:
4 hours
Section Title:
Attention, Perception & Magic
Section Info:
Over the past 5 years, scientists have become increasingly interested in the psychology of magic and the parallels between magic and the study of visual perception and attention. This seminar will review this new literature and will explore the parallels between the science of visual perception and attention and the techniques used by magicians. Readings will include books and articles on the theory of magic, discussions of magic in the scientific literature, and writings by magicians about the psychological underpinnings of their techniques. As part of the course, we will attempt to develop experiments that test the intuitions that magicians have about the psychological underpinnings of their methods.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
44602
Lecture-Discussion
FW
10:00AM -10:50AM
F
Location Pending
Wang, R
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/18/11-05/04/11
Credit:
2 hours
Section Title:
Spatial Cognition
Section Info:
To study spatial knowledge and behavior of humans and animals, including how we know the world is 3D, how we learn places to get around and to communicate, and how we think/reason about space and geometry.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
54882
Lecture-Discussion
JKB
2:00PM -4:50PM
W
708 Psychology Building
Bock, J
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/18/11-05/04/11
Credit:
4 hours
Section Title:
Thinking for Talking
Section Info:
The aim of the seminar is to work on the elements of an explanation for how people select information from the perceptual and conceptual world in order to talk. The starting point for discussion is that the perceptions and thoughts that speakers want to communicate to others contain more information than can be expressed in a single utterance. The puzzle that arises is how the ideas that a commonplace sentence can convey are systematically extracted, or dis-integrated, from perceptual and conceptual representations. Some of the pieces of the puzzle are scattered in research on perception, attention, categorization, and social psychology, as well as language. The seminar?s emphasis will be on finding the pieces and putting them together.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
46323
Lecture-Discussion
MK1
9:00AM -10:50AM
W
708 Psychology Building
Kral, M
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/18/11-05/04/11
Credit:
4 hours
Section Title:
Ethnography and Fieldwork
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
48584
Lecture-Discussion
RCF
12:00PM -1:50PM
R
219A Psychology Building
Fraley, R
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/18/11-05/04/11
Credit:
4 hours
Section Title:
Internet Programming
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
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