Fall 2000 Adamson Wing, Baker Hall T/Th 9:00-10:20

85-411/85-711/15-886A
Cognitive Processes and Problem Solving

Notes    Past Exams    References

Class Notes

Introductory Material

Class Syllabus

Class Schedule

• Cognitive Theories in the form of Computer Programs
• Accessing Class Account on Andrew Server

• Week 1          word.doc
• Week 2-3       word.doc
• Week 4-5       word.doc
• Week 6-7       word.doc
• Week 8          word.doc
• Week 9          word.doc  pdf.zip
• Week 10-11    word.doc  pdf.zip
• Week 13-15    word.doc

Past Exam

• Exam           94Q.doc    95Q.doc    97Q.doc     99Q.doc
• Answers       94A.doc    95A.doc    97Q.doc

References

Brain Links

On the Web

• http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/facts.html - brain
• http://uta.marymt.edu/~psychol/brain.html
• NYU Guide to Neuroanatomy    (requires Macromedia Shockwave plug-in)

• Behind the scenes of functional brain imaging (PNAS Vol. 95, Issue 3, 765-772, February 3, 1998)
• The neuroimaging of human brain function (PNAS Vol. 95, Issue 3, 763-764, February 3, 1998)
• A neural system for human visual working memory (PNAS Vol. 95, Issue 3, 883-890, February 3, 1998)
• The effects of practice on the functional anatomy of task performance (PNAS, Vol. 95, Issue 3, 853-860, February 3, 1998)
• General and specific brain regions involved in encoding and retrieval of events: What, where, and when (PNAS, Vol. 93, Issue 20, 11280-11285, October 1, 1996)
• Distributed representation of objects in the human (PNAS Vol. 96, Issue 16, 9379-9384, August 3, 1999)
• Task-related and item-related brain processes of memory retrieval (PNAS Vol. 96, Issue 4, 1794-1799, February 16, 1999)

• Posner MI and Raichle ME (1994)  "Images of Mind" Scientific American Library, HPHLP, New York
• Frackowiak RSJ, Friston KJ, Frith CD, Dolan RJ and Mazziotta JC (1997) "Human Brain Function" Academic Press, San Diego
• Kandel ER, Schwartz and Jessell TM (2000)  "Principles of Neural Science" (4th Ed) McGraw-Hill, New York

Representation and Imagery

Papers

• Georgopoulos AP, Pellizzer G (1995) "The mental and the neural: psychological and neural studies of

mental rotation and memory scanning" Neuropsychologia 33(11):1531-47
• Apostolos P. Georgopoulos, Joseph T. Lurito, Michael Petrides, Andrew B. Schwartz, Joe T. Massey (1989) "Mental Rotation of the Neuronal Population Vector" Science 243(4888): 234-236.

Scientific Discovery

Books/Papers

• Dunbar, Kevin (1997) "How Scientists Think: Online Creativity and Conceptual Change in Science" in Creative Thought: An Investigation of Conceptual Structures and Processes  Thomas B. Ward, Jyotsna Vaid and Steven M. Smith (Eds), American Psychological Association
• Kevin Dunbar (1993) "Concept Discovery in a Scientific Domain"  Cognitive Science 17(3): 397-434