| LEC # | TOPICS | READINGS |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction | |
| 2 | Variables and Controls - Signal Detection Theory | McBurney and White, chapter 5 and 8. Wolfe, Jeremy M., Todd. S. Horowitz, and Naomi M. Kenner. "Rare items often missed in visual searches." Nature 435 (2005): 439-440. |
| 3 | Single Factor Design and Statistics (T-test) | McBurney and White, chapter 11. Posner, M. I. "Orienting of attention." Q J Exp Psychol 32 (1980): 3-25.  Gazzaniga, Michael S., Richard B. Ivry, and George R. Mangun. Cognitive Neuroscience: The Biology of the Mind. New York, NY: Norton, 2002, pp. 251-252. ISBN: 0393977773. |
| 4 | Factorial Design and External Validity | McBurney and White, chapter 7 and 12. Treisman, Anne. "Features and Objects in Visual Processing." Scientific American 255, no. 5 (1986): 114B-125. Wolfe, Jeremy M., and Todd S. Horowitz. "What attributes guide the deployment of visual attention and how do they do it?" Nature Reviews: Neuroscience 5 (2004): 495-501. |
| 5 | How to Write a Research Paper / How to Give a Talk | |
| 6 | Factorial Design and Statistical Analysis (ANOVA) | |
| 7 | Project 1 Presentation: Single Factor Design | |
| 8 | MATLAB® Tutorial - Description of Project 2 | |
| 9 | Greatest Experiments in Cognitive Science | Shepard, Roger, and Jacqueline Metzler. "Mental Rotation of Three-Dimensional Objects." Science 171 (1971): 701-703. Pylyshyn, Zenon W. "Mental Imagery: In search of a theory." Behav Brain Sci 25 (2002): 157-182. |
| 10 | Experimental Paradigms in Cognitive Science | |
| 11 | Cognitive Neuroscience Methods | Brett, Matthew, Ingrid S. Johnsrude, and Adrian M. Owen. "The problem of functional localization in the human brain." Nature Review: Neuroscience 3 (2002): 243-249. |
| 12 | Single Participant Experiments, Quasi-Experiments | |
| 13 | Correlational Studies and Non Experimental Research | McBurney and White, chapter 9. Dubner, Stephen. "The Economist of Odd Questions: Inside the Astonishingly Curious Mind of Steven D. Levitt." The New York Times Magazine, August 3, 2003. |
| 14 | Project 2 Presentation: Factorial Design | |
| 15 | Description of Project 3 | |
| 16 | Experiments in Other Sciences | Meehl, Paul E. "Theoretical Risks and Tabular Asterisks: Sir Karl, Sir Ronald, and the Slow Progress of Soft Psychology." Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 46 (1978): 806-834. |
| 17 | Special Topic: Understanding the Visual World | |
| 18 | Ethics in Research | McBurney and White, chapter 3. Ioannidis, John P. A. "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False." PLoS Med 2 (2005): 696-701. (PDF) Shepard, Roger. "Toward a Universal Law of Generalization for Psychological Science." Science 237 (1987): 1317-1323. |
| 19 | General Review | |
| 20 | Exam in Class | |
| 21 | Project 3 Discussion | Simons, Daniel J., Gabriel Nevarez, and Walter R. Boot. "Visual Sensing Is Seeing." Psychological Science 16 (2005): 520-524. |
| 22 | Flawed Studies | |
| 23 | Review | |
| 24 | Project 3 Presentation | |
| 25 | Project 3 Presentation (cont.) | |
| 26 | Discussion of Articles (Optional) | |
| 27 | Last Class: Final |
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McBurney and White readings are from the following textbook:
McBurney, Donald H., and Theresa L. White. Research Methods. 6th ed. Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2004. ISBN: 0534524184.
CogLab Additional Readings
Gazzaniga, Michael S., Richard B. Ivry, and George R. Mangun. Cognitive Neuroscience: The Biology of the Mind. New York, NY: Norton, 2002, pp. 251-252. ISBN: 0393977773.
Treisman, Anne. "Features and Objects in Visual Processing." Scientific American 255, no. 5 (1986): 114B-125.
Wolfe, Jeremy M., and Todd S. Horowitz. "What attributes guide the deployment of visual attention and how do they do it?" Nature Reviews: Neuroscience 5 (2004): 495-501.
Shepard, Roger, and Jacqueline Metzler. "Mental Rotation of Three-Dimensional Objects." Science 171 (1971): 701-703.
Tversky, Amos, and Danial Kaneman. "Extensional Versus Intiutive Reasoning: the conjunction fallacy in probability judgement." Psychological Review 90 (1983): 293-315.