Florida Atlantic University

Department of Psychology

Center for Complex Systems & Brain Sciences

Cognitive Neuroscience

ISC 5465 (14867)

Spring 2008

 

 

Instructor:

Dr. Steven Bressler

Textbooks:

Cortex and Mind

Supplemental

Readings:

Cognitive Neuroscience (McClelland, International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2001)

 

 

Consciousness & the Computational Mind

(Jackendoff, MIT Press, 1990)

 

Useful Links:

Brain Function in the Nineteenth Century

 

 

Phrenology: the History of Brain Localization

 

 

Mind, Brain and Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century: Cerebral Localization and Its Biological Context from Gall to Ferrier

 

 

Mind, Brain, and Adaptation: the Localization of Cerebral Function

 

 

McCulloch-Pitts Neurons

 

Multi-Layer Perceptron

 

Your Better Half: Hemisphere Specialization of Language

 

 

Hemispheric Specialization Test 1

 

Hemispheric Specialization Test 2

 

Anterograde Amnesia

 

Anterograde Amnesia: the case of HM

 

Anterograde Amnesia: the case of Clive Wearing

 

Journals:

The Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Resources:

CogNet

 

Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Society:

Cognitive Neuroscience Society

Archives:

BBSPrints

 

CogPrints: Cognitive Sciences Archive