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.
Course readings.
| LEC # |
TOPICS |
READINGS |
| 1 |
Introduction |
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| 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 |
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| 6 |
Factorial Design and Statistical Analysis (ANOVA) |
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| 7 |
Project 1 Presentation: Single Factor Design |
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| 8 |
MATLAB® Tutorial - Description of Project 2 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 15 |
Description of Project 3 |
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| 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.
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| 17 |
Special Topic: Understanding the Visual World |
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| 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 |
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| 20 |
Exam in Class |
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| 21 |
Project 3 Discussion |
Simons, Daniel J., Gabriel Nevarez, and Walter R. Boot. "Visual Sensing Is Seeing." Psychological Science 16 (2005): 520-524.
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| 22 |
Flawed Studies |
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| 23 |
Review |
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| 24 |
Project 3 Presentation |
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| 25 |
Project 3 Presentation (cont.) |
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| 26 |
Discussion of Articles (Optional) |
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| 27 |
Last Class: Final |
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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.