COGNITION CLASS - PSY 435/550

Department of Psychology - University of Oregon, Spring 1998

CLASS NOTES

Here there is everything you need to know about the material that we covered in class. You can use these notes together with your notes to prepare for the tests.

• Fri, April 3rd--Experimental methods used to study cognitive processes and David Marr's definition of levels of analysis.
• Wed, April 8th--How to write a good Abstract. Visual, phonological, and semantic cognitive codes.
• Mon, April 13th--Signal detection theory and sensory memories (iconic and echoic).
• Wed, April 15th--The visual search paradigm and Treisman's Feature Integration Theory. Visual pathways and visual agnosias.
• Wed, April 22nd--Attentional systems: Attentional orienting and spatial attention.
• Fri, April 24th--Attentional systems: selective attention, the Stroop effect, automatic and controlled processes, and Norman and Shallice's model of goal-oriented behavior.
• Mon, April 27th--Models of Attention: Structural and capacity models. Inhibitory processes in attention.
• Fri, May 1st (SCOTT DORAN's LECTURE)--Sleep and cognition.
• May 4-6th--From short-term memory to working memory: Atkinson-Shiffrin's and Baddeley's models of memory.
• Mon, May 11th--Different types of long-term memory: semantic and episodic, procedural and declarative. How we store, retrieve, and forget information in long-term memory.
• Wed, May 13th--Introduction to Language: phonology, sintax, semantics, and pragmatics.
• Mon, May 18th--More about language. Syntax and Chomsky's theory.
• Wed, May 20th--Semantic networks and priming effects. Studies of reading.