Investigating Minds

Elizabeth Johnston, Department of Psychology

Sarah Lawrence College

Fall 1997

Reading Materials

  1. Greenfield, Susan A. (1997) The Human Brain: A Guided Tour, HarperCollins: New York.
  2. Schacter, Daniel L. (1996) Searching for Memory, HarperCollins: New York.
  3. Sacks, Oliver (1995) An Anthropologist on Mars, Vintage: New York.
  4. Sacks, Oliver (1989) Seeing Voices, University of California Press: Berkeley.
  5. Pinker, Steven (1994) The Language Instinct, William Morrow: New York.
  6. Gould, Stephen Jay (1981) The Mismeasure of Man, Norton:New York
  7. Scientific American (1997) Mysteries of Mind, Special Issue Volume 7, Number 1.
Date Day Lecture Title Reading
9/9T1. Persistent Dualisms: Mind/Body, Nature/Nurture
9/12F2. Mapping the MindGreenfield: Chap 1
9/16T3. The Electric BrainGreenfield: Chaps 2&3
9/19F4. Making MemoriesSchacter: Chap 1,
Sacks(AM), #5
9/23T5. AmnesiaGreenfield, Chap 5,
Schacter: Chap 5
9/26F6. Infantile AmnesiaSee Online Lecture Notes
9/30T7. Reconstructive MemorySchacter: Chap 4
10/3F8. False Memory SyndromeSchacter: Chap 9
10/7T9. The Sounds of LanguagePinker: Chap 6
10/10F10. AphasiaPinker: Chap 10
10/21T11. What can we learn from slips of the tongue?See Notes
10/24F12.The mental lexiconPinker, Chap 5
10/28&31F13. From the mouths of babesPinker, Chap 9
11/4T14. Thought and LanguagePinker, Chap 3
11/7F15. Language in the Deaf WorldSacks(SV), section 2
11/11T16. BilingualismSee Notes
11/14F17. History of Intelligence TestingGould, Chapter 5
11/18T18. Current Views of IQGould, Chapter 6 and Critique
of The Bell Curve, pp. 367-390
11/21F19. Machines that Think?See Notes
11/25T20. Theory of MindSee Notes
12/2T21. AutismFrith in Sci.Am.,
Sacks(AM), #6 & #7
12/5F22. Learning to ReadSee Notes
12/9T23. DyslexiaSee Notes
12/12F24. What it means to seeSacks(AM), #4
12/16T25. Color: Perception, Memory & LanguageSacks(AM), #1
12/19F26. The Dreaming BrainWinson, Sci.Am.
Essay Questions
Example of an Annotated Bibliography

Group Conference Schedule

Dates Topic Readings
18th & 25th September Mind-Body Interactions Reading List Active
2nd & 9th October Emotion, Memory and the Brain Reading List Active
16th & 23rd October Manic Depressive Illness and Creativity Reading List Active
30th October & 6th November Language Learning Reading List Not Yet Active
13th & 27th November The nature of intelligence Reading List Not Yet Active
4th & 11th December Learning Disabilties Reading List Not Yet Active