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Topics and Readings
1/20: Brain & Body: Persistent Dualisms: Mind/Body, Nature/Nurture -- Descartes
Solms & Turnbull, The Brain and the Inner World: Foreword (by Oliver Sacks), Preface & Chapter 2 (yes, 2 not 1)
Edelman, Wider than the Sky: Preface & Chapter 1
1/22: Brain & Body: The Discovery of the Brain: Willis, Maps & Bats
LeDoux, Synaptic Self: Chapters 1 & 2
Blakeslees, The Body has a Mind of its Own: Introduction & Chapter 1
Zimmer, C. (2004) A Distant
Mirror for the Brain, Science, 5654, 43-44. Link
1/27 & 1/29: Brain & Body: Elements of the Brain (over two lectures)
Solms & Turnbull: Chapter 1
LeDoux: Chapter 3
Edelman: Chapters 2, 3 & 4
2/3: Brain & Body: Phrenology and Beyond
Blakeslees: Chapters 2 & 3
van Wyhe, J. Phrenology on the web: adapted (with considerable shortening) for the Victorian Web
2/5: Brain & Body: Consciousness: The Remembered Present
Edelman: Chapter 5
Solms & Turnbull: Chapter 3
Blakeslees: Chapter 4
2/10: Brain & Body: Building the Brain & Neuroplasticity
LeDoux: Chapter 4
Blakeslees: Chapters 5 & 6
Specter,
M. (2001). Rethinking the brain. New Yorker, July 23rd, 42. Link
to paper on Specter's website
2/12: Brain & Body: Mirror Neurons
Blakeslees: Chapters 7, 8 & 9
Ramachandran, V. (2006). Mirror Neurons and the Brain in the Vat, The Edge. Available online
2/17: Brain & Body: E-motions
Blakeslees: Chapter 10 & Afterword
Solms & Turnbull: Chapter 4
2/19: Brain & Memory: Amnesia
LeDoux: Chapter 5
Schacter, Searching for Memory: Chapters 1, 2 & 5
2/24: Brain & Memory: Reconstructive Remembering: Eyewitness Memory & False Memory Syndrome
Schacter: Chapters 4, 7 & 9
Solms & Turnbull: Chapter 5
2/26: Brain & Memory: Scientific American Movie: "Don't Forget"
3/3: Brain & Memory: Sensory Memory, Synesthesia & the Ars Memorativa
Luria, The Mind of a Mnemonist
3/5: Brain & Memory: Brain Viagra? Memory Enhancement Drugs
Langreth,
R. Viagra for the Brain, Forbes, February 20002. Online
copy
McGaugh, J. (2002). Remembering
and Forgetting: Physiological and Pharmacological Aspects. Testimony to the President's
Council on Bioethics, October 17, 2002. Transcript
online
Ledoux: Chapter 6
3/10: Review for midterm exam (bring your questions)
3/12: In class midterm exam
SPRING BREAK
3/31: Brain & Language: Talking Dogs? Why Martha Blah Blah is fiction
Deacon, The Symbolic Species: Preface & Chapters 1 & 2
4/2: Brain & Language: From the Mouths of Babes
Deacon: Chapters 3 & 4
4/7: Brain & Language: The Sounds of Language
Deacon: Chapter 8
4/9: Brain & Language: Aphasia
Deacon: Chapter 10
Solms & Turnbull: Chapter 8
4/14: Brain & Language: Neuroimaging of Language
4/16: Brain & Language: Language in the Deaf World
Sacks, Seeing Voices, Section 2
Lawrence
Osborne (1999). A linguistic big bang. New York Times Magazine, Oct 24, pg. 84. Online
4/21 & 4/23: Movie: In the Land of the Deaf plus more on sign language
4/28: Brain & Consciousness: Dreams & Hallucinations
Solms & Turnbull: Chapter 6
LeDoux: Chapter 7
Edelman: Chapters 7 & 8
4/30: Brain & Consciousness: The Emotional Brain, Synaptic Sickness & The Talking Cure
LeDoux: Chapters 8, 9 & 10
Edelman: Chapters 9 & 10
Solms & Turnbull: Chapters 9 & 10
5/5: Review for Final (bring your questions)
5/7: Final Exam
5/12: Movie: from Sacks' Mind Traveller Series: Island of the Colorblind
5/14: Brain & Consciousness: Mind, Body & Identity
LeDoux: Chapter 11
Deacon: Chapter 14
Edelman: Chapters 11 & 12
Movie: Scientific American: Hidden Motives
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