Guest Lectures

1. David Shucard, Division of Cognitive & Behavioral Neurosciences
   1. Topic: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Working Memory (9 October)

   2. Reading:
      • Baddeley, Alan D. (2001), "Is Working Memory Still Working?", American Psychologist 56: 849-864; reprinted in European Psychologist 7(2) (June 2002): 85-97.

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2. Susan Udin, UB Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Program in Neuroscience
   1. Topic: Visual Receptive Fields (16 October)

   2. Readings:
      1. Lettvin, J.Y.; Maturana, H.R.; McCulloch, W.S.; & Pitts, W.H. (1959), "What the Frog's Eye Tells the Frog's Brain", Proceedings of the IRE 47(11) (November): 1940-1951.

      2. Hubel, David H. (1982), "Exploration of the Primary Visual Cortex, 1955-78", Nature 299(7) (7 October): 515-524.

      3. Udin, Susan B. (in press), "The Instructive Role of Binocular Vision in the Xenopus Tectum", Biological Cybernetics.
         • [MS Word .doc]
         • [PDF]
         • You may need to change the paper size from A4 to "US Letter".

   3. Lecture material:
      1. "The Visual System" (lecture)
         • PDF
         • Powerpoint (.ppt)

      2. Quicktime movie of what the frog's eye tells the frog's brain
         • timing index to above Quicktime movie

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3. Peter Q. Pfordresher, Cognitive Psychology
   1. Topic: Cognitive Bases of Music Performance: Plans, Actions, and Self-Monitoring (6 November)

   2. Readings:
      1. Primary reading:
         • Tan, Siu-Lan; Harré, Rom; & Pfordresher, Peter Q. (2007, forthcoming), Music in the Mind: An Introduction to the Psychology of Music, Ch.11: "The Psychology of Musical Performance: From Intention to Expression and Back Again"
           • Note: This PDF document may take a long time to print, and may need to be printed in sections; it's not long, but there are lots of complex diagrams.

      2. Secondary readings:
         1. Pfordresher, Peter Q. (2006), "Coordination of Perception and Action in Music Performance", Advances in Cognitive Psychology 2(2-3): 183-198.

         2. Pfordresher, Peter Q.; Palmer, Caroline; & Jungers, Melissa K. (2007), "Speed, Accuracy, and Serial Order in Sequence Production", Cognitive Science 31: 63-98.

         3. Pfordresher, Peter Q.; & Brown, Steven (2007), "Poor-Pitch Singing in the Absence of "Tone Deafness" ", Music Perception 25(2): 95-115.

   3. Slides:
      1. PDF
      2. Powerpoint

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4. Paul Luce, Cognitive Psychology
   1. Topic: Understanding Spoken Words (13 November)

   2. Reading:
      • Jusczyk, Peter W.; & Luce, Paul A. (2002), "Speech Perception and Spoken Word Recognition: Past and Present", Ear and Hearing 23(1) (February): 2-40.

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5. David Zubin, Linguistics
   1. Topic: Conceptual Aspects of Grammatical Gender (15 November)

   2. Reading:
      • link:
        Zubin, David A.; & Köpcke, Klaus-Michael (1986), "Gender and Folk Taxonomy: The Indexical Relation between Grammatical and Lexical Categorization", in Colette G. Craig (ed.), Noun Classes and Categorization: Proceedings of a Symposium on Categorization and Noun Classification (Eugene, OR; October 1983) (Philadelphia: John Benjamins): 139-180.