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McBurney and White readings are from the following textbook:

Amazon logo McBurney, Donald H., and Theresa L. White. Research Methods. 6th ed. Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2004. ISBN: 0534524184.


LEC #TOPICSREADINGS
1Introduction
2Variables and Controls - Signal Detection TheoryMcBurney 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.
3Single 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.

Amazon logo 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.
4Factorial Design and External ValidityMcBurney 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.
5How to Write a Research Paper / How to Give a Talk
6Factorial Design and Statistical Analysis (ANOVA)
7Project 1 Presentation: Single Factor Design
8MATLAB® Tutorial - Description of Project 2
9Greatest Experiments in Cognitive ScienceShepard, 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.
10Experimental Paradigms in Cognitive Science
11Cognitive Neuroscience MethodsBrett, Matthew, Ingrid S. Johnsrude, and Adrian M. Owen. "The problem of functional localization in the human brain." Nature Review: Neuroscience 3 (2002): 243-249.
12Single Participant Experiments, Quasi-Experiments
13Correlational Studies and Non Experimental ResearchMcBurney 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.
14Project 2 Presentation: Factorial Design
15Description of Project 3
16Experiments in Other SciencesMeehl, 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.
17Special Topic: Understanding the Visual World
18Ethics in ResearchMcBurney 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.
19General Review
20Exam in Class
21Project 3 DiscussionSimons, Daniel J., Gabriel Nevarez, and Walter R. Boot. "Visual Sensing Is Seeing." Psychological Science 16 (2005): 520-524.
22Flawed Studies
23Review
24Project 3 Presentation
25Project 3 Presentation (cont.)
26Discussion of Articles (Optional)
27Last Class: Final



CogLab Additional Readings


Amazon logo 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.


 








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