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Campus | Bryn Mawr |
Semester | Fall 2021 |
Registration ID | PSYCB323001 |
Course Title | Adv. Topics/Cognitive Neuro.-Perceptual Dsordrs/Broken Mind |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Neuroscience |
Instructor | Gargiulo,Andrew |
Times and Days | MW 11:40am-01:00pm
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Room Location | DAL1 |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 1499 This is a topics course. Course content varies.; Current topic description: Perceptual Disorders and the Broken Mind: This seminar style course is designed to introduce students to the principles by which we perceive the world around us. Spanning perceptual psychology and sensory neuroscience, students will learn about and discuss how we process and attend to our senses, detecting meaningful features like faces, moving objects, or speech out of countless, seemingly irrelevant details. We will explore how damage to any of these systems may alter or manipulate these processes, resulting in unusual and surprising symptoms. We will also discuss how prior knowledge and emotion can shape our perception of the world around us. As before, this course is designed to introduce students to the principles by which we perceive the world around us. In this course, we will consider how prior knowledge, emotion, attention, etc. can all shape our perception of the world around us through both top-down and bottom-up processing. An optional textbook is Looking Inside the Disordered Brain, by Ahmad Hariri, but most reading will come from journal articles that will be distributed. Assignments will include: quizzes, participation, a literature review, and short reflection assignments Haverford: Natural Science (NA) ( ) Enrollment Cap: 16;If the course exceeds the enrollment cap the following criteria will be used for the lottery: Major/Minor/Concentration; |
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