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| Cognitive Psychology and the Brain |
| Defining Cognitive Psychology |
| Problem Solving from an Evolutionary Perspective |
| Behavioral and Neuroscience Methods |
| Evolutionary Perspective on Social Cognitions |
| Neuroscience of Comprehension |
| Situation Models and Inferencing |
| Decision Making and Reasoning |
| Present and Future of Research |
| Evolutionary Perspective on Social Cognitions |
| Studies on humans with brain damages |
| Techniques for Assessing Brain Anatomy |
| History and Development of MRI |
| Common Uses of the MRI Procedure |
| Techniques for Assessing Physiological Function |
| Electromagnetic Recording Methods |
| Techniques for Modulating Brain Activity |
| Transcranical magnetic stimulation (TMS) |
| Techniques for Analyzing Behaviour |
| Customized neuropsychological assessment |
| Overall Intelligence tests |
| Techniques for Modeling Brain-Behaviour Relationships |
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| Neuroscience of Comprehension |
| Findings from other language systems |
| (such as facial expressions) |
| Neuropsychological research of sign language |
| Auditory Language Processing |
| Psychological Perspective |
| Visual Language Processing |
| The processing of written language in reading |
| The processing of written language in spelling |
| Evidence from Advanced Neuroscience Methods |
| Left hemisphere dominance |
| Different roles of posterior and anterior regions |
| Visual versus Auditory Language Processing |
| Lateralization of language |
| Anatomical differences between left and right hemisphere |
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| Language as a cognitive ability |
| Historical review on Psycholinguistics & Neurolinguistics |
| Todays goals of Psycholinguistics |
| Non-Human Language - Animal Communication |
| Language Comprehension & Production |
| Quantity: The speaker should try to be informative, no over-/underinformation |
| Quality: Do not say things which you believe to be false or lack evidence of |
| Manner: Avoiding being obscure or ambiguous |
| Relevance: Stay on topic of the exchange |
| Language, Culture and Cognition |
| What is the connection between language and cognition? |
| Is thought dependent on, or even caused by language? |
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| Situation Models and Inferencing |
| Why do we need situation models? |
| Integration of information across sentences |
| Explanation of similarities in comprehension performances across modalities |
| Domain expertise on comprehension |
| Multidimensionality of Situation Models |
| Levels of Representation in Language and Text Comprehension |
| Propositional Representation |
| Three levels of representation |
| Two levels of representation |
| Predictice / Forward Inference |
| Integrating Inferences into Situation Models |
| Important Topics of current research |
| Linguistic Cues versus World Knowledge |
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| Short term/long term Memory |
| Correlation between Language and Memory |
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| Differences in Anatomy and Chemistry |
| Experiments with Split-Brain-Patients |
| Experiments with Patients with other Brain-Lesions |
| Experiments with Neurologically Intact Individuals |
| Highly simplified picture of the visual pathway |
| Do the Hemispheres Differ in What or How They Process? |
| Communication Between the Hemispheres via the Corpus Callosum |
| Individual Factors may Influence Lateralization |
| Historical and Philosophical Aspects |
| Theories on Knowledge Representation in the Brain |
| Knowledge Representation and Hemispheric Distribution/Specialisation |
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| Decision Making and Reasoning |
| Forms of conditionla syllogisms |
| Why people make errors in conditional reasoning: The Wason Four- Card- problem |
| Stating the Four - Card task in real - world terms: the role of ‘Regulations’ |
| Pragmatic Reasoning Schemas in the Wason Task: The role of ‘Permission’ |
| An evolutionary approach to the Four - Card - problem: The role of ‘Cheating’ |
| Decision Making: Choosing Among Alternatives |
| Justification in Decision Making |
| Therefore no flowers are artificial |
| Mental Models of Deductive Reasoning |
| Effects of Culture on Deductive Reasoning |
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| Motivation - about drives and motives |
| The Neural Correlate of Emotion |
| Processing social signals of emotion |
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| Behavioral and Neuroscience Methods |
| From selection to sociality |
| Possible selection pressures favoring human sociality |
| The human faculty of social cognition |
| Understanding intentional action |
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| Problem Solving from an Evolutionary Perspective |
| Problem Solving - Modern Approaches |
| Problem Solving as a Search Problem |
| Restructuring by Using Analogies |
| How do Experts Solve Problems? |
| The Evolutionary Perspective |
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| Present and Future of Research |
| Experimental Cognitive Psychology |
| Cognitive Neuropsychology |
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| Biological reasoning of debate |
| How is spatial knowledge encoded? |
| Propositional Representation |
| Proofs for propositional representation |
| Size and the Visual Field |
| Current state of imagery debate |
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| Classification by duration |
| Classification by information type |
| Classification by temporal direction |
| Most important brain structures responsible for memory |
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| Deficits in goal directed behavior |
| What characterizes goal directed behavior? |
| Goal must be kept in mind |
| Dividing into subtasks and sequencing |
| Completed portions must be kept in mind |
| Flexibility and adaptability |
| Executive dysfunction and goal directed behavior |
| Problems in shifting and modifying strategies |
| Problems with the interpretation of available information |
| Problems with self-criticism and -monitoring |
| Theories of Frontal Lobe Function in Executive Control |
| Role of Controlled Versus Automatic Processes |
| Lack of Cognitive Flexibility and Deficits in the Response to Novelty |
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| Decision Making and Reasoning |
| How reliable are conclusions reached through induction? |
| Processes and constraints of inductive reasoning |
| The availability heuristic |
| The representativeness heuristic |
| The probability heuristic |
| So, why inductive reasoning at all? |
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| Decision Making and Reasoning |
| Theories on Knowledge Representation in the Brain |
| Prototype vs. Exemplar Approach |
| Hierarchical Organization of Categories |
| Affecting Factors on Categorization |
| Representation of Categories in the Brain |
| Collins and Quillian's Model |
| Correlation between Distance of Concepts and Information Retrieval |
| Collins and Loftus Model - A Developed C&Q-Model |
| Basic Principles of Connectionism |
| Operation of Connectionist Networks |
| Knowledge Representation (KR) in Computational Models of Cognition |
| Knowledge Representation Formalisms |
| Different Types of Formal Languages |
| Expressive Power of Formalisms vs. Deductive Complexity |
| Application of KR - Databases |
| Intertranslation between KR Formalisms |
| Gap between Human and Artificial KR |
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| A list of theories, insights and developments in language comprehension frameworks |
| an interactive model of comprehension (Kintsch and van Dijk, 1978) |
| early Computatinal Model (Miller, Kintsch, 1980) |
| Constructing-integration Model (Kintsch, 1988) |
| Structure-Building-Framework (Gernsbacher,1990) |
| Capacity Constraint Reader Model (Just, Carpenter, 1992) |
| Constructivist framework (Graesser, Singer, Trabasso, 1994) |
| Event Indexing Model (Zwaan, Langston, Graesser, 1995) |
| Landscape Model (van den Brock, Risden, Fletcher, & Thurlow, 1996) |
| Capacity-constrained construction-integration Model (Goldman, Varma, Cote, 1996) |
| The Immersed Experiencer Framework (Zwaan, 2003) |
| Construction-Integration Model |
| The Immersed Experiencer Framework |
| An interactive Model of Comprehension |
| Early Computational Model |
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| Situation Models and Inferencing |
| Language Comprehension & Production |
| Language features - Syntax and Semantics |
| Semantically correct: “The pizza was too hot to eat.” |
| Semantically wrong: “The pizza was too hot to drink.” |
| Semantically wrong: “The pizza was too hot to cry.” |
| The Syntax-First Approach of Parsing |
| The Interactionist Approch of Parsing |
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| Non-Human Language - Animal Communication |
| Characteristic Language Features in Animal Communication |
| Can the characteristic language features be found in non-human communication? |
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| The Evolutionary Perspective |
| Adaptation As a Result of Natural Selection |
| Adaptations May Be Out-of-Date |
| (Iterative) Prisoner's Dilemma |
| Evolution of Consciousness |
| Neuropsychology and Consciousness |
| Problem Solving and Consciousness |
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| Problem Solving from an Evolutionary Perspective |
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