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COGS 1 WINTER 2012: KEY TERMS
Week 1-­ Lecture 2-­ Professor Boyle
electrode, membrane potential, oscilloscope, resting potential, depolarization, hyperpolarization.
Action potential, threshold of excitation, diffusion, selective permeability, electrostatic pressure,
voltage gated ion channel, Na-­‐K pump, refractory period, nodes of Ranvier, postsynaptic
stimulation-­‐excitatory and inhibitory potential, neurotransmitter, synaptic transmission
Week 2-­ Lecture 1-­ Professor Cottrell
computational model, neural nets, deep networks, human-­‐style computation, parallel machines,
constraints, computer model of a “neuron”, interaction activation model, facial expression
recognition model
Week 2-­ Lecture 2-­ Professor Deak
motor pathway, cortical thinning, white matter, grey matter, prefrontal cortex, go/ no-­‐go task,
motor development, cortical development, additive and subtractive events
Week 3-­ Lecture 1-­ Professor Coulson
Corpus Callosum, frontal lobe, temporal lobe, occipital lobe, parietal lobe, cortex, lateralization
of function, motor control, sensorimotor cortex, homunculus, Brodman's Areas, Wernicke's
Aphasia, Broca's Aphasia
Week 3-­ Lecture 2-­ Professor Coulson
Waddington’s “Epigenetic Landscape”, infant social behavior, facial structure preferences, social
structure, attention sharing, gaze following, reinforcement learning, social reward
Week 4-­ Lecture 1 – Professor Creel
Headturn Preference Procedure, innate auditory abilities, voice onset time, segmentation problem
Week 5-­ Lecture 1-­ Professor Johnson
comparative cognition, perceptual distinctions, intelligence, event correlations, ecological
demands, win-­‐stay/ lose-­‐shift, temporal contiguity, taste aversion learning, mental
representations, cognitive maps, prospective encoding, symbol use, mirror studies
Week 5-­ Lecture 2-­ Professor Kirsh
external support, projection, imagination, perception, anchoring cost, mental simulation,
ethnographic data, marking
Week 6-­ Lecture 1-­ Professor Bergen
linguistic relativity, space relativity, absolute, intrinsic, and relative frame of reference, spatial
configuration, time and space linguistic relativity, color linguistic effects, categorical perception,
grammatical gender
Week 6-­ Lecture 2-­ Professor Deak
well-defined problems, categorical syllogisms, single and multiple models, heuristics, biases,
content knowledge, strategy knowledge
Week 7-­ Lecture 1-­ Professor Clark
Lesion, medial temporal lobe, anterograde amnesia, retrograde amnesia, patients H.M. and E.P.,
hippocampus, lesion, medial temporal lesion, delayed non-match to sample (DNMS) task, visual
paired comparison test, parts of the hippocampus: entorhinal, perihippocampal, and perirhinal
cortex, temporally graded retrograde amnesia, spatial memory, striatum, amphetamine, amygdala,
fear conditioning,classical conditioning, "CS" and "US" in classical conditioning, cerebellum,
reversible lesion method
Week 8 - Lecture 1 - Dr. Jeanne Townsend
EEG, ERP, oddball experiment, autism spectrum disorder, heterogeneity of autism, genetic
susceptibility, working model, sticky attention, Gap effect
Week 8 - Lecture 2 - Dr. Andrea Chiba
Plato; Plato's "Republic" (yes, some won't know who Plato was), Flashbulb memory, JamesLange, Cannon-Bard, & Cognitive Appraisal Theories, Noradrenaline (and noradrenergic
receptors), PTSD vs. traumatic stress, acute vs. chronic (in general what do these mean?),
affective learning, desire and reward brain circuits, autonomic nervous system, fear conditioning,
prefrontal cortex and rage
Week 9 - Lecture 1 - Dr. Ginny de Sa
Back-propagation, Orientation-selective receptive fields (in visual system), V1 edge detectors,
"Neurons that fire together wire together", Hebbian learning rule, Ocular dominance columns in
visual cortex, single cell electrophysiology, visual cortical areas, parallel pathways, V2 cells,
McCollough effect, Thatcher Illusion, McGurk Effect, optical imaging, microstimulation
Week 10 - Dr. Howard Poizner
Modularize, Parkinson’s Disease, hierarchical and parallel structures, Cerebral cortex, brainstem,
spinal cord, motor nuclei, reflexes, autonomic nervous system, rest tremor, sensory motor
mapping problem, bradykinesia, akinesia, deafferentation, afferent connections, rigidity, Cortical
motor areas, Basal ganglia, Thalamus, Cerebellum, Brain stem and spinal cord, Proprioception,
Deafferentation, Feedback loops (movement-perception), Tremor