Selected Topics in Cognitive Neuroscience

Required textbook: Personality, Individual Differences and Intelligence, 5th edition, Pearson. The syllabus table does not name the authors.

Assigned course-text chapters and peer-reviewed articles:

Course text:

•

Personality Theory in Context (Ch. 1)

The Basis of the Psychoanalytic Approach to Personality (Ch. 2)

Developments of Freudian Theorising (Ch. 3)

Learning Theory Perspectives on Personality (Ch. 4)

13,

Unit 2:

Personality

Cognitive Personality Theories (Ch. 5)

Humanistic Personality Theories (Ch. 6)

The Trait Approach to Personality (Ch. 7)

Peer-reviewed articles:

Bleidorn, W., Hopwood, C. J., Back, M. D., Denissen, J. J., Hennecke, M., Hill,

P. L., ... & Zimmermann, J. (2021). Personality trait stability and

change. Personality Science, 2, e6009.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.5964/ps.6009

20,

Unit 3:

Psychometric

testing

An Introduction to Psychometric Testing (Ch. 23)

Geiser, C., Götz, T., Preckel, F., & Freund, P. A. (2017). Theories, Models,

and Assessment. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 33, 219-

223. https://econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/full/10.1027/1015-5759/a000413

Minkov, M., Vignoles, V. L., Welzel, C., Akaliyski, P., Bond, M. H., Kaasa, A.,

& Smith, P. B. (2024). Comparative culturology and cross-cultural

psychology: How comparing societal cultures differs from comparing

individuals’ minds across cultures. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 55,

164-188.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/00220221231220027

Sikström et al. (2025). Personality in just a few words: Assessment using

natural language processing. Personality and Individual Differences, 238.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886925000406

27,

Unit 4:

Beliefs,

preferences,

and identity

Optimism (Ch. 16)

Irrational beliefs (Ch. 17)

Interpersonal relationships (Ch. 19)

Book chapter:

Berzonsky, M. D. (2011). A social-cognitive perspective on identity

construction. In Handbook of identity theory and research (pp. 55-76). New

York, NY: Springer New York.

Bendall, R. C. A., Galpin, A., Marrow, L. P., & Cassidy, S. (2016). Cognitive

style: Time to experiment. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 1786.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5108774/

Fingerhut, J., Gomez-Lavin, J., Winklmayr, C., & Prinz, J. J. (2021). The

aesthetic self: The importance of aesthetic taste in music and art for our

perceived identity. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 577703.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7985158/

Frömer, R., & Shenhav, A. (2022). Filling the gaps: Cognitive control as a

critical lens for understanding mechanisms of value-based decisionmaking. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 134, 104483.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763421005546

Prebble, S. C., Addis, D. R., & Tippett, L. J. (2013). Autobiographical memory

and sense of self. Psychological Bulletin, 139, 815–840.

https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2012-26179-001.html

Midterm 1

Units 1-4, worth 25% of final mark

6,

10,

Unit 5:

Cognitive

ability and

experience

An introduction to intelligence (Ch. 10)

Theories and measurement of intelligence (Ch. 11)

Simonton, D. K. (2011). Exceptional talent and genius. In T. Chamorro-

Premuzic, S. von Stumm, & A. Furnham (Eds.), The Wiley-Blackwell

handbook of individual differences (pp. 633-655). Wiley-Blackwell.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781444343120.ch24

Alabbasi, A. M. A., Paek, S. H., Kim, D., & Cramond, B. (2022). What do

educators need to know about the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking: A

comprehensive review. Frontiers in psychology, 13, 1000385.

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.20

22.1000385/pdf

Allman, M. J., Teki, S., Griffiths, T. D., & Meck, W. H. (2014). Properties of

the internal clock: First- and second-order principles of subjective time.

Annual Review of Psychology, 65, 743–771.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24050187/

Jimenez, M., Prieto, A., Hinojosa, J. A., & Montoro, P. R. (2023).

Consciousness under the spotlight: The problem of measuring subjective

experience. WIREs Cognitive Science, 16, e1697.

https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wcs.1697

Ren, X., Wang, T., & Jarrold, C. (2016). Individual differences in frequency of

inner speech: Differential relations with cognitive and non-cognitive factors.

Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 1675.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5089968/

Stanek, K. C., & Ones, D. S. (2023). Meta-analytic relations between

personality and cognitive ability. Proceedings of the National Academy of

Sciences, 120, e2212794120.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2212794120

Zeman, A. (2024). Aphantasia and hyperphantasia: Exploring imagery

vividness extremes. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 28(5), 467-480.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364661324000342

16-

Reading

week

24,

Unit 6:

Multimodal

fusion

Methodological Considerations: Integrating Measures Across Assessment

Modalities. In Latzman, R. D., & Patrick, C. J. (Eds.). (2025). Neurobehavioral

Individual Differences: A Transdisciplinary Approach To Advancing Clinical

Science (pp. 13-27). Springer Nature.

Deary, I. J., Cox, S. R., & Hill, W. D. (2022). Genetic variation, brain, and

intelligence differences. Molecular psychiatry, 27, 335-353.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-021-01027-y

Hoffman, L., & Walters, R. W. (2022). Catching up on multilevel modeling.

Annual review of psychology, 73, 659-689.

https://www.annualreviews.org/docserver/fulltext/psych/73/1/annurevpsych-020821-103525.pdf

Sui, J., Zhi, D., & Calhoun, V. D. (2023). Data-driven multimodal fusion:

approaches and applications in psychiatric research. Psychoradiology, 3.

https://academic.oup.com/psyrad/article/doi/10.1093/psyrad/kkad026/74

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Unit 7:

Neuroimaging

Dubois, J., & Adolphs, R. (2016). Building a science of individual differences

from fMRI. Trends in cognitive sciences, 20(6), 425-443.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364661316300079?ca

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Gratton, C., & Braga, R. M. (2025). Dense Phenotyping of Human Brain

Network Organization Using Precision fMRI. Annual Review of

Psychology, 77.

https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-psych-

032825-032920

Gu, J., & Kanai, R. (2014). What contributes to individual differences in brain

structure? Frontiers in human neuroscience, 8, 262.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4009419/

Rosenberg, M. D., & Finn, E. S. (2022). How to establish robust brain–

behavior relationships without thousands of individuals. Nature

neuroscience, 25, 835-837. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-022-

01110-9

Scheinost, D., Noble, S., Horien, C., Greene, A. S., Lake, E. M., Salehi, M., ...

& Constable, R. T. (2019). Ten simple rules for predictive modeling of

individual differences in neuroimaging. NeuroImage, 193, 35-45.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6521850/

Midterm 2

Units 5-7, worth 25% of final mark

Unit 8:

Genetics,

epigenetics,

&

development

Biological Basis of Personality I (Ch. 8)

Heritability and Socially Defined Group Differences in Intelligence (Ch. 13)

Anreiter, I., Sokolowski, H. M., & Sokolowski, M. B. (2018). Gene–

environment interplay and individual differences in behavior. Mind, Brain,

and Education, 12, 200-211.

http://sokolowski.eeb.utoronto.ca/files/2018/07/Anreiter_et_al-2017-

Mind2C_Brain2C_and_Education.pdf

Hostinar, C. E., & Gunnar, M. R. (2015). Social support can buffer against

stress and shape brain activity. AJOB neuroscience, 6, 34-42.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4607089/

Lappalainen, T., Li, Y. I., Ramachandran, S., & Gusev, A. (2024). Genetic and

molecular architecture of complex traits. Cell, 187(5), 1059-1075.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867424000606

Matthews, L. J., & Turkheimer, E. (2022). Three legs of the missing

heritability problem. Studies in history and philosophy of science, 93, 183-

191. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9172633/

Plomin, R., & Von Stumm, S. (2022). Polygenic scores: prediction versus

explanation. Molecular psychiatry, 27(1), 49-52.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-021-01348-y

Unit 9:

Health,

physiology, &

hormones

Individual Differences in Health and Illness (Ch. 22)

Bullock, B. (2019). An interdisciplinary perspective on the association

between chronotype and well-being. The Yale Journal of Biology and

Medicine, 92(2), 359. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6585516/

Davidson, G. L., Cooke, A. C., Johnson, C. N., & Quinn, J. L. (2018). The gut

microbiome as a driver of individual variation in cognition and functional

behaviour. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological

Sciences, 373, 20170286.

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2017.0286

George, M. Y., Abdel Mageed, S. S., Mansour, D. E., & Fawzi, S. F. (2025).

The cortisol axis and psychiatric disorders: An updated

review. Pharmacological Reports, 1-27.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43440-025-00782-x

Herold, F., Törpel, A., Hamacher, D., Budde, H., Zou, L., Strobach, T., Müller,

N.G., & Gronwald, T. (2021). Causes and Consequences of Interindividual

Response Variability: A Call to Apply a More Rigorous Research Design in

Acute Exercise-Cognition Studies. Frontiers in Physiology, 22. 682891.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8339555/

Mengelkoch, S., Gassen, J., Corrigan, E. K., & Hill, S. E. (2022). Exploring the

links between personality and immune function. Personality and individual

differences, 184, 111179.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/am/pii/S019188692100558

Unit 10:

Dimensional

psychopathology

Well-being and Personality Disorders (Ch. 21)

Gioletti, A. I., & Bornstein, R. F. (2024). Do PID-5 trait scores predict

symptom disorders? A meta-analytic review. Journal of personality

disorders, 38, 126-137.

https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/pdf/10.1521/pedi.2024.38.2.126?casa_to

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Haslam, N., McGrath, M. J., Viechtbauer, W., & Kuppens, P. (2020).

Dimensions over categories: A meta-analysis of taxometric

research. Psychological Medicine, 50, 1418-1432.

https://www.ppw.kuleuven.be/okp/_pdf/Haslam2020DOCAM.pdf

Hopwood, C. J., Wright, A. G., & Bleidorn, W. (2022). Person–environment

transactions differentiate personality and psychopathology. Nature Reviews

Psychology, 1, 55-63. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christopher-

Hopwood-3/publication/357784234_Personenvironment_transactions_differentiate_personality_and_psychopathology

/links/67ee0bda49e91c0fead850fc/Person-environment-transactionsdifferentiate-personality-and-psychopathology.pdf

Troy, A. S., Willroth, E. C., Shallcross, A. J., Giuliani, N. R., Gross, J. J., &

Mauss, I. B. (2023). Psychological resilience: an affect-regulation

framework. Annual review of psychology, 74, 547-576.

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Unit 11:

Memory

• Chiorri, C., & Vannucci, M. (2024). The subjective experience of

autobiographical remembering: Conceptual and methodological advances

and challenges. Journal of Intelligence, 12(2),

21. https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence12020021

• Levine, B., Svoboda, E., Hay, J. F., Winocur, G., & Moscovitch, M. (2002).

Aging and autobiographical memory: dissociating episodic from semantic

retrieval. Psychology and aging, 17(4), 677.

• Palombo, D. J., Sheldon, S., & Levine, B. (2018). Individual differences in

autobiographical memory. Trends in cognitive sciences, 22(7), 583-597.

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