PSYC 398
Selected Topics in Psychology I
Winter 2024 · Laboratory in Social and Strategic Decision-Making
Topics
- Decision-making
- Learning
2023-2024
Topics
- Cognition
- Brain
Readings
- Listed material: Studying cognition using experience sampling Smallwood et al., 2021, IScience
- Listed material: Experience sampling to understand private mental states 2 Data collection: Ongoing experience during videos The wandering mind– experience sampling as a tool for understanding internal experience.
- Listed material: Smallwood & Schooler (2015). Annual Review of Psychology.
- Listed material: 3 Extracting the experience sampling data Mind-wandering and executive failure – experience sampling and cognitive control McVay & Kane (2010). Psychological Bulletin. Smallwood (2010) Reply to McVay and Kane. Psychological Bulletin.
- Listed material: 4 Linking experience to comprehension Mind-wandering, lapses and mindless reading Smallwood, McSpadden & Schooler (2008) Memory and Cognition. Essay I 5 Finalising Practical I Finalising Practical I
- Listed material: Smallwood, J., Turnbull, A., Wang, H. T., Ho, N. S., Poerio, G. L., Karapanagiotidis, T., ... & Jefferies, E. (2021). The neural correlates of ongoing conscious thought. IScience, 24(3), 102132.
- Listed material: Smallwood, Jonathan, and Jonathan W. Schooler. "The science of mind wandering: empirically navigating the stream of consciousness." Annual review of psychology (2015): 487-518.
- Listed material: McVay, Jennifer C., and Michael J. Kane. (2010) "Does mind wandering reflect executive function or executive failure? Comment on Smallwood and Schooler (2006) and Watkins (2008)." Psychological Bulletin Smallwood, Jonathan. "Why the global availability of mind wandering necessitates resource competition: Reply to McVay and Kane (2010)." Psychological Bulletin
- Listed material: Smallwood, Jonathan, Merrill McSpadden, and Jonathan W. Schooler. "When attention matters: The curious incident of the wandering mind." Memory & Cognition 36.6 (2008): 1144-
- Listed material: Kingstone, Alan. "Everyday human cognition and behaviour." Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale 74.4 (2020): 267.
- Listed material: Ho, N., et al., (2020) "Facing up to the wandering mind: Patterns of off-task laboratory thought are associated with stronger neural recruitment of right fusiform cortex while processing facial stimuli." Neuroimage 214 (2020): 116765
- Listed material: Mckeown, B., et al. "The impact of social isolation and changes in work patterns on ongoing thought during the first COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Listed material: Turnbull, Adam, et al. "Age-related changes in ongoing thought relate to external context and individual cognition." Consciousness and cognition 96 (2021): 103226.
- Listed material: Martinon, Léa M., et al. "The disentanglement of the neural and experiential complexity of self- generated thoughts: A users guide to combining experience sampling with neuroimaging data." NeuroImage 192 (2019): 15-25.
- Listed material: Konu, Delali, et al. "A role for the ventromedial prefrontal cortex in self-generated episodic social cognition." NeuroImage 218 (2020): 116977.
- Listed material: Turnbull, Adam, et al. "Left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex supports context-dependent prioritisation of off-task thought." Nature communications 10.1 (2019): 1-10.
2022-2023
Topics
- Cognition
- Brain
Readings
- Listed material: Studying cognition using experience sampling Smallwood et al., 2021, IScience
- Listed material: Experience sampling to understand private mental states 16.01 Data collection: Ongoing experience during videos The wandering mind– experience sampling as a tool for understanding internal experience.
- Listed material: Smallwood & Schooler (2015). Annual Review of Psychology.
- Listed material: 23.01 Extracting the experience sampling data Mind-wandering and executive failure – experience sampling and cognitive control McVay & Kane (2010). Psychological Bulletin. Smallwood (2010) Reply to McVay and Kane. Psychological Bulletin.
- Listed material: 30.01 Linking experience to comprehension Mind-wandering, lapses and mindless reading Smallwood, McSpadden & Schooler (2008) Memory and Cognition.
- Listed material: Smallwood, J., Turnbull, A., Wang, H. T., Ho, N. S., Poerio, G. L., Karapanagiotidis, T., ... & Jefferies, E. (2021). The neural correlates of ongoing conscious thought. IScience, 24(3), 102132.
- Listed material: Smallwood, Jonathan, and Jonathan W. Schooler. "The science of mind wandering: empirically navigating the stream of consciousness." Annual review of psychology (2015): 487-518.
- Listed material: McVay, Jennifer C., and Michael J. Kane. (2010) "Does mind wandering reflect executive function or executive failure? Comment on Smallwood and Schooler (2006) and Watkins (2008)." Psychological Bulletin Smallwood, Jonathan. "Why the global availability of mind wandering necessitates resource competition: Reply to McVay and Kane (2010)." Psychological Bulletin
- Listed material: Smallwood, Jonathan, Merrill McSpadden, and Jonathan W. Schooler. "When attention matters: The curious incident of the wandering mind." Memory & Cognition 36.6 (2008): 1144-
- Listed material: Kingstone, Alan. "Everyday human cognition and behaviour." Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale 74.4 (2020): 267.
- Listed material: Ho, N., et al., (2020) "Facing up to the wandering mind: Patterns of off-task laboratory thought are associated with stronger neural recruitment of right fusiform cortex while processing facial stimuli." Neuroimage 214 (2020): 116765
- Listed material: Mckeown, B., et al. "The impact of social isolation and changes in work patterns on ongoing thought during the first COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Listed material: Turnbull, Adam, et al. "Age-related changes in ongoing thought relate to external context and individual cognition." Consciousness and cognition 96 (2021): 103226.
- Listed material: Martinon, Léa M., et al. "The disentanglement of the neural and experiential complexity of self- generated thoughts: A users guide to combining experience sampling with neuroimaging data." NeuroImage 192 (2019): 15-25.
- Listed material: Konu, Delali, et al. "A role for the ventromedial prefrontal cortex in self-generated episodic social cognition." NeuroImage 218 (2020): 116977.
- Listed material: Turnbull, Adam, et al. "Left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex supports context-dependent prioritisation of off-task thought." Nature communications 10.1 (2019): 1-10.
Winter 2021 · Issues in Microeconomic Policy (Econ 443)/ Selected Topics in Psychology I
Topics
- Decision-making
- Learning
Readings
- Listed material: Timetable and Reading Material * Tentative (subject to modification).
- Listed material: 4 Date Topic
Fall 2021 · Issues in Microeconomic Policy (ECON 443)/ Selected Topics in Psychology I
Topics
- Decision-making
- Learning
Readings
- Listed material: Timetable and Reading Material * Tentative (subject to modification).
- Listed material: 4 Date Topic
Winter 2019/2020
Topics
- Neuroscience
- Decision making
- Brain
- Learning
- Decision-making
Readings
- Listed material: Introduction 1 Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020 Introduction RM Ch.1. Neuroeconomics—An Introduction * introduces neuroeconomics and provides an overview of topics discussed in this class Fundamental Tools of Neuroeconomics: Decision-Making and the Brain 2 Friday, Jan. 10, 2020 Crash Course: Neuroscience - Basic neuroanatomy
- Supplemental: (NOT part of the exam) * RM Ch. 20-21. provide a more in-depth presentation of fMRI and structural MRI for the curious mind (not part of the exam) 4 Friday, Jan. 17, 2020 Neural Basis of Value in Simple Choice - How does the brain encode the value/utility of choice options? (continued) Berkman, E.T., & Falk, E. B. (2013) Beyond Brain Mapping: Using Neural Measures to Predict Real-World
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- Additional readings or course notes are supplied through the course platform; individual titles may not be public.