PSYCH 461
Honours Seminar in Cognitive Neuroscience
Winter 2021 · The Social Brain: Cognitive Neuroscience of Face Processing and Social Cognition
Topics
- Cognitive neuroscience of face processing
- Social cognition
- Facial emotion perception
- Social attention
- Autism and prosopagnosia
Readings
- Bentin et al. — Electrophysiological Studies of Face Perception in Humans (1996).
- Bruce and Young — Understanding Face Recognition (1986).
- Calvo and Nummenmaa — Perceptual and Affective Mechanisms in Facial Expression Recognition (2016).
- Duchaine and Yovel — A Revised Neural Framework for Face Processing (2015).
- Dalmaso, Castelli, and Galfano — Social Modulators of Gaze-Mediated Orienting of Attention (2020).
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- syllabus ↗Winter 2021
- The outline explicitly states that there is no textbook.