Cognitive Neuroscience of Working Memory
Psychology 697
Cognitive Neuroscience of Working Memory
Spring 2004
In this course we emphasize the critical evaluation of topical issues and data in working memory research. Toward this end, we also emphasize the methods of neuroimaging, neuropsychology, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), and experimental psychology.
Format: Each week we discuss (at least) one article from the recent literature. These discussions are organized as informal presentations that will give us an opportunity to discuss and assess in detail the theory, methods, results, and interpretation associated with that particular paper. On occasion, these discussions are supplemented with, or supplanted by, an informal presentation of the design and/or results from an experiment being conducted in the Postle laboratory (see section on "3 credits", below). Following the discussion of a particular paper or project, we end the morning with an attempt to integrate what we've learned from this specific information into the perspective of contemporary cognitive neuroscience inquiry.
Levels of participation: The class may be taken for 1, 2, or 3 credits. The requirements for 1-credit registrants are simply to come to class having read the assigned paper, and prepared to participate in the discussion. The additional requirements for 2-credit registrants are to lead one of the weekly discussions, and to write a 3-5 page paper that 1) summarizes the paper; 2) summarizes the question that it was intended to address; and 3) proposes either a) a better way to test this question, or b) a hypothesis that captures an important "next question" that can now be addressed and an experimental design that would effect this hypothesis test. The additional requirements for 3-credit registrants are to participate in a research project in the Postle laboratory that entails at least 10 hr./wk. of research time during the Fall 2003 and Spring 2004 semesters. Three-crediters should register for Psychology 618* (Fall) and Psychology 697 (Spring); their in-class presentations will likely focus on their own experiments.
* The call number for 618 is 80850, and for 697 is 18118.
Grading:1-credit: in-class participation
2-credit: in-class participation and the paper.
3-credit: in-class participation, paper, and research
Instructor: Brad Postle, 515 Psychology, 262-4330, .
Office hours: by appointment.
With the exception of time-sensitive emergencies, email is the most effective and preferred way for you to contact me.
All readings are either available for download at http://psych.wisc.edu/postlab/Psych618/psychology697_Spring2004.htm, or in hardcopy in room 165 (The Lab) during the week prior to class.
Background readings
Menon & Kim (1999). Spatial and temporal limits in cognitive neuroimaging with fMRI. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 3, 207-216.
Aguirre & D'Esposito (1999). Experimental design for brain fMRI. In: Functional MRI (Moonen and Bandettini, Eds.). Springer Verlag, Berlin. (pp. 369-380).
January 23 Introduction
Mesulam, M.-M. (2002). The human frontal lobes: transcending the default mode through contingent encoding, in (Stuss & Knight, Eds.) Principles of Frontal Lobe Function, Oxford, 8-30.
Presenter: Postle
January 30
Verbal storage in a premotor–parietal network: evidence from
fMRI-guided magnetic stimulation
U. Herwig,a,c,* B. Abler,a C. Scho¨nfeldt-Lecuona,a A. Wunderlich,b
J. Grothe,a M. Spitzer,a and H. Waltera
and
Rami et al. (2003). Effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on memory subtypes: a controlled study. Neuropsychologia, 41, 1877-1883.
February 13
BP practice talk
February 20
Salthouse & Hedden (2002). Interpreting reaction time measures in between-group comparisons. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 24, 858-872.
Presenter:______
Salthouse & Ferrer-Caja (2003). What needs to be explained to account for age-related effects on multiple cognitive variables? Psychology and Aging, 18, 91-110.
Presenter:______
February 27
Pessoa, Kastner, &Ungerleider (2003). Neuroimaging studies of attention: from modulation of sensory processing to top-down control. The Journal of Neuroscience, 23, 3990-3998.
Presenter:______
March 5
Mecklinger, Weber, Gunter, Engle (2003). Dissociable brain mechanisms for inhibitory control: effects of interference content and working memory capacity. Cognitive Brain Research, 18. 26-38.
Presenter:______
March 12
Group analysis in functional neuroimaging: selecting subjects
using similarity measures
Ferath Kherif,a,b,d Jean-Baptiste Poline,a,b,* Se´bastien Me´riaux,a,b Habib Benali,a,c
Guillaume Flandin,a,e and Matthew Brettd
Presenter:______
March 19
No meeting -- Spring break.
March 26
Transient hemodynamics during a breath hold challenge in a two part
functional imaging study with simultaneous near-infrared spectroscopy
in adult humans
Bradley J. MacIntosh,a,b L. Martyn Klassen,a,b and Ravi S. Menona,
Presenter ______
April 2
Effects of Spontaneous Eye Movements on Spatial Memory
in Macaque Periarcuate Cortex
Puiu F. Balan and Vincent P. Ferrera
April 9
Baddeley2003jQJEP.pdf
Presenter:______
April 16
No meeting – Cognitive Neuroscience Society
April 23
No meeting – Wisconsin Symposium on Emotion
April 30
Selective interference with verbal short-term
memory for serial order information:
A new paradigm and tests of a timing-signal
hypothesis
Richard Henson, Tom Hartley, and Neil Burgess
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London,
London, UK
Graham Hitch and Brenda Flude
Presenter:______
May 7
Michael F. Glabus1,2, Barry Horwitz3, John L. Holt1,2,
Philip D. Kohn1,2, Brooke K. Gerton1,2, Joseph H. Callicott2,
Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg1,2 and Karen Faith Berman1,2
. Interindividual Differences in Functional
Interactions among Prefrontal, Parietal and
Parahippocampal Regions during Working
Memory
Presenter:______
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