Syllabus/achievement requirements

Textbook

S.M.Kosslyn og E.E.Smith: Cognitive psychology; Mind and brain., 2007. Prentice Hall. ISBN: 0-13-182508-9. Chapters 3,4,5,6,7,8.

Journal Articles

Attention:

Corbetta, M., & Shulman, G. L. (2011). Spatial neglect and attention networks. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 34, 569-599.

Shulman, G. L., et al. (2009). Interaction of stimulus-driven reorienting and expectation in ventral and dorsal frontoparietal and basal gangli-cortical networks. The Journal of Neuroscience, 29, 4392 – 4407.

Weussmann, D. H., et al. (2006). The neural bases of momentary lapses in attention. Nature Neuroscience, 9, 971-978.

Principles of Learning:

Bouton; M. E. (2004). Context and behavioral processes in extinction. Learning & Memory, 11, 485-494.

Field, A. P. (2006). Is conditioning a useful framework for understanding the development and treatement of phobias? Clinical Psychology Review, 26, 857-875.

Milad, M. R., et al. (2007). Recall of fear extinction in humans activates the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and hippocampus in concert. Biological Psychiatry, 62, 446-454.

Karpova, N. N., et al. (2011). Fear erasure in mice requires synergy between antidepressant drugs and extinction tarining, Science, 334, 1731-1734.

Memory:

The adaptive brain: Aging and neurocognitive scaffolding" Denise C. Park & Patricia Reuter-Lorenz, annu. Rev. Psychol. 2009.60:173-96.

Waker, M. P., et al. (2003). Dissociable stages of human memory consolidation and reconsolidation. Nature, 425, 616-620.

Exercise training increases size of hippocampus and improves memory". Kirk. I. Erickson et al. (2011). PNAS 108 (7); 3017-3022

Chein, J. M., Moore, A. B., & Conway, A. R. A. (2011). Domain-general mechanisms of complex working memory span. NeuroImage, 54, 550-559.

Wagner, A. D., et al. (1998). Building memories: Remebering and forgetting of verbal experiences as predicted by brain activity. Science, 281, 1188-1191.

Executive functions:

Gyurak, A., et al. (2012). Executive functions and up-regulation of emotion. Cognition and Emotion, 26, 103-118.

Goodwin, S. J., et al. (2012). Executive Control Over Cognition: Stronger and Earlier Rule-Based Modulation of Spatial Category Signals in Prefrontal Cortex Relative to Parietal Cortex. The Journal of Neuroscience, 32, 3499-3515.

Specht K, Lie CH, Shah NJ, Fink GR (2009) Disentangling the prefrontal network for rule selection by means of a non-verbal variant of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test. Human Brain Mapping, 30, 1734-1743.

Emotion and Cognition:

Elliott, R. (2011). Affective disruption in mood disorders. Neuropsychopharmacology, 36, 153-182.

McRae, K., et al. (2009). The neural bases of distraction and reappraisal. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22, 248-262.

Mohanty, A., et al. (2007). Differential engagement of anterior cingulate cortex subdivisions for cognitive and emotional function. Psychophysiology, 44, 343-351.

Recommended readings

Cognitive neurogenetics:

Using genetic data in cognitive neuroscience: from growing pains to genuine insights. Green AE, Munafò MR, DeYoung CG, Fossella JA, Fan J, Gray JR. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2008 Sep;9(9):710-20.

Long story short: the serotonin transporter in emotion regulation and social cognition. Canli, T, Lesch, K.P. Nature Neuroscience. 2007; 1103-1108

Attention:

The reorienting system of the human brain: from environment to theory of mind. Corbetta M, Patel G, Shulman GL. Neuron. 2008 May 8;58(3):306-24.

Principles of Learning:

McNally, G. P., & Westbrook, R. F. (2006). Predicting danger: The nature, consequences, and neural mechanisms of predictive fear learning. Learning & Memory, 13, 245-253.

Memory:

Baddeley, A. (2003). Working memory: Looking back and looking forward. Nat Rev Neurosci., 4, 829-839.

The mind and brain of short-term memory. Jonides J, Lewis RL, Nee DE, Lustig CA, Berman MG, Moore KS. Annu Rev Psychol. 2008;59:193-224.

Nader, K., & Hardt, O. (2009). A single standard for memory: the case for reconsolidation. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 10, 224-234.

Henke, K. (2010). A model for memory systems based on processing modes rather than consciousness. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 11, 523-532.

Executive functions:

Miyake A, Friedman NP, Emerson MJ, Witzki AH, Howerter A, Wager TD. The unity and diversity of executive functions and their contributions to complex "Frontal Lobe" tasks: a latent variable analysis. Cogn Psychol, 2000; 41: 49-100.

Emotion and Cognition:

Bush, G., Luu, P., & Posner, M. I. (2000) Cognitive and emotional influences in anterior cingulate cortex. Trends Cog Sci, 4, 215-222.

Cognitive and serotonergic vulnerability to depression: Convergent findings.Booij. L., Van der Does, W. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 116; 86-94.

Executive function and prefrontal dysfunction in unipolar depression: A review of neuropsychological and imaging evidence. Rogers et al. Neuroscience Research 2004; 50; 1-11.

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