BCS 508 Cognitive Neuroscience Organisational meeting Proposed meeting
BCS 508: Cognitive Neuroscience Organisational meeting Proposed meeting time: Wednesdays at 1 pm • End time: 4 pm in theory, 3 pm+ in practice Unless: • This proposed meeting time would ruin your life • When there’s a dept talk 12 -1 pm, we’ll start 1: 30 pm instead Meeting place: RCBI conference room Instructors: • Rajeev Raizada • rajeev. raizada@gmail. com • http: //raizadalab. org • Brad Mahon • mahon@rcbi. rochester. edu • http: //caoslab. bcs. rochester. edu
Goals of the class Get a broad overview of various aspects of cognition and perception, and how they can be studied in the brain • What insights do brain images give us, beyond behaviour? Read articles, present them • Practice presenting ideas, explaining them clearly, discussing them with each other Bounce ideas around, maybe even come up with ideas for experiments to run Get given a grade • This is grad school. Grades not very important any more
Guest lectures A great opportunity to learn about what folks are working on around here • Dick Aslin and Lauren Emberson: Developmental neuroscience, and NIRS • Ben Hayden: Decision making • Krystel Huxlin: Visual rehabilitation • Duje Tadin: Mid-level vision and motion • Rachel Wu: EEG and attention
Evaluation and grading (not a key aim, but we need to do it) Bring 1 paragraph (200 words) on the topic of the readings of someting new (question, confound, new exp). . . we will collect them. 5 page paper = 30% Participation = 35% Presentation = 35%
Speak up! There’s no such thing as a bad question • Simple questions often get at deep issues • “Sophisticated” questions often rest upon lots of unexamined assumptions, may miss deeper issues • There are lots of open questions, waiting for us to explore Nobody understands how the brain works • So, do not be alarmed if you don’t either Class will be a welcoming atmosphere, say whatever you like. Things which are unfair, but true of the world • Loudmouths get heard. This is America. Be loud. • If you don’t say anything then people (falsely) assume that you don’t have anything to say • Part of your grade will be for participation in class discussions
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