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References Course Cognition and the Brain 2002

10 Dec - Lecture 1. Introduction and brain code (Lamme and Murre)

Synchrony

Gray, C.M. (1999). The temporal correlation hypothesis of visual feature integration: still alive and well. Neuron, 24, 31-47. ISSN 0896-6273 (PDF)

Singer, W. (1999). Neuronal synchrony: a versatile code for the definition of relations? Neuron, 24, 49-65. ISSN 0896-6273 (PDF)

Shadlen, M. N., & J.A. Movshon (1999). Synchrony unbound: A critical evaluation of the temporal binding hypothesis. Neuron, 24, 67-77. ISSN 0896-6273 (PDF)

Brain code (559 Kb)

Barlow, H. (1994). What is the computational goal of the neocortex? In: C. Koch & J.L. Davis (Eds.), Large-scale neuronal theories of the brain. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1-22. ISBN 0-262-11183-7

Braitenberg, V. (1989). Some arguments for a theory of cell assemblies in the cerebral cortex. In: L. Nadel, L.A. Cooper, P. Culicover, & R.M. Harnish (Eds.), Neural connections, mental computation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 137-145. ISBN 0-262-14042-X

Bizzi, E., Mussa-Ivaldi, F.A. and Giszter, S. (1991) Computations underlying the execution of movement, a biological perspective. Science, 253: 287-291. ISSN 0193-4511

Georgopoulos, A.P. (1990). Neurophysiology of reaching. In: M. Jeannerod (Ed.), Attention and Performance XIII. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 227-263. ISSN 1047-0387

Földiák, P., & M.P. Young (1995). Sparse coding in the primate cortex. In: M.A. Arbib (Ed.), The Handbook of brain theory and neural networks. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 895-898. ISBN 0-262-01148-4

17 Dec - Lecture 2. Memory consolidation (Murre)(4.24 Mb)

Milner, B., L.R. Squire, & E.R. Kandel (1998). Cognitive neuroscience and the study of memory. Neuron, 20, 445-468. ISSN 0896-6273

McGaugh, J.L. (2000). Memory—a century of consolidation. Science, 287, 248-251. ISSN 0193-4511

Murre, J.M.J. (1996). A model of amnesia and consolidation of memory. Hippocampus, 6, 675-684. ISSN 1050-9631

Nadel, L., & M. Moscovitch (1997). Memory consolidation, retrograde amnesia and the hippocampal complex. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 7, 217-227. ISSN 0959-4388

Kim, J.J., & M.S. Fanselow (1992). Modality-specific retrograde amnesia of fear. Science, 256, 675-677. ISSN 0193-4511

Frankland, P.W., C. O’Brien, M. Ohno, A. Kirkwood, & A.J. Silva (2001). a-CaMKII-dependent plasticity in the cortex is required for permanent memory. Nature, 411, 309-313. ISSN 0028-0836

Menzel, R. (2001). Searching for the memory trace in a mini-brain, the honeybee. Learning & Memory, 8, 53-62. ISSN 1072-0502

7 Jan - Lecture 3. Brain plasticity and recovery from brain damage (Murre)

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Purves, D. (1988). Body and brain: a trophic theory of neural connections. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 17-96. ISBN 0-674-07716-4

Robertson, I.H., & J.M.J. Murre (1999). Rehabilitation of brain damage: brain plasticity and principles of guided recovery. Psychological Bulletin, 125, 544-575. ISSN 0033-2909 (APA)

Jones, E.G. (2000). Cortical and subcortical contributions to activity-dependent plasticity in primate somatosensory cortex. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 23, 1-37. ISSN 0147-006X

Kilgard, M.P., & M.M. Merzenich (1998). Cortical map reorganization enabled by nucleus basalis activity. Science, 279, 1714-1718. ISSN 0193-4511

14 Jan - Lecture 4. Ventral versus dorsal stream (Lamme)

Rossetti, Y, & L. Pisella (2002). Several ‘vision for action’ systems: a guide to dissociating and integrating dorsal and ventral functions (Tutorial). In W. Prinz & B. Hommel (Eds.), Attention and Performance XIX: Common mechanisms in perception and action. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 62-119. ISBN 0-19-851069-1.

21 Jan - Lecture 5. Consciousness (Lamme)

Rees G., G. Kreiman, & C. Koch (2002). Neural correlates of consciousness in humans. Nature Reviews in Neuroscience, 3(4), 261-270. ISSN 1471-003X (PDF)

Lamme V.A.F., H. Super, & R. Landman, et al. (2000). The role of primary visual cortex (V1) in visual awareness . Vision Research, 40,1507-1521. ISSN: 0042-6989 (PDF)

Lamme, V.A.F. (2000). Neural mechanisms of visual awareness; a linking proposition. Brain and Mind, 1, 385-406. ISSN: 1389-1987 (PDF)

28 Jan - 6. Meaning: acquisition and loss (Murre)(776 Kb)

Landauer, T. K., Foltz, P. W., & Laham, D. (1998). Introduction to Latent Semantic Analysis. Discourse Processes, 25, 259-284. ISSN 0163-853X (PDF/preprint)

Landauer, T. K. (2002). On the computational basis of learning and cognition: Arguments from LSA. In: N. Ross (Ed.), The psychology of learning and motivation, 41, 43-84. San Diego: Academic Press. ISSN 0079-7421 (PDF/preprint)

Ritter, H., & T. Kohonen (1990). Learning 'semantotopic maps' from context. In: Proceedings of the IJCNN-90-WASH-DC, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, volume I, pages 23-26, Hillsdale, NJ. Lawrence Erlbaum. ISBN 0-8058-0754-3

Murre, J.M.J., K.S. Graham, & J.R. Hodges (2001). Semantic dementia: relevance to connectionist models of long-term memory. Brain, 124, 647-675. ISSN 0006-8950

4 Feb - 7. Prefrontal cortex (Lamme)

Miller, E.K., D.J. Freedman, & J.D. Willis. (2002). The prefrontal cortex: categories, concepts and cognition. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, series B, 357, 1123-1136. ISSN: 09628436 (PDF)

Fuster, J.M. (2000). Executive frontal functions. Experimental Brain Research. 133(1), 66-70, ISSN 0014-4819 (print), ISSN 1432-1106 (electronic) (PDF)


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