Fundamentals of Biopsychology
AS.200.613 (01)

This is a required course for all first year PhD students in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. The course covers foundational concepts and methods in neurobiology and cognitive neuroscience.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Mysore, Shreesh Pranesh
• Room: Krieger 110
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 15/15

Why is thinking hard?
AS.200.650 (01)

In what ways and why is human cognition limited? This seminar will focus on understanding and explaining the limitations and capabilities of human cognition through deep dives into a number of subtopics. Possible topics include: What is ‘intelligence,’ does it have quantifiable units and/or a substance-like underpinning. Why does thinking feel hard, why and how do we experience mental effort? What limits visual attention and working memory? Where does insight come from? Why do we forget things? What is creativity? What makes some concepts hard to learn? Why do we misunderstand science? How do we evaluate our own knowledge and understanding?

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Flombaum, Jonathan
• Room: Ames 217
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 7/7

Probabilistic Models of the Visual Cortex
AS.050.675 (01)

The course gives an introduction to computational models of the mammalian visual cortex. It covers topics in low-, mid-, and high-level vision. It briefly discusses the relevant evidence from anatomy, electrophysiology, imaging (e.g., fMRI), and psychophysics. It concentrates on mathematical modelling of these phenomena taking into account recent progress in probabilistic models of computer vision and developments in machine learning, such as deep networks. Also offered as AS.050.375.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
• Instructor: Yuille, Alan L
• Room: Krieger 180
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 20/20

Psychological & Brain Sciences Core Topics B
AS.200.655 (01)

This course is designed to introduce students to core topics in psychological and brain sciences. Students will read seminal and contemporary papers in topics that cover the breadth of the field. Graduate Students in Psychological & Brain Sciences.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 3:30PM
• Instructor: Feigenson, Lisa
• Room: Ames 217
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 26/30

Advanced Statistical Methods
AS.200.657 (01)

Topics in applied probability and statistical inference; analysis of variance; experimental design. Intended for graduate students. Recommended Course Background: one statistics course.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: T 2:00PM - 4:30PM
• Instructor: Bowen, Jeffrey D
• Room: Krieger 110
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 19/20

Topics in Psychological & Brain Sciences
AS.200.661 (01)

An introduction to postdoctoral activities (e.g., grant applications, journal article submission, meeting presentations, the politics of psychology and American science) for Ph.D. candidates in psychology.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: T 1:00PM - 1:50PM
• Instructor: Feigenson, Lisa
• Room: Krieger 110
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 15/15

Advanced Seminar in Vision
AS.200.670 (01)

This seminar will cover advanced topics in vision from the perspectives of several disciplines. Topics include human visual psychophysics, perception and cognition, and computational vision. Graduate students only.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: F 10:00AM - 11:30AM
• Instructor: Egeth, Howard E, Flombaum, Jonathan, Halberda, Justin
• Room: Ames 217
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 14/20

Research Seminar: Neurocognitive Aging
AS.200.804 (01)

This seminar will cover advanced topics in neurocognitive aging. Topics will include animal models of memory loss in normal aging and in Alzheimer's disease (AD), including both behavioral and neurobiological findings. Special attention will be given to the relation between such findings and the effects of aging and AD on memory and the brain in man. Similar comparative analysis in other cognitive domains (e.g. attentional processes) will also be considered.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Gallagher, Michela
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Research Seminar: Attention and Cognition
AS.200.805 (01)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Flombaum, Jonathan
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Readings: Current Research in Cognitive Aging
AS.200.808 (01)

Guided independent readings. The class is designed as a seminar including discussion of primary research articles of cognitive aging. Specific topics include human imaging and animal models of memory, aging, and neurodegenerative disease.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Haberman, Rebecca
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 15/15

Research In Psychology
AS.200.810 (01)

Students plan and execute original research under guidance of advisers. Results are usually prepared in a form suitable for publication. Graduate students only.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Feigenson, Lisa
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 25/45

Research Seminar: Human Performance
AS.200.811 (01)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Egeth, Howard E
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5

Research Seminar: Cognitive Development
AS.200.814 (01)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Halberda, Justin
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Research Seminar: Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience
AS.200.835 (01)

Research seminar covering topics on cognitive and systems neuroscience.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Honey, Christopher
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/5

Cognitive Lunch
AS.200.817 (01)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
• Instructor: Feigenson, Lisa
• Room: Krieger 110
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 17/30

Research seminar: Naturalistic memory and perception
AS.200.822 (01)

Research seminar covering topics on human memory and perception in real-world settings.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Chen, Janice
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5

Research Seminar: Psychobiology
AS.200.825 (01)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: W 12:00PM - 1:30PM
• Instructor: Moss, Cynthia
• Room: Krieger 110
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 12/20

Research Seminar: Neural Systems & Behavior
AS.200.831 (01)

Graduate Students Only

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Moss, Cynthia
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/5

Teaching Practicum
AS.200.849 (01)

All candidates are required to obtain special experience in various aspects of undergraduate teaching. Graduate students only.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Feigenson, Lisa
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 12/20

Research Seminar: Neural Circuits & Computations
AS.200.829 (01)

Graduate Students Only

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Mysore, Shreesh Pranesh
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5

Research Seminar: Vision and Cognition
AS.200.819 (01)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Halberda, Justin
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Research Seminar: Neural Circuits & Behavio
AS.200.832 (01)

Graduate Students Only.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Janak, Patricia
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/5

Research Seminar: Perception & Mind
AS.200.833 (01)

Research seminar covering topics related to perception & mind.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Firestone, Charles Z.
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Directed Readings & Research
AS.200.820 (01)

Guided independent readings and research in special fields. Graduate Students only.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Feigenson, Lisa
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Research Seminar: Cognitive Development
AS.200.813 (01)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Feigenson, Lisa
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Current Advances in Psychological and Brain Sciences
AS.200.848 (01)

Introduces advanced research topics to graduate students (as well as faculty) through a series of speakers and discussions.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times: W 3:30PM - 5:30PM
• Instructor: Flombaum, Jonathan
• Room: Ames 234
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 39/60

Advanced Teaching Practicum
AS.200.850 (01)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Feigenson, Lisa
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10

Research Seminar: Neuroscience of Decision-making
AS.200.818 (01)

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Stuphorn, Veit
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5

Research Seminar: Neuroplasticity and Development
AS.200.826 (01)

Graduate Students Only.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Bedny, Marina
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5

Research Seminar: Hippocampal System
AS.200.836 (01)

Research seminar covering topics on the behavioral neurophysiology of the hippocampal formation

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Knierim, James
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10

Research Seminar: Neural Circuits for Learning
AS.200.824 (01)

Research seminar covering topics related to neural circuits for learning.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Kuchibhotla, Kishore V
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5

Research Seminar: Dynamic Scene Perception
AS.200.834 (01)

Research seminar covering topics on the behavioral and brain basis of perception in dynamic scenes.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Fischer, Jason
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5

Research Seminar:Neural Systems
AS.200.840 (01)

Graduate students only. Permission Required.

• Credits: 0.00
• Level: Graduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Courtney-Faruqee, Susan
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5