| source Harvard (X) |
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department Mind, Brain, and Behavior (X) |
Join renowned neuroscientists from Harvard and elsewhere who will lead highly interactive seminars addressing core problems underlying the emergence of conscious visual experience. Topics include the requisite neuronal representations of the content of visual images, their localization within extrapersonal space and the sense of ownership of such images by a self. Subsidiary topics include selective attention, the binding problem, binocular rivalry, change blindness, recursive neuronal networks and distinction between phenomenal and access consciousness.
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Provides understanding of self-destructive behavior, focusing largely on drug addiction. Provides insight into nature of voluntary behavior; requires appreciation of recent advances in understanding relationships among behavior, biology, and experience, e.g., role of experience in gene expression and brain plasticity. Topics include behavioral trait heritability; epidemiology and history of drug use; OCD and addiction; contribution of laboratory research to study of choice and motivation (matching law, hyperbolic discounting, stable but suboptimal choice distributions).
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Takes a multidisciplinary approach to understanding brain mechanisms mediating music perception, performance, and cognition. Students master relevant topics in cognitive psychology, psychophysics, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, neurology, and brain imaging. Individual seminars are thematic (e.g., harmony perception, emotion and meaning in music, musical talent and creativity). Provides students with opportunity to develop oral presentation skills and ability to critically read original research papers published in professional journals (e.g., Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Experimental Psychology).
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Focuses on waking, sleeping, and dreaming as examples of conscious states in both humans and animals. Original papers and books by Allan Hobson (The Dreaming Brain) and Antonio Damasio (The Feeling of What Happens) form the background for discussions of waking, sleeping, and dreaming from the perspectives of neurology, physiology, psychology, and cognitive neurosciences. Discusses various approaches to understanding the functions of sleep and wake (consciousness) and reviews several theories on the topic.
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Focuses on the science of happiness, integrating findings from positive psychology, psychiatry, behavioral genetics, neuroscience, and behavioral economics. Begins with a brief history of ideas on happiness from Aristotle to Kahneman. Considers the genetics of happiness including the notion of a biologically determined hedonic set point, the brain's pleasure circuitry, and the mind's power to frame events positively, a tool used in cognitive therapies. Questions whether pleasure and happiness are our purpose.
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Considers how culture, law, and science construct violence. Reviews clinical examples of violence (videotapes of a serial killer, a sexually violent predator, a case of maternal infanticide, and violence by law enforcement) and the responses of the courts and the criminal justice system. Then critically examines the spectrum of scientific theories and psychiatric diagnoses that seek to delineate and explain human violence.
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Investigates classics on love including Shakespeare poems and plays, Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter, Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, Gilligan's The Birth of Pleasure; and classic films including Wild Strawberries and My Big, Fat Greek Wedding. Discusses nature of "love" with authors, film producers, and interdisciplinary scholars. Students prepare position papers using course materials to come to their own formulation on multiple dimensions of "love."
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