PSYDBS 764 Mechanisms of Attention

The course covers the cognitive and neural processes that underlie mechanisms of attention. Classic and recent journal articles will be discusses to extract major findings and to elucidate the various methods - psychophysical measurement, single-cell neurophysiological recording, neuroimaging - that allow for inferences about the biological bases of cognition. The major focus will be on mechanisms of visual attention, but there will also be some discussion of mechanisms of auditory attention or other sensory modalities, when possible.

3 Credit(s)