437 Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention and Consciousness
Thursday 18-20 KOL-F-123
Alex Gamma, Katharina Henke Westerholt, Daniel Kiper, Adrian Schwaninger
Description
This interdisciplinary seminar focuses on attention and consciousness. Different approaches from neuroscience and perceptual psychology are discussed. The sessions consist of talks held by the lecturers and student presentations. This course is accepted for credits in the postgraduate neuroscience program and for "Leistungsnachweise" in General Psychology (Prof. W. Marx). Regular participation is required.
Materials
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Schedule and slides
| No. | Date | Topic | Chair |
| 1 | 25.10.01 |
General introduction & organisation Introduction to attention [PDF] |
All Schwaninger |
| 2 | 01.11.01 (1) Christoph Dahl (2) Sandra Schuhmacher |
Change blindness (1) Most.S.B., Simons, D.J., Scholl, B.J., Jimenez, R., Clifford, E., & Chabris, C.F. (2001). How not to be seen: The contribution of similarity and selective ignoring to sustained inattentional blindness. Psychological Science, 12(1), 9-17. [PDF] (2) Simons D.J. (2000). Attentional capture and inattentional blindness. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 4(4), 147-155. [PDF] |
Schwaninger |
| 3 | 08.11.01 (1) Christen Cardinal |
Visual search (1) Treisman, A. (1998). Feature binding, attention, and object perception. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B., 353, 1295-1306. [PDF] (2) Horowitz, T.S., & Wolfe, J.M. (1998). Visual search has no memory. Nature, 394, 575-577. [PDF] + Wolfe, J.M., & Gancarz, G. (1996) Guided Search 3.0, In V. Lakshminarayanan (Ed.), Basic and Clinical Applications of Vision Science (p. 189-192), Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic. [PDF] |
Schwaninger |
| 4 | 15.11.01 (1) Eugenio Abela (2) Nadia Degonda |
Neglect/Extinction (1) Vallar, G. (1998). Spatial hemineglect in humans. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2, 87-97. [PDF] (2) Rees, G. et al. (2000). Unconscious activation of visual cortex in the damaged right hemisphere of a parietal patient with extinction. Brain, 123, 1624-1633. [PDF] |
Henke |
| 5 | 22.11.01 (1) Eran Feit (2) Nadia Degonda |
Neuroimaging, attention modulates activity (1) Wojciulik, E. et al. (1998). Covert visual attention modulates face-specific activity in the human fusiform gyrus: fMRI study. Journal of Neurophysiology, 79, 1574-1578. [PDF] (2) Engelien, A. et al. (2000). The neural correlates of deaf-hearing in man. Brain, 123, 532-545. [PDF] |
Henke |
| 6 | 29.11.01 (1) Samy Egli (2) Urs Maurer |
Neural basis of attention (1) Treue, S., & Maunsell, J.H.R. (1996). Attentional modulation of visual motion processing in cortical areas MT and MST. Nature, 382, 539-541. [PDF] (2) Leopold, D.A., & Logothetis, N.K. (1996). Activity changes in early visual cortex reflects monkeys' percepts during binocular rivalry. Nature, 379, 549-553. [PDF] |
Kiper |
| 7 | 06.12.01 (1) David Andel (2) Verena Hafner |
Models of attention (1) Itti L, Koch C. (2001). Computational modelling of visual attention. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2(3), 194-203. [PDF] (2) Engel, A.K., Fries, P., & Singer, W. (2001). Dynamic predictions: oscillations and synchrony in top-down processing. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2, 704 -716. [PDF] |
Schwaninger |
| 8 | 13.12.01 (1) Axel Wollmer |
Introduction to consciousness (1) Levine, J. (1995). Qualia: intrinsic, relational or what? In T. Metzinger (Ed.), Conscious experience (pp. 277-92), Schöningh: Imprint Academic (2) Levine, J. (1983). Materialism and qualia: the explanatory gap. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 64, 354-361. |
Gamma |
| 9 | 20.12.01 (1) Rene Luther |
Qualia (1) Chalmers, D.J. (1995). Absent Qualia, Fading Qualia, Dancing Qualia. In T. Metzinger, Conscious Experience (pp. 309-328), Schöningh: Imprint Academic. [PDF] (2) Dennett, D.C. (1988). Quining Qualia. In A. Marcel and E. Bisiach (Eds.), Consciousness in Modern Science (pp. 42-77), Oxford University Press. [PDF] |
Gamma |
| 10 | 10.01.02 (1) Simone Bosshardt (2) Cristina Billeter |
Consciousness: Left and right brain (1), (2) Gazzaniga, M.S. (2000). Cerebral specialization and interhemispheric communication. Brain, 123, 1293-1326. (2 talks, big review article). [PDF] |
Henke |
| 11 | 17.01.02 (1) Chris Mondadori (2) David Andel |
Subliminal perception (1) Dehaene, S. et al. (1998). Imaging unconscious semantic priming. Nature, 395, 597-600. [PDF] (2) Henke, K. et al. Active hippocampus during nonconscious encoding and retrieval. Consciousness and Cognition, submitted. [PDF] |
Henke |
| 12 | 24.01.02 (1) Urs Maurer (2) Simone Bosshardt |
Blindsight (1) Kolb, F.C., & Braun, J. (1995). Blindsight in normal observers. Nature, 377, 336-338. [PDF] (2) Weiskrantz, L., Barbur, J.L., & Sahraie, A. (1995). Parameters affecting conscious versus unconscious visual discrimination with damage to the visual cortex (V1). Proceedings of the National Academy of Science U S A, 92(13), 6122-6126. [PDF] |
Kiper |
| 13 | 31.01.02 (1) Anton Bolfing (2) Elisabeta Chicca |
Neural synchronization & binding (1) Crick, F.C., & Koch, C. (1998). Consciousness and neuroscience. Cerebral Cortex, 8, 97-107. [PDF] (2) Crick, F.C., & Koch, C. (1995). Are we aware of neural activity in primary visual cortex? Nature, 375, 121-123. [PDF] |
Kiper |
| 14 |
07.02.02 (1) Rene Luther (2) Christen Cardinal |
Drug induced altered states of consciousness (1) Vollenweider FX, Gamma A, Vollenweider-Scherpenhuyzen MFI (1999) Neural correlates of hallucinogen-induced altered states of consciousness. In: Hameroff SR, Kazniak AW and Chalmers DJ (eds.), Toward a Science of Consciousness III, pp 99-109, MIT Press (2) Gamma A, Liechti ME, Vollenweider FX (2001) Giving MDMA to Human Volunteers in Switzerland. In: Holland J (ed.), Ecstasy: The complete guide, Park Street Press |
Gamma |