Mikołaj Buchwald

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Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience

(spring semester 2018/19)  

  1. Introduction (Thursday, 25th of February 2019)
    • Glasser, M. F., Smith, S. M., Marcus, D. S., Andersson, J. L., Auerbach, E. J., Behrens, T. E., … & Robinson, E. C. (2016). The human connectome project’s neuroimaging approach. Nature neuroscience, 19(9), 1175.
    • Lebedev, M. A., & Nicolelis, M. A. (2017). Brain-machine interfaces: From basic science to neuroprostheses and neurorehabilitation. Physiological reviews, 97(2), 767-837.
    • (Additional literature) Page, M. P. (2006). What can’t functional neuroimaging tell the cognitive psychologist? Cortex, 42(3), 428-443.
      • Pure vs. applied science
  2. Addiction (Wednesday, 6th of March 2019)
    • Deroche-Gamonet, V., Belin, D., & Piazza, P. V. (2004). Evidence for addiction-like behavior in the rat. Science, 305(5686), 1014-1017.
    • (Additional literature) Volkow, N. D., Koob, G. F., & McLellan, A. T. (2016). Neurobiologic Advances from the Brain Disease Model of Addiction. New England Journal of Medicine, 374(4), 363–371. http://doi.org/10.1056/nejmra1511480
    • (Additional literature) Volkov, N. D., Wang, G.-J., Telang, F., Fowler, J. S., Logan, J., Childress, A.-R., … Christopher, W. (2006). Cocaine Cues and Dopamine in Dorsal Striatum: Mechanism of Craving in Cocaine Addiction. Journal of Neuroscience, 26(24), 6583–6588. http://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.1544-06.2006
  3. Binge (Wednesday, 13th of March 2019)
    • Avena, N. M., Rada, P., Moise, N., & Hoebel, B. G. (2006). Sucrose sham feeding on a binge schedule releases accumbens dopamine repeatedly and eliminates the acetylcholine satiety response. Neuroscience, 139(3), 813-820.
  4. Sleep (Wednesday, 20th of March 2019)
    • Aeschbach, D., Cutler, A. J., & Ronda, J. M. (2008). A role for non-rapid-eye-movement sleep homeostasis in perceptual learning. The Journal of Neuroscience, 28(11), 2766-2772.
  5. Learning and memory (Wednesday, 27th of March 2019)
    • Knowlton, B. J., Ramus, S. J., & Squire, L. R. (1992). Intact artificial grammar learning in amnesia: Dissociation of classification learning and explicit memory for specific instances. Psychological Science, 3(3), 172-179.
  6. Cognitive control (Wednesday, 3rd of April 2019)
    • Anguera, J. A., Boccanfuso, J., Rintoul, J. L., Al-Hashimi, O., Faraji, F., Janowich, J., Kong, E., Larraburo, Y., Rolle, C., Johnston, E., & Gazzaley, A. (2013). Video game training enhances cognitive control in older adults. Nature, 501(7465), 97-101
      • Scientific programming: Python and R
  7. Action control (Wednesday, 17th of April 2019)
    • Króliczak, G., McAdam, T. D., Quinlan, D. J., & Culham, J. C. (2008). The human dorsal stream adapts to real actions and 3D shape processing: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Journal of neurophysiology, 100(5), 2627-2639.
    • (Additional literature) Norman, K. A., Polyn, S. M., Detre, G. J., & Haxby, J. V. (2006). Beyond mind-reading: multi-voxel pattern analysis of fMRI data. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10(9), 424–430. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2006.07.005
  8. Spatial orientation (Thursday, 26th of April 2019 – postponed from Wednesday, 25th of April 2019)
    • Morris, R. G. M., Garrud, P., Rawlins, J. N. P., & O’Keefe, J. (1982). Place navigation impaired in rats with hippocampal lesions. Nature, 297(5868), 681–683.
      • Pure science or rat medicine?
  9. presentations (Thursday, 16th of May 2019 – postponed from Wednesday, 8th of May)
    • no article during this classes
  10. Function lateralization (Wednesday, 22nd of May 2019 – postponed from Wednesday, 15th of May)
    • Verma, A., Van der Haegen, L., & Brysbaert, M. (2013). Symmetry detection in typically and atypically speech lateralized individuals: A visual half-field study. Neuropsychologia, 51(13), 2611-2619.
  11. Neural plasticity (Thursday, 23rd of May 2019 – postponed from Wednesday, 22nd of May)
    • Siuda-Krzywicka, K., Bola, Ł., Paplińska, M., Sumera, E., Jednoróg, K., Marchewka, A., Śliwińska, M., Amedi, A., Szwed, M. (2016) Massive cortical reorganization in sighted Braille readers. eLife, 5, e10762.
      • Explanation vs. verification
  12. Psychological disorders (Wednesday, 29th of May 2019)
    • Holmes, A. J., & Pizzagalli, D. A. (2008). Spatiotemporal dynamics of error processing dysfunctions in major depressive disorder. Archives of General Psychiatry, 65(2), 179-188.
      • Useful information: computer hardware and operating systems (Black-box insides, dual-booting, Mac OSX vs. Linux, etc.)
  13. Love and desire (Wednesday, 5th of June 2019)
    • Lester, G. L., & Gorzalka, B. B. (1988). Effect of novel and familiar mating partners on the duration of sexual receptivity in the female hamster. Behavioral and neural biology, 49(3), 398-405.
    • Bartels, A., & Zeki, S. (2004). The neural correlates of maternal and romantic love. Neuroimage, 21(3), 1155-1166.
      • Predatory journals
  14. Final classes (Wednesday, 12th of June 2019)
    • Knowledge evaluation:
      • 5 open-ended questions from the pool of 10 subjects: 2. Addiction, 3. Binge, 4. Sleep, 5. Learning and memory, 6. Cognitive control, 7. Action control, 8. Spatial orientation, 10. Function lateralization, 11. Neural plasticity, 13. Love and desire (tylko Lester & Gorzalka).
      • + 3 supplementary close-ended questions concerning the methods of behavioral & cognitive neuroscience.

Additional requirements for the course

  1. Present a scientific paper in the groups of 2.

  2. Design your own experiment utilizing approaches from behavioral and/or cognitive neuroscience (individually):

    • describe literature background of the study,
    • state your research question and hypothesis,
    • present experimental paradigm and data analysis methods,
    • citations and bibliography should be formatted according to the APA guidelines,
    • all of this should close in two A4 pages (including title, author and figures, bibliography may be on 3rd page),
    • present and discuss your idea during classes (registration is available at the same link as for paper presentation).