Instructor: Professor Senqi Hu
Office: 116B HGH
Phone No.: (707) 826-5262
Regular Office Hours: TR 12:30-2:30 (Or by appointment)
E-mail address: sh4@humboldt.edu
Class Meeting Location: 119 HGH
Class Meeting Time: MWF 12:00 - 12:50

Required text:

Gazzaniga et al., Cognitive Neuroscience, Second edition, 2002.

Course Objective:

To familiar with the development of cognitive neuroscience.

Course Requirements:

Students are required to take four exams (threemid-term exams and one final exam). Each test will include choice and essay questions. The choice questions are from the contents of the textbook. The instructor will provide few potential essay questions to students for each chapter.

Grading Procedures:

Course grade is based on four exams. Each exam will count for 100 points (therefore, the final is not more important than any of the other exams). By doing well on these exams, students can earn a maximum of 400 points. A letter grade will be based on this 400 points with:

A: 372-400
A-: 360-371
B+: 348-359
B: 332-347
B-: 320-331
C+: 308-319
C: 292-307
C-: 280-291
D+: 268-279
D: 240-267

Tentative Class Schedules:

Jan. 21, 23

Ch. 1: A brief history of cognitive neuroscience

Jan. 26, 28, 30

Ch. 2: The cellular and molecular basis of cognition

Feb. 2, 4, 6

Ch. 3: Gross and functional anatomy of cognition
 

Feb. 9, 11, 13

Ch. 4: The methods of cognitive neuroscience
 

Feb. 16

Exam 1
 

Feb. 18, 20, 23

Ch. 5: Perception and encoding

Feb. 25, 27, Mar. 1

Ch. 6: Higher perceptual functions
 

Mar. 3, 5, 8

Ch. 7: Selective attention and orienting
 

Mar. 10

Exam 2

Mar. 12, 22, 24

Ch. 8: Learning and memory
 

Mar. 26, 29, Apr. 2

Ch. 9: Language and the brain
 

Apr. 5, 7, 9

Ch. 10: Cerebral lateralization and specialization
 

Apr. 12

Exam 3
 

Apr. 14, 16, 19

Ch. 11: The control of action
 

Apr. 21, 23, 26

Ch. 12: Executive functions and frontal lobes
 

Apr. 28m 30, May 3

Ch. 13: Emotion
 

May 5, 7

Ch. Students' presentations
 

May 10

Final Exam (10:20-12:10)

---

HOME