IV. The reading list and weekly syllabus (subject to revision)

1/21 1. Introduction, origins, overview

  1. Gilbert, D. (2002). Are psychology's tribes ready to form a nation? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 6(1), 3.
  2. Griffin, D. W. & Ross, L. (1991). Subjective construal, social inference, and human misunderstanding. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 24, 319-359. [selections to be noted]
  3. Ochsner, K. N., & Kosslyn, S. M. (1999). The cognitive neuroscience approach. In B. M. Bly & D. E. Rumelhart (Eds.), Cognitive science (pp. 319-365). San Diego, CA: Academic Press, Inc.
  4. Ochsner, K. N., & Lieberman, M. D. (2001). The emergence of social cognitive neuroscience. American Psychologist, 56(9), 717-734.
  5. Wegner, D. M., & Gilbert, D. T. (2000). Social psychology—The science of human experience. In H. Bless & J. P. Forgas (Eds.), The message within: The role of subjective experience in social cognition and behavior. Philadelphia, PA: Psychology Press.

1/28 2. Basic Principles

  1. Gilbert, D. T. (1999). What the mind's not. In S. Chaiken & Y. Trope (Eds.), Dual process theories in social psychology. New York: Guilford.
  2. Cacioppo, J. T., Berntson, G. G., Lorig, T. S, Norris, C. J., Rickett, E., & Nusbaum, H. (in press). Just Because You’re Imaging the Brain Doesn’t Mean You Can Stop Using Your Head: A Primer and Set of First Principles. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
  3. Wegner, D. M., & Bargh, J. A. (1998). Control and automaticity in social life. In D. T. Gilbert & S. T. Fiske (Eds.), The handbook of social psychology, Vol. 1 (4th ed.) (pp. 446-496). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. [selections to be noted]
  4. QLMRI handout on structuring scientific thinking

2/4 3. Self I: Agency

  1. Decety, J., Chaminade, T., Grezes, J., & Meltzoff, A. N. (2002). A PET exploration of the neural mechanisms involved in reciprocal imitation. Neuroimage, 15(1), 265-272.
  2. Farrer, C., Franck, N., Georgieff, N., Frith, C. D., Decety, J., & Jeannerod, M. (2003). Modulating the experience of agency: a positron emission tomography study. Neuroimage, 18(2), 324-333.
  3. Feinberg, T. E., Schindler, R. J., Flanagan, N. G., & Haber, L. D. (1992). Two alien hand syndromes. Neurology., 42(1), 19-24.
  4. Ramachandran, V. S. (1995). Anosognosia in parietal lobe syndrome. Consciousness & Cognition, 4(1), 22-51. [selections to be noted]
  5. Vogeley, K., & Fink, G. R. (2003). Neural correlates of the first-person-perspective. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7(1), 38-42.
  6. Wegner, D. M. (2003). The mind's best trick: How we experience conscious will. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7(2), 65-69.

2/11 4. Self II: Self-knowledge

  1. Baumeister, R. F. (1998). The self. In D. T. Gilbert & S. T. Fiske (Eds.), The handbook of social psychology, Vol. 2 (4th ed.) (pp. 680-740). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. [selections to be noted]
  2. Keenan, J. P., Wheeler, M. A., Gallup, G. G., Jr., & Pascual-Leone, A. (2000). Self-recognition and the right prefrontal cortex. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 4(9), 338-344.
  3. Kelley, W. M., Macrae, C. N., Wyland, C. L., Caglar, S., Inati, S., & Heatherton, T. F. (2002). Finding the self? An event-related fMRI study. J Cogn Neurosci, 14(5), 785-794.
  4. Klein, S. B., Loftus, J., & Kihlstrom, J. F. (1996). Self-knowledge of an amnesic patient: Toward a neuropsychology of personality and social psychology. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 125(3), 250-260.
  5. Ochsner, K. N., Robertson, E. R. & Beer, J. B. (2003). Dissociating personal perspective and person perceived in judgments of self and other. Stanford University Ms.
  6. Turk, D. J., Heatherton, T. F., Kelley, W. M., Funnell, M. G., Gazzaniga, M. S., & Macrae, C. N. (2002). Mike or me? Self-recognition in a split-brain patient. Nat Neurosci, 5(9), 841-842.

2/18 5. Self III: Feeling

  1. Ochsner, K. N., Feldman, & Barrett. (2001). A multiprocess perspective on the neuroscience of emotion. In T. J. Mayne & G. A. Bonanno (Eds.), Emotions: Current issues and future directions (pp. 38-81). New York, NY: The Guilford Press.
  2. Anderson, A. K., & Phelps, E. A. (2002). Is the human amygdala critical for the subjective experience of emotion? Evidence of intact dispositional affect in patients with amygdala lesions. J Cogn Neurosci, 14(5), 709-720.
  3. Anderson, A. K., Christoff, K., Stappen, I., Panitz, D., Ghahremani, D. G., Glover, G., Gabrieli, J. D., & Sobel, N. (2003). Dissociated neural representations of intensity and valence in human olfaction. Nat Neurosci, 6(2), 196-202.
  4. Calder, A. J., Keane, J., Manes, F., Antoun, N., & Young, A. W. (2000). Impaired recognition and experience of disgust following brain injury. Nat Neurosci, 3(11), 1077-1078.
  5. Hamann, S. B., Ely, T. D., Hoffman, J. M., & Kilts, C. D. (2002). Ecstasy and agony: activation of the human amygdala in positive and negative emotion. Psychol Sci, 13(2), 135-141.
  6. Knutson, B., Adams, C. M., Fong, G. W., & Hommer, D. (2001). Anticipation of increasing monetary reward selectively recruits nucleus accumbens. Journal of Neuroscience, 21(16), RC159.
  7. Phan, K. L., Taylor, S. F., Welsh, R. C., Decker, L. R., Noll, D. C., Nichols, T. E., Britton, J. C., & Liberzon, I. (2003). Activation of the medial prefrontal cortex and extended amygdala by individual ratings of emotional arousal: a fMRI study. Biol Psychiatry, 53(3), 211-215.

2/25 6. Self IV: Controlling your self

  1. Arnsten, A. F. (1998). The biology of being frazzled. Science, 280(5370), 1711-1712.
  2. Barrett, L. F., Gross, J., Christensen, T. C., & Benvenuto, M. (2001). Knowing what you're feeling and knowing what to do about it: Mapping the relation between emotion differentiation and emotion regulation. Cognition & Emotion, 15(6), 713-724.
  3. Beauregard, M., Levesque, J., & Bourgouin, P. (2001). Neural correlates of conscious self-regulation of emotion. Journal of Neuroscience, 21(18), RC165.
  4. Carter, C. S., Braver, T. S., Barch, D. M., Botvinick, M. M., Noll, D., & Cohen, J. D. (1998). Anterior cingulate cortex, error detection, and the online monitoring of performance. Science, 280(5364), 747-749.
  5. Gehring, W. J., & Knight, R. T. (2000). Prefrontal-cingulate interactions in action monitoring. Nat Neurosci, 3(5), 516-520.
  6. Ochsner, K. N., Bunge, S. A., Gross, J. J., & Gabrieli, J. D. (2002). Rethinking feelings: an FMRI study of the cognitive regulation of emotion. J Cogn Neurosci, 14(8), 1215-1229.
  7. Ochsner, K. N., Ray, R., Gabrieli, J. D. E., & Gross, J. J. (2003). For better or for worse: neural systems supporting the cognitive up- and down-regulation of negative emotion. Stanford University manuscript.
  8. Taylor, S. F., Phan, K. L., Decker, L. R., & Liberzon, I. (2003). Subjective rating of emotionally salient stimuli modulates neural activity. Neuroimage, 18(3), 650-659.

3/3 7. Perceiving people I: Actions & expressions

  1. Lieberman, M. D., Gaunt, R., Gilbert, D. T., & Trope, Y. (2002). Reflection and reflexion: A social cognitive neuroscience approach to attributional inference. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 34, 199-249. [pages 1-12].
  2. Adams, R. B., Jr., Gordon, H. L., Baird, A. A., Ambady, N., & Kleck, R. E. (2003). Effects of gaze on amygdala sensitivity to anger and fear faces. Science, 300(5625), 1536
  3. Adolphs, R., Baron-Cohen, S., & Tranel, D. (2002). Impaired recognition of social emotions following amygdala damage. J Cogn Neurosci, 14(8), 1264-1274.
  4. Amaral, D. G., Capitanio, J. P., Jourdain, M., Mason, W. A., Mendoza, S. P., & Prather, M. (2003). The amygdala: is it an essential component of the neural network for social cognition? Neuropsychologia, 41(2), 235-240.
  5. Anderson, A. K., Christoff, K., Panitz, D., De Rosa, E., & Gabrieli, J. D. (2003). Neural correlates of the automatic processing of threat facial signals. J Neurosci, 23(13), 5627-5633.
  6. Calder, A. J., Lawrence, A. D., Keane, J., Scott, S. K., Owen, A. M., Christoffels, I., & Young, A. W. (2002). Reading the mind from eye gaze. Neuropsychologia, 40(8), 1129-1138.
  7. Castelli, F., Happe, F., Frith, U., & Frith, C. (2000). Movement and mind: a functional imaging study of perception and interpretation of complex intentional movement patterns. Neuroimage, 12(3), 314-325.
  8. Kampe, K. K., Frith, C. D., Dolan, R. J., & Frith, U. (2001). Reward value of attractiveness and gaze. Nature, 413(6856), 589.

3/10 8. Perceiving people II: Intentions, & attributions

  1. Lieberman, M. D., Gaunt, R., Gilbert, D. T., & Trope, Y. (2002). Reflection and reflexion: A social cognitive neuroscience approach to attributional inference. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 34, 199-249. [pages 12-24].
  2. Blakemore, S. J., & Decety, J. (2001). From the perception of action to the understanding of intention. Nat Rev Neurosci, 2(8), 561-567.
  3. Carr, L., Iacoboni, M., Dubeau, M. C., Mazziotta, J. C., & Lenzi, G. L. (2003). Neural mechanisms of empathy in humans: a relay from neural systems for imitation to limbic areas. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 100(9), 5497-5502.
  4. Gallagher, H. L., & Frith, C. D. (2003). Functional imaging of 'theory of mind'. Trends Cogn Sci, 7(2), 77-83.
  5. Gallagher, H. L., Jack, A. I., Roepstorff, A., & Frith, C. D. (2002). Imaging the intentional stance in a competitive game. Neuroimage, 16(3 Pt 1), 814-821.
  6. Meltzoff, A. N., & Decety, J. (2003). What imitation tells us about social cognition: a rapprochement between developmental psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 358(1431), 491-500.
  7. Mitchell, J. P., Heatherton, T. F., & Macrae, C. N. (2002). Distinct neural systems subserve person and object knowledge. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 99(23), 15238-15243.
  8. Ochsner, K. N., Ludlow, D., Knierim, K., Ramachandran, T., Hanelin, J.& Mackey, S. (2003). Common and distinct neural systems underlying the perception of emotion in self and other.

3/17 Spring Break

3/24 9. Perceiving People III: Stereotyping/evaluative categorization

  1. Amodio, D. M., Harmon-Jones, E., & Devine, P. G. (2003). Individual differences in the activation and control of affective race bias as assessed by startle eyeblink response and self-report. J Pers Soc Psychol, 84(4), 738-753.
  2. Golby, A. J., Gabrieli, J. D. E., Chiao, J. Y., & Eberhardt, J. L. (2001). Differential Fusiform Responses to Same- and Other-Race Faces . Nature Neuroscience, 4(8), 845-850.
  3. McClelland, J. L., McNaughton, B. L., & O'Reilly, R. C. (1995). Why there are complementary learning systems in the hippocampus and neocortex: insights from the successes and failures of connectionist models of learning and memory. Psychol Rev, 102(3), 419-457. [selections to be noted].
  4. Milne, E., & Grafman, J. (2001). Ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions in humans eliminate implicit gender stereotyping. J Neurosci, 21(12), RC150.
  5. Phelps, E. A., Cannistraci, C. J., & Cunningham, W. A. (2003). Intact performance on an indirect measure of race bias following amygdala damage. Neuropsychologia, 41(2), 203-208.
  6. Phelps, E. A., O'Connor, K. J., Cunningham, W. A., Funayama, E. S., Gatenby, J. C., Gore, J. C., & Banaji, M. R. (2000). Performance on indirect measures of race evaluation predicts amygdala activation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 12(5), 729-738.
  7. Winston, J. S., Strange, B. A., O'Doherty, J., & Dolan, R. J. (2002). Automatic and intentional brain responses during evaluation of trustworthiness of faces. Nat Neurosci, 5(3), 277-283.

3/31 10. Personality & Individual differences

  1. Canli, T., Sivers, H., Whitfield, S. L., Gotlib, I. H., & Gabrieli, J. D. (2002). Amygdala response to happy faces as a function of extraversion. Science, 296(5576), 2191.
  2. Canli, T., Desmond, J. E., Zhao, Z., & Gabrieli, J. D. (2002). Sex differences in the neural basis of emotional memories. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 99(16), 10789-10794.
  3. Davidson, R. J. (2000). Affective style, psychopathology, and resilience: brain mechanisms and plasticity. American Psychologist, 55(11), 1196-1214.
  4. Knutson, B., Momenan, R., Rawlings, R. R., Fong, G. W., & Hommer, D. (2001). Negative association of neuroticism with brain volume ratio in healthy humans. Biological Psychiatry, 50(9), 685-690.
  5. Knutson, B., Wolkowitz, O. M., Cole, S. W., Chan, T., Moore, E. A., Johnson, R. C., Terpstra, J., Turner, R. A., & Reus, V. I. (1998). Selective alteration of personality and social behavior by serotonergic intervention. American Journal of Psychiatry, 155(3), 373-379.
  6. Luu, P., Collins, P., & Tucker, D. M. (2000). Mood, personality, and self-monitoring: negative affect and emotionality in relation to frontal lobe mechanisms of error monitoring. J Exp Psychol Gen, 129(1), 43-60.
  7. Mather, M., Canli, T., English, T., Whitfield, S., Wais, P., Ochsner, K., Gabrieli, J., & Cartensen, L. (in press). Amygdala responses to Emotionally Valenced Stimuli in Older and Younger adults. Psychological Science.
  8. Sheline, Y. I., Barch, D. M., Donnelly, J. M., Ollinger, J. M., Snyder, A. Z., & Mintun, M. A. (2001). Increased amygdala response to masked emotional faces in depressed subjects resolves with antidepressant treatment: an fMRI study. Biol Psychiatry, 50(9), 651-658.

4/7 11. Interactions I: Beliefs & expectancies

  1. Ellis, H. D., & Lewis, M. B. (2001). Capgras delusion: a window on face recognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 5(4), 149-156.
  2. Gilbert, D. T. (1991). How mental systems believe. American Psychologist, 46(2), 107-119.
  3. Kosslyn, S. M., Thompson, W. L., Costantini-Ferrando, M. F., Alpert, N. M., & Spiegel, D. (2000). Hypnotic visual illusion alters color processing in the brain. American Journal of Psychiatry, 157(8), 1279-1284.
  4. Lieberman, M. D., Ochsner, K. N., Gilbert, D. T., & Schacter, D. L. (2001). Do amnesics exhibit cognitive dissonance reduction? The role of explicit memory and attention in attitude change. Psychological Science, 12, 135-140.
  5. Mayberg, H. S., Silva, J. A., Brannan, S. K., Tekell, J. L., Mahurin, R. K., McGinnis, S., & Jerabek, P. A. (2002). The functional neuroanatomy of the placebo effect. American Journal of Psychiatry, 159(5), 728-737.
  6. Rainville, P., Carrier, B., Hofbauer, R. K., Bushnell, M. C., & Duncan, G. H. (1999). Dissociation of sensory and affective dimensions of pain using hypnotic modulation. Pain, 82(2), 159-171.
  7. Sawamoto, N., Honda, M., Okada, T., Hanakawa, T., Kanda, M., Fukuyama, H., Konishi, J., & Shibasaki, H. (2000). Expectation of pain enhances responses to nonpainful somatosensory stimulation in the anterior cingulate cortex and parietal Operculum/Posterior insula: an event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Journal of Neuroscience, 20(19),7438-45

4/14 12. Interactions II: Social decision making

  1. Anderson, S. W., Bechara, A., Damasio, H., Tranel, D., & Damasio, A. R. (1999). Impairment of social and moral behavior related to early damage in human prefrontal cortex. Nature Neuroscience, 2(11), 1032-1037.
  2. Blair, R. J., & Cipolotti, L. (2000). Impaired social response reversal. A case of 'acquired sociopathy'. Brain, 123, 1122-1141.
  3. Greene, J. D., Sommerville, R. B., Nystrom, L. E., Darley, J. M., & Cohen, J. D. (2001). An fMRI investigation of emotional engagement in moral judgment. Science, 293(5537), 2105-2108.
  4. Moll, J., de Oliveira-Souza, R., Bramati, I. E., & Grafman, J. (2002). Functional networks in emotional moral and nonmoral social judgments. Neuroimage, 16(3 Pt 1), 696-703.
  5. Rilling, J., Gutman, D., Zeh, T., Pagnoni, G., Berns, G., & Kilts, C. (2002). A neural basis for social cooperation. Neuron, 35(2), 395.
  6. Sanfey, A. G., Rilling, J. K., Aronson, J. A., Nystrom, L. E., & Cohen, J. D. (2003). The neural basis of economic decision-making in the Ultimatum Game. Science, 300(5626), 1755-1758.

4/21 13. Experimental Presentations I

4/28 14. Experimental Presentations II

5/4 Reading period

5/11 Final paper due

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based on Sept. 15, 2003 revision of syllabus