I find psychology to be too much like accounting--a lot of work for very little excitement. Having said that, it is obvious that the science of human (and other animal) behaviour contributes to the betterment of society and to the improvement of the human condition in countless areas.
Some of the courses offered at Stanford. Very difficult material...
2013-2014 Spring PSYCH 192 | 3 units | Class # 31116 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | SEM | Students enrolled: 21 / 20
03/31/2014 - 06/04/2014 Mon 3:15 PM - 5:05 PM at School of Education 206 with Krumboltz, J. (PI)
Instructors: Krumboltz, J. (PI)
Notes: Class will meet Monday 3:15-5:05 plus an average of 1 hour per week to be arranged. Spring.
PSYCH 201: Social Psychology Lecture Series
Required of social psychology graduate students. Guest lecturers from Stanford and other institutions. May be repeated for credit. (Miller)
Terms: not given this year | Units: 3 | Grading: Satisfactory/No Credit
PSYCH 202: Cognitive Neuroscience
Graduate core course. The anatomy and physiology of the brain. Methods: electrical stimulation of the brain, neuroimaging, neuropsychology, psychophysics, single-cell neurophysiology, theory and computation. Neuronal pathways and mechanisms of attention, consciousness, emotion, language, memory, motor control, and vision. Prerequisite: 207 or consent of instructor.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors: McClure, S. (PI)
Schedule for PSYCH 202
2013-2014 Spring PSYCH 202 | 3 units | Class # 18440 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | LEC | Students enrolled: 16
03/31/2014 - 06/04/2014 Mon, Wed, Fri 1:15 PM - 3:05 PM at 160-315 with McClure, S. (PI)
Instructors: McClure, S. (PI)
Notes: Spring. PSYCH 202 | Class # 27238 | Section 02 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | DIS | Students enrolled: 13
03/31/2014 - 06/04/2014 Fri 1:15 PM - 2:05 PM
Notes: Spring.
PSYCH 203: MODELS OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
How do children learn to understand and produce their native language? Language acquisition is a core topic in cognitive science and has been a key test case for formal approaches. Topics include: learnability theory, grammatical approaches, connectionist models, and probabilistic models.
Terms: not given this year | Units: 3 | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
PSYCH 204: Computation and cognition: the probabilistic approach
This course will introduce the probabilistic approach to cognitive science, in which learning and reasoning are understood as inference in complex probabilistic models. Examples will be drawn from areas including concept learning, causal reasoning, social cognition, and language understanding. Formal modeling ideas and techniques will be discussed in concert with relevant empirical phenomena.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-4 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors: Goodman, N. (PI) ; Ouyang, L. (TA)
Schedule for PSYCH 204
2013-2014 Autumn PSYCH 204 | 3-4 units | Class # 34832 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | LEC | Students enrolled: 23 / 30
09/23/2013 - 12/06/2013 Tue, Thu 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM at Art2 with Goodman, N. (PI); Ouyang, L. (TA)
Instructors: Goodman, N. (PI); Ouyang, L. (TA)
Notes: Autumn.
PSYCH 204A: Human Neuroimaging Methods
This course introduces the student to human neuroimaging using magnetic resonance scanners. The course is a mixture of lectures and hands-on software tutorials. The course begins by introducing basic MR principles. Then various MR measurement modalities are described, including several types of structural and functional imaging methods. Finally algorithms for analyzing and visualizing the various types of neuroimaging data are explained, including anatomical images, functional data, diffusion imaging (e.g., DTI) and magnetization transfer. Emphasis is on explaining software methods used for interpreting these types of data.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors: Dougherty, B. (PI) ; Wandell, B. (PI)
Schedule for PSYCH 204A
2013-2014 Autumn PSYCH 204A | 3 units | Class # 35736 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | SEM | Students enrolled: 14
09/23/2013 - 12/06/2013 Tue, Thu 2:15 PM - 3:05 PM at 160-322 with Dougherty, B. (PI); Wandell, B. (PI)
Instructors: Dougherty, B. (PI); Wandell, B. (PI)
Notes: Autumn.
PSYCH 204B: Computational Neuroimaging: Analysis Methods
Neuroimaging methods with focus on data analysis techniques. Basic MR physics and BOLD signals. Methods for neuroimaging data using real and simulated data sets. Topics include: linearity of the fmri signal; time versus space resolution tradeoffs; noise in neuroimaging; correlation analysis; visualization methods; cortical reconstruction, inflation, and flattening; reverse engineering; can cognitive states be predicted from brain activation? Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Win | Units: 1-3 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors: Grill-Spector, K. (PI)
Schedule for PSYCH 204B
2013-2014 Winter PSYCH 204B | 1-3 units | Class # 38574 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | SEM | Students enrolled: 7
01/06/2014 - 03/14/2014 Tue, Thu 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM at 420-050 with Grill-Spector, K. (PI)
Instructors: Grill-Spector, K. (PI)
Notes: Winter.
PSYCH 205: Foundations of Cognition
Topics: attention, memory, language, similarity and analogy, categories and concepts, learning, reasoning, and decision making. Emphasis is on processes that underlie the capacity to think and how these are implemented in the brain and modeled computationally. The nature of mental representations, language and thought, modular versus general purpose design, learning versus nativism. Prerequisite: 207 or consent of instructor. nOpen to Psychology PhD students only.
Terms: Spr | Units: 1-3 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors: McClelland, J. (PI)
Schedule for PSYCH 205
2013-2014 Spring PSYCH 205 | 1-3 units | Class # 33586 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | SEM | Students enrolled: 15 / 20
03/31/2014 - 06/04/2014 Mon, Wed 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM at 420-245 with McClelland, J. (PI)
Instructors: McClelland, J. (PI)
Notes: Open to Graduate Students in the Psychology PhD Program only. Contact Instructor for permission number.nClass meets in room 420-417. Spring. For doctoral students only. Course open to Graduate Psych students.
PSYCH 206: Cortical Plasticity: Perception and Memory
Seminar. Topics related to cortical plasticity in perceptual and memory systems including neural bases of implicity memory, recognition memory, visual priming, and perceptual learning. Emphasis is on recent research with an interdisciplinary scope, including theory, behavioral findings, neural mechanisms, and computational models. May be repeated for credit. Recommended: 30, 45
Terms: not given this year | Units: 1-3 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
PSYCH 207: Professional Seminar for First-Year Ph.D. Graduate Students
Required of and limited to first-year Ph.D. students in Psychology. Major issues in contemporary psychology with historical backgrounds.
Terms: Aut | Units: 2-3 | Grading: Satisfactory/No Credit
Instructors: Gotlib, I. (PI)
Schedule for PSYCH 207 |
