SUBJECT

Title

Cognitive Neuroscience

Type of instruction

lecture

Level

master

Faculty

Faculty of Education and Psychology

Part of degree program

Credits

Recommended in

Semester 2

Typically offered in

Spring semester

Course description

Aim of the course:

To familiarise students with basic paradigms in Cognitive Neuroscience.

Learning outcome, competences

knowledge:

To ensure students can read articles, understand the methods and interpret results.

attitude:

is sensitive to and interested in noticing psychological phenomena and problems

skills:

To provide an overview of traditional and cutting-edge experimental techniques.

Content of the course

Topics of the course

History, Neurons, Networks, Basic Neuroanatomy
Brain Lobes
Neurons, Networks, Basic Neuro (cont.)
Methods 1-2: EEG/EcoG
Consciousness, Pathology (Coma), Altered States
MEG: MEG: Sensory and Motor Function and Integration
Epilepsy
Stimulation (TMS / DBS)

Learning activities, learning methods:

Lectures and interactive discussions

Evaluation of outcomes

Learning requirements, mode of evaluation, criteria of evaluation:

requirements

Attendance,
2 presentations
1 essay.

mode of evaluation: written exam

criteria of evaluation:

Readings

Compulsory reading list (choose from the list)

Anastassiou and Kock	Ephaptic coupling to endogenous electric field activity: why bother?	2015
Baldauf and Desimone	Neural Mechanisms of Object-Based Attention	2014
Bardin	Making connections	2012
Basar-Eroglu, Struber, Schurmann, Stadler, and Basar	Gamma-band responses in the brain: a short review of psychophysiological correlates and functional significance	1996
Blanke, et al.	Linking Out-of-Body Experience and Self Processing to Mental Own-Body Imagery at the Temporoparietal Junction	2005
Blanke, Landis, Spinelli,and Seeck	Out-of-body experience and autoscopy of neurological origin	2004
Blumenfeld	Impaired consciousness in epilepsy	2012
Boly, et al.	Preserved Feedforward But Impaired Top-Down Processes in the Vegetative State	2011
Buzaski and Wang	Mechanisms of Gamma Oscillations	2012
Buzaski and Watson	Brain rhythms and neural syntax:implications for efficient coding of cognitive content and neuropsychiatric disease	2012
Buzaski, Anastassiou, and Koch	The origin of extracellular fields and currents — EEG, ECoG, LFP and spikes	2012
Buzsaki	Rhythms of the Brain CYCLE-4 and CYCLE-5 (Techniques)	2006
Buzsaki	Rhythms of the Brain CYCLE-4 and CYCLE-5 (EEG)	2006
Cabral, Hugues, Sporns and Deco	Role of local network oscillations in resting-state functional connectivity	2011
Canolty, et al.	Spatiotemporal dynamics of word processing in the human brain	2007
Castellanos, et al.	Principles of recovery from traumatic brain injury: Reorganization of functional networks	2011
Crone, Sinai, and Korzeniewska	High-frequency gamma oscillations and human brain mapping with electrocorticography	2006
Cruse, et al.	Detecting Awareness in the Vegetative State: Electroencephalographic Evidence for Attempted Movements to Command
Desmurget, et al.	Movement Intention After Parietal Cortex Stimulation in Humans	2009
Doron	Phase Entrainment of Neural Oscillations by Periodic Visual Sequences	2011
Dumas, Nadel, Soussignan, Martinerie, and Garnero	Inter-Brain Synchronization during Social Interaction	2010
Ekstoom, et al.	Cellular networks underlying human spatial navigation	2003
Fell and Axmacher	The role of phase synchronization in memory processes	2011
Follett, et al.	Pallidal vs Subthalamic Deep-Brain Stimulation for Parkinson's Disease	2010
Fried, Mukamel, and Kreiman	Internally Generated Preactivation of Single Neurons in Human Medial Frontal Cortex Predicts Volition	2011
Frohlich and McCormick	Endogenous Electric Fields May Guide Neocortical Network Activity	2010
Goldfine, Vitcor, Conte, Bardin, and Schiff	Determination of awareness in patients with severe brain injury using EEG power spectral analysis	2011
Gong, et al.	Mapping Anatomical Connectivity Patterns of Human Cerebral Cortex Using In Vivo Diffusion Tensor Imaging Tractography	2009
Gray and Singer	Stimulus-specific neuronal oscillations in orientation columns of cat visual cortex	1989
Hales and Pockett	The relationship between local field potentials (LFPs) and the electromagnetic fields that give rise to them	2014
Hihara, et al.	Extension of corticocortical afferents into the anterior bank of the intraparietal sulcus by tool-use training in adult monkeys	2006
Hirase, Iwai, Takata, Shinohara, and Mischima	Volume transmission signalling via astrocytes	2014
Howard, et al.	Gamma Oscillations Correlate with Working Memory Load in Humans	2003
Johnson, Miocinovic, McIntyre, and Vitek	Mechanisms and Targets of Deep Brain Stimulation in Movement Disorders	2008
Kaufman, Csibra, and Johnson	Oscillatory activity in the infant brain reflects object maintenance	2005
Kauppi, Parkkonen, Hari, and Hyvarinen	Decoding magnetoencephalographic rhythmic activity using spectrospatial information	2012
Kosen, Gramfort, and Wassenhove	Encoding of event timing in the phase of neural oscillations	2014
Massimini, Ferrarelli, Huber, Esser, Singh, and Tononi	Breakdown of Cortical Effective Connectivity during Sleep	2005
Mormann, et al.	Phase/Amplitude Reset and Theta–Gamma Interaction in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe During a Continuous Word Recognition Memory Task	2005
Mussa-Ivaldi and Miller	Brain–machine interfaces:computational demands and clinical needs meet basic neuroscience	2003
Nieuwenhuijzen, et al.	MEG-based decoding of the spatiotemporal dynamics of visual category perception	2013
Parkkonen, Andersson, Hamalainen, Hari	Early visual brain areas reflect the percept of an ambiguous scene	2008
Pasley, et al.	Reconstructing Speech from Human Auditory Cortex	2012
Perrin, et al.	Brain Response to One’s Own Name in Vegetative State, Minimally Conscious State, and Locked-in Syndrome	2006
Persinger and Tiller	Case report: A prototypical spontaneous ‘sensed presence’ of a sentient being and concomitant electroencephalographic activity in the clinical laboratory	2008
Quiroga, Reddy, Kreiman, Kock, and Fried	Invariant visual representation by single neurons in the human brain	2005
Rubinov and Sporns	Complex network measures of brain connectivity: Uses and interpretations	2009
Rutishauser, Ross, Mamelak, and Shuman	Human memory strength is predicted by theta-frequency phase-locking of single neurons	2010
Sun, Morrell, and Wharen	Responsive Cortical Stimulation for the Treatment of Epilepsy	2008
Szurhaj and Decrambure	Intracerebral study of gamma oscillations in the human sensorimotor cortex	2006
Tallon-Baudry and Bertrand	Oscillatory gamma activity in humans and its role in object representation	1999
Thut and Miniussi	New insights into rhythmic brain activity from TMS–EEG studies	2009
Tononi	Information integration: its relevance to brain function and consciousness	2010
Verschure	Distributed Adaptive Control: A theory of the Mind, Brain, Body Nexus	2012
Vinck, Womelsdorf, and Fries	Gamma-Band Synchronization and Information Transmission
Wacongne, et al.	Evidence for a hierarchy of predictions and prediction errors in human cortex	2011
Wolman	A Tale of Two Halves	2012

Rees, Kreiman, & Koch	Neural correlates of consciousness in humans.	2002
Dennett	Consciousness Explained chapter	1991
Dennett	Self as a responding and responsible artifact, 2003	2003