Brain Myths Readings
The following is a list of
required readings for the course. You need to read these sources before
coming to class on the day they are assigned. Contents of the readings will be included on in-class
quizzes and exams.
These titles are available
for download at:
http://reserves.library.jhu.edu (Course Readings link)
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Beyerstein, B. L. (1999). Whence commeth the myth that we only
use 10% of our brains? In Della
Sala, S. (Ed.) Mind
Myths: Exploring Popular Assumptions about the Mind and Brain (pp.
3-24). Chichester, UK: John
Wiley & Sons Ltd. LINK Damasio,
A. R., Tranel, D., & Damasio, H. (1990). Face Agnosia and the Neural
Substrates of Memory. Annual Review of
Neuroscience, 13(1), 89-109. NEW!! Mayer, J. D., Salovey, P., & Caruso, D.
R. (2008). Emotional intelligence: New ability or eclectic traits? American
Psychologist, 63(6), 503-517.
LINK |
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Sacks, Oliver (1993, May 10) To
See and Not See: A Neurologist's Notebook. New Yorker, 59-73. Wiesel, T. N. (1982). Postnatal
development of the visual cortex and the influence of environment. Nature, 299,
583-591. Ostrovsky, Y., Andalman, A.,
& Sinha, P. (2006). Vision Following Extended Congenital Blindness. Psychological
Science, 17, 1009-1014. |
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Gazzaniga, M. S. (2005).
Forty-five years of split-brain research and still going strong. Nat Rev
Neurosci, 6, 653-659. Josse, G., &
Tzourio-Mazoyer, N. (2004). Hemispheric specialization for language. Brain Research
Reviews, 44, 1-12. |
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Spreen, O., Risser, A. H., &
Edgell, D. (1995). Developmental Neuropsychology. New York: Oxford University Press.
Chapter 28 (pp. 449-470) Sternberg,
R. J. (1996). Myths, Countermyths, and Truths about Intelligence. Educational Researcher, 25(2), 11-16. Jaeggi, S. M., Buschkuehl, M.,
Jonides, J., & Perrig, W. J. (2008). Improving fluid intelligence with
training on working memory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105(19),
6829-6833. |
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Steele, K. M., Bass, K. E.,
& Crook, M. D. (1999). The Mystery of the Mozart Effect: Failure to
Replicate. Psychological Science, 10, 366-369. |
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Knudsen, E. I. (2004). Sensitive
Periods in the Development of the Brain and Behavior. Journal of Cognitive
Neuroscience, 16(8), 1412-1425. Park, A. (August 6, 2007). Baby
Einsteins: Not So Smart After All. Time. Zimmerman, F. J., Christakis, D.
A., & Meltzoff, A. N. (2007). Television and DVD/Video Viewing in
Children Younger Than 2 Years. Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine,
161, 473-479. |
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Corkin, S. (2002). WhatÕs new
with amnesic patient H.M.? Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 3, 153-160. Squire,
L. R. (2009). The Legacy of Patient H.M. for Neuroscience. Neuron, 61(1), 6-9. |
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Packard, M. G., & McGaugh,
J. L. (1996). Inactivation of hippocampus or caudate nucleus with lidocaine
differentially affects expression of place and response learning. Neurobiology of
Learning and Memory, 65, 65-72. |
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Wixted, J. T. (2004). The
psychology and neuroscience of forgetting. Annual Review of Psychology, 55,
235-269. Forcato, C., Burgos, V. L.,
Argibay, P. F., Molina, V. A., Pedreira, M. E., & Maldonado, H. (2007).
Reconsolidation of declarative memory in humans. Learn. Mem., 14,
295-303. Loftus,
E. F. (2005). Planting misinformation in the human mind: A 30-year
investigation of the malleability of memory. Learning & Memory, 12(4), 361-366. |
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