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Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, vol. 13, 2017 | Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, vol. 13, 2017 | ||
[https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6zpPz8hxK6BTzlCVjl0MDk4LTg “Seeing without Seeing? Degraded Conscious Vision in a Blindsight Patient”, | [https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6zpPz8hxK6BTzlCVjl0MDk4LTg “Seeing without Seeing? Degraded Conscious Vision in a Blindsight Patient”, | ||
Overgaard, Fehl. Mouridsen, Bergholt, Cleeremans, 2008 | Overgaard, Fehl. Mouridsen, Bergholt, Cleeremans, 2008] | ||
=====Week 3: 9/7 Binding problems and Vision Mysteries Jerry Feldman===== | =====Week 3: 9/7 Binding problems and Vision Mysteries Jerry Feldman===== | ||
Revision as of 23:54, 22 August 2017
Course description
This course is on subjectivity....blah blah blah
This is a new course...
Instructors
- Email: sklein@berkeley.edu
- Office: Minor
- Office hours: immediately following lecture
Lectures
- Location: 560 Evans (Redwood Center conference room)
- Times: Thursday - 2:00
Enrollment information
- Open to both undergraduate and graduate students, subject to background requirements specified below.
- Telebears: {CCN, Section, Units, Grade Option} == {xx, xx, xx, xx}
Email list and forum
- Please subscribe to the class email list here. The list name is xxx.
Grading
Based on....
Required background
Prerequisites are ...
Reading
Week 1: 8/24 Introductory Discussion Stan Klein, Jerry Feldman & Ken Nakayama
Ken Nakayama’s course outline on Consciousness
Block Carmel Fleming Koch Lau Lamme, et al. Consciousness science: real progress and lingering misconceptions
- Note that for week 1 there is no need to read the material before coming to class. The first meeting will be a general introduction. These articles will be mentioned and most will be discussed later.
Week 2: 8/31 Hard Problems and Psychophysical Methodology. Stan Klein
“Using Psychic Phenomena To Connect Mind to Brain using Quantum Mechanics” A skeptic’s view. Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, vol. 13, 2017
[https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6zpPz8hxK6BTzlCVjl0MDk4LTg “Seeing without Seeing? Degraded Conscious Vision in a Blindsight Patient”, Overgaard, Fehl. Mouridsen, Bergholt, Cleeremans, 2008]
Week 3: 9/7 Binding problems and Vision Mysteries Jerry Feldman
Feldman, The Neural Binding Problem(s) ftp://ftp.icsi.berkeley.edu/pub/feldman/ binding.cody.pdf
Feldman, Visual Experience http://arxiv.org/abs/1604.08612
Week 4: 9/14 Peter Tse
Chapter in “Handbook of Experimental Phenomenolgy “How Attention Can Alter Appearances” Peter Tse, Eric Reavis, Peter Kohler, Gideon Caplovitz, Thalia Wheatley
Week 5: 9/21 Subjective Contours Ken Nakayama
Nakayama, K. , He, Z.J. and Shimojo, S. Visual surface representation: a critical link between lower-level and higher level vision. In Kosslyn, S.M. and Osherson, D.N. Vision. In Invitation to Cognitive Science. M.I.T. Press, p. 1-70, 1995 READ ONLY Pages 1-21 Lecture by KN at Redwood center hand out red cyan glasses https://archive.org/details/Redwood_Center_1012_01_11_Ken_Nakayama
Week 6: 9/28 Deep Learning and Subjectivity Bruno Olshausen
Sejnowski, T. J. Churchland, P.S. Movshon, J.A. Putting big data to good use in neuroscience, Nature Neuroscience, 17, 1440-1441, 2014
Neuroscience-Inspired Artificial Intelligence Demis Hassabis, Dharshan Kumaran, Christopher Summerfield, Matthew Botvinick DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2017.06.011
Bruno Olshausen. Perception-as-Inference. The Cognitive Neurosciences. V.M Gazzniga & R. Mangun, Eds MIT Press. (2013).
Week 7: 10/5 Color Experience and the Whorf Hypothesis Terry Regier & Rich Ivry
Whorf hypothesis is supported in the right visual field but not the left Gilbert, Regier, Kay, Ivry, 489–494, doi: 10.1073/pnas.0509868103
Whorfian effects on colour memory are not reliable. Wright O1, Davies IR, Franklin A. Q J Exp Psychol (Hove). 2015;68(4):745-58.
Week 8: 10/12 Wm. James on Subjectivity (and Phenomenology) Ken Nakayama James
William, Chapter 11 “The Stream of Consciousness” in Psychology: A briefer Course (p 151-176) Also Ken’s Course Syllabus
Week 9: 10/19 Day for Discussion and preparation for rest of semester
In addition there could be presentation by Michael Cohen to prepare for the following week.
Week 10: 10/25 and 10/26
a) 10/25 Richness of Visual Experience Christof Koch *Meeting on Wednesday Andrew M. Haun, Giulio Tononi, Christof Koch, Naotsugu Tsuchiya; Are we underestimating the richness of visual experience?. Neurosci Conscious 2017; 3 (1): niw023. doi: 10.1093/nc/niw023
CohenMA, DennettDC, KanwisherN. What is the bandwidth of perceptual experience? Trends Cogn Sci 2016; 20:324-35
10b) 10/26 Richness of Visual Experience Michael Cohen Same readings as 10a.
Week 11: 11/2 Nikos Logothetis.
Multistable Visual Perception as a Gateway to the Neuronal Correlates of Phenomenal Consciousness: The Scope and limits of Neuroscientific Analysis”. This presentation is still tentative.
Week 12: 11/9 PreFrontal Cortex and Subjectivity Brian Odegaard & Robert Knight
Should a Few Null Findings Falsify Prefrontal Theories of Conscious Perception? Brian Odegaard, Robert T Knight, Hakwan Lau doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/122267
Neural correlates of consciousness: progress and problems - Nature Reviews Neuroscience Christof Koch, Marcello Massimini,,; Melanie Boly,; & Giulio Tononi,.
Week 13: 11/16 Time Subjectivity and Postdiction Shin Shimojo
(1) B. Libet on “time marker” & “backward referral." https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4612-0355-1_9.
(2) A direct application of this to visual processing: Nishida & Johnston (2002). http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098220200698X.
(3) Shimojo (2014) - pdf attached below. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3978293/.
Week 14: 11/30
Students discuss their Proposed Experiments
Syllabus
First week
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