Преподавател(и):

гл. ас. Армине Джанян  д-р
проф. Ивайло Търнев  д.н.

Описание на курса:

Компетенции:

Успешно завършилите курса студенти:

1) знаят:

• притежават задълбочени познания за мозъчните системи анатомично и функционално и за възможните обяснения на мозъчната асиметрия на различни популации.

• познават методологията и изследователските подходи, използвани при изучаването на мозъчната асиметрия.

2) могат:

• да обсъждат, прилагат знания и правят изследвания посветени на особености на познавателните процеси в двете полукълба.

Предварителни изисквания:
• COGM001, COGM007, COGM907.

• да имат необходимите познания по английски език за да могат свободно да четат, дискутират и пишат на английски език.

Форми на провеждане:
Редовен

Учебни форми:
Лекция

Език, на който се води курса:
Български

Теми, които се разглеждат в курса:

Литература по темите:

Books

Hugdahl, K., & Davidson, R.J. (Eds.) (2003). The asymmetrical brain. Cambridge: The MIT Press.

Hugdahl, K., & Westerhausen, R. (Eds.) (2010). The two halves of the brain. Information processing in the cerebral hemispheres. Cambridge: The MIT Press.

Irvy, R.B., & Robertson, L.C. (1997). The two sides of perception. Cambridge: The MIT Press.

Reuter-Lorenz, P., Baynes, K., Mangun, G., & Phelps, E.A. (Eds.) (2010). The cognitive neuroscience of mind. A tribute to Michael. S. Gazzaniga. Cambridge: The MIT Press.

Sommer, I.E.C., & Kahn, R.S. (Eds.) (2009). Language lateralization and psychosis. Cambridge: The MIT Press.

Zaidel, E., & Iacoboni, M. (Eds.) (2003). The parallel brain. The cognitive neuroscience of the corpus callosum. Cambridge: The MIT Press.

Papers

Beudel, M., Renken, R., Leenders, K.L., & de Jong, B.M. (2009). Cerebral representations of space and time. Neuroimage, 44, 1032-1040.

Brancucci, A., Babiloni, C., Rossini, P.M., & Romani, G.L. (2005). Right hemisphere specialization for intensity discrimination of musical and speech sounds. Neuropsychologia, 43, 1916-1923.

Castro-Schilo, L., & Kee, D.W. (2010). Gender differences in the relationship between emotional intelligence and right hemisphere lateralization for facial processing. Brain and Cognition, 73, 62-67.

Cheung, C.C.Y., Lee, T.M.C., Yip, J.T.H., King, K.E., &Li, L.S.W. (2006). The differentional effects of thalamus and basal ganglia on facial emotion recognition. Brain and Cognition, 61, 262-268.

Corbalis, M.C., Corbalis, P.M., Fabri, M., Paggi, A., Manzoni, T. (2005). Now you see it, now you don’t: Variable hemineglect in a commissurotomized man, Cognitive Brain Research, 25, 521-530.

D’Esposito, M., Aguirre, G.K., Zarahn, E., Ballard, D., Shih, R.K., & Lease, J. (1998). Functional MRI studies of spatial and nonspatial working memory. Cognitive Brain Research, 7, 1-13.

Greene, D.J., Barnea, A., Herzberg, K., Rassis, A., Neta, M., Raz, A., & Zaidel, E. (2008). Measuring attention in the hemispheres: The lateralized attention network test (LANT). Brain and Cognition, 66, 21-31.

Habekost, T., & Rostrup, E. (2007). Visual attention capacity after right hemisphere lesions. Neuropsychologia, 45, 1474-1488.

Halligan, P.W., Fink, G.R., Marshall, J.C., & Vallar, G. (2003). Spatial cognition: Evidence from visual neglect. Trends in Cognitive Science, 7(3), 125-133.

Hull, R., & Vaid, J. (2007). Bilingual language organization: A meta-analytic tale of two hemispheres. Neuropsychologia, 45, 1987-2008.

Hunter, Z.R., & Brysbaert, M. (2008). Visual half-field experiments are a good measure of cerebral language dominance if used properly: Evidence from fMRI. Neuropsychologia, 46, 316-325.

Husain, M., Nachev, P. (2006). Space and the parietal cortex. Trends in Cognitive Science, 11(1), 30-36.

Keller, S.S., Crow, T., Foundas, A., Amunuts, K., & Roberts, N. (2009). Broca’s area: Nomenclature, anatomy, typology and asymmetry. Brain and Language, 109, 29-48.

Kleiman, J.T., Gottesman, R.F., Davis, C., Newhart, M., Heidler-Gary, J., & Hillis, A.E. (2008). Gender differences in unilateral spatial neglect within 24 hours of ischemic stroke. Brain and Cognition, 68, 49-52.

Lausberg, H., Kita, S., Zaidel, E., & Ptito, A. (2003). Split-brain patients neglect left personal space during right-handed gestures. Neuropsychologia, 41, 1317-13-29.

Liegeois, F., Connelly, A., Baldeweg, T., & Vargha-Khadem, F. (2008). Speaking with a single cerebral hemisphere : fMRI language organization after hemispherectomy in childhood. Brain and Language, 106, 195-203.

Meguerdichian, A., & Vauclair, J. (2009). Contrast of hand preferences between communicative gestures and non-communicative actions in baboons: Implications for the origins of hemispheric specialization for language. Brain and Language, 108, 167-174.

Neininger, B., Pulvermuller, F. (2003). Word-category specific deficits after lesions in the right hemisphere. Neuropsychologia, 41, 53-70.

Niemeier, M., Stojanoski, B., & Greco, A.L. (2007). Influences of time and spatial frequency on the perceptual bias: Evidence for competition between hemispheres. Neuropsychologia, 45, 1029-1040.

Niemeier, M., Stojanoski, B., Singh, V.W.A., & Chu, E. (2008). Paradoxical cross-over due to attention to high or low spatial frequencies. Brain and Cognition, 67, 115-125.

Olson, C.R. (2003). Brain representation of object-centered space in monkeys and humans. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 26, 331-354.

Pilgrim, L.K., Moss, H.E., & Tyler, L.K. (2005). Semantic processing of living and nonliving concepts across the cerebral hemispheres. Brain and Language, 94, 86-93.

Rinaldi, M.C., & Pizzamiglio, L. (2006). When space merges into language. Neuropsychologia, 44, 556-565.

Schmidt, G., DeBuse, C.J., & Seger, C.A. (2007). Right hemisphere metaphor processing? Characterizing the lateralization of semantic processes. Brain and Language, 100, 127-141.

Smith, S.D., & Bulman-Fleming, M.B. (2005). An examination of the right-hemisphere hypothesis of the lateralization of emotion. Brain and Cognition, 57, 210-213.

Tamagni, C., ManteI, T., & Brugger, P. (2009). Emotion and space: Lateralized emotional word detection depends on line bisection bias. Neuroscience, 162, 1101-1105.

Vallar, G. (1998). Spatial hemineglect in humans. Trends in Cognitive Science, 2(3), 87-97.

Vigneau, M., Beaucousin, V., Herve, P.Y., Duffau, H., Crivello, F., Houde, O., Mazoyer, B., & Tzourio-Mazoyer, N. (2006). Meta-analizing left hemisphere language areas : Phonology, semantics, and sentence processing. Neuroimage, 30, 1414-1432.

Wallez, C., & Vauclair, J. (2011). Right hemisphere dominance for emotion processing in baboons. Brain and Cognition, 75, 164-169.

Yamazaki, Y., Aust, U., Huber, L., Hausmann, M., & Gunturkun, O. (2007). Lateralized cognition: Asymmetrical and complementary strategies of pigeons during discrimination of the „human concept“. Cognition, 104, 315-344.

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