Преподавател(и):

проф. Енчо Герганов  д-р
доц. Пенка Христова  д-р
гл. ас. Йолина Петрова  д-р

Описание на курса:

Компетенции:

By the end of this course, students should know:

• Alternative paradigms and theories of human memory

• Basic concepts of the organization and processes in human memory

• Basic understanding about the brain mechanisms and development of memory

By the end of this course, students should be able to:

• Critically read, understand, and question the scientific literature on memory

• Design experiments to test theories of memory

• Apply the knowledge about memory in various domains, such as educational practices, court rooms, advertising, rehabilitation, etc.

Предварителни изисквания:
Basic knowledge in brain organization and cognitive processes and methods of experimental psychology.

Форми на провеждане:
Редовен

Учебни форми:
Лекция

Език, на който се води курса:
Английски

Теми, които се разглеждат в курса:

1. Course Intro – syllabus, assignments, and expectations Human memory as an information processing system
2. Working Memory and Short-Term Memory: What is the difference?
3. Working Memory. Theories. Individual Differences
4. Executive Functions – development and measurement
5. Learning: implicit and explicit
6. Episodic Memory
7. Test 1
8. Semantic Memory: Organization and Theoretical Models
9. Autobiographical Memory
10. Retrieval: Cued Recall, Levels of Processing, Context-dependent Memory
11. Incidental and Motivated Forgetting. Theories of forgetting – decay, interference, and transformation
12. Constructive Memory: Flashbulb Memory and Eyewitness Testimony
13. Test 2
14. Student Conference: Presenting your research designs
15. Student Conference: Presenting your research designs

Литература по темите:

Baddeley, A. D., Eysenck, M. W., & Anderson, M. C. (2015). Memory (Second edition). Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis Group.

Conway, A. R. A., Kane, M. J., Bunting, M. F., Hambrick, D. Z., Wilhelm, O., & Engle, R. W. (2005). Working memory span tasks: A methodological review and user’s guide. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 12(5), 769–786. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03196772

Diamond, A., Barnett, W. S., Thomas, J., & Munro, S. (2007). THE EARLY YEARS: Preschool Program Improves Cognitive Control. Science, 318(5855), 1387–1388. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1151148

Feldman, V., & Kokinov, B. (2009). Analogical Episodes are More Likely to be Blended than Superficially Similar Ones. In Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Erlbaum.

Hristova, P., & Kokinov, B. (2007). Perceptual Learning vs. Context-Sensitive Retrieval: Why do people judge green lines to be shorter/longer than red lines of the same length? Do they perceive them differently or do they retrieve a biased set of alternatives in their comparison set? Proceedings of the European Conference on Cognitive Science.

Miyake, A., & Friedman, N. P. (2012). The Nature and Organization of Individual Differences in Executive Functions: Four General Conclusions. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 21(1), 8–14. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721411429458

Miyake, A., Friedman, N. P., Emerson, M. J., Witzki, A. H., Howerter, A., & Wager, T. D. (2000). The Unity and Diversity of Executive Functions and Their Contributions to Complex “Frontal Lobe” Tasks: A Latent Variable Analysis. Cognitive Psychology, 41(1), 49–100. https://doi.org/10.1006/cogp.1999.0734

Pavlova, M., & Kokinov, B. (2014). Analogy Causes Distorted Memory by Blending Memory Episodes [Poster]. In P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane, & B. Scassellati (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2729–2734). Cognitive Science Society.

Yonelinas, A. P. (2002). The Nature of Recollection and Familiarity: A Review of 30 Years of Research. Journal of Memory and Language, 46(3), 441–517. https://doi.org/10.1006/jmla.2002.28

Средства за оценяване:

• Design an experiment to test a memory theory

• Participate in a group project applying memory knowledge in a practical domain, such as education, law, clinical case, advertising, human-computer interaction, etc.

• Multiple-Choice Test