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Human Cognition

Draft - 1.1 Initiated 7/8/04  Updated 04/24/08

Purpose:

Human cognition is central to clinical decision making. Clinical information involves histories that can be biased by the manner in which questions are asked, vague clinical signs that are assessed with several senses and diagnostic laboratory tests that are not perfect. If clinicians have a fundamental understanding of the process of cognition and inherent weaknesses in the process, they will be better able to compensate for weaknesses in this process and arrive at better clinical decisions in the long run. The purpose of this webpage is to provide a collection of links to on-line materials.

Bias

blogs:

Behavioral Economics

Frank, Robert H. - Cornell site

Gintis, Herbert

texts:

Beliefs

  • Brelsford, Theodore (Candler School of Theology, Emory U)
    • Lessons for Religious Education from Cognitive Science of Religion (Religious Education, 100(2):174-191, Spr 2005)
  • Newberg, Andrew, Assoc Prof Radiology & Psychiatry, U Penn
    • publications
      • The neuroscientific study of religious and spiritual phenomena: Or why God doesn't use biostatistics (Zygon 40(2):469-489)
    • Andrew Newberg on religion and the brain Neurophilosophy blog, 8/8/06
  • Schmid, D. Neil (Dept of philosophy and religion, NCSU)
    • Cognitive and Evolutionary Approaches to Religion - bibliography

PSYC 480.3 Psychology of Beliefs (DJ Schneider, Rice)

blogs:

  • TCSDaily: Technology Commerce Society
    • Two Strategies for Avoiding Truth (Arnold King, 1/5/07)

Wikipedia:

Cognition

Anenberg Project

Celebrities in Cognitive Science

Cognitive Science - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - TOC

Cognitive Science Program - University of Arizona<

Functional MRI Research Center - Columbia U

Functional MRI: Methods and Applications (Stuart Clare, 1997 Phd thesis index)

ICDS: Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences (U Oregon)

Individual Differences in Reasoning: Implications for the Rationality Debate? (KE Stanovich, RF West)
bbs.stanovich.html on ftp.princeton.edu

Journal of Judgment and Decision Making - open access

Managing decision - priority - mental error & on-line business & legal research - AODPM - Association of Professional Decision Makers

metacognition

Neuroeconomics at Caltech - The Camerer Lab

Newsome Lab - Stanford

  • A general mechanism for decision-making in the human brain? TRENDS in Cognitive Sciences 9(2):41-43, pdf.

Perceptual Science Group (MIT)

The Great Debate: Genes, Memes, Minds

books:

Cognitive Function and Decision making

Cognitive Illusions

Cognitive Factors Underlying Anomalous Beliefs
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~sch/beliefs/b-cognitive.htm

Cognitive Illusions, Heuristics and Climate Prediction (Neville Nicholls)
http://www.wmo.ch/web/wcp/clips2001/modules/nicholls.pdf

Cognitive Load - wikipedia

  • Efficiency in Learning: Evidence-Based Guidelines to Manage Cognitive Load - Amazon
    • review - Performance Improvement 45(9):46-47,2006 pdf

Complex Adaptive Systems - wiki

Creativity / Diffusion of Innovations

De Bono, Edward

Robinson, Sir Ken

Rogers, Everett M. Wikipedia

Decision Analysis

texts:

  • Making Hard Decisions: An Introduction to Decision Analysis, 2nd ed. 1997  RT Clemen  Amazon

Emotional Intelligence

Goleman, Daniel

Mayer, John D. - University of New Hampshire

Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence (Steve Hein)

  • Critical review of Daniel Goleman (html)

Smart Marriages

Framing: Graphic design (efficient & effective printed information conveyance)

Knowledge Management

AOK - Association of Knowledgework

Gurteen - The Gurteen Knowledge Website - blog

KFTF - Keeping Found Things Found (The Information School, U Wash)

UC Berkeley School of Information

texts:

courses:

blogs:

citeulike:

wiki:

Learning:

ALL - Accelerated Learning Laboratory

Autodidactic Press Center for the Study of Learning - Georgetown Medical Center

Educause Review

  • The Psychology of Learning Environment 41(6):60-75, 2006 html pdf

  • The Future of Higher Education 41(4):72-73, 2006 html pdf

  • Design of the Learning Space: Learning and Design Principles 40(4):16-28, 2005 html pdf

Higher Education Academy (UK)

Information on Self-Efficacy - Bandura

New Horizons for Learning

Organizational & Regional Learning, Innovative Systems and Evolutionary Theory - Krumme, U Wash

Personal Development for Smart People - Steve Pavlina

taxonomy of educational objectives

TIP - Explorations in Learning & Instruction: The Theory Into Practice Database

websites:

books:

people:

blogs:

wiki:

Logic, Rationality and Politics

blogs:

Music:

Visual Cognition:

Daylight: Is it in the eye of the beholder? by Kevin P. McGuire

http://www.cybercollege.com/tvp028.htm

  • Mixing Memory
    • People Prefer Curves (1/20/07)
    • The Cognitive Science of Art: Goals and Motivations of Neuroaesthetics (7/13/06)
    • The Cognitive Science of Art: Ramachandran's 10 Principles of Art, Principles 1-3 (7/15/06)
      • The Science of Art (pdf)
      • Is Art Lawful (html)
Positive Psychology:

Psychology of Science:

Relationships:

Texts:

  • Singles Going Steady (Salon, 3/7/07)

Self:

Social Networking

Systems Dynamics / Modeling / Thinking / Analysis:

People:

Celebrities in Cognitive Science

Papers:

  • Battling Bad Behavior (The Scientist 20(2):51, 2/06, 2nd)
  • fMRI Study of Decision Making under Uncertainty (html)
  • Getting Inside Your Head; As “Neuro” Goes Mainstream, Big Business Hopes to Decode the Brain's Secrets (Commercial Alert, 10/17/05) - OD
  • Neural Systems Responding to Degrees of Uncertainty in Human Decision-Making (Science 310(5754):1680-1683, html)
  • On Making the Right Choice: The Deliberation-Without-Attention Effect (Science 311(5673):1005-1007)
  • Sleeping on it' best for complex decisions (New Scientist 2/16/06)
  • The Political Brain (Scientific American, 6/26/06)

Books: (American Scientist reviews by issue)

  • Annual Review of Neuroscience
  • Influence: Science and Practice, 4th Edition. (2000, Robert Cialdini, Amazon)
  • Information Science (David G. Luenberger, 2006, Amazon)
  • Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life (2005, Steven Johnson, Amazon)
  • The Ethical Brain
  • The Feeling of What Happens
  • The Psychology of Science and the Origins of the Scientific Mind
    • The Skeptical Inquirer - American Scientist review
  • The Science of Influence: How to get anyone to say "yes" in 8 minutes or less (2004, Kevin Hogan, Amazon)

Classes:

  • HPS/PL 133: Philosophy and Neuroscience (Steven Quartz)
  • PSYC 396H - Honors Proseminar - Cognitive Neuroscience of Decision-Making and Social Reasoning (Alan Sanfey, U Arizona)
  • Soc 335 The Sociology of Advertising 2003  (Stephen Papson, St. Lawrence U) - OD

Web materials:

  • The history of audio-visual entrainment - html

Press:

Blogs/Articles:

Motivational:

people:

blogs:

Other Stuff:

Notes from others on materials for inclusion -

George Lakoff's book (or at least the first chapter) "Moral Politics" or if not that the introduction to "Don't think of an Elephant" (the former is more intellectual).

I would also encourage you to check out Judith Williamson, "Decoding Advertisements: Ideology and Meaning in Advertising."
"30-second politics" by Montague Kern is also a good book on the subject. Also, "Ritual, Politics and Power" by David Kertzer offers an anthropologist's view of the role of, well, rituals in politics and power.

 

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