Welcome to the Cognitive Science 107A Home Page

Classes start Thursday September 22, 2011

The Exam Study Guides as well as Other Study Aids are available now - you can get them here. The TA study guides are from previous year but can be helpful. As new ones become available we will post them.

Grades will be posted online and there are two ways of viewing them, you can use the plain text version, or if you have Internet Explore 4.1 or greater and Microsoft Office XP, you can use a slightly more interactive version. If you do not have Microsoft Office XP you can download the web components from the Microsoft Web Site. The information is the same on both sheets. If you detect an error, please notify your TA, if you wish to email them, you will find their email on the contacts page.

EXPERIMENTAL CREDIT REQUIREMENT: Students are required to do 2 hrs of experimental credit hours - get more information here.

If you have questions please contact TA/IAs (contacts) or Dr. Pineda (pineda@cogsci.ucsd.edu).

There is now online a file to help you with the Brain Anatomy you need to know for midterm 1 (and the rest of the quarter!).  Go to "Study Guides"/"Anatomy Study Guides", if the link below doesn't work.  Also, there are copies of old midterms and finals, plus study guides for each midterm, on the "Study Guides" page.

http://bci.ucsd.edu/~pineda/COGS107A/studyguide/COGS107ALocationterminology.pdf

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Links to 2 decent online neuroscience glossaries:   

Very comprehensive
http://library.med.utah.edu/kw/hyperbrain/glossary/glosstop.html

 
Brain Atlases:
University of Washington's Digital Anatomist:  
it's not the most navigation friendly interface, but it has a nice "quiz" feature where you can tell it to either label all the structures, or outline all the structures without labels and then quiz yourself.  You're going to have to play around with it to get a feel for how to navigate.  Just keep clicking on pictures until you get to a page that has the 
"quiz/outline/label" feature (you may have to scroll down because that's at the bottom of the page).  There are some nice 3-D figures which will help you figure out how things are related to one another in terms of location in the brain.  (This may not work on a dial-up connection.  It's graphic intensive).  There's a lot more information than we expect you to 
know!  But for the real serious students, this can be fun.  But be sure you know what you need to learn for COGS 107A before you spend too much time playing.

http://da-atlases.biostr.washington.edu:80/cgi-bin/DA/PageMaster?atlas:NeuroSyllabus+ffpathIndex/Master^Frame^Syllabus+2

There is a book available at the Bookstore titled "Human Brain Coloring Book" that may be helpful for those who really want to learn the neuroanatomy - check it out!

Want to know more about quantum effects in the brain, check out this very interesting interview with Stuart Hameroff:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2911199841702354668&ei=Sp7lSJvlH5HqqAOqrNCXCw&q=penrose+hameroff&hl=en

Check out public talks (to satisfy experimental credit requirement) at:
CalIT2 ............... http//www.calit2.net/events/index.php
Salk Intstitute ..... http://www.salk.edu/seminars.php

Check out neurulation process in:
Salamander:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuL2wUOZKf8

Chicken:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00xr4kzYZn4