PSY4110 - Learning & Memory
Spring 2008 Class Schedule

Note: Student Session Facilitators

Required Reflections

In Class Activity
Class Session
Monday Jan 14     Course Intro 1
Wednesday Jan 16       2
Friday Jan 18       3
Monday Jan 21- No Class- Martin Luther King Observance
Wednesday Jan 23  

Chapter 2: Neurons and Simple Memory Circuits

Read through page 41 up to the heading "habituation"

  4
Friday Jan 25  

Chapter 2: Neurons and Simple Memory Circuits

Read remainder of chapter

  5
Monday Jan 28   Read and reflect on the Wider Than the Sky excerpt I emailed you.   6
Wednesday Jan 30   Read and REflectChapter 3: Cellular Mechanisms of Memory: Complex Circuits   7
Friday Feb 1   Part II Cognition: Is There a Cognitive Basis for Memory?   8
Monday Feb 4   Chapter 4: Amnesia: Learning About Memory from Memory Loss   9
Wednesday Feb 6   Write me a 5-7 paragraph reflection summarizing what you've learned so far.   10
Friday Feb 8 - No Class - Winter Carnival Recess
Monday Feb 11   Read and reflect on Larry Squire overview

 

  11
Wednesday Feb 13  

Read and reflect on Chapter 5: Exploring Declarative Memory Using Animal Models

 

  12
Friday Feb 15  

Chapter 6: Windows into the Workings of Memory

Read through page 154 to the heading "Hippocampal cells encode..."

  13
Monday Feb 18  

Chapter 6: Windows into the Workings of Memory

Read remainder of chapter

  14
Wednesday Feb 20  

Read and reflect on Part III Compartmentalization: Cortical Modules and Multiple Memory Systems

and

Chapter 7: The Cerebral Cortex and Memory

  15
Friday Feb 22   Chapter 8: Multiple Memory Systems in the Brain   16
Monday Feb 25   Read chapter 9 = no reflection due   17
Wednesday Feb 27   Chapter 9: A Brain System for Declarative Memory   18
Friday Feb 29   Chapter 10: A Brain System for Procedural Memory   19
Monday March 3   Chapter 11: A Bran System for Emotional Memory   20
Wednesday March 5  

Part IV - Consolidation: The Fixation and Reorganization of Memories AND

Chapter 12: Two Distinct Stages of Memory Consolidation

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Friday March 7   Chapter 13: Working with Memory   22
March 8 - March 16 - No Class - Spring Break
Monday March 17   Chapter 1: The Big One - LeDoux - Read and Reflect   23
Wednesday March 19  

Chapter 3: The Most Unaccountable of Machinery

Read through page 48

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Friday March 21  

Chapter 3: The Most Unaccountable of Machinery

Read the remainder of the chapter and reflect

  25
Monday March 24  

Chapter 4: Building the Brain

Read through page 79 up to the section Wiring By Firing

  26
Wednesday March 26  

Chapter 4: Building the Brain

Read the remainder of the chapter and reflect

  27
Friday March 28  

Chapter 5: Adventures in Time

Read through page 118

  28
Monday March 31  

Chapter 5: Adventures in Time

Read the remainder of the chapter and reflect

  29
Wednesday April 2  

Read Chapter 6: Small Change

Read through page 146 up to Making Change Last

  30
Friday April 4  

Read Chapter 6: Small Change

Read the remainder of the chapter and reflect

  31
Monday April 7   Read Chapter 7: The Mental Trilogy - read and reflect   32
Wednesday April 9   Read Chapter 7: The Mental Trilogy - read and reflect   33
Friday April 11   Read Chapter 8: The Emotional Brain Revisited - read and reflect   34
Monday April 14   Read Chapter 8: The Emotional Brain Revisited - read and reflect   35
Wednesday April 16   Read Chapter 9: The Lost World - read and reflect   36
Friday April 18   Chapter 10: Synaptic Sickness - read and reflect   37
Monday April 21   Chapter 11: Who Are You? read and reflect   38
Wednesday April 23       39
Friday April 25

FINAL PAPER DUE by 5:00 p.m.

Submit via email attachment in word or .pdf format to teach@mtu.edu

Summing Up: Course Evals   40