| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Monday Feb 11 | Read and reflect on Larry Squire overview
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11 | ||
| Wednesday Feb 13 | Read and reflect on Chapter 5: Exploring Declarative Memory Using Animal Models
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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 |
21 | ||
| Friday March 7 | Chapter 13: Working with Memory | 22 | ||
March 8 - March 16 - No Class - Spring Break |
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| 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 |
24 | ||
| 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 | |