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William D. Timberlake Professor of Psychology |
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| Learning & Evolution (A501) |
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William D. Timberlake Professor of Psychology |
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C O U R S E D E S C R I P T I O N Content The purpose of this course is to provide students with basic exposure to the literature on evolution and learning and an appreciation of important conceptual issues. The majority of the material will be drawn from work with nonhuman animals, but similarities to issues arising in human learning will be noted. We will consider four broad types of Analyses:
Student Responsibilities Students will be expected to do weekly readings, suggest and answer questions, and participate in class and online discussion and debate. They will also be responsible for one or two small presentations on specific readings -- complete with handouts, and they will produce a final paper of 15 to 25 pages. Reading material (selected from both books and journals) will be handed out in class or provided at several locations on campus (e.g., Psychology, Biology, CISAB; perhaps reserve at the main library). Several optional books are on order for Plotkin's Darwin Machines and the Nature of Knowledge and Allmans' Evolving Brains. It will help the student to be familiar with either learning or evolution, or both. Visiting Guest Lecturers: We are fortunate that the following scholars have agreed to visit campus and meet with the class: Alan C. Kamil |
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R E A D I N G S OPTIONAL SUGGESTED READING: John Morgan Allman. 1999. Evolving Brains (Scientific American Library Series, No. 68) (W H Freeman & Co.) Henry Plotkin. 1997. Darwin Machines and the Nature of Knowledge (Harvard University Press) READINGS to PREPARE for VISITORS: ALAN KAMIL Balda, R.P., A.C. Kamil, & P.A. Bednekoff. 1997. Predicting cognitive capacitiesfrom natural histories: Examples from four Corvid species. Current Ornithology 13:33-66. Kamil, A.C., & J.E. Jones. 1997. Clark's nutcrackers learn geometric relationships among landmarks. Nature 390:276-279. Olson, D.J., A.C. Kamil, R.P. Balda, & P.J. Nims. 1995. Performance of four seed-caching Corvid species in operant tests of nonspatial and spatial memory. Journal of Comparative Psychology 109:173-181. Bond, A.B., & A.C. Kamil. 1998. Apostatic selection by blue jays produces balanced polymorphism in virtual prey. Nature 395: 594-596. Pietrewicz, A.T., & A.C. Kamil. 1979. Search image formation in the blue jay(Cyanocitta cristata). Science 204:1332-1333. COLIN ALLEN Allen, C. 1999. Animal concepts revisited: The use of self-monitoring as an empirical approach. Erkenntnis 51(1):33-40. Allen, C., and M.D. Hauser. 1991. Concept attribution in non-human animals: Theoretical and methodological problems in ascribing complex mental processes. Philosophy of Science 58:221-240. (ABSTRACT) Allen, C. and M. Bekoff. 1997. Towards an interdisciplinary science of cognitive ethology: Synthesizing field, laboratory, and armchair approaches. Chapter 9 in: C. Allen & Marc Bekoff. Species of mind: The philosophy and biology of cognitive ethology (MIT Press). Allen, C. 1998. Assessing animal cognition: ethological and philosophical perspectives. Journal of Animal Science 76:42-47. TIM TULLY Pinto S., Quintana D.G., Smith P., Mihalek R.M., Hou Z.-H., Boynton S., Jones C.J., Hendricks M., Velinzon K., Wohlschlegel J.A., Autsin R.J., Lane W.S., Dutta A., and T. Tully. 1999. Iatheo encodes a subunit of the Origin Recognition Complex and disrupts neuronal proliferation and adult olfactory memory when mutant. Neuron 23: 45-54. Rohrbough J., Pinto S., Mihalek, R.M., Tully, T. & K. Broadie. 1999. latheo, a Drosophila gene involved in learning, regulates functional synaptic plasticity. Neuron 23: 55-70. Dubnau, J. & T.Tully. 1998. Gene discovery in Drosophila: new insights for learning and memory. Annual Review Neuroscience 21: 407-444. MICHAEL FANSELOW Fanselow, M.S. & J.E. LeDoux. 1999. Why we think plasticity underlying Pavlovian fear conditioning occurs in the basolateral amygdala. Neuron23:229-232. Fendt, M. & M.S. Fanselow. 1999. The neuroanatomical and neurochemical basis of conditioned fear. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 23:743-760. Fanselow, M.S. 1999. Learning theory and neuropsychology: Configuring their disparate elements in the hippocampus. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal & Behavior Processes 25:275-283 (ABSTRACT). Fanselow, M.S. 1997. Species-specific defense reactions: Retrospect and prospect. In: M.E. Bouton & M.S. Fanselow (eds.), Learning, Motivation, and Cognition: The Functional Behaviorism of Robert C. Bolles. (Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association), pages 321-341. Fanselow, M.S. 1994. Neural organization of the defensive behavior system responsible for fear. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 1:429-438. LEDA COSMIDES -- Readings coming soon -- |
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S P R I N G 2 0 0 0 C L A S S S C H E D U L E Meeting Time: 1:30-2:45 pm Monday, Wednesday & Friday Location: CISAB seminar room, 402 N. Park Avenue Public Lectures: Friday at 12:15pm (with some exceptions, see below) in Glenn Black Laboratory, Room 101 (next to Mathers Museum, 9th & Fess Streets) Plus: Informal meetings with visiting speakers, TBA January 10 -- Evolution and Learning: Overview January 14 -- Evolution and Learning: Overview January 19 -- Experimental Tests and Trends January 21 -- Experimental Tests and Trends January 24 -- The Selection of Intelligence January 28 -- The Selection of Intelligence / Speaker: Alan Kamil January 31 -- Progress vs. Principles February 4 -- Progress vs. Principles February 7 -- The Importance of Minds February 11-- The Importance of Minds / Speaker: Colin Allen February 14 -- The Emergence of Brains February 18 -- The Emergence of Brains February 21 -- The Genetic-Evolutionary Origins of Learning February 25 -- The Genetic-Evolutionary Origins of Learning / Speaker: Tim Tully February 28 -- Adaptive Specializations March 3 -- Adaptive Specializations March 6 -- Evolutionary Convergence March 10 -- Evolutionary Convergence March 13 -- SPRING BREAK March 17 -- SPRING BREAK March 20 -- Learning in Systems March 24 -- Learning in Systems / Speaker: Michael Fanselow March 27 -- Costs and Benefits: Modeling the Evolution of Learning March 31 -- Costs and Benefits: Modeling the Evolution of Learning April 3 -- Universal Darwinism: What's in it for Us? April 7 -- Universal Darwinism: What's in it for Us? April 10 -- Sex Differences in Learning April 14 -- Sex Differences in Learning April 17 -- Social Learning and Culture April 21 -- Social Learning and Culture April 24 -- Evolutionary Human Psychology April 28 -- Evolutionary Human Psychology / Speaker: Leda Cosmides |
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