Key questions/main points from

Brain executive and affective systems

These identify the key points from each class.

1. Introduction and orientation

1.1. Compare cognitive neuroscience to reverse engineering of computer devices

1.2. What is the spatial and temporal resolution of fMRI, EEG, PET and what is each best for.

1.3. What are the levels of brain analysis

2. Representation and control systems Where and What in a hexarchy (presenter Schneider)

2.1. What and were cortical pathways (Mishking & Ungerleider 1982)?

2.1.1. What is the what & where distinction in visual processing??

2.1.2. What are the converging operations for lesion and recording studies that suggest that processing is specialized into What and Where?

2.1.3. How do receptive field sizes change from across stages of the visual system from V1 to V2, V4, TEO and TE

2.1.4. What are the anatomical locations of the What and Where pathways?

2.1.5. What is the monkey sensory discrimination versus landmark learning tasks?

2.1.6. What is a double disassociation and why is it important?

2.1.7. What is the double disassociation result in lesion studies supporting the What and Where distinction?

2.1.8. How does human observations in neglect cases relate to the what and where systems.

2.2. Hierarchy of cortical processing (Van Essen) (Presenter Schneider)

2.2.1. Why do you think there are so many cortical areas (32) and interactions (305)?

2.2.2. How many levels of the visual system are there?

2.2.3. Why does the brain separate information in space?

2.2.4. What are the processing streams and how do they travel through the levels of the visual system?

2.2.5. Since only about a third of the possible connections that could be made are made, describe what kinds of areas are most likely to be connected?

2.2.6. What is the characteristic of connectivity that allows telling the direction of cortical flow?

3. Digital library research

3.1. What are the advantages of using Science Citation Index versus abstracting services such as PsychInfo?

3.2. How do you effectively use computer reference retrieval systems to maintain notes?

3.3. How do you learn the words for jargon terms for your research questions? Why is this important?

3.4. How do you efficiently deal with the vast literature (that must be filtered) early in the search process?

3.5. How should you read a research paper as a critical reader?

3.6. What are some of the major computer packages for reference retrieval and what how might they assist you doing a paper. How do you import information from web citation searchers to a reference retrieval management program? Why might you do this?

3.7. How would you quickly get all the references a person has published using Science Citation Index?

3.8. How do you transfer files form SCI to Endnote including the abstract and links to PDF files?

3.9. How do you insert references in Endnote and make a bibliography?

3.10. What is and how do you set up a reference Alert?

3.11. How do you efficiently filter papers in an area to read the most important ones early in the process?

4. Neuroanatomy

4.1. What are the different labeling methods used to identify cortical areas and the differential utility?

4.2. What are the coordinates in Talairach space for x, y, z and where is the 0,0,0 point?

4.3. When you put a brain in Talairach space what do you correct for and what do you not correct for?

4.4. What are the gyri and sulci? How would you identify them on a brain image?

4.5. How can you go from gyri to Talairach location, to Brodmann mapping?

4.6. How would you identify the subcortical structures?