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Seminar. Topics related to cortical plasticity in perceptual and memory systems including neural bases of implicity memory, recognition memory, visual priming, and perceptual learning. Emphasis is on recent research with an interdisciplinary scope, including theory, behavioral findings, neural mechanisms, and computational models. May be repeated for credit. Recommended: 30, 45

Required of and limited to first-year Ph.D. students in Psychology. Major issues in contemporary psychology with historical backgrounds.

Neural Network models of cognitive and developmental processes in humans and non-human animal models, and the neural basis of these processes. This is a small, hands-on, discussion intensive class in which students read, comment on, and discuss readings about fundamental mathematical and computational principles of neural networks and learn about classical and contemporary applications. Students also carry out exercises in the first four weeks, then undertake projects during the last six weeks of the quarter, focusing on using models to better understand some aspect of human or animal cognition as implemented in the human brain. Intended for students with and interest in human cognition. Prerequisites: computer programming in python, familiarity with differential equations, linear algebra and probability theory, and two or more courses in cognition, cognitive development or cognitive/systems neuroscience. Instructor consent required.

Prerequisite: 207 or consent of instructor.

A high-level introduction to the field of social psychology, with special attention to predominant theoretical and methodological themes, seminal research, contemporary advances, and Stanford contributions.

This seminar is the core graduate course on affective science. We consider definitional issues, such as differences between emotion and mood, as well as issues related to the function of affect, such as the role affect plays in daily life. We review autonomic, neural, genetic, and expressive aspects of affective responding. Later in the course we discuss the role of affect in cognitive processing, specifically how affective states direct attention and influence memory, as well as the role of affect in decision making. We will also discuss emotion regulation and the strategic control of emotion; the cultural shaping of emotional experience and regulation; disorders of emotion; and developmental trajectories of experience and control from early to very late life. Meetings are discussion based. Attendance and active participation are required. Prerequisite: 207 or consent of instructor.

Social psychology from the context of society and culture. The interdependence of psychological and sociocultural processes: how sociocultural factors shape psychological processes, and how psychological systems shape sociocultural systems. Theoretical developments to understand social issues, problems, and polity. Works of Baldwin, Mead, Asch, Lewin, Burner, and contemporary theory and empirical work on the interdependence of psychology and social context as constituted by gender, ethnicity, race, religion, and region of the country and the world.

Theories, insights, and concerns of social psychology relevant to how people perceive issues, events, and each other, and links between beliefs and individual and collective behavior will be discussed with reference to a range of public policy issues including education, public health, income and wealth inequalities, policing and climate change, Specific topics include: situationist and subjectivist traditions of applied and theoretical social psychology; social comparison, dissonance, and attribution theories; stereotyping and stereotype threat, and sources of intergroup conflict and misunderstanding; challenges to universality assumptions regarding human motivation, emotion, and perception of self and others; also the general problem of producing individual and collective changes in norms and behavior.

How cultural factors shape psychological processes. Applications to interventions designed to promote agency, motivation and well-being in domains of sustainability, education, inequality and social class, business, therapy, emerging technologies, and justice.