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PSYC2067 Course Outline (Updated 7th Feb)

This document outlines the course details for PSYC2067 Seminars in Cognitive Science offered in the second semester of the 2022/2023 academic year at the University of Hong Kong. The course is worth 6 credits and will be taught on Thursdays from 8:30-10:20am in room CPD-2.45. The course aims to provide students with a deeper understanding of cognitive science through seminar-based readings and discussions of research papers. Assessment will include a research proposal essay, presentation, take-home final quiz, weekly discussion questions, and class participation.

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PSYC2067 Course Outline (Updated 7th Feb)

This document outlines the course details for PSYC2067 Seminars in Cognitive Science offered in the second semester of the 2022/2023 academic year at the University of Hong Kong. The course is worth 6 credits and will be taught on Thursdays from 8:30-10:20am in room CPD-2.45. The course aims to provide students with a deeper understanding of cognitive science through seminar-based readings and discussions of research papers. Assessment will include a research proposal essay, presentation, take-home final quiz, weekly discussion questions, and class participation.

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THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG

FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES


Department of Psychology

PSYC2067 COURSE OUTLINE (2022/2023, SEMESTER TWO)

1. Basic Information
Course Code PSYC 2067
Course Title Seminars in Cognitive Science
Course Credits 6
Lecture Time & Venue Thursday 8:30 am – 10:20 am, CPD-2.45

2. Course Instructor / Tutors


Name Office E-mail Consultation Hour
Dr Fan Cao 6.14, JCT [email protected] By Appointment
(Instructor)
Dr Andrew Yeung 6.17, JCT [email protected] By Appointment

3. Course Description

This course is a seminar-based reading course in specialist areas of cognitive science research
and interest. It will include presentations and group discussion of research and issues of
interest within cognitive science, providing an opportunity for students to examine critically
the cognitive science approach to understanding intelligent systems.

4. Course Learning Outcomes

On completing the course, students will be able to:


a. Develop deeper understanding of core findings from across the interdisciplinary field of
Cognitive Science
b. Sharpen presentation skills for complex material related to Cognitive Science
c. Write a grant proposal for studying an aspect of Cognitive Science

5. Assessment Methods and Weighting

Assessment methods Weighting


Essay (research proposal) 25%
Presentation 25%
Final quiz (take home) 30%
Weekly questions 10%
Class participation 10%
Total 100%
100

Assessment Ratio: 100% Coursework


Final grade cutoffs:
A => 80% B = 70% - 79% C = 60% - 69% D = 50% - 59% F < 50%

Weekly Questions (10%):

Before each week’s class, each student is required to come up with 1 thoughtful question
per paper for at least two of the papers after reading that corresponding week’s articles,
and post their questions on Moodle. Each week’s questions are due at 8:30am on the day of
the lecture (i.e., before the lecture). Please note that late submission of weekly questions will
not be accepted.

An example of thoughtful question would be: “since it was found that not all children with
developmental dyslexia have visual deficits, I am wondering if this is also true for auditory
deficits, phonological deficits, etc. If there is such a heterogeneity in this population, how
would it affect theories and research in the area?”

Individual Presentation (25%):

Chapters 4 to 8 (i.e., Lectures 5 to 9) will be presented and led by students. Each student
will be required to present one paper from the reading materials of the corresponding
chapters, and lead the discussion on that paper in class. The selection procedure for papers
will be highlighted to you in due course.

Final quiz (take home) (30%)

For the final quiz, there will be 10 possible questions for you to answer (one for each
seminar). You are required to select and answer 4 out of the 10 questions. DO NOT
ANSWER THE QUESTION FROM THE SEMINAR THAT YOU PRESENTED ON.
Maximum 600 words per answer.

The final quiz will be a take-home quiz with an Open-book format. Answers will require
gathering evidence from the references in the target article. You must work on this quiz
strictly by yourself – no discussion with other members of the class is allowed.

Essay (research proposal) (25%)

The instructions and deadline of the research proposal will be posted separately. Late
submission of the final Essay (research proposal) is subjected to a penalty of 10% deduction
per day unless a valid medical proof (medical certificate) is presented.
6. Course Schedule

Week Lecture Date Lecture Topics Tutorial


1 Jan 19 (Thu) Introduction
2 Jan 26 (Thu) No class - Chinese New Year
3 Feb 02 (Thu) Chap 1 Reading disability
4 Feb 9 (Thu) Chap 2 Knowledge Representations Course intro and
review on chap 1 & 2
5 Feb 16 (Thu) Chap 3 Bilingualism
6 Feb 23 (Thu) Chap 4 Neural noise (student Review on chap 3 & 4
presentations)
7 Mar 2 (Thu) Chap 5 Neural Plasticity (student
presentations)
8 Mar 9 No class -Reading Week
9 Mar 16 (Thu) No class - Holiday Research Proposal
writing
10 Mar 23 (Thu) Chap 6 Autism (student Review on chap 5 & 6
presentations)
11 Mar 30 (Thu) Chap 7 Sensory loss (student
presentations)
12 Apr 6 (Thu) Chap 8 Emotion (student Review on chap 7 & 8
presentations)
13 April 13 Chap 9 Memory (Dr. Xiaoqing Hu)
(Thu)
14 Apr 20 (Thu) Chap 10 Sleep (Dr. Xiaoqing Hu) Review on chap 9 & 10
/ Final instructions
15 Apr 27 (Thu) Final

7. Tutorials are held on:

Fridays 11:30am-12:20pm at CPD-2.45


Fridays 5:30pm-6:20pm at CPD-2.46
8. Reading materials:

Chap 1: Reading disability


1. Intact but less accessible phonetic representations in adults with dyslexia.
2. Dyslexia: reconciling controversies within an integrative developmental perspective.
3. Neuroimaging sheds new light on the phonological deficit in dyslexia.

Chap 2: Knowledge representations


1. Dual coding of knowledge in the human brain.
2. Two forms of knowledge representations in the human brain.

Chap 3: Bilingualism
1. Computational modelling of bilingual language learning: current models and future
directions.
2. Bilingualism: pathway to cognitive reserve.
3. Bilingual adaptations in early development.

Chap 4: Neural noise


1. Neural variability: friend or foe?
2. Neural noise hypothesis of developmental dyslexia.

Chap 5: Neural plasticity


1. Expansion and renormalization of human brain structure during skill acquisition.
2. Brain modularity: a biomarker of intervention related plasticity.

Chap 6: Autism
1. Planning with Theory of mind.
2. Reconsidering autistic ‘camouflaging’ as transactional impression management.

Chap 7: Sensory loss


1. Do blind people hear better?
2. Why does the cortex reorganize after sensory loss?

Chap 8: Emotion
1. The default mode network’s role in discrete emotion.
2. Decoding the nature of emotion in the brain.

Chap 9: Memory
1. False memories for fake news during Ireland’s abortion referendum.
2. Retrieving and modifying traumatic memories: recent research relevant to three
controversies.

Chap 10: Sleep


1. Sleep differentially impacts involuntary intrusions and voluntary recognitions of lab‐
analogue traumatic memories.
2. Does sleep-dependent consolidation favour weak memories?
8. Feedback Policy

Students can expect to receive feedback within 2-3 weeks after submitting written
assignments and quizzes. Students can get individual feedback about their assignments
through meeting with the course tutor. Weekly consultation hours are set up for individual
consultation.

9. Important Notes

Academic Honesty:

Academic dishonesty will not be tolerated. Any student who engages in any form of
academic dishonesty (e.g., cheating on exams, plagiarism, interfering with grading) will
receive a grade of F in this course and will be reported to the Department/Faculty
Office/University Disciplinary Committee for further disciplinary action. There will be no
exceptions. If you are not sure what constitutes the academic offense of plagiarism, checkout
the webpage at http://www.hku.hk/plagiarism.

Plagiarism:

A softcopy is required for all written assignments. The softcopy will be checked for
plagiarism against a database of articles, books, webpages, and essays submitted by students
at HKU and other universities. No credit will be given for an assignment that contains
plagiarized materials. Further penalties may also be applied. These penalties may include
a zero mark for participation in classes/course tutorials, and/or a zero mark for the course.

Plagiarism will also be reported to the Department / Faculty Office / University Disciplinary
Committee for consideration of possible disciplinary action. If you are not sure what
constitutes the academic offense of plagiarism, checkout the webpage at
http://www.hku.hk/plagiarism. Please note that if you reuse any material previously
submitted for another course without proper acknowledgement, that also constitutes
plagiarism, even though you are the author of the original work. This is called self-
plagiarism. Also, for group work (if applicable), all group members are responsible for the
group submission and will receive the same penalty if plagiarized materials are discovered.

Any other course/class policies:

Late submission of the final Essay (research proposal) is subjected to a penalty of 10%
deduction per day unless a valid medical proof (medical certificate) is presented.

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