Thought Paper Topic - Seminar 7

The thought paper topic for Seminar 7 on Tuesday 5 April is as follows:


Explain the sense in which soft assembled solutions to developmental challenges represent embodied solutions to these challenges.


(Reminder: the readings for Seminar 7 on the Embodied Mind were handed out in class on 22 March.)

Thought Paper Topic - Seminar 6

The thought paper topic for Seminar 6 on Wednesday 30 March is:

What is the significance of the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) to the case for the Somatic Marker Hypothesis (SMH)?

Thought Paper Topic - Seminar 5

The thought paper topic for Seminar 5 on Tuesday 22 March is as follows:

What, according to Damasio (1994), is involved in feeling an emotion? In what sense is this an embodied account of emotion and feeling?

Thought Paper Topic - Seminar 4

The thought paper topic for Seminar 4 on Tuesday was given out in class this week. I cannot recall my precise wording, but for anyone who did not write it down in class, the following version should do the trick:

On balance, do you think the evidence and arguments favour the existence of a cheater-detection module?

Readings for Seminar 6 - Tuesday 29 March

The readings for Seminar 6 are as follows:

Damasio (1994) Chapters 8, 9 and 10

Dunn et al. (2006), which can be accessed by following the link below:
http://0-www.sciencedirect.com.innopac.wits.ac.za/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6T0J-4H6GPP0-1-5&_cdi=4864&_user=1378557&_pii=S0149763405001053&_origin=browse&_zone=rslt_list_item&_coverDate=12/31/2006&_sk=999699997&wchp=dGLzVtz-zSkWb&md5=b892176060ba59532e8e65e8c0b9d1a7&ie=/sdarticle.pdf

Readings for Seminar 5 - Tuesday 22 March

As discussed in class, in Seminar 5 we change topic to begin our foray into the Embodied Mind.

The readings for Seminar 5 come from our prescribed Damasio (1994) text, namely Chapters 3, 5, 6 and 7 of Descartes' Error.

In addition, the following study by Damasio et al. (2001) should be read:
http://0-proquest.umi.com.innopac.wits.ac.za/pqdlink?index=24&did=1028641111&SrchMode=3&sid=2&Fmt=6&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1299846021&clientId=57035&aid=1

Readings for Seminar 4 on Tuesday 15 March

As discussed in class, the primary readings for next week are as follows:

A chapter on neurocognitive adaptations for social exchange by Cosmides and Tooby that can be accessed via the link below:
http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep/papers/20finalbusssocexweb.pdf

Chapter 4 from Buller (2005)

Also the reading by Stephen Jay Gould distributed in class last week.

Finally, it was recommended that Buller's Chapter 3 be read at some point during this part of the course.