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Lecturer(s)
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Bubík Tomáš, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
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Kotherová Silvie, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Eye-tracking (not only) in cognitive cartography 2. Experiment: field or laboratory? 3. Embodied cognition and the case of the artificial hand 4. Field experiment - the case of Mauritius 5. Cognitive turn in economics and the emergence of new approaches 6. Possibilities of mind enhancement by methods of non-invasive electrostimulation 7. Cognitive research of religious behavior 8. "Memory and stories: cognitive bases of spreading stories about the supernatural". 9. Efforts to unify economics, psychology and neuroscience: Is there such a thing as neuroeconomics? 10. Crossing the gap within science: connecting the study of the mind and the brain 11. How group rituals support trust. On meetings of ethnography and neuroscience. 12. Credit week ? TEST
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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unspecified
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Learning outcomes
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The course introduces the basics of cognitive science, an interdisciplinary approach to studying the human mind and its processes such as memory, consciousness, emotions and language. The course content introduces the history of cognitive science, methodological approaches and theoretical concepts. The course will also include selected problems of cognitive sciences in the form of so-called "case studies". Various methods used in field and laboratory research in cognitive science will also be presented. The course will focus on cognitive philosophy, cognitive anthropology, cognitive religious studies, neuroeconomics and neuroscience.
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
Attendance at lectures; reading of required literature; passing the credit/exam in the form of a final test. The course will be completed in the form of a test in the credit week. Within the test, the student will be able to get a maximum of 20 points, while a minimum of 12 points, i.e. 60%, is required to successfully pass. The test will consist of two areas: 1) Knowledge of the lectured topics! 2) Knowledge of the required literature in the form of the publication: Petrů, Marek. (2008). Fyziologie mysli? Úvod do kognitivní védy. Olomouc.
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Recommended literature
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Adams, Frederick; Aizawa, Kenneth. (2010). The Bounds of Cognition. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford.
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Petrů, Marek. (2008). Fyziologie mysli ? Úvod do kognitivní vědy. Olomouc.
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Slingerland, Edward. (2008). What Science Offers the Humanities: Integrating Body and Culture. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
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Sternberg, Robert. (2002). Kognitivní psychologie. Praha.
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Thagard, Paul. (2001). Úvod do kognitivní vědy. Portál, Praha.
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