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The Courses Talya Teaches
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Memory processes and Impairments
This course explores the cognitive and neurocognitive basis of human memory. Most of the course focuses on episodic memory: the unique human ability to mentally travel in time and re-experience episodes from our lives. The course also explores situations in which memory fails, such as normal forgetting processes and memory impairments associated with aging, dementia and traumatic brain injury. In addition, we discuss how memories transform over time.
Selected topics in cognitive sciences
This course overviews a broad range of topics in brain and cognitive sciences, such as: evolution and human language, animal cognition, social and affective neuroscience, neural networks and artificial intelligence, false memories and eyewitness testimony, the philosophy of cognitive science and paradigm shifts, consciousness and neuro-ethics.
Guided research
This annual course allows students to experience practical research in the laboratory already during their graduate degree.
A Social Perspective on Episodic Memory: Seminar
Students in this seminar conduct empirical research examining social aspects of human memory. While the vast majority of research on human memory has examined how one learns and recalls information individually, most of our everyday-life episodic memories are acquired in a social context. Indeed, social-exchange plays a crucial—and underappreciated—role in shaping our episodic memory. During the course we investigate how social interaction shapes episodic memory.
Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
An introductory course which is a prerequisite for advanced courses in cognitive psychology. In the first few lessons, students learn about the history of the field and about its research methodology. Each of the subsequent lesson(s) is dedicated to one of the key topics in cognitive psychology: perception, attention, executive functions, learning, memory, consciousness and decision making. Students are introduced to the main concepts of each topic and to its classic and current research.
Cognitive Psychology: Memory
An introductory course to research in the cognitive neuroscience of memory. Topics include: the history of memory research, main research paradigms and methods and the major scientific advances in the area. The course will include an overview of scientific research from various methodologies including cognitive psychology, neuroscience and research on non-typical populations (e.g., patients with memory disorders, children). The major memory systems reviewed: working memory and short term memory, episodic memory, semantic memory and procedural memory. In addition, we will discuss the interactions between the various memory systems. Finally, the course includes a discussion of the interactions between memory and other cognitive processes, such as decision making and consciousness.