Psychology 486:

Advanced Topics in Learning

Course Description

This was an advanced course examining the complex processes by which animals represent space, time, rate, and associations. As a specific framework, we examined the computational-representational approach advocated by C.R. Gallistel. Gallistel's book was the central text, and classroom lectures focused on the specifics of his proposed models.

Instead of a traditional term paper the students were required to use hypertext markup language to produce a Web page paper on a course topic of their choice. These papers are available for viewing.

I was the teaching assistant for this course, taught by Dr. C.D. Heth. Dr. Heth was good enough to allow me to give a few of the lectures. Here are the overhead transparencies I used for these lectures.

Lecture 1: Path Integration and Cognitive Mapping

Lecture 2: Temporal Sense

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Michael R. Snyder <msnyder@psych.ualberta.ca>