Contact information

Mailing address:

Department of Psychology

University of Iowa

E11 Seashore Hall

Iowa City, IA 52242

USA

phone: +1 319-335-2908

    fax: +1 319-335-0191

  email: prahlad-gupta@uiowa.edu

updated October 24, 2005

Background

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Research

Relationship between language processing/learning, working memory, implicit memory, explicit memory. Neural and computational bases of these processes. Cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience.

• More information on research.
• Online versions of publications.
• Information about the Language and Memory Lab.
   
   
   

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Teaching

• 31:120 EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY 1
  most semesters
  • Upper-level undergraduate introduction to psychological research methods, with primary focus on the experimental method.
    Excerpt from the syllabus: The purpose of this course is to provide the foundations of understanding and conducting research in psychology. An important guiding principle of psychology is that conclusions about the bases of behavior are data-based. Thus psychologists ask empirical questions and attempt to answer them in accordance with the scientific method.
    31:120 home page

• 31:220 PROSEMINAR IN COGNITION AND PERCEPTION
  Fall 2002, Fall 2004, Fall 2005
  • A graduate seminar that serves as an introduction to core topics in the area of cognition and perception.
    Excerpt from the syllabus: The goal of this course is to provide an overview of several areas of inquiry in cognition and perception. The course is to be conducted in each Fall and Spring semester, with coverage of approximately half of these topics each semester. Each topic area in itself could occupy one or more semester-long courses, so the coverage of this course is necessarily oriented toward breadth rather than depth. Nevertheless, it does aim to introduce students to key issues in each topic, and to provide students with an orienting framework, resources, and a foundation on which to build their understanding of these areas.

• 31:223 NEURAL NETWORKS IN PSYCHOLOGY
  Spring 2000, Spring 2002, Spring 2004
  • A graduate course covering the use of "connectionist" or "neural network" computational models in psychology.
    Excerpt from the syllabus: The goal of this course is to introduce the basic principles of neural networks and to illustrate how these principles provide insight into human cognition and perception, but also, more generally, into psychological phenomena. The course also attempts to introduce the general practice of studying these phenomena through computational modeling and analysis. There will be computer simulation exercises in addition to the readings.

• 31:131 COGNITIVE SCIENCE
  Fall 2000, Spring 2005
  • Upper-level undergraduate introduction to the methods and content of Cognitive Science.
    Excerpt from the syllabus: The goal of this course is to introduce cognitive science, an interdisciplinary enterprise that investigates psychological processes using perspectives drawn from psychology, computer science, linguistics, philosophy, and neuroscience. The course takes the approach of focusing on the levels of investigation embodied in cognitive science.

• 31:335 SEMINAR IN COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
  Fall 1999
  • A graduate seminar reviewing various areas of cognitive neuroscience.

  
  

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  Professional Memberships

  • Cognitive Science Society
    American Psychological Society

    Cognitive Neuroscience Society.

    Psychonomic Society

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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