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This seminar course examines the fundamental cognitive, motivational, and affective processes that underlie parenting behavior. Primary emphasis will be placed on (i) understanding how endocrine, sensory and experiential information is integrated within the relevant neural circuitry that yields this complex behavior under healthy conditions, and (ii) how neuropsychological dysfunction, as with maternal mental disorders, leads to disturbances in parenting and in the mother-infant relationship.

Modeling response time (RT) distributions from cognitive tasks has proven to be an incredibly effective way to discriminate theoretical accounts, from distinguishing serial and discrete processing stages to disentangling information quality and response biases. We will discuss studies that use RT modeling across a wide range of cognitive phenomena, including perception, attention, reading, memory, and decision making. Students will also get direct experience writing code to implement RT models and apply them to data, hopefully including data from their own research.

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