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May 09, 2024
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RLIT 181 PO - Literature, film and the Cognitive Sciences
CrsNo RLIT181 PO
When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2015.
Instructor(s): J. Abecassis
This course critically explores the intersection of the arts and experimental psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, behavioral economics, and decision theory. We will read some of the major statements regarding fiction, narrative, metaphorical language, analogical and inductive reasoning, various behavioral and judgmental biases and examine how these cognitive insights contribute to our understanding of the experience of reading fiction, attending plays, watching movies, playing computerized games. Letter grade only.
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