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Nov 21, 2024
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RLIT181 PO - Literature, film and the Cognitive SciencesWhen Offered: Offered alternate years; last offered spring 2016.
Instructor(s): J. Abecassis
Credit: 1
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.
Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
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