Thomas Alrik Sørensen

Student help wanted

Thomas Alrik Sørensen — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:22:46 +0000

Form the 1^st of January I am starting to work on my ph.d. project on the nature of the capacity limitations of visual short-term memory. Basically, I will continue the work started in my master thesis and expand on the basic ideas briefly described in that project.

I would like to have student assistants (this is usually on volunteer basis) on the project, so if you are interested please contact me – my own interests where originally sparked by being a student helper on ph.d. projects by Morten Overgaard and Søren Kyllingsbæk.

The main areas I will be working on – at least from my current perspective – will be the following:

Visual Short-Term Memory
Visual Long-Term Memory
Memory Capacity
Visual Representations and Categories
Consciousness
Early processes in TVA

If you find any of these areas interesting and would like to assist in a research project, feel free to contact me – I am interested in students on all levels – whether you are working on your master thesis or you are a first year student.

During this month I will prepare for the project startup so that I can be ready for the real startup in January – this project will be running over the next three years and you can choose to join in on different parts of it if you like.

Course update

Thomas Alrik Sørensen — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:04:06 +0000

I am working on the two courses in consciousness for the fall semester today, so hopefully I will have some updates on these courses late afternoon or early evening today. I plan to update information on literature for the course, the type of exam the course will have, and probably also a bit information about the form of the course.

Course Update

Thomas Alrik Sørensen — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:14:32 +0000

It seems that I will teach several courses in the fall semester and I am currently planning several different courses.

I will probably teach two courses at the University of Copenhagen and furthermore I plan to teach one or two courses at Folkeuniversitetet (University Extension). The two courses at the University of Copenhagen will be one on the bachelor level “Introduction to Consciousness Studies” and the second will be on the masters level and has the following working title “Consciousness: a Challenge to Science“, both courses will be taught in English. Which courses I will teach at Folkeuniversitetet is not yet decided, but i will write an update as soon as I have one on these courses.

Introduction to Consciousness Studies, is thought of as a general introduction to the field of consciousness research ranging from philosophy of mind to neuroscience. Teaching will probably be in the form of lectures on the basis of a textbook on the subject of consciousness research, currently I am considering a textbook by Susan Blackmore.

Consciousness: a Challenge to Science, will be a more advanced course that probably will be arranged as a workshop on the basis of a collection of different central and classical articles within the field of consciousness research. This course is not thought of as a purely methodological approach, which the title could hint, but also delve into the problems of the definition of consciousness, epistemology, and ontology.