Spring 2020 Midterm Projects – Peer-to-peer discussion

Find your name/project on the list. Your assignment is to view and comment on the project that comes before you, the one that comes after you, and two others of your choosing (4 reviews total).

For each review, watch (or listen to) the midterm project. Then share your thoughts with the project author as a reply/comment.

Your reply/comments may be constructive criticism (what did you like? what could have been better?), discussion of connections to course material and/or aspects of the book review that are of interest to you, or specific questions about the content of the book being reviewed or related issues. Due midnight Sunday.

Evelyn Basham on “The Mind of the Horse: An Introduction to Equine Cognition” by Michel-Antoine Leblanc

Monica Bonilla on “Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?” by Frans de Waal

Kayla Davis on “The Consciousness Instinct: Unraveling the Mystery of How the Brain Makes the Mind” by Michael S. Gazzaniga

Sejal Dhawan on “Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel” by Carl Safina

Nico Druck on “Metaphors We Live By” by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson

Emma Glass on “The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains” by Joseph LeDoux

Andrea Del Carpio Gomez on “Anxious: Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety” by Joseph LeDoux

Alyssa Luz-Ricca on “The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains” by Joseph LeDoux

Andrew Lyubovsky on “The mind on paper: reading, consciousness, and rationality” by David R. Olson

Paul Marcelli on “Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness” by Peter Godfrey-Smith

Sarah Jo McGeady on “The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains” by Joseph LeDoux

Mehar Nasir on “Discovering the Human Connectome” by Olaf Sporns