Human cognitive neuroscience (P01633)

? Credit Points : 10 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : PPL-P-HCNHCN

The course on Human Cognitive Neuroscience will enable Master students to develop an insight into the current areas of major theoretical concern within the discipline of Cognitive and Clinical Neuropsychology. In addition, the course will give Master students knowledge of how experimental studies of patients with brain diseases and brain damage contribute to the understanding of human cognition. There will also be an examination of how theories of human cognition can be applied to the understanding of important aspects of pathological brain.

This course will examine the issue of double dissociations within different areas of cognition, including hemi-inattention, dysexecutive syndromes, apraxias and amnesias syndromes. It will introduce Master students to the major theoretical perspectives and the experimental evidence that has contributed to those perspectives, drawing mainly on behavioural, neuroimaging and neuroanatomical studies of brain damaged adults.

Shared with UG course U02141 Advanced Behavioural Neuroscience.

Venue: S1, 7 George Square

? Keywords : cognitive and clinical neuropsychology, human cognition, brain damage

Entry Requirements

? This course is not available to visting students.

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Psychology, (School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, Schedule I)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 1 (Blocks 1-2)

? Contact Teaching Time : 3 hour(s) per week for 5 weeks

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
18/09/2007	11:00	13:00	Room S.1, 7 George Square	Central

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Tuesday	11:10	13:00	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this course, Master students will be able to critically evaluate:
- The link between brain structures and cognitive functions
- Traditional and contemporary theories of neuropsychological disorders
- Assessment techniques in neuropsychological research
- Differential diagnosis in neuropsychology
- Traditional and modern approach to memory disorders
- Basics neuroimaging techniques