Working memory in healthy and the damaged brain (P01634)

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

This course will examine the concept of Human Working Memory, viewed as the means by which humans hold information on a temporary basis and manipulate and transform that information. It will introduce students to the major theoretical perspectives and the experimental evidence that has contributed to those perspectives, drawing on behavioural studies of healthy adults and children, of adults with impairments of working memory following brain damage, and recent research using brain imaging techniques.

Shared with UG Course U00572 Human Working Memory

Venue: S1, 7 George Square

? Keywords : human working memory, experimental cognitive psychology, brain imaging

Entry Requirements

? This course is not available to visting students.

? Pre-requisites : Course is open to students on the MSc Human Cognitive Neuropsychology programme only.

Subject Areas

Home subject area

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

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Block 1 only

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

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
26/09/2008	09:00	11:00	Room S.1, 7 George Square	Central

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Friday	09:00	10:50	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

- demonstrate a knowledge of current theories of human working memory
- critically evaluate the experimental evidence for each of the above theories
- understand the ways in which different sources and different types of experimental evidence might be used to test and develop theories of human working memory
- understand how theories derived from experimentally driven research can be applied to important aspects of healthy cognition and of impaired cognition following brain damage
- have had experience of preparing and presenting critical oral summaries of course relevant directed and self directed reading