Postgraduate Course: Language Behaviours, Brains and Cognition: Data and Theories (PSYL11074)
Course Outline
| School | School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | We will consider speaking, listening, and reading in relation to brains and cognition.
In this course we will review the latest theorising concerning speaking, listening, and reading, the goal being to understand the detailed content of these activities, and how that content is supported by the anatomical and computational nature of human brains.
This is a stand-alone course but has also been designed to complement Language Behaviours, Brains and Cognition: Principles and Approaches. The goal is to reflect an Edinburgh view of language research.
Formative feedback available;
- One-to-one advice on essay topic and direction available on request |
| Course description |
Lecture 1 Brain structures and behaviours for reading
Lecture 2 Brain structures and behaviours for listening
Lecture 3 Brain structures and behaviours for speaking
Lecture 4 The corpus callosum and language
Lecture 5 The cerebral hemispheres and language
Lecture 6 Visual information processing and language
Lecture 7 Memory, attention and language
Lecture 8 The dyslexias and dyspahsias
Lecture 9 Synaesthesia and language
Lecture 10 Autism and language
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2014/15, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Block 2 (Sem 1) |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 10,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 1,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
87 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
One 2500 word essay
Assignment deadline: Thursday 11th December, 12 noon
Word limit: 3000 maximum
Return deadline: 16th January 2015 |
| Feedback |
Not entered |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
| To understand how to construct a research programme around some aspect of current research in speaking, listening, and reading, so that the student understands the state of the art and can make proposals for further work, potentially at MSc project level or at PhD level.
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Reading List
| There is no set textbook. The suggested readings will be a mix of influential older research papers and current research papers, and will be electronically available at the start of the course. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Students will acquire the capacity to find material in the research literature and to evaluate it with respect to the current goals of the field; they will gain practice in synthesising information and re-presenting it. |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Richard Shillcock
Tel: (0131 6)50 4425
Email: R.Shillcock@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Toni Noble
Tel: (0131 6)51 3188
Email: Toni.noble@ed.ac.uk |
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