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DRPS : Course Catalogue : School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences : Psychology

Postgraduate Course: Human cognitive neuroscience (PSYL11024)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryThe 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.
Course description 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.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
High Demand Course? Yes
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. link between brain structures and cognitive functions
  2. understand traditional and contemporary theories of neuropsychological disorders
  3. use assessment techniques in neuropsychological research and differential diagnosis in neuropsychology
  4. understand traditional and modern approaches to memory disorders
  5. understand basic neuroimaging techniques
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
Additional Class Delivery Information Attend all lectures as scheduled
Keywordscognitive,clinical neuropsychology,human cognition,brain damage
Contacts
Course organiserProf Sergio Della Sala
Tel: (0131 6)51 3242
Email: sergio@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Toni Noble
Tel: (0131 6)51 3188
Email: Toni.noble@ed.ac.uk
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