Fall 2017  |  PSY 5062 Section 001: Cognitive Neuropsychology (18056)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017
Fri 10:10AM - 12:40PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 125
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Course Catalog Description:
Consequences of different types of brain damage on human perception/cognition. Neural mechanisms of normal perceptual/cognitive functions. Vision/attention disorders, split brain, language deficits, memory disorders, central planning deficits. Emphasizes function/phenomenology. Minimal amount of brain anatomy. prereq: Grad or [[jr or sr], [3011 or 3031 or 3051 or 3061]] or instr consent
Class Description:
This course will survey the consequences of different types of brain damage on human perception and cognition. The goal is to understand the neural mechanisms of normal perceptual and cognitive functions. Major phenomena that will be covered include: Blindsight (seeign without awareness), Visual Agnosia (failure to recognize object), Prosopagnosia (impairments of facial recognition), Neglect (failure to attend to part of the world), the split brain, Spoken language deficits, reading and writing disorders, memory disorders, central planning deficits. The emphasis is on function and phenomenology, with minimal amount of brain anatomy. This course is aimed at undergraduate and beginning graduate students who are interested inpsychology and neuroscience. Text: A.J. Parkin "Explorations in Cognitive Neuropsychology".
Grading:
30% Midterm Exam
50% Final Exam
20% Problem Solving
Exam Format:
Multiple choice and short essay
Class Format:
90% Lecture
5% Discussion
Workload:
20 Pages Reading Per Week
2 Exam(s)
Other Workload: 1 or 2 homework questions per week
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/18056/1179
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
4 September 2007

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