Learning outcomes

Students will become familiar with the history, research topics, basic concepts, and research methods of cognitive psychology and neuropsychology. Students will know more about the structure and nature of information processes related to perception and attention and they will also have the basic knowledge of neuroanatomy, neurophysiology and the function of the sensory systems.

Contents

A closer look at the functions of the visual, auditory, and somatosensory systems as well as the cognitive and neurological processes related to perception and attention. Students will study the structure, functions and development of the brain, as well as the research methods employed in investigating brain functions.

Teaching methods

A book exam.

Teaching language

Finnish

Evaluation

Numeric 1-5.

Study materials

1. Eysenck & Keane, Cognitive psychology: A student's handbook. Psychology Press 2000 or a more recent edition, chapters 1-5.
2. Kolb & Whishaw, Fundamentals of human neuropsychology. Worth Publishers 2008, chapters 1-10.
3. Feldman, Understanding psychology,. McGraw-Hill, 1990, chapters 1-6.

 

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