- Course Code
- PS 3013
- Credit Points
- 15
- Course Coordinator
- Dr M Milders
Pre-requisites
PS1006, PS1506, PS2009 or PS2010, PS2509 or PS2510.
Co-requisites
(except Neuroscience students): PS3011, PS3012
Notes
This course can only be taken by students pursuing an Honours or Designated Degree Programme in Psychology or an Honours or Designated Degree Programme in Neuroscience.
Overview
The course examines how the nervous system represents its three-dimensional environment, how vision and kinaesthesis contribute to the control of goal-directed action, how behaviour becomes refined in normal and abnormal development, and how impairments in brain-damaged patients can help us to understand normal cognitive functioning. It also considers how models of normal cognition can explain cognitive deficits following brain damage.
Structure
1 lecture per week and 1 workshop every four weeks.
Assessment
1st Attempt: 1 ninety-minute written examination (75%), in-course assessment (25%).