- Course Code
- PS 3014
- Credit Points
- 15
- Course Coordinator
- Dr M Milders
Pre-requisites
PS 1008, PS 1508, PS 2011 or PS 2012, PS 2511 or PS 2512.
Co-requisites
(except Neuroscience students): PS 3011, PS 3012
Notes
This course examines the biological basis of behaviour and cognitive functions by considering how brain damage and how changes in brain biochemistry can affect behaviour and cognition.
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%).