MEMORY AND LANGUAGE

MEMORY AND LANGUAGE
Course Code
PS 3519
Credit Points
15
Course Coordinator
Dr D Pearson

Pre-requisites

(except Neuroscience students) PS 3011, PS 3012 and
PS 3013. Neuroscience students: PS 3012 and PS 3013.

Co-requisites

(except Neuroscience students): PS 3514 and PS 3515.

Notes

This course can only be taken by students pursuing either an Honours, Behavioural Studies or Designated Degree Programme in Psychology or an Honours or Designated Degree Programme in Neuroscience.

Overview

The memory component of the course examines the cognitive study of human learning and memory; the modal and working memory models; the application of memory models to everyday cognition. The language component of the course examines cognitive mechanisms underlying sentence processing and production, and higher level processes of language comprehension.

Structure

12 week course - 1 lecture per week and one workshop every four weeks.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 ninety minute examination (75%) and in-course assessment (25%).