PSY425 Cognitive Neuroscience (8)
CSU Discipline Area: Psychology (PSYCH)
Duration: One session
Abstract:
The aim of this subject is to enable students to develop intensive research and reasoning skills in the areas of neuroscience and cognition, as well as to acquire a thorough knowledge of at least three important areas of contemporary scientific debate. Each year three areas of contemporary research will be examined in a seminar program, one each from the areas of perception, behavioural neuroscience and cognition. Topic areas will closely relate to current research being undertaken within the school. The subject will focus upon the competing theories and models currently under consideration in these areas, the types of research paradigms employed to evaluate these, an evaluation of recent empirical studies, and the wider theoretical, clinical and practical applications of the theories.
+ Subject Availability Modes and Locations
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| Distance * | Bathurst |
*This subject offering contains a residential school. Please view following information for further details.
Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details: PSY425
Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.
Enrolment restrictions:
4th year Psychology students only.
Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:
* be able to demonstrate a detailed knowledge of the state of contemporary research in at least three critical topics in cognition and neuroscience
* be able to demonstrate an exposure to problems in understanding brain-behaviour relations
* be able to demonstrate an understanding of how theory develops in psychology and neuroscience
* be able to demonstrate an understanding of the interaction between theory and empirical research
* be able to demonstrate an understanding of how research is conducted in psychology and neuroscience
* be able to demonstrate an awareness of the formal and informal interactions that occur between research teams, and how these have contributed to the advance of ideas
* be able to demonstrate an understanding of the distinction between basic and applied research, and have been exposed to examples of how basic research has implications for issues in applied research
Syllabus:
The subject will cover the following topics:
specific topics will change each year, however topics will be selected from perception, behavioural neuroscience and cognitive psychology. Criteria for topic selection are
* it must be an active area of contemporary research
* there should be a number of easily identified research teams or groups throughout the world currently working on the topic
* the research topic should be able to be expressed as a “problem” to be solved
* there should be a number of well developed theories which integrate research from a different disciplines in addressing the problem
* although it should be an area of basic research, there should also be clear implications for applied research (e.g., neural and cognitive processes of attention, and implications for schizophrenia)
Residential School
This subject contains a compulsory 3 day residential school.
No change is proposed to the residential school for this subject .
The information contained in the 2013 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: 24 April 2013. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.