After attending the course you are able to:
- Apply theoretical models and corresponding empirical evidence related to learning and memory to normal and clinical behavioural phenomena. (FQ 1, 3)
- Analyze normal and clinical behavioural phenomena related to learning and memory in terms of theoretical models and underlying neurobiological substrates. (FQ 1, 3, 5)
- Evaluate extant theoretical models and knowledge concerning underlying neurobiological substrates as explanations for normal and clinical behavioural phenomena related to learning and memory. (FQ 5)
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This course is concerned with specific issues of learning and memory, discussing behavioural, cognitive and neurobiological aspects. These issues will also be related to disorders in human behaviour. Topics to be discussed include associative and non-associative learning processes and their role in clinical manifestations, such as anxiety disorders and addiction, autobiographical memory, disorders of semantic memory and retrograde amnesia, memory and emotion, working memory and working memory disorders, and learning and memory across the life span.
Examination
Written exam, consisting of open-answer questions. |
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At least a full year (60 ects) of prior study in the field of Psychology, Medicine or Biology. The course presumes basic knowledge of cognitive and biological aspects of intact learning and memory, and some knowledge of memory disorders. This knowledge may have been partly acquired in previous bachelor courses, such as the general introductory psychology course (B1), the introductory course on the brain (B1), the main theme course on learning (B2), the clinical neuropsychology course (B2), and the course on cognitive neuropsychology (B3). In case of too many enrollments, Psychology students have priority over students from other faculties or universities.
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