Neuropsychology

Catalog description

Assumes students have knowledge of basic topics in physiological psychology and/or in brain and behavior-type courses. Concentrates on human neuropsychology; the main topics are related to functional brain organization and hemispheric specialization, with a particular emphasis on functional assessment. Includes several other topics related to late-breaking empirical developments in the field. Read and discuss articles and studies, employing a large variety of methodologies, ranging from the 1950s to the latest publications, with both normal and pathological subject populations. Much of the course is spent discussing brain assessment techniques to study cognitive function and dysfunction. Emphasizes commonly used approaches in the assessment and measurement of human behavior and how the human brain in responsible for cognition, language, memory, spatial processing, emotion and personality.