Cognition Across the Lifespan

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The course delineates and describes cognition as a fundamental component of all purposeful activity. During the course of the semester, we will discuss many different aspects of cognition: perception, attention, memory, language, concepts, reasoning, problem-solving, expertise, creativity, and decision making. The emphasis in the course will be on how occupational therapists have used evidence- based to develop assessments and interventions to understand human functional capacity and ability to function.