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history
Describe the historical and current foundations of cognitive psychology
Understand the importance of representations in Cognitive Psychology
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Psychophysics
Appreciate philosophical and methodological importance of psychophysics to psychology
Recognise and understand basic psychophysical terms
List and understand common experimental designs for psychophysical experiments
Appreciate basics of signal detection theory
8
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perception
Explain the basic concepts of sensation and perception
Recognise and apply Gestalt laws
Understand feature representation in the visual pathway
Explain how bottom up and top down processing combine to enable visual perception
Describe how perception aids in action
12
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attention
Explain the basic principles of attention
Explain how the attention system processes inform spatially, using evidence from research paradigms
Explain how the attention system integrates features, using evidence from research paradigms
Explain the Simon effect
Explain how visual information reaches the brain
Outline how the eyes move under differing task demands
Explain how eye-trackers work
Explain how eye-trackers can help us to understand cognition
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methods in cog neuro science
Describe the basic principles of how information travels around the brain
Explain the fundamental principle of the following techniques; fMRI, MEG, EEG, PET, TMS and neuropsychology
Compare and contrast the relative benefits of fMRI, MEG and EEG
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