Unit name | Psycholinguistics |
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Unit code | PSYCM0013 |
Credit points | 10 |
Level of study | M/7 |
Teaching block(s) |
Academic Year (weeks 1 - 52) |
Unit director | Professor. Mattys |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | School of Psychological Science |
Faculty | Faculty of Life Sciences |
This course provides an overview over fundamental issues in the psychology of language, such as visual and auditory comprehension, production, and language and thought. It will be taught by a number of research-active staff members whose interests span the range of current psycholinguistic research. This course will largely focus on the behavioural aspects of adult language skills; cortical, developmental, and evolutionary implications will be considered in detail in the two follow-up modules.
Completion of the course will provide:
20 lectures will be delivered by the course leader and invited speakers from the field of magnetic resonance technology and their applications for brain imaging. There will be a scanner demonstration at CRICBristol and data analysis demonstration in the computer class.
The course organised in the form of a “Summer/Easter school” gives students deeper insight into one of the major imaging techniques used in the modern Cognitive Neurosciences /Neuropsychology and research into brain disorders, such as schizophrenia and dementia. This new mandatory 10 credit point unit is a response to the newly arisen opportunity to use Magnetic Resonance Imaging as a research tool in Neuropsychology here at Bristol with the opening of our Clinical Research and Imaging Centre (CRIC). This unit provides a deep insight into current state-of-the art use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in scientific and clinical research into the functioning of the human brain. Beside oral presentations/lectures/seminars by MR specialists, this unit will give students the opportunity to see the scanner at work and experience data handling first-hand.
Further, selected peer reviewed scientific papers will be used as teaching material .