As an advanced training in Cognitive Neuropsychology, the course aims to teach PhD students how to collect and interpret patient data in order to test cognitive theories and build cognitive models. The emphasis will be on 'doing research'. Candidates will get an acquaintance with standard neuropsychological testing, will be shown examples of patients cases, case statistics and will build, run and analyse their own experiment. A special training in reviewing and reporting is included.
Cognitive Neuropsychology studies the functional disorders people suffer after brain injury in order to construct and test formal models of cognitive functioning. It is strongly driven by fundamental theory but also can have implications for clinical diagnosis and therapy. Cognitive Neuropsychology gives invaluable insights in how the human mind works and forms an indispensable instrument in the modern Cognitive Neuroscience toolbox.
Cognitive Neuropsychology has strongly been inspired by fascinating reports of patients such as Broca’s mister ‘Tan’, who could only utter a single world after frontal lobe ailment, and the tragic case of Henry Molaison who, following medio-temporal lobe surgical removal to treat epilepsy, could no longer remember any new events happening in his life. Studies with comparable groups of patients have further stimulated the field of cognitive neuropsychology
The course spans 10 full days of lectures and practical work, in which cognitive neuropsychology research examples and methods are discussed. Students have to do a short research project, including setting up and trying out their own cognitive neuropsychology experiment, and complete a number of writing assignments. Senior, international cognitive neuropsychologists give lectures and supervision.
The course will address history and methodology of cognitive neuropsychology research; statistical techniques; examinations in large clinical groups; disorders such as topographical amnesia, visuospatial neglect; amnesia.
Course leader
Prof. dr. Albert Postma
Target group
Beginning and advanced PhD students. Really advanced research master students can be conditionally admitted (please contact the coordinators).
Course aim
After this course, PhD candidates a) will have gained new insights and skills in how to conduct cognitive neuroscience research, b) are able to read, evaluate and integrate in their own research, recent literature from the field of cognitive, clinical and applied neuropsychology, and c) can directly strengthen their own PhD projects with new analytic and experimental approaches.
Fee info
EUR 975: Course + course materials
EUR 350: Housing fee (optional)
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