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200098 VU Special Topics in Cognitive Psychology and in Neurosciences (2022W)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 20 - Psychologie
Continuous assessment of course work

NUR FÜR MASTERSTUDIERENDE PSYCHOLOGIE
ACHTUNG: Bei Verwendung der VU für Modul A4 Freie Fächer ist max. eine VU erlaubt!

Moodle

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 40 participants
Language: German, English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

31.10. Termin findet online statt; 21.11. findet nicht statt; 3.10. Vorbesprechung und Zuteilung; 30.1. Buffertermin für evtl. krankheitsbedingt abgesagte Einheiten; ansonsten Nachbesprechung und Evaluation (in diesem Fall Anwesenheit erwünscht aber nicht verpflichtend)

  • Monday 03.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal G Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5, 2. Stock
  • Monday 10.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal G Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5, 2. Stock
  • Monday 17.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal G Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5, 2. Stock
  • Monday 24.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal G Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5, 2. Stock
  • Monday 31.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal G Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5, 2. Stock
  • Monday 07.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal G Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5, 2. Stock
  • Monday 14.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal G Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5, 2. Stock
  • Monday 21.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal G Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5, 2. Stock
  • Monday 28.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal G Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5, 2. Stock
  • Monday 05.12. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal G Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5, 2. Stock
  • Monday 12.12. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal G Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5, 2. Stock
  • Monday 09.01. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal G Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5, 2. Stock
  • Monday 16.01. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal G Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5, 2. Stock
  • Monday 23.01. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal G Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5, 2. Stock
  • Monday 30.01. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal G Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5, 2. Stock

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Important: The course will take place exclusively in presence according to the possibilities and requirements. Changes will be announced in the respective units and communicated to the participants via moodle. Covid or other illnesses count as excused absences after presentation of a certificate. Lecture language will be English or German depending on the preference of the final admitted students. Exception: October 31st - this unit will be held online.

The course serves to deepen the research approaches and fields of the research groups Biological Psychology and Cognitive Psychology of the Institute of Psychology of Cognition, Emotion and Methods. In parallel, the VUs "Research Approaches in Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience" and "Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience" should be attended. The respective lecturer (this semester: Claus Lamm and Bernhard Laback, due to a semester off from Ulrich Ansorge; otherwise always: Claus Lamm and Ulrich Ansorge, as heads of the respective research groups Social Neuroscience and Cognitive Psychology) first presents current, specific research questions and topics in his research field in the form of an overview lecture. In the following course units these topics will be deepened by means of literature. Exemplary topics are: Empathy, prosocial behavior, attentional control and auditory perception, and their cognitive and neural bases. Master's students will gain a deeper insight into the research topics that can be addressed in the master's specialization "Psychological Foundations: Mind & Brain". One of the purposes of the course is to enable those students who take the master's specialization "Psychological Foundations: Mind & Brain" to decide on their own topic for the master's thesis at the end of the semester. Regular feedback is given by the lecturers, e.g. on the homework assignments.

Assessment and permitted materials

Examination immanent through: compulsory attendance; active participation; written homework; occasional short MC tests/quizzes.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

To participate successfully, you may be absent from the units no more than twice. All homework assignments must be graded at least with "Satisfactory". All homework must be handed in on time. Late or non-submission will result in non-assessment (and thus failure of the VU). Further details can be found in Moodle and will be communicated in the first unit.

Examination topics

Lecture; discussions; MC tests; homework assignments (literature-based).

Reading list

Will be announced in the course or can be found on Moodle.
Example literature: Rütgen, M., Seidel, E. A., Silani, G., Riecansky, G., Hummer, A., Windischberger, C., Petrovic, P., Lamm, C. (2015). Placebo analgesia and its opioidergic regulation suggest that empathy for pain is grounded in self pain. Proc Natl Acad Sci, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1511269112, 112 (41), E5638-E5646.

Best, V., Laback, B., and Majdak, P. (2011). Binaural interference in bilateral cochlear-implant listeners, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 130, 2939-2950. https://asa.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1121/1.3641400; Complete document at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/51802559_Binaural_interference_in_bilateral_cochlear-implant_listeners

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