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Åbo Akademi University 2014/2015
PSYCHOLOGY AND LOGOPEDICS
The course provides basics of the mechanisms of drug and
substance effects on central nervous system and of the neu-
robiology and psychopharmacology of psychic disorders
and addictions.
Course registration and admission: Contact Yasmin Nyqvist,
at least one week before the course begins.
Psychology of language
118709.1
3 credits
Basic level
Lectured course
Offered: Autumn 2014
Lecturer: Hyönä
Prerequisites: Neuropsychology/cognitive psychology (or
comparable knowledge)
Goals: The students acquires knowledge about the mental
processes required to comprehend and produce language.
Contents: The course covers topics such as spoken and writ-
tenword recognition, sentence and text comprehension, and
spoken and written language production.
Course registration and admission: Contact Yasmin Nyqvist,
at least one week before the course begins.
Consciousness and brain
118350.0
5 credits
Intermediate level
Lectured course
Offered: Autumn 2014
Prerequisite: None
Lecturer: Revonsuo
This course gives an overview of the biological approach to
the study of the mind, or cognitive neuroscience. After this
course the student will be able to define what cognitive neu-
roscience is and describe how it relates to other branches of
science, especially psychology and neuroscience. The student
will also be able to describe the most important methods of
cognitive neuroscience and somemajor lines of research and
specific research topics within cognitive neuroscience. Ad-
ditionally, the course includes a voluntary seminar (3 credits)
where the student will focus more deeply on one topic in
the study of consciousness, read some original literature
on it, write an essay on it and present it for discussion in the
seminar group. The seminar will take place only if aminimum
of 4 students register for it, and is restricted to a maximum of
20 students. After the seminar, the student will have a deep
understanding of several specific research problems in the
study of consciousness.
Course registration and admission: Contact Yasmin Nyqvist,
at least one week before the course begins.
Image Perception and Cognition
130000.0
5 credits
Basic level, no prerequisites
Lectured course
Offered: Autumn 2014
Lecturer: Tarja Peromaa
Contact: Fred Andersson,
Aim: The aim of the course is to familiarize the students with
the basic issues in the structure and function of the human
visual system. Special emphasis is put on current research
findings in visual neuroscience.
Contents: Following the completion of course, the students
are expected to be able to:
.
describe the basic neural structure and function of the
human visual system from retina to the visual cortex
.
understand the active nature of human vision and how
incoming visual information is compressed in the system
.
describe major behavioral phenomena in spatial and
color vision, movement perception, object recognition,
and visual attention
.
describe some major higher-order visual deficits that
have informed us about the structure and function of
visual perception
Mode of study: Lectures (16h), online tests (10 h) reading (99 h)
Prerequisites: None
Target audience:
1.
Students registered for the study module Visual studies
at Åbo Akademi University or for the Master´s Degree
Program in Biomedical Imaging jointly organized by Åbo
Akademi University and the University of Turku.
2.
Other students and exchange students of Åbo Akademi
University.
Form of assessment: Final written exam based on the course
book.
Course literature:
Snowden, Robert et al., "Basic Vision: An introduction to Visual
Perception", Oxford University Press 2006, Chapters 0-11.
Course registration and admission: Contact Yasmin Nyqvist,
at least one week before the course begins.
Male and female sexual dysfunctions
118259.1
4 credits
Advanced level
Lectured course
Offered: Spring 2015
Lecturer: Jern
Prerequisites: for students majoring in Psychology
The course aims to provide an overview of sexual dysfunc-
tions in both men (e.g. erectile dysfunction and ejaculatory
disorders) andwomen (e.g. orgasmic disorders and problems
relating to sexual pain). Epidemiology and etiological factors
will be emphasized, and the dysfunctions will be considered
and discussed from evolutionary and cultural perspectives.
The course will employ and evidence-based approach and
invite students to critically review and discuss contemporary
definitions of sexual dysfunctions as well as currently avail-
able treatment options. A special half-day seminar concerning
problems relating to lust and sexual desirewith group assign-
ments and discussion will also be arranged. Clinical aspects
of treatment of sexuality disorders will also be considered
and discussed.
Course registration and admission: Contact Yasmin Nyqvist,
at least one week before the course begins.
Cognitive neuroscience
5 credits
Basic level
Lectured course
Offered: Spring 2015
Lecturer: Hämäläinen
Prerequisites: Neuropsychology/cognitive psychology (or
comparable knowledge)
Course registration and admission: Contact Yasmin Nyqvist,
at least one week before the course begins.
