Module PY3001-KP06

Duration

1 Semester

Turnus of offer

each summer semester

Credit points

6

Course of studies, specific fields and terms:

• Bachelor Psychology 2027, compulsory, psychology
• Master Auditory Technology 2022, optional subject, psychology
• Bachelor Psychology 2020, compulsory, psychology

Classes and lectures:

• Cognitive and affective neurosciences (seminar, 1 SWS)
• Cognitive and affective neurosciences (lecture, 2 SWS)

Workload:

• 45 hours in-classroom work
• 135 hours private studies

Contents of teaching:

• Teaching concepts, theories and paradigms of the cognitive-affective neurosciences
• Acquisition of basic knowledge of the cognitive-affective neurosciences in the fields of attention, memory, learning, cognition, language, motivation and emotion
• Learning methods for the planning and execution of cognitive-affective neuroscientific experiments
• Critical evaluation of neuroscientificconcepts and methods of perception, cognition and learning, motivation and emotion

Qualification-goals/Competencies:

• Students will be able to explain and apply neuroscientific concepts in the areas of perception, cognition, learning, motivation and emotion.
• They can translate psychological questions into empirical research.
• They can use your knowledge in neuroscientific research to scientifically judge, think and discuss.
• They have acquired social competence through discussion skills and knowledge transfer.
• They have extended their knowledge to include scientific research and working techniques.
• Theycan structure and communicate newly acquired knowledge yourself.

Grading through:

• portfolio exam

Responsible for this module:

• Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Ulrike Krämer

Teacher:

• Institute of Medical Psychology
• Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Ulrike Krämer

Literature:

• Eysenck & Keane : Cognitive Psychology: A student’s handbook Taylor & Francis 2015
• Gazzaniga, Ivry und Mangun : Cognitive Neuroscience: The Biology of the Mind W. W. Norton & Company
• Karnath & Thier : Kognitive Neurowissenschaften Springer

Language:

• offered only in German
• German and English skills required

Notes:

Last Updated:

28.10.2025