Module AT4110-KP06

Duration

1 Semester

Turnus of offer

each winter semester

Credit points

6

Course of studies, specific fields and terms:

• Master Psychology - Cognitive Systems 2022, optional subject, psychology
• Master Auditory Technology 2022, compulsory, Auditory Technology
• Master Psychology 2016, optional subject, psychology
• Master Auditory Technology 2017, compulsory, Auditory Technology

Classes and lectures:

• Basics in neurocognition of speech and hearing (lecture, 2 SWS)
• Advances in auditory cognition and auditory neurophysiology (seminar, 2 SWS)

Workload:

• 20 hours exam preparation
• 100 hours private studies
• 60 hours in-classroom work

Contents of teaching:

• Basics of neuroanatomy
• Basic concepts of sensory physiology and perception
• Hearing, listening, and language comprehension as neural processes
• A neuropsychological view on language disorders across the life span (specific language impairment, aphasia)
• Basics of neural plasticity (with a focus on hearing loss, deafness, and cochlear implants)
• Basics of computational neuroscience

Qualification-goals/Competencies:

• Students develop the knowledge required to foster a more profound understanding on auditory–cognitive processes, and on how they relate to physiology, perception, neuropsychology, and neuroscience.
• Students can actively use this knowledge, relate it to current topics in the literature, and transfer it onto new problems.

Grading through:

• written homework

Responsible for this module:

• Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Jonas Obleser

Teacher:

• Department of Neurology
• Department of Psychology
• Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Jonas Obleser
• Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Marcus Heldmann

Literature:

• Poeppel, D., Overath, T., Popper, A.N. & Fay, R.R. : The Human Auditory Cortex (Springer Handbook of Auditory Research; Vol. 43). New York, NY: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-2314-0

Language:

• German and English skills required

Notes:

Last Updated:

26.06.2025