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Content: The module provides an introduction to key concepts and debates in memory research, including models of working memory, and processes involved in the encoding, storage and retrieval of memories. While the main focus is on normal memory processes, there is also some coverage of memory disorders.
Teaching Delivery: There are ten two-hour weekly lectures, involving a mix of interactive discussion and lecture-style teaching, and five one-hour lab classes, in which students will participate in experiments relating to the topics covered in the course and discuss those experiments.
Coursework: Students take a multiple choice quiz and write up a lab report on an experiment run in class.
Indicative Topics: Factors affecting the encoding and retrieval of memories, Working memory, Semantic memory, Reconstructive memory and false memory, Consolidation Amnesia
Module Aims:
Provide an overview of key concepts in the study of learning and memory.听
Promote an understanding of some of the research methods used to study memory.听
Encourage critical evaluation of the scientific literature in this area.
Consider real-world applications of research in memory.
Provide an opportunity to practise applying knowledge of experimental methods to topics in memory
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
Last updated
This module description was last updated on 19th August 2024.
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