A Review of the Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention/ Deficit Hyperactivity Deficiency
A Review of the Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention/ Deficit Hyperactivity Deficiency. In the first week of the unit, students will be asked to choose 1-3 areas of interest from the following topics:
Learning and Memory
Adolescence
ADHD
Sleep and Memory
Literacy and Dyslexia
The Social Brain and Autism
If you have employment or caring responsibilities, you may wish to take into account how seminars are scheduled when selecting your areas of interest. Where possible, students will be allocated to their first choice – but numbers for each topic are restricted so be prepared to pursue your second, or even third choice. Please diarise the times of the seminars on your allocated topic (see the schedule for this unit on the same page from which you downloaded this information) and attend these. These seminars are very focused on preparing you for
your assignment, including through the provision of formative assessment. Students will explore their topic in terms of neurocognitive function. They will produce a poster (50% of the assessment and addressing ILO 1 to 5) and essay (50% of the assessment and addressing ILO 1 to 5) that reviews the cognitive neuroscience of this topic with appropriate and extensive use of the terminology, principles and concepts associated with
the central nervous system and neurocognition. The poster assesses students’ ability to explain visually their critical understanding of neurocognitive processes underlying their chosen topic. The essay will assess students’ ability to analyse relevant texts and synthesise concepts from cognitive neuroscience, psychology and education, to make links/connections and recognise associations/relationships between these concepts, and to draw upon current understanding of mind/brain/behaviour relationships. Students will be expected to develop balanced arguments that reflect a multidisciplinary awareness and an ability to contextualise concepts and draw appropriately upon a wide range of evidence that includes empirical
behavioural data, physiological measurements (e.g. neuroimaging), observation and evolutionary perspective
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