PSYC383 PSYCHOLOGY OF ATTENTION
| Course Code: | 3710383 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (2.00 - 2.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 7.5 |
| Department: | Psychology |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Assist.Prof.Dr JACQUELINE MASSA |
| Offered Semester: | Fall or Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
1. Recognize the major empirical and theoretical results in the study of attention and understand the evidence behind these results
2. Distinguish the theoretical models of attention
3. Apply the concepts of visual and auditory selective attention to cognitive information processing and action
4. Interpret the important relationship between attention and perception, cognition, memory, language, and action
5. Explain the appropriate clinical diagnosis of attentional impairments and discuss key techniques for rehabilitation of attentional deficits
Course Content
The field of human attention and its historical foundation in the study of neuropsychology; important issues, theories, and contending models of attention from cognitive psychology, neuroscience, computational modelling and human factors; review and discussion of the application of the various models of attention to understanding attentional impairments, clinical diagnosis, and rehabilitation.