PS4050: Neuropsychology of Vision and Action

PS4050: NEUROPSYCHOLOGY OF VISION AND ACTION (2020-2021)

Last modified: 05 Aug 2021 13:04

Course Overview

To understand and critically evaluate some disorders of conscious visual perception and visuomotor control and what these disorders tell us about the complex interplay between the perceptual and motor system.

Course Details

Study Type	Undergraduate	Level	4
Term	First Term	Credit Points	15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus	Aberdeen	Sustained Study	No
Co-ordinators	Professor Arash Sahraie

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

Psychology (PS)
One of PS3011 Psychological Assessment (Passed) or PS3012 Perception (Passed) or PS3014 Biological Psychology (Passed) or PS3518 Developmental Psychology (Passed) or PS3519 Memory and Language (Passed) or PS3520 Social Psychology (Passed)
Any Undergraduate Programme
Programme Level 4

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

PS4550 Neuropsychology of Vision and Action (Studied)

Are there a limited number of places available?

Course Description

Lecture Syllabus

Residual visual function in Blindsight
Visual pathways involved in mediating residual vision
Comparison of human and animal models of the injured brain.
Rehabilitation of visual deficits following occipital brain injury.
Two streams of visual processing in cerebral cortex
The effects of ventral stream damage: visual form agnosia, object agnosia, prosopagnosia
The effects dorsal stream damage: Balint-Holmes syndrome and optic ataxia.
Unconscious action (visual extinction, neglect, hemianopia)
Dissociations in perception and action in neurologically intact humans
Online motor control and memory guided actions
Current models and re-interpretations of perception-action distinction

Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

More Information about Week Numbers

Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 21st September 2026 for Term 1 and Full Year courses and 8th January 2027 for Term 2 courses.

Summative Assessments

There are no assessments for this course.

Formative Assessment

1200 word essay = 60%

Presentation (consisting of 12 slides and notes) = 40%

Alternative Resit Arrangements for students taking course in Academic Year 2020/21

100% Coursework

Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge Level	Thinking Skill	Outcome
Conceptual	Understand	Detailed knowledge of common neuropsychological disorders following lesions of visual and motor areas.
Conceptual	Understand	Insights into our current understanding of the contribution of the principal regions of the posterior parietal cortex (dorsal stream), the inferior temporal cortex (ventral stream) and subcortical str
Conceptual	Understand	In depth knowledge about the role visual awareness is assumed to play in perception and action task
Conceptual	Evaluate	Critical understanding and evaluation of current controversial theories on perception-action processing

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