PS4050: Neuropsychology of Vision and Action

PS4050: NEUROPSYCHOLOGY OF VISION AND ACTION (2023-2024)

Last modified: 12 Oct 2023 16:46

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	Dr Constanze Hesse

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

Any Undergraduate Programme
Programme Level 4
Psychology (PS)

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

Oral Presentation: Individual

Assessment Type	Summative	Weighting	40
Assessment Weeks		Feedback Weeks		Look up Week Numbers
Feedback	Presentation (consisting of 12 slides and notes)

Learning Outcomes

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Knowledge Level	Thinking Skill	Outcome

Essay

Assessment Type	Summative	Weighting	60
Assessment Weeks	6	Feedback Weeks	9	Look up Week Numbers
Feedback		Word Count	1200

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

Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Resit Assessments

Essay

Assessment Type	Summative	Weighting	100
Assessment Weeks		Feedback Weeks		Look up Week Numbers
Feedback		Word Count

Learning Outcomes

Sorry, we don't have this information available just now. Please check the course guide on or with the Course Coordinator
Knowledge Level	Thinking Skill	Outcome

Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge Level	Thinking Skill	Outcome
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
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

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