SubjectsSubjects(version: 970)
Course, academic year 2024/2025
   Login via CAS
Cognitive neuroscience - APS500030
Title: Kognitivní neurovědy
Guaranteed by: Department of Psychology (21-KPS)
Faculty: Faculty of Arts
Actual: from 2024
Semester: winter
Points: 0
E-Credits: 4
Examination process: winter s.:oral
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
Capacity: 60 / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: PhDr. RNDr. Tereza Nekovářová, Ph.D.
Mgr. Kamil Vlček, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): PhDr. RNDr. Tereza Nekovářová, Ph.D.
Mgr. Kamil Vlček, Ph.D.
Annotation -
The aim of the course is to help students understand the principles of information processing in the brain during processes such as perception, thought, memory and speech. The aim of the theoretical course is not only to learn about these processes and their cerebral basis, but also the methods of their scientific understanding and their relation to human behaviour.

Course content: history and basic overview, methodology of cognitive psychological research, visual and auditory perception, attention, memory systems, knowledge representation, understanding and speech production, thinking, problem solving, decision making, role of emotions in cognitive processes.
Last update: Pastyříková Iveta, Mgr. (03.08.2023)
Course completion requirements -
Study the required literature in relation to the requirements for the oral examination. 
Last update: Pastyříková Iveta, Mgr. (03.08.2023)
Literature -

Eysenck, M. W., & Keane, M. T. (2015). Cognitive psychology: A student's handbook (7th ed.). Psychology Press. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315778006 
Sternberg, R. J. (1996). Cognitive psychology. Harcourt Brace College Publishers. 

 
Recommended: 

Neisser, U. (1967). Cognitive psychology. Appleton-Century-Crofts: University of Michigan.  

Miller, G. The cognitive revolution: a historical perspective. TRENDS in Cognitive Sciences, 7 (3), 141-144. 
A list of additional recommended readings is being refined as the course progresses. 

Last update: Pastyříková Iveta, Mgr. (03.08.2023)
 
Charles University | Information system of Charles University | http://www.cuni.cz/UKEN-329.html