Memory and Memory Disorders

Course

URL study guide

https://studiegids.vu.nl/en/courses/2024-2025/P_MMEMORY

Course Objective

The course aims to give students an overview of memory at the cognitive and neurophysiological level, and to give students the background to interpret memory disorders in patients with brain damage.

Course Content

The course focuses on various approaches in the study of human memory and memory disorders. We will discuss different memory systems, retrieval, forgetting, eyewitness testimony, memory in childhood and aging and the brain substrate of memory. We will also discuss memory loss after local brain damage.

Teaching Methods

Short background lectures followed by paper discussions

Method of Assessment

Exam (50 %), presentation (20%) and research proposal (30 %).

Literature

papers on canvas

Additional Information

This course is taught every two years. Will be taught in 2024-25, but not in 2025-26
Academic year1/09/2431/08/25
Course level6.00 EC

Language of Tuition

  • English

Study type

  • Master