NEVR8010 Fysiologisk psykologi og kognitiv nevrovitenskap

Knowledge

After completing the course the student will:

1. Have first-hand knowledge of what it is like to formulate a scientific question, and how to search for, locate and organize relevant literature in appropriate sub-themes related to a central topic.
2. Understand scientific papers in neuroscience, be critical and constructive, and be able to suggest alternative experiments.
3. Have sufficient knowledge to answer broader questions in neuroscience without reading books or papers first.

Skills

After completing the course the student will be able to:

1. Locate and organize primary scientific literature (journal articles, reviews, books, book chapters) related to a given theme or scientific question.
2. Give an up-to-date oral presentation of any topic in neuroscience by reading relevant literature.
3. Discuss scientific papers in neuroscience, be critical and constructive, and be able to suggest alternative experiments.

General competence

The student will develop the following competencies:

1. How to analyse relevant general issues in neuroscience including field specific theorems and ethical issue.
2. How to decide on animal and human research, and have general insight in ways to diminish research that causes suffering to humans and animals.
3. How to carry out literary research independently and how to formulate and express results and interpretations of the research outcomes.
4. Have better capability to carry out and analyse complex experiments in neuroscience.
5. Competence to summarize, document, report, and reflect on own findings.

Admission to a programme of study is required:

Medicine and Health Sciences (PHMEDHV))

*The exam is in the form of a presentation, where the student delivers a 30-minute lecture, leaving 15 minutes for a post-lecture discussion with the examiners. The discussion provides an opportunity to answer questions related to the lecture and to the field of neuroscience in general, and to share their knowledge and critical assessment of the state of the field for their topic, including ongoing developments and/or debates in that line of work.

*The exams for the autumn semester are held in December. The exact exam date is set ca. 1 month beforehand, depending on external examiner availability.

*The exams for the spring semester are in June. The exact exam date is set ca. 1 month beforehand, depending on external examiner availability.

The student selects the appropriate reading list themselves or with their advisor.

After the deadline for course registration is passed, the student will be contacted by an administrator providing information on submission of reading list and the exam date.

The topics may be based on the students own preferences, as long as the presentation topic is approved by the course coordinator.

The student selects the appropriate reading list (if needed they can do this with their supervisor). Students familiar with the MSc Neuroscience program can gauge the target breadth by referring to lectures given in one of the master's level courses in the MSc Neuroscience program (NEVR3001, NEVR3002, NEVR3003, NEVR3004). The language of examination is English.

1. The reading list shall contain approximately 20 papers (not less than 18, not more than 21) and must be approved by the course coordinator.
2. In the reading list, the student will include a short (one sentence) statement under each paper describing the relevance of that paper to the topic.
3. The student delivers a 30-minute presentation followed by an open discussion on the topic, usually lasting 15 minutes.
4. Students wishing to undertake the "conference" version of the course will have given either a poster or oral presentation before or during the semester when they take NEVR8010.