Current Topics in Cognition - Period 1

The course provides a selection of the latest developments in cognition research, with a focus on visual perception, attention, memory, and decision making. How does the brain represent incoming sensory information? How do people?s goals and knowledge filter this information? How does the brain know time and space, and how does it learn? The course provides an overview of important cognitive theories in these core areas, insight in commonly used methods and paradigms to investigate the workings of the mind, as well as caveats and pitfalls. Special attention will be paid to eye movements and the information that can be gathered from them. In addition, we will explore how this knowledge is relevant for everyday life applications, including clinical deficits, reading, effective design of the visual environment, and optimal decision making.

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam) awards credits based on the ECTS system. Contact hours listed under a course description may vary due to the combination of lecture-based and independent work required for each course therefore, CEA's recommended credits are based on the ECTS credits assigned by VU Amsterdam. 1 ECTS equals 28 contact hours assigned by VU Amsterdam.