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INTRODUCTION TO COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE COURSE IDENTIFICATION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION

Code Name of the Course Unit Semester In-Class Hours (T+P) Credit ECTS Credit
DKT205 INTRODUCTION TO COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE 3 4 3 6

Objectives and Contents

Objectives: It is aimed to gain knowledge and skills about the diagnosis and evaluation methods of diseases with cognitive disorders
Content: Cognitive neuroscience: disciplinary field, historical development, relationship with other disciplines; organization of the nervous system, primary neurological communication in adults, relationships between brain mechanisms and psychological and cognitive functions; spatial, attention, perception, memory, emotion, language, complex visual perception, reasoning and abstraction, mathematics, planning and sequencing, structuring, praxis, face recognition and object recognition and executive functions; cognitive development and metacognition; damage caused by disruption of the nervous system; introduction of brain imaging methods and techniques (PET, FMRI, SPECT, etc.); characteristics, evaluation and etiology of CCT disorders caused by disruption of the central and peripheral nervous system. ); characteristics, evaluation and etiology of DCT disorders caused by impairments in the central and peripheral nervous system.