Leerstofoverzicht neuropsychology & psychopharmacology

Deel 1: NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
H1: Introduction
1.1. Historiek
1.1.1. Filosofische benaderingen
1.1.2. Wetenschappelijke benaderingen
1.2. Return of the brain: cognitive neuroscience
H2: The lesioned and stimulated brain
2.1. Introduction
2.1.1. Why do we study the lesioned brain?
2.1.2. Different causes of natural brain damage
2.2. Dissociaties & associaties in neuropsychologie
2.2.1. Dissociations
2.2.2. Associations
2.2.3. Two traditions of human neuropsy
2.3. Single-case studies in cogn neurospy
2.4. Group-studies & lesion-deficit analysis
2.4.1. Different ways of grouping patients
2.4.2. Caveats & complications
2.5. Animal models
2.6. Virtual (temporary) damage
H3: The Electrophysiological brain
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Single-cell recordings
3.3. EEG & ERP
3.3.1. Electro-encephalography (EEG)
3.3.2. Event-related potentials (ERP)
3.3.3. Representational dynamics & mental chronometry
H4: The Imaged Brain
4.1. Structural imaging (CT & MRI)
4.2. Linking structure to function (VMB & DTI)
4.3. Functional imaging
4.3.1. PET
4.3.2. fMRI
4.4. Experimentele designs
4.4.1. Cognitive subtraction methodology
4.4.1. Factorial designs
4.4.2. Parametric designs
4.4.3. Event-related vs blocked designs
4.5. Analysing functional imaging data
4.5. Interpreting functional imaging data
4.5.1. Inhibition vs excitation
4.5.2. Activation vs deactivation
4.5.3. Necessity vs sufficiency
4.6. Disagreements between imaging & lesion studies
H5: The seeing brain
5.1. Seeing
5.2. From eye to brain
5.2.1. Retina

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, 5.2.2. The geniculostriate pathway
5.2.3. Cortical and non-cortical routes to seeing
5.3. Cortical blindness & “blindsight”
5.4. Functional specialization of visual cortex beyond V1
5.4.1. V4=main colour center of the brain
5.4.2. V5/MT=main movement center of the brain
5.4.3. Beyond visual cortex/higher levels in visual cortex
5.5. Recognizing objects
5.5.1. Damage in stages of model of object recognition
5.5.2. Category specificity in visual object recognition
5.6. Recognizing faces
5.6.1. Models of face processing
5.6.2. Evidence that faces are special: prosopagnosia
H6: The numerate brain (boek: hoort bij H 13)
6.1. The meaning of numbers
6.2. Neuraal substrates of number meaning
H7: The hearing brain
7.1. Sound
7.1.1. Nature of sound
7.1.2. From ear to brain
7.2. Basic processing of auditory information
7.3. Music perception
7.4. Voice perception
7.5. Speech perception
7.5.1. Speech perception: the challenge
7.5.2. Motor theory of speech perception
7.5.3. Auditory ventral & dorsal routes for “what” and “how”
7.5.4. How to resolve the challenges: the McGurk illusion
H8: The speaking brain
8.1. Model of speech comprehension & production (introductie)
8.2. Spoken word recognition
8.3. Semantic memory & the meaning of words
8.3.1. Format of features: amodal vs grounded concepts
8.3.2. Organization of features: hierarchies, features & categories
8.3.3. Relation between category & feature-level information
8.4. Understanding & producing sentences
8.4.1. Broca’s area & sentence processing
8.4.2. Relation between syntax & semantics
8.5. Retrieving & producing spoken words
8.6. Neuropsychology in practice: aphasia
H9: The attending brain
9.1. Spatial & non-spatial attentional process
9.2. Role of/t frontoparietal network in attention (Â)
9.2.1. Frontoparietal network
9.2.2. The “where” pathway: parietal lobes
9.2.3. Contribution of hemispheric differences in parietal lobe to Â
9.3. Theories of Â: Biased competition theory
9.4. Disorders of Â

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