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psy240 - Computation in Neuroscience (Course overview)
Department of Psychology 9 KP
Module components Semester courses Sommersemester 2022 Examination
Lecture
(
2h/week in winter and summer term
)
Seminar
  • No access 6.02.240_5_Gr1 - Computer-controlled experimentation - group 1 Show lecturers
    • Björn Holtze
    • M. Sc. Daniel Hölle

    Thursday: 10:15 - 11:45, weekly (from 21/04/22), Location: A07 0-031, A04 2-221
    chose group 1 on Thursday or group 2 on Friday As part of your module psy240, you will have to take the mandatory course 'Computer-controlled experimentation' 6.02.240_5_Gr1 or 6.02.240_5_Gr2. In this course you will use the software 'Presentation'. This software requires a licence that we will provide for the course. The programme ONLY RUNS on WINDOWS computers! YOu can make use of the student laptops in the university.
  • No access 6.02.240_5_Gr2 - Computer-controlled experimentation - group 2 Show lecturers
    • Björn Holtze

    Friday: 08:15 - 09:45, weekly (from 22/04/22), Location: A07 0-031, A01 0-009
    chose group 1 on Thursday or group 2 on Friday As part of your module psy240, you will have to take the mandatory course 'Computer-controlled experimentation' 6.02.240_5_Gr1 or 6.02.240_5_Gr2. In this course you will use the software 'Presentation'. This software requires a licence that we will provide for the course. The programme ONLY RUNS on WINDOWS computers! YOu can make use of the student laptops in the university.
Exercises
(
1h/week in winter and summer term
)
Tutorial
(
voluntary
)
Hinweise zum Modul
Prerequisites
Enrolment in Master's programme Neurocognitive Psychology.
Reference text
Important note:
Passing the exam of psy240 is mandatory for starting a Practical Project (psy260) and the Master's thesis.
Prüfungszeiten
exam period at the end of the summer term
Module examination
In a 90-minute written exam the participants will have to program MATLAB-scripts for a selection of neuroscientific data-analysis problems, demonstrating their skills in the different topics. The scripts and comments will be written on university-provided laptops and handed in via email or USB-drive.

Students need to hand in 1-2 programming tasks in the exercises to be allowed to take part in the exam.

Required active participation for gaining credits:
script for the presentation of experimental stimuli in part 5
attendance of at least 70% in the seminar 'Presentation', part 5 (will be checked in StudIP).
Skills to be acquired in this module
Goals of module:
Students will acquire scientific programming skills as well as specific knowledge of
computational methods in neuroscience and cognition. They will learn to judge the
appropriateness and complexity of computational problems and solutions.

Competencies:
+ Neuropsychological / neurophysiological knowledge
+ experimental methods
++ statistics & scientific programming
+ critical & analytical thinking
+ knowledge transfer
+ group work