Admission requirements
Previous knowledge of cognitive neuroscience and/or psycho- and neurolinguistics is desirable.
Description
The course is about the neuroscientific processing of language comprehension and production in healthy and language-impaired adults (e.g. auditory and visual word recognition, reading, understanding speech, representation of word meaning, language production). It will include damage to the linguistic processing system such as different forms of aphasia (e.g. dyslexia, anomia, agrammatism, etc.) as well as bilingualism. Emphasis will be put on theoretical issues and models, however empirical/experimental papers will be discussed as well. Most areas of psycho- and neurolinguistics will be touched upon, mainly from a cognitive neuroscience perspective. The course will make use of a textbook on psycholinguistics for background reading and specific articles.
Course objectives
Students with basic knowledge in psycho- and neurolinguistics should be able to extend and deepen their knowledge in the areas of language comprehension and production, especially regarding the neuroscientific aspects of those areas (methods, paradigms, data acquisition, neurocognitive consequences).
Students will get practice in presenting a topic in front of other students and teachers.
Students will get writing practice (useful as preparartion for their MA thesis).
Timetable
The timetable is available on the MA Linguistics website
Registration
Enrolment through uSis is mandatory.
General information about uSis is available in [English])http://hum.leiden.edu/students/study-administration/usis-english.html) and Dutch
Students other than MA Linguistics need permission from the coordinator of studies before enrolling.
Examination
Students are not automatically enrolled for an examination. They can register via uSis from 100 to 10 calendar days before the date; students who are not registered will not be permitted to take the examination. Registering for exams
Mode of instruction
Lecture and seminar
Course Load
The course load will be 280 hours.
Assessment Method
Grade Pretest: mean of 7 best out of 8 pretest scores
Grade Exam = (Grade Pretests + 2x Grade Final Exam)/3 (re-sit only when Grade Final Exam = 5 or higher)
Final Grade = (Grade Exams + Grade Paper)/2
Blackboard
Blackboard will be used to provide students with an overview of current affairs, as well as specific information about (components of) the course.
Reading list
Kemmerer, D. Cognitive Neuroscience of Language, First edition, New York and London Psychology Press, 2015.
Contact
Please contact Student administration van Eyckhof for questions.