SPECIAL TOPICS OF NEUROPSYCHOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS IN THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS

SPECIAL TOPICS OF NEUROPSYCHOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS IN THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS

First Semester
7.5 ECTS

Coordinator: 
Nikolaos Zygouris 

Teachers:
Nikolaos Zygouris, Eleni Vlachou

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Special Topics in Neuropsychology and Applications in the Educational Process


Description.

The course aims to introduce graduate students to the interconnection of brain activity with educational practice and process.
The syllabus of the course covers:
The neurodevelopmental stages of the child. The basic models of learning. The development of the visual and auditory pathways of knowledge acquisition. The contribution of the frontal and prefrontal lobes to learning.The development of reasoning skills through neuropsychological training. The analysis of the role of analogy in learning through the development of neural networks to increase learning and memorization.Research data from electrophysiological techniques to assess the retraining of brain activity. ?

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The course is assessed through Laboratory Exercise covering 50% of the total marks and through Final Written Examination (50%).