Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience: Implications for developmental psychiatry

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Content Main topics

*normative (neuro-)development of cognition and motivation: focus on learning and decision-making

*inter-individual differences in the (neuro-)development of cognition and motivation: implications for developmental psychiatry with a transdiagnostic focus on impulsivity and compulsivity

*introduction to reinforcment learning as a key theoretical and methodological tool: 'developmental computational psychiatry'

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully completed this module will have acquired insights into the current  scientific debate of normal and abnormal cognitive skills and brain development. Developmental Changes of basic cognitive skills such as learning and memory, speech, attention, theory of mind and emotion processing will be adressed