Guía docente de Perspectivas Actuales en Psicología y Neurociencias (M30/56/2/26)

• Guidelines of “how to write" an (scientific) essay
• Guidelines of Ethics in research
• Guidelines of how to pre-register a study
• Several research talks and/or seminars from national and international experts in the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience, distributed along the academic course.
• Composition of one essay reviewing recent literature in specific research fields from Psychology and Neuroscience

• The student will know/understand:

1. Current relevant research and theories in the field of Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience
2. Different styles and approaches to current controversies in the field
3. The importance of taking an active role in research exchanges

• The student will be able to:

1. Read and understand specialized research literature in Human Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology
2. Discuss hot spots or controversies with the researchers themselves
3. Synthesize relevant information to write reports about key questions.

• Unit 1.  How to write an (scientific) essay
• Unit 2.  Ethics in Research
• Unit 3. How to pre-register a study

• Seminars: The contents/specific talks and seminars change every year depending on the areas of research of the invited speakers. Their number varies between 12-18 (students have to attend and participate in a minimum of 9 presentations).

Foreseeing potential incompatibilities between the time of the seminars and student activities in other domains (e.g. practical work in hospitals), students are offered the possibility of listening and synthesizing research contents presented in podcasts available in internet, with special attention to TED contents.  This, however, only applies when students justify the impossibility to attend specific talks/seminars synchronously.

Specific references and relevant and recommended readings are updated every year and change depending on the speakers. This information will be available at the online teaching platform "PRADO UGR": https://prado.ugr.es/

Specific references and relevant and recommended readings are updated every year and change depending on the speakers. This information will be available at the online teaching platform "PRADO UGR": https://prado.ugr.es/

• https://prado.ugr.es/
• https://biblioteca.ugr.es/informacion/presentacion/primeros-pasos

Article 18 of the UGR Assessment Policy and Regulations establishes that the ordinary assessment session (convocatoria ordinaria) will preferably be based on the continuous assessment of students, except for those who have been granted the right to a single final assessment (evaluación única final), which is an assessment method that only takes a final exam into account.

• Marks of the essay constitute 52% of the final evaluation.
• Attendance to talks and seminars, as well as short written reports of answers to the research questions provided for each specific talk constitute the remaining 48% of the evaluation. This part of the grade will consider the extent of active participation of the students during the talk/seminars (e.g. questions made to the speaker).  Specifically, the evaluation will take into account:
  • 15%: Assistance with answers to their corresponding questions (minimum of 9 presentations) and participation (the maximum will be reached by asking out loud questions to the speaker in, at least, 5 talks or assisting to, at least, 5 additional seminars), and
  • 33 %: quality of the responses to the questions provided or each  talk.  
• In order to sum up these two parts (i.e. both the essay and seminars) the student will need to pass each one (i.e. to obtain at least 5 out of 10 on each part). In the situation where one part is not pass,ed, the maximum total cualification will be 4,9.
• If plagiarism and/or AI-generated content is detected in any of the written works, a “0” qualification will be consider for the subject.

Article 19 of the UGR Assessment Policy and Regulations establishes that students who have not passed a course in the ordinary assessment session (convocatoria ordinaria) will have access to an extraordinary assessment session (convocatoria extraordinaria). All students may take part in this extraordinary assessment session, regardless of whether or not they have followed continuous assessment activities. In this way, students who have not carried out continuous assessment activities will have the opportunity to obtain 100% of their mark by means of an exam and/or assignment.

For this extraordinary call, the student can choose either to keep the previous marks from individual parts of the course, or to complete a written exam that will cover the 100% of the grade. This exam will include several questions about the readings related to the seminars as well as a critical essay about a given topic that the student will know well in advance.

Article 8 of the UGR Assessment Policy and Regulations establishes that students who are unable to follow continuous assessment methods due to justifiable reasons shall have recourse to a single final assessment (evaluación única final), which is an assessment method that only takes a final exam into account.

In order to opt for a single final assessment (evaluación única final), students must send a request, using the corresponding online procedure, to the coordinator of the master’s program, in the first two weeks of the course or in the two weeks following their enrolment (if the enrolment has taken place after the classes have already begun). The coordinator will communicate this information to the relevant teaching staff members, citing and verifying the reasons why the student is unable to follow the continuous assessment system.

In this case, the assessment will comprise:

• An exam that will include several questions about the readings related to the seminars as well as a critical essay about a given topic that the student will know well in advance.

• Teaching methodologies and timing
  •  Seminars and conferences: 48 h
         o Conferences: 24 h
         o Seminars on methodological updating : 14h
         o Student individual work on seminars: 10h
  • Autonomous (remote) learning: 77 h
         o Tutored activities (monitoring of the autonomous activity [monograph], resolution of doubts, and formative evaluation): 37 h
         o Student individual work on the monograph: 40h
• The teaching methodology and assessment will be adapted to students with specific needs (SEN), in accordance with Article 11 of the Regulations on assessment and grading of students at the University of Granada.
• This course will follow the recommendations from the University of Granada Action Plan for Equality regarding the use of nonsexist and inclusive language and visibility of women's and minorities' contributions to the field.
• This course will follow the standars of integrity stated in the University of Granada ethical code of conduct.

• Recomendación para la elección del monográfico: Se recomienda que los estudiantes elijan para el monográfico el mismo tema del Trabajo Fin de Máster (TFM). Esta opción permitirá optimizar el tiempo de investigación y adquirir un conocimiento más exhaustivo y detallado del tema, facilitando, en un momento posterior, la escritura del TFM. En el caso de elegir esta opción, el profesorado de la asignatura solicitará un informe inicial sobre la adecuación de la literatura seleccionada al tutor o tutora de TFM, para asegurar que el estudiante recibe retroalimentación específica del tema de elección. Este informe se tendrá en cuenta en la evaluación final del monográfico.

• Utilizo de la Inteligencia Artificial Generativa

En esta asignatura está permitido el uso de la inteligencia artificial generativa (chatGPT y similares, que llamaremos IAGen en adelante) para: ayudarnos a aprender y profundizar en los contenidos, mejorar la redacción y ortografía de los textos que escribimos, así como para la traducción de textos. La IAGen NO está permitida para generar la totalidad o parte del contenido sin revisar su veracidad o contrastar la información. El alumnado es RESPONSABLE de su uso y debe asegurarse de que la ayuda de este tipo de recursos no le lleva a aceptar información falsa o incorrecta, o al plagio. En todo caso se recomienda el uso de las herramientas contratadas por la UGR (Microsoft Copilot), que garantizan que los datos permanezcan dentro de la organización y no queden expuestos a terceros. Si has empleado una herramienta de IAGen en algún trabajo, debes reconocerlo añadiendo una sección específica al final del texto, como ésta:

"En el presente trabajo se ha utilizado Microsoft Corporation. (2024). Microsoft Copilot [Software]. Recuperado de https://www.microsoft.com/copilot para las siguientes tareas: [….]. El autor/a acepta la total responsabilidad del documento final."