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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

PY 4890 - Cognitive Neuroscience

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This course examines how the brain creates mind. The hypothesis is that different brain sites, to some extent at least, create, mediate, and organize specific cognitive processes; such as, for example,  perception, learning, memory, executive functions, motor processes, language, social cognition, emotion, consciousness, and many others. Examined are the methodologies used, the populations tested, and the results found. The research has led to many new questions about brain-behavior relationships, and it has raised controversies about such questions as free will and responsibility. Recent technologies (e.g., imaging and electrophysiological techniques) have greatly accelerated our understanding of relationships between brain tissue and cognitive function. 

Prerequisite: PY 1000  or PY 1100  and six hours of upper-division psychology.