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2014-2016 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2014-2016 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

PY 4300 - Cognition


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This course investigates the cognitive capacities of humans. Its interest is in how ordinary, rather than pathological minds acquire, store, retrieve, and use the information and knowledge that programs mental life and mediates behavior. It reviews processes of perception, and it surveys several memory systems (e.g., episodic, general knowledge, procedural, perceptual representation). Other cognitive systems explored are attention, language, problem-solving and creativity; and, where propitious, they will be compared to those of our closest genetic relatives. The course also includes, again where propitious, demonstrative findings and methodologies from cognitive neuroscience to augment and to help unify our understanding of human cognition.

Prerequisite: PY 3100  or PY 3110 ; PY 3300  or PY 3350 , or instructor approval.