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College Catalog 2009-2011 
    
College Catalog 2009-2011 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

PSYC 244 - Cognitive Neuroscience


Cognitive neuroscience is a relatively recent discipline that combines cognitive science and cognitive psychology with biology and neuroscience to investigate how the brain enables the myriad of complex functions we know as the mind. This course will explore basic concepts and contemporary topics in the field, focusing in particular on the methods used in cognitive nueroscience research. Through lecture and lab sessions, students will learn to read and interpret primary source material, design and implement cognitive neuroscience studies, and present research in verbal and written forms. Overall, students will gain an appreciation for the amazing intricacy of the brain-mind relationship, as well as a sense of how this relationship may be understood eventually using cognitive neuroscience techniques. Group A course. Prerequisite: PSYC 100  or PSYC 180 . Offered yearly. Prerequisite(s): PSYC 100 or PSYC 180 or NEUR 180. (4 Credits)