Cognitive Neuroscience

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Cognitive neuroscience examines human brain information processing at the level of large- scale neurobiological systems. Some examples include information processing that underlies learning and retrieving concepts, comprehending, and producing language, directing, and maintaining attention, and recognizing sensory objects. Each session in this course will begin with a 1-hour contextual lecture, followed by review and discussion of two relevant landmark papers, sometimes with opposing views. Emphasis will be placed on understanding the processing models central to each domain, the extent to which these models are supported by empirical evidence from neuroimaging, and the relevance of the field to a variety of human brain disorders. There are a number of courses offered by other departments at the Medical College of Wisconsin that can be taken by students in the Neuroscience Doctoral Program depending upon their research interests. The goal is to provide each student with the basics of modern neuroscience and then allow them to customize a program of course work that best meets their needs.