Cognitive Neuroscience

Catalog description

Cognitive neuroscience is concerned with the study of the biological processes that underlie cognition with a specific focus on neural systems in the brain that are involved in mental processes. This course provides the foundation of cognitive neuroscience including neuroanatomy, neural signaling, motor and sensory pathways, experimental methods employed in cognitive neuroscience, and discusses the neural bases of complex cognitive functions such as attention, perception, learning, memory, emotional regulation, executive control, decision making and language. Critical analysis of primary research and research projects employed in the course foster an in-depth understanding of main areas of cognitive neuroscience and its recent advances.