Psychology

How does the brain produce the mind? Answering this question is the goal of cognitive neuroscience, a fascinating new discipline at the intersection of cognitive psychology and neuroscience. There are two main objects for this course: The first is to provide you with a foundation in the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying perception, attention, memory, language, and cognitive control functions. To do so, we will consider evidence from disorders produced by brain damage and studies of healthy individual behavior using a variety of methods including cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, functional brain imaging, neurophysiology, transcranial magnetic stimulation, and electroencephalography. The second is to provide you with the ability to critically evaluate cognitive neuroscientific research.  To do so, we will read research articles and discuss them critically.