Psychology 219 - Colloquium: Fundamentals of Cognitive Neuroscience

Cognitive psychologists investigate the functions of the human mind through behavioral techniques and behavioral neuroscientists explore the physiology of the human brain using non-human models. Both of these fields have existed for well over a century. Cognitive neuroscience lies at the intersection of cognitive psychology and behavioral neuroscience and investigates the brain mechanisms underlying human mental processing using primarily noninvasive techniques that have emerged in only the last few decades. This course covers the methods of cognitive neuroscience along with fundamental cognitive neuroscience findings on many topics including seeing, hearing, attention, action, memory, language, and social and emotional processing. Cannot be taken S/U. Prerequisites: PSY 100 and PSY 202. Enrollment limited to 25.

[CE] PSY 100 & 202