Psychology & Brain Sciences 391EN - S-Educational Neuroscience

Educational neuroscience is an emerging field concerned with the scientific study of cognitive and neurobiological substrates underlying learning and instructions. One overarching goal of the field is to ground educational practices in findings from cognitive research and brain sciences, although there exist scientific and pragmatic challenges to be overcome. In this course, we will critically evaluate how scientific exploration of the mind and brain can inform educational practices. In particular, we will study the neural basis of selected cognitive domains such as reading, mathematics, working memory, and executive function as well as the state-of the-art methods that are currently used to investigate brain structure and function.

Pre Req: PSYCH 241