A lecture course taught by a single instructor. How does our brain give rise to our abilities to perceive, act and think? This course explores the cognitive and neural processes that support attention, learning, memory, language, and guided behaviors with an emphasis on the neural mechanisms that form the substrates of human cognition. It introduces basic neuroanatomy, functional imaging techniques, and behavioral measures of cognition, and discusses methods by which inferences about the brain bases of cognition are made. This course also provides a survey of current research in cognitive neuroscience. Representative topics include perceptual and motor processes, decision making, learning and memory, attention, reward processing, reinforcement learning, sensory inference and cognitive control.
Sample Syllabus for course 185:350
Course Descriptions
01:185:350 Fundamentals of Cognitive Neuroscience
- Course Code: 01:185:350
- Semester(s) Offered: Fall
- Credits: 3
- Prerequisites: Introduction to Cognitive Science (01:185:201)