Cognitive Neuroscience (ScB)

About this programme

Cognitive Neuroscience is the study of how neural mechanisms give rise to the mental representations and processes that underlie behavior. Cognitive Neuroscience concentrators integrate research in cognitive science, psychology, and neuroscience. Students in the concentration are exposed to both behavioral and experimental methods as well as computational approaches in order to understand the nature of cognition from a neural perspective. Through the elective requirements, students can focus on one of these two avenues of study, or they can propose a balance between the two. Concentrators must also complete a senior capstone seminar course or conduct an independent program of study with members of the Cognitive and Psychological Sciences department, the Department of Neuroscience, or the Carney Institute for Brain Science. The general goal of the Cognitive Neuroscience requirements is to provide students with the foundational knowledge in Psychology and Neuroscience necessary for an integrative study of the relation between the mind and the brain, while also allowing students to deeply explore one or two areas of focus in Cognitive Neuroscience