85-765 Cognitive Neuroscience

9 units, Carnegie Mellon University

This course will cover fundamental findings and approaches in cognitive neuroscience, with the goal of providing an overview of the field at an advanced level. Topics will include highlevel vison, spatial cognition, working memory, longterm memory, learning, language, executive control, and emotion. Each topic will be approached from a variety of methodological directions, for example, computational modeling, cognitive assessment in braindamaged humans, noninvasive brain monitoring in humans, and singleneuron recording in animals. Lectures will alternate with sessions in seminar format. Prerequisites Graduate standing or two upperlevel psychology courses from the areas of developmental psychology, cognitive psychology, computational modeling of intelligence, neuropsychology or neuroscience.

Prerequisites: none listed

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