85-465 Cognitive Neuroscience

Units: 9.0 Department: Psychology Special permission: Yes Cross-listed: 85-765 Notes: Please email Dr. Jay McClelland for permission to register for the course. mcclelland@cmu.edu . Related URLs: http://www.psy.cmu.edu/ 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 high-level vison, spatial cognition, working memory, long-term 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 brain-damaged humans, non-invasive brain monitoring in humans, and single-neuron recording in animals. Lectures will alternate with sessions in seminar format. Graduate standing or two upper-level psychology courses from the areas of developmental, cognitive, computational modeling of intelligence, neuropsychology or neuroscience. Permission of instructor required.

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