Science Undergraduate Degrees

...We consider evidence from patients with neurological diseases (Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, Balint's syndrome...

...regeneration, motor and sensory pathways and structures, systems underlying motivations, innate action patterns, formation of habits, and various cognitive functions...

...Macromolecules that mediate neurotransmitter synthesis, release, inactivation and receptor-mediated actions are discussed, as well as factors that regulate...

...Training is provided in the art of scientific writing with feedback designed to improve writing skills. Assignments include weekly preparation for lab sessions... Learn about: Computer Programming, Writing Skills...

...neuronal migration, axon guidance, synapse formation and stabilization, activity-dependent development and critical periods, development of behavior. Lectures...

...especially from classics in the field as well as selected videos. Next, key concepts in sociobiology are covered using readings from Alcock (2001)...

...as well as Hodgkin-Huxley and other related models of neural excitability, stochastic models of ion channels, cable theory, and models of synaptic transmission...

...Are 'mental images' pictures in the head? Is color in the mind or in the world? Is the mind nothing more than the brain? Can there be a science of consciousness?...

...Lectures: 1 session / week, 7 hours / session Parkinson's disease (PD) is a chronic, progressive, degenerative disease of the brain that produces movement...

...will address a range of topics related to scene recognition, including natural image categorization, contextual effects on object recognition...

...This course will consider the mechanisms of morality as a question for neuroscientists. 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session 9.00 Introduction to Psychology...

...magnetic resonance imager (fMRI). Lectures: 1 session / week, 3 hours / session This course is an investigation to distinguish episodic memory...

...3 hours / session This course is an investigation of affective priming and creation of rigorously counterbalanced, fully computerized testing paradigm... Learn about: Data analysis...

...1 session / week, 3 hours / session Paper: The final paper constitutes the majority of the grade for this course. All of the readings and interactions...

...and presentation skills in conducting and critiquing research in cognitive science, students are required to provide reports and give oral presentations of three team experiments... Learn about: Team Training, Cognitive Science, Presentation Skills...

...and critiquing research in cognitive science, students are required to provide reports and give oral presentations of three team experiments... Learn about: Cognitive Science...

...mental representation and processing, the architecture of memory, pattern recognition, attention, imagery and mental codes, concepts and prototypes... Learn about: Problem Solving...

...Second half focuses on face recognition, an ecologically important instance of the general object recognition problem. Describes experimental studies...

...1 session / week; 2 hours / session This course studies the relations of affect to cognition and behavior, feeling to thinking and acting, and values to beliefs and practices... Learn about: Quality Training...

...Specific topics include color, objects, number, categories, similarity, inductive inference, space, time, causality, reasoning, decision-making... Learn about: Decision Making, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science...