Neuroscience: behavior and cognition

BIO-483 / 5 credits

Teacher(s): Blanke Olaf, Sandi Perez Maria del Carmen

Language: English

Summary

The goal is to guide students into the essential topics of Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience. The challenge for the student in this course is to integrate the diverse knowledge acquired from those levels of analysis into a more or less coherent understanding of brain structure and function.

Content

Pathways into the visual brain

Perception and encoding

Attention and selective perception

Perception and consciousness

Understanding statistics

Stress and emotion

Learning and memory

Neurobiological mechanisms of memory

Emotional influences on cognitive functions

Psychiatric disorders

Structural and functional cortical neuroanatomy

Somatosensory perception and parietal cortex in human and non-human primates

Multisensory perception and parietal and premotor cortex in human and non-human primates

Perception and representation of visual space in the right hemisphere

Selected neurological disorders and human brain imaging

Bodily self-consciousness

Learning Prerequisites

Recommended courses

Neuroscience: from molecular mechanisms to disease (BIO-480)
Neuroscience: cellular and circuit mechanisms (BIO-482)

 

Assessment methods

Written exam

Resources

Bibliography

Purves D et al. Principles of Cognitive Neuroscience. 2008. Sinauer Associates: Sunderland, MA.

Gazzaniga MS. Cognitive Neuroscience. 2008 (3rd. Ed.) W. W. Norton & Company.

Ressources en bibliothèque

Moodle Link

In the programs

  • Semester: Spring
  • Exam form: Written (summer session)
  • Subject examined: Neuroscience: behavior and cognition
  • Lecture: 3 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Exercises: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Type: optional
  • Semester: Spring
  • Exam form: Written (summer session)
  • Subject examined: Neuroscience: behavior and cognition
  • Lecture: 3 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Exercises: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Type: optional
  • Semester: Spring
  • Exam form: Written (summer session)
  • Subject examined: Neuroscience: behavior and cognition
  • Lecture: 3 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Exercises: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Type: optional
  • Semester: Spring
  • Exam form: Written (summer session)
  • Subject examined: Neuroscience: behavior and cognition
  • Lecture: 3 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Exercises: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Type: optional
  • Semester: Spring
  • Exam form: Written (summer session)
  • Subject examined: Neuroscience: behavior and cognition
  • Lecture: 3 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Exercises: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Type: optional
  • Exam form: Written (summer session)
  • Subject examined: Neuroscience: behavior and cognition
  • Lecture: 3 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Exercises: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Type: optional

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