Neuroscience: behavior and cognition

BIO-483 / 5 crédits

Enseignant(s): Blanke Olaf, Herzog Michael, Sandi Perez Maria del Carmen

Langue: Anglais

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.

Moodle Link

Dans les plans d'études

  • Semestre: Printemps
  • Forme de l'examen: Ecrit (session d'été)
  • Matière examinée: Neuroscience: behavior and cognition
  • Cours: 3 Heure(s) hebdo x 14 semaines
  • Exercices: 2 Heure(s) hebdo x 14 semaines
  • Type: optionnel
  • Semestre: Printemps
  • Forme de l'examen: Ecrit (session d'été)
  • Matière examinée: Neuroscience: behavior and cognition
  • Cours: 3 Heure(s) hebdo x 14 semaines
  • Exercices: 2 Heure(s) hebdo x 14 semaines
  • Type: optionnel
  • Semestre: Printemps
  • Forme de l'examen: Ecrit (session d'été)
  • Matière examinée: Neuroscience: behavior and cognition
  • Cours: 3 Heure(s) hebdo x 14 semaines
  • Exercices: 2 Heure(s) hebdo x 14 semaines
  • Type: optionnel
  • Semestre: Printemps
  • Forme de l'examen: Ecrit (session d'été)
  • Matière examinée: Neuroscience: behavior and cognition
  • Cours: 3 Heure(s) hebdo x 14 semaines
  • Exercices: 2 Heure(s) hebdo x 14 semaines
  • Type: optionnel
  • Semestre: Printemps
  • Forme de l'examen: Ecrit (session d'été)
  • Matière examinée: Neuroscience: behavior and cognition
  • Cours: 3 Heure(s) hebdo x 14 semaines
  • Exercices: 2 Heure(s) hebdo x 14 semaines
  • Type: optionnel
  • Semestre: Printemps
  • Forme de l'examen: Ecrit (session d'été)
  • Matière examinée: Neuroscience: behavior and cognition
  • Cours: 3 Heure(s) hebdo x 14 semaines
  • Exercices: 2 Heure(s) hebdo x 14 semaines
  • Type: optionnel
  • Semestre: Printemps
  • Forme de l'examen: Ecrit (session d'été)
  • Matière examinée: Neuroscience: behavior and cognition
  • Cours: 3 Heure(s) hebdo x 14 semaines
  • Exercices: 2 Heure(s) hebdo x 14 semaines
  • Type: optionnel
  • Forme de l'examen: Ecrit (session d'été)
  • Matière examinée: Neuroscience: behavior and cognition
  • Cours: 3 Heure(s) hebdo x 14 semaines
  • Exercices: 2 Heure(s) hebdo x 14 semaines
  • Type: optionnel

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