NRSC 4500 Cognitive Neuroscience
The origins and principles of cognitive neuroscience and the methods of research conducted in the field. Classic, seminal, and current studies on how the brain performs various tasks. The course discusses the organization of the cerebral cortex and the cortex' role in cognitive processes such as attention, memory, decision making, social decisions, executive function, consciousness, and dementias. Neuroscience majors must take the accompanying Cognitive Neuroscience lab.