Cognitive Neuroscience Quiz

Course Information

• Course name: Cognitive Neuroscience
• Course code: P_BBAC_2
• Credits: 6EC
• Period: P6
• Course level: 200
• Language: English
• Faculty: Fac.of Behavioural and Movement Science

Course Coordinator and Teaching Staff

• Course Coordinator: Dr. J.J. Fahrenfort
• Examiner: Dr. J.J. Fahrenfort
• Teaching Staff: Dr. J.J. Fahrenfort

Course Objectives

• Learn about mechanistic reasoning, brain anatomy, brain imaging, and cognitive and mental processes
• Understand neural plasticity, perception, memory, attention, consciousness, and mental life
• Gain knowledge of research methods used in cognitive neuroscience
• Understand the degree to which human behavior and mental life can be understood in terms of the architecture and computational principles of the brain

Course Design

• Taught full-time in period 6
• Consists of three lectures a week, self-study, and tutorial meetings
• Lectures: Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday
• Tutorial meetings: Friday

Learning Objectives

• Gain a basic understanding of explanatory models in cognitive neuroscience (computational, mechanistic)
• Obtain a broad overview of the history of cognitive neuroscience
• Gain basic knowledge of the architecture of the brain and the evolutionary history of the nervous system
• Gain basic knowledge of methods and techniques used in cognitive neuroscience (electrophysiology, EEG, fMRI, TMS, and tDCS)
• Understand neural mechanisms involved in vision and perception
• Understand mechanisms involved in neural plasticity and memory
• Obtain a bird's eye view of current neurobiological theories of consciousness and attention

Mandatory Study Materials

• Brain and Behavior: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective by David Eagleman and Jonathan Downar (new edition: ISBN: 9780190861650, old edition: ISBN: 9780195377682)
• Lectures are mandatory study material
• Chapters 1-6 and 8-9 are mandatory reading/learning

Tutorial Meetings

• Deliverables: presentations and summary documents
• Presentations: give a presentation about a topic from the study materials
• Summary document: provide a more in-depth treatment of at least two questions that came up during or after the presentation
• Both presentations and summary documents will be graded by tutors

Grades

• Exam: 40 multiple-choice questions about lectures and book
• Final grade: composed of written exam (75%) and work group evaluation (25%)
• Both written exam and work group evaluation must be sufficient to pass the course
• Sufficient partial grades for written exam and work group evaluation carry over to the next year

Test your knowledge of cognitive neuroscience, covering brain anatomy, imaging, and cognitive and mental processes.