PSYCH 455Cognitive Neuroscience

3 credits · Psychology · Penn State

Cognitive Neuroscience strives to understand the brain bases of cognition. This course is intended to provide an overview of the cognitive and neural processes that support major components of cognition such as attention, vision, language, motor control, navigation, and memory. The course will introduce students to basic neuroanatomy, functional imaging techniques including electrophysiology and functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), as well as behavioral measures of cognition. We will discuss the experimental techniques and the ways in which inferences about the brain bases of cognition are made. We will consider evidence from healthy adults, as well as from patients with neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, amnesia, and stroke.