The laboratory component focuses teams of students on completing a course-long research project. Individual research project carried out under the direction of a faculty member of the Biopsychology Track. This track brings together methods and knowledge from the fields of psychology, philosophy, neurobiology, computer science, and linguistics in the study of the mind. This state of the art interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach facilitates the development of theories of the mind based on complex representations and computational procedures. The emphasis of the program is faculty-student research.
Students make application.
A GPA of 3.0 is required for admission. In this course, students directly interact with experts in biology, philosophy, computer science, psychology and linguistics, and thereby gain an understanding of how the different constituent areas form the foundation of cognitive science. This course provides the overarching theoretical framework needed to assimilate more detailed information. It also provides the student with basic terminology, the language of cognitive science. This course provides a review of brain anatomy and physiology and continues with an examination of the ways in which theorists have conceived the relations between neuronal events and the conscious mind.