Track: Cognitive Neuroscience
Brain and Cognitive Sciences (MSc)
The focus of the cognitive neuroscience track is on a neuroscientific approach to cognition. It is firmly rooted in psychology and biology and focuses on how the brain processes information to enable complex cognitive functions. Besides fundamental neuroscience disciplines, brain imaging, systems neurophysiology and cognitive behaviour are strongly represented here. A question characteristic for this track is: “how do neural processes such as spikes and synaptic plasticity give rise to memory, conscious perception and behavioural decisions?”
The track aims at understanding how the brain implements cognitive processes by studying information processing in the healthy, active brain, but also by computer stimulation and interventional approaches targeting causal functions. In this track the pathological brain is equally captivating as the healthy brain and will be high-lighted by studying neurological and psychiatric disorders.
Programme
Year 1
- 2 EC, Milestones, Promises and Pitfalls
- 5 EC, Advanced Cognitive Neuroscience
- 5 EC, Neurophysiology: Introduction to Electrophysiology & Imaging
- 6 EC, Specialisation Course
- 6 EC, Current Issues in Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- 4 EC, Summer School
- 26 EC, Research project 1
- 6 EC, Elective
Year 2
- 6-12 EC, Electives
- 36-42 EC, Research project 2 12 EC, Literature Thesis
Structure of the Cognitive Neuroscience Track
Specialised courses
Next to the track specific courses, the track Cognitive Neuroscience offers three specialised courses of which the students need to at least one, depending on their interest, as an obligatory module in their master programme.
Students can choose between:
- Advanced Continuous Multivariate Analysis