Checking date: 12/02/2024


Course: 2024/2025

Neurobiology of cognition
(19770)
Bachelor in Neuroscience (Plan: 517 - Estudio: 389)


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Type: Compulsory
ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

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Skills and learning outcomes
Description of contents: programme
This course explores the neural processes that support cognitive functions such as attention, learning, memory, language, and guided behaviors, with an emphasis on neural mechanisms. It introduces basic functional and imaging techniques, as well as behavioral measures of cognition, and discusses methods by which inferences about the brain bases of cognition are made. The course also provides a survey of current research in cognitive neuroscience. Representative topics include perceptual and motor processes, decision making, learning and memory, attention, reward processing, reinforcement learning, sensory inference and cognitive control.
Learning activities and methodology
Classroom lectures. Face-to-face classes: reduced (workshops, seminars, case studies). Student individual work. Final exam. Seminars and lectures supported by computer and audiovisual aids. Practical learning based on cases and problems, and exercise resolution. Individual and group or cooperative work with the option of oral or written presentation. Individual and group tutorials to resolve doubts and queries about the subject.
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 60
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 40




Extraordinary call: regulations

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.