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.

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.