认知神经科学是对大脑如何使大脑起作用的研究。脑科学探索单个神经元如何操作和交流以形成组成人脑的复杂神经元结构。认知科学使用认知心理学和人工智能的实验方法来创建和测试诸如思想和语言之类的高级认知模型。认知神经科学桥接了这两个领域。它将更高级别的认知功能映射到已知的大脑结构和已知的神经元处理模式。在我们的认知神经科学研究生课程中
Students enrolled in the Cognitive Neuroscience Psychology program will gain a wide variety of experiences in conducting research and presenting their research findings. This experience will be gained by working in laboratories on thesis research and other projects, as well as through courses taught by our faculty. In the Cognitive Neuroscience area, the applicant is typically first admitted to the MA program with the expectation that the student will continue to the PhD. Cognitive neuroscience is the study of how the brain enables the mind. Brain science explores how individual neurons operate and communicate to form complex neuronal architectures that comprise the human brain. Cognitive science uses the experimental methods of cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence to create and test models of higher-level cognition such as thought and language. Cognitive neuroscience bridges these two domains. It maps higher-level cognitive functions to known brain architectures and known modes of neuronal processing.<br><br>In our Cognitive Neuroscience graduate program, students use a wide variety of research techniques. Event-related potentials (ERP) are used to study how different populations of neurons respond on a millisecond-to-millisecond basis as they process different types of information (e.g., looking at a face). We use functional magnetic imaging (fMRI) to see which areas of the brain are preferentially activated when processing different types of information or engaging in different types of behavior. We use virtual reality to understand how we navigate within our world. We use cognitive psychology tasks to better understand patients with brain damage, and how the healthy brain changes as we age. We use cognitive techniques to explore how the brain changes when our mind's wander and to explore differences in brain function between different groups of people (from problem gamblers, to those with synaesthesia).