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2026, PSYCH 473 Cognitive Neuroscience
(open to people from all departments/faculties/colleges)
Description: Brain basis of human cognition studied using a diverse range of techniques, with a focus on measures of brain activity such as functional neuroimaging and electrophysiology recorded during behavioural tasks. Designed for graduate and senior undergraduate students who are conducting cognitive neuroscience research.
Format: We will read articles and discuss them, led by students. Students will write hypothetical editorial letters for the articles. Students will present their own research or proposals. We will do hands-on analyses of sample brain-activity data.
Pre-requisites: I am happy to waive formal pre-requisites if you have the pertinent pre-requisite knowledge:Basic knowledge of cognitive psychology and basic neuroscience and comfort reading and critiquing original research articles. Although we will work through the methods together, basic knowledge of cognitive neuroscience (e.g., EEG, fMRI and related topics) is also important. Have a look at recent articles in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience and try out this self-quiz to assess your preparedness for this course or identify areas to read up on (if most of these are hard work, the course will be more challenging than necessary):
- Sketch a graph (fully labelled) of your favourite experimental psychology result and explain how the plot supports the researchers’ conclusions.
- Explain what a hypothesis is, and how it differs from a topic, an expectation or a research question.
- What does a t test actually test?
- When do you need to use an ANOVA?
- What is a Pearson correlation? What does it mean if a correlation is positive, zero or negative?
- What is a p value and how does it relate to false positives and false negatives?
- What is the difference between these units: V, mV and uV?
- What do EEG and fMRI measure? How do people think that relates to neuronal activity?
- What is the difference between MRI and fMRI?
- What is an ERP, and how does that relate to EEG?
- Sketch your favourite EEG or fMRI result, and explain what we learn from it
