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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

PSB 4002 - Brain Behavior and Experience

Credit(s): 3
To best understand human behavior, we need to study the complex interconnected systems within the brain; likewise, to study the brain it helps to understand the broad and varied behaviors and cognitions that the human experiences. This course offers an introduction to how psychology and neuroscience have met to understand the principles and mechanisms of brain function that give rise to human cognition and behavior. This course will give you an introduction to this fields of Cognitive, Clinical and Social Neuroscience. The course will present the methods employed by neuropsychologists and their application to the study of perception, attention, memory, language, action, emotion processing, object recognition, social cognition and more executive functions. The course will also provide a functional analysis of disorders in terms of cognitive and behavioral theory through studies of lesion localization and neuroimaging of the intact brain.

Prerequisite(s): AP Psychology (AP85 min score: 3) OR PSY 2012  (min grade C) OR PSY 1012 (min grade C)