Cognitive and Computational Lab

4 credits · Undergraduate

In this laboratory course, students will be taught the experimental and analytical techniques used by cognitive and computational neuroscientists. Students will learn how to assess humans’ performance in visual and auditory tasks, how to design experiments for testing theories of motor control, and how cognitive processes such as memory and decision-making affect perceptual and motor behavior. Students will also be introduced to computational methods used to analyze the large behavioral and neural data sets that are acquired in systems and cognitive neuroscience. Finally, students will be introduced to the tools of theoretical neuroscience for generating mathematical descriptions of the computations performed by a thinking brain.