PSYCH 3BN3

COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

Undergraduate

Fall 2025 · C01

Readings

Etext Cognitive Neuroscience - 6 Month Access Ed: 5
Banitch · 5 · Required
ISBN 9781108918480; 9781108926386

Fall 2025 · C01

Week 1: Sept. 3: Course Overview & Introduction
Week 2: Sept. 8: Brain Anatomy (Chapter 1) Sept. 10: Historical Methods (Chapter 2)
Week 3: Sept. 15: Neuroimaging Methods (Chapter 3) Sept. 17: Visual Perception (Chapter 5)
Week 4: Sept. 22: Visual Perception (Chapter 5) Sept. 24: Auditory Perception (Chapter 5)
Week 5: Sept. 29: Object Recognition (Chapter 6) Oct. 1: Journal Club 1 (EEG Studies in Perception)
Week 6: Oct. 6: Spatial Cognition (Chapter 7) Oct. 8: Journal Club 2 (Object Recognition & Spatial Perception)
Week 8: Oct. 20: Motor Control (Chapter 4) Oct. 22: Journal Club 3 (Motor Control)
Week 9: Oct. 27: Language (Chapter 8) Oct. 29: Journal Club 4 (Optical Imaging of Language)

Cognitive Neuroscience
Marie T. Banich & Rebecca J. Compton · 2023 · Fifth Edition · Required
Cambridge University Press · ISBN 9781108831147
We will also discuss a series of selected journal articles that can be accessed electronically from the McMaster library website ( https://library.mcmaster.ca/ ).
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