Action and Cognition

(4 Credits)

We need to interact with people and the environment efficiently to survive, evolve, and create a better future. Action is a crucial process in this fundamental interaction. Recent advances in cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience emphasize the functions of action and its relations to cognition. The aims of the course are to provide students with a broad understanding of the foundations as well as cutting-edge advances on the topic of the relation between action and cognition. We will focus on the research that has led to those theories, as well as experimental approaches that derive and support these hypotheses. In doing so, students will also learn about the goals as well as the scientific procedures of behavioral and cognitive neuroscience research and the methods that are being employed to reach these goals. Prerequisite: Introduction to Neuroscience AND Behavioral and Integrative Neuroscience Fulfillment: Neural Science Electives.