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Only GSMS PhD students (including BCN PhD students) can participate in these courses. Use your P-number to register (ask your Personnel Office).
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Course: BCN Orientation Course
This course will provide general background information for non-specialists concerning major research themes within BCN. The aim of the course is to facilitate multidisciplinary exchange of information and ideas within BCN and to become familiar with the various groups and their scientific ideas and techniques, with the explicit purpose to stimulate multidisciplinary approaches. A broad overview of research possibilities enables collaboration in unforeseen directions.
The theme of the course: The behavioral and cognitive neurosciences as the are represented in the University of Groningen. The course includes presentations of the main scientific questions and the major research techniques that are applied within the research school BCN.
Evaluation:
At the end of the course each participant writes a multidisciplinary treatise related to the course of about 1000 words. The summary is read by the course coordinator. The grade is the final grade of the course.
Obligatory literature:
Hand outs of the presentations. Power Point Presentations will be available on NESTOR.
Recommended literature:
- Kandel, Schwarz & Jessell (eds.), “Essentials of Neural Science and Behaviour”, 743 pp. (Prentice Hall, London, 1995; ISBN 0-8385-2247-5).
- Gleitman and Liberman, “Language”. (MIT Press, Cambridge MA, 1996; ISBN 0262-65044-4). (In the series: “An Invitation to Cognitive Science, Vol.1).
- Posner (ed.), “Foundations of Cognitive Science”, 888 pp. (MIT Press, 1993; ISBN 0-2626-6086-5 ($ 42.00, paperback version).
- Gazzaniga, Mangun & Mangun, “Cognitive Neuroscience: The Biology of the Mind”, 600 pp (Norton, 1998; ISBN 0-3939-7219-4).
EC (with exam)
3
Language
English