Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology

About this course

Cognitive neuroscience and psychology sit at the frontier where mind and brain meet. Cognitive neuroscience asks how mental processes, including perception, attention, memory, decision-making, and language, are implemented in the physical structure and activity of the brain. Psychology provides the experimental and conceptual tools to study those processes behaviourally, while neuroscience supplies the biological framework and imaging methods that reveal what is happening in the brain while they occur. Together the two disciplines produce a rigorous and genuinely exciting account of how the mind works at multiple levels of description. At the University of Manchester, this three-year, full-time programme includes a foundation year, which provides additional grounding in the natural sciences, mathematics, and research methods before you enter the main degree. Manchester has strong resear

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