MSc Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Designed specifically to enable you to specialise in cognition and cognitive neuroscience, our MSc explores exciting challenges facing the scientific and clinical communities – how the brain and nervous system relate to human consciousness, decision making, attention, perception, memory, motor skills and more.
On this programme, you will learn to design experiments, collect data using state-of-the-art cognitive neuroscience methods and analyse it using appropriate statistical methods. Explore the exciting challenges facing scientists in the fields of cognition and cognitive neuroscience. You will also become prepared for doctoral studies (for example, Clinical Psychology training or a PhD), and will be a competitive candidate for professional roles such as a data analyst or technical consultant.
Bridging the disciplines of psychology and neuroscience, you will learn from world-leading researchers across two of Keele’s academic Schools, whose broad and diverse expertise spans cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, neuroscience, neural engineering, neurobiology, molecular biology, biomedical science and even zoology. They will share news about their cutting-edge research through research-led teaching and our research seminar series.
The research apprenticeship and dissertation provide two opportunities to broaden or deepen your contemporary research experience, depending on personal preferences or professional interests. Working closely with relevant specialists, you can choose a different focus for each project or master one specific area. Dissertation topics chosen by past students have, for example, examined how to decode different types of mental images from patterns of brain activity, eye-movement behaviour in real-world scene processing, recognition memory in brain-damaged patients and the effect of alcohol hangover on response inhibition.
The world’s understanding of cognition and cognitive neuroscience has progressed rapidly in recent years with more computational modelling of behaviour and more precise mapping of brain circuits, improved imaging techniques and new sensor technologies to better monitor behaviour and response.
On this course, you will consider the different, complex ways in which the mind and body process, react and interact to various physical and emotional stimuli, consciously and unconsciously, voluntarily and involuntarily. This includes studying structural and functional brain differences between individuals and in clinical populations, for example, in atypical development, as well as predicting cognitive performance in complex real-world situations and understanding theories of perception, attention, memory and other cognitive processes.
You will learn how to measure objective responses (for instance, response times and eye movements, measured with high-precision devices) and subjective responses (for instance, ratings and post-recognition judgments). You'll also learn how to map brain responses from neuroimaging methods like EEG to specific sensory, cognitive, or motor events such as, how to connect neural activity with the human mind processes.
You will be taught by multidisciplinary staff involved in an exciting and diverse portfolio of research projects. These range from using EEG and eye tracking to investigate how our visual system makes sense of real-world visual scenes and visual illusions, to the differences in brain and cognitive development in deaf infants. Other research expertise includes the perception of time in extreme environments, physical and emotional states, visual and auditory perception, memory, trust, swearing, ageing, and neurological disorders.
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Designed specifically to enable you to specialise in cognition and cognitive neuroscience, our MSc explores exciting challenges facing the scientific and clinical communities – how the brain and nervous system relate to human consciousness, decision making, attention, perception, memory, motor skills and more.
On this programme, you will learn to design experiments, collect data using state-of-the-art cognitive neuroscience methods and analyse it using appropriate statistical methods. Explore the exciting challenges facing scientists in the fields of cognition and cognitive neuroscience. You will also become prepared for doctoral studies (for example, Clinical Psychology training or a PhD), and will be a competitive candidate for professional roles such as a data analyst or technical consultant.
Bridging the disciplines of psychology and neuroscience, you will learn from world-leading researchers across two of Keele’s academic Schools, whose broad and diverse expertise spans cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, neuroscience, neural engineering, neurobiology, molecular biology, biomedical science and even zoology. They will share news about their cutting-edge research through research-led teaching and our research seminar series.
The research apprenticeship and dissertation provide two opportunities to broaden or deepen your contemporary research experience, depending on personal preferences or professional interests. Working closely with relevant specialists, you can choose a different focus for each project or master one specific area. Dissertation topics chosen by past students have, for example, examined how to decode different types of mental images from patterns of brain activity, eye-movement behaviour in real-world scene processing, recognition memory in brain-damaged patients and the effect of alcohol hangover on response inhibition.
The world’s understanding of cognition and cognitive neuroscience has progressed rapidly in recent years with more computational modelling of behaviour and more precise mapping of brain circuits, improved imaging techniques and new sensor technologies to better monitor behaviour and response.
On this course, you will consider the different, complex ways in which the mind and body process, react and interact to various physical and emotional stimuli, consciously and unconsciously, voluntarily and involuntarily. This includes studying structural and functional brain differences between individuals and in clinical populations, for example, in atypical development, as well as predicting cognitive performance in complex real-world situations and understanding theories of perception, attention, memory and other cognitive processes.
You will learn how to measure objective responses (for instance, response times and eye movements, measured with high-precision devices) and subjective responses (for instance, ratings and post-recognition judgments). You'll also learn how to map brain responses from neuroimaging methods like EEG to specific sensory, cognitive, or motor events such as, how to connect neural activity with the human mind processes.
You will be taught by multidisciplinary staff involved in an exciting and diverse portfolio of research projects. These range from using EEG and eye tracking to investigate how our visual system makes sense of real-world visual scenes and visual illusions, to the differences in brain and cognitive development in deaf infants. Other research expertise includes the perception of time in extreme environments, physical and emotional states, visual and auditory perception, memory, trust, swearing, ageing, and neurological disorders.
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