This course is not currently offered, please contact the school or faculty of your program.

Course description

NOT OFFERED IN 2011.
In this course students will receive an introduction into contemporary research in emotion, learning, and basic cognitive processes from a neuroscientific perspective. Students will be confronted with a variety of research projects aimed at understanding phenomena such as associative learning and anxiety. Particular emphasis will be placed on biological approaches, which emphasise the neurological basis of psychological processes. The considerable achievements made in these fields will be presented as well as the limits of the particular approaches.