PSYC 506 Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention

3 credits · Psychology · Faculty of Science · Not scheduled for 2026–2027

An introduction to cognitive properties and neural mechanisms of human attention. The material will include an overview of the history of attention research, contemporary theories of attention, the varieties of attention, behavioral and neuroimaging experimental methods, the nature of attentional dy…

Prerequisites

PSYC 213 and PSYC 311, and one of PSYC 305 OR BIOL 373, or permission of instructor.

Prerequisite courses: BIOL 373, PSYC 213, PSYC 305, PSYC 311

Restrictions

Open only to Psychology, Cognitive Science and Neuroscience students. Not open to students who have taken PSYC 365.

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