Cognitive Neuroscience aims at understanding the relationship between brain and behaviour, at all different levels. As with all other PhD programmes at SISSA, the curriculum in Cognitive Neuroscience, leading to the PhD in Neuroscience, is in English and caters to students from all over the world. The core component of the curriculum is the original research work by the student.

Courses offered in the Cognitive Neuroscience Sector

ECTS credits are indicated in black. Students should obtain 30 ECTS within their PhD.

See also the new course module on Approaches to Bio- and Neuro- Theory, intended to facilitate cross-disciplinary training and exchanges useful in understanding Biology and Neuroscience questions.

Fall		Winter		Spring
John Nicholls 5		Jacques Mehler 2		Tim Shallice 5
Hot Topics in Neuroscience		Intro to Cognitive Science and Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience		Neuropsychological and other Brain-related Investigations of Cognitive Processes
Raffaella Rumiati 4		Giuseppe Longobardi 3 (with Univ TS)		Marina Nespor 1
Neuropsychological and Functional Imaging Approaches to Cognition		Language diversity and evolution		What the sound of grammar tell the infant's brain
Antonio Vallesi 2+2		Functional Imaging: from Theory to Data 4 Marta Maieron Physics and functional MRI Giorgia Silani		Introduction to Sensory Systems 5 Mathew Diamond The somatosensory system Davide Zoccolan
Foundations of Psychophysiology and later Methodology for the Behavioral Sciences		SPM and other statistics		The visual system
Alessandro Treves 5		Cristiano Crescentini		Neil Rabinowitz 4  (Oxford)
Neural Computation		Experimental design		Probability and Statistics
Giosuè Baggio 2				Sid Simon 2    (Duke)
Introduction to Brain and Language				Functional neuroanatomy
Stefano Canali 2
History of Neuroscience