COGST 1110 - [Brain, Mind, and Behavior]

(crosslisted)
(also BIONB 1110, PSYCH 1110) (PBS)

Spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

Next offered 2014-2015. Enrollment limited to: freshmen and sophomores in humanities and social sciences. Not open to juniors and seniors. Not recommended for psychology majors; biology majors may not use for credit toward major.

R. Hoy, E. Adkins-Regan.

Understanding how the brain creates complex human behavior and mental life is a great scientific frontier of the next century. This course enables students with little scientific background from any college or major to appreciate the excitement. What are the interesting and important questions? How are researchers trying to answer them? What are they discovering? Why did the brain evolve this remarkable capacity?