HD 2200 - The Human Brain and Mind: An Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience

(crosslisted) COGST 2200
(KCM-HE, PBS-HE, SBA-HE) (KCM-AG)

Fall. 3 credits. Student option grading.

D. Casasanto.

At the turn of the 21st century the age of Embodied Cognition dawned: a reconsideration of relationships between body, brain, and mind. Researchers in philosophy, psychology, linguistics, and cognitive neuroscience challenged the 20th-century dogma that the mind is like a digital computer, and can be studied independently of the body, brain, and world. Researchers turned their attention to the role that bodily experience plays in thinking and learning, and the roles neural systems for perception and action play in cognition. This course views the field of Cognitive Neuroscience through the lens of Embodied Cognition research, and evaluates the extent to which “embodiment” may be passing fad, a useful shift in perspective, or a revolutionary new way of building theories about brain and mind.