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Introduction to the Behavioural and Cognitive Neurosciences
| Faculteit | Science and Engineering |
| Jaar | 2020/21 |
| Vakcode | WMBC007-04 |
| Vaknaam | Introduction to the Behavioural and Cognitive Neurosciences |
| Niveau(s) | master |
| Voertaal | Engels |
| Periode | semester I a |
| ECTS | 4 |
| Rooster | rooster.rug.nl |
| Uitgebreide vaknaam | Introduction to the Behavioural and Cognitive Neurosciences | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Leerdoelen | At the end of the course, the student is able to: 1) provide an overview of neuroscientific research at the University of Groningen, including key players, ways of thinking and applied techniques. 2) provide short and accurate summaries of scientific presentations. Those summaries are accessible to an audience of interested academically trained laymen. 3) provide a short and accurate description of the overarching topic of each of the daily programs. 4) provide a list of take-home messages, derived from the presentations. |
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| Omschrijving | The course provides an overview of neuroscientific research at the University of Groningen, which is distributed over five Faculties. A series of about 25 scientists present the research questions they address, they demonstrate their way of thinking, and show which techniques they use. The course is designed for first year Ph.D. students and BCN Master students. From the overview they can find the areas that interest them most, and they can find supervisors for their research projects. As a separate objective, the course trains the Master student’s writing skills. The students are required to produce summaries of the presentations which are read and provided with comments by the organizers of the course. The presentations are offered in blocks of (mostly) 4 presentations per day, which share a certain theme. Students are required to describe the theme of the day and can choose out of three formats to write a summary. The formats will be explained and presented at the start of the course. |
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| Onderwijsvorm |
Hoorcollege (LC), Opdracht (ASM)
(The students should be present at least 5 of the 6 days. If do to circumstances 2 days are missed, a special assignment will be offered. If more than 2 days are missed, no final mark will be given.) |
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| Toetsvorm |
Verslag (R)
(Each of the six summaries is judged with respect to completeness, correctness, readability. Each student completes at least 5 out of 6 summaries. At least two lecturers are involved in the grading: that is half of the summaries is judged by one lecturer, the other half by the other lecturer. The 5 highest grades are averaged to obtain the final grade.) |
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| Vaksoort | master | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coördinator | dr. M.R. Nieuwenstein | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Docent(en) | prof. dr. J.C. Billeter , Gastdocent(en) ,dr. R. Havekes ,dr. M.R. Nieuwenstein ,dr. B.J. Riedstra ,prof. dr. A.J.W. Scheurink ,prof. dr. E.A. van der Zee ,prof. dr. L.M. Veenhoff | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Entreevoorwaarden | The course unit is particularly suited for students with a Bachelors degree in one of the various subfields of the neurosciences, and is obligatory for BCN students. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Opmerkingen | This course was registered last year with course code MLBCN011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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