Course Information

Semester: 2025-2 (114-2)
Curriculum No.: GIBMS 7114 (454 M0330)
Credit: 2
Time: Tuesdays 13:20 - 15:10
Venue: College of Medicine RM1203
Instructor(s): Joshua Goh (pri.), Pei-Yu Wang, Hsien-Sung Huang, Ming-Tsung Tseng, Hau-Jie Yau
Language: English

Objective

Provide basic background into the field of cognitive neuroscience.
Gain an understanding of current research findings, methodologies, and trends in the field.
Train readings skills for research articles.

Description

This class will cover theoretical development and empirical findings related to cognitive processing and the associated neural correlates. Class format will be in the form discussions on this recent years' research papers. Each week, we will discuss one (or two) papers and cover about 16 papers over the semester, pending course participation numbers. Each student will take turns to facilitate discussion by introducing and summarizing the key points of assigned papers. A proposed bibliography of papers is listed below from which we can select for each week's discussion. Students may also suggest their own papers of interest for discussion.

Grading

Students will be graded on their overall weekly level of participation in the paper presentations and discussion. This includes active critiquing, contribution of ideas and critical arguments, and expressions of frank opinions.

Schedule

Each student is required to pick 4 presentation slots by entering

your name and the paper full title (with url link) using this schedule google sheet which will autoupdate in the table below.

Upload

Post and upload your paper PDFs in this Paper Upload discussion thread

Bibliography

Enter your references using this bibliography google sheet which will autoupdate below.