The Brain and Cognitive Sciences II
A graduate-level survey from MIT covering the second half of a first-year core sequence in brain and cognitive sciences. Each module brings overview lectures from researchers working in perception, attention, working memory, recognition and recall, and language, examined from neural, behavioral, and computational angles. The course is built for incoming cognitive science graduate students, so it emphasizes critical evaluation of research findings alongside content coverage. Materials come through MIT OpenCourseWare and include lecture notes and readings tied to each topic module. The course assumes background from the program's first-half survey and moves quickly across subfields rather than dwelling on any single one, giving a broad map of how neuroscience, psychology, and computational modeling converge on questions of cognition.