Brain and Cognitive Sciences (research MSc)

Course Structure

1. ["International CSCA Summer SchoolThe International Summer School is organised annually around a visiting Frijda Professor\' of international renown. The topic of the CSCA Summer School 2012 is \'Emotional memory: From patient to synapse\' and the Frijda Professor for the 20112 Summer School is dr. Kevin LaBar (Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Duke University, USA).", "CSCA Lecture SeriesThis lecture series is organised by the CSCA and is part of the Research Master\'s programme in Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Lecturers are outstanding scholars active in a variety of disciplines, including neurobiology, psychology, linguistics, computer science and philosophy.", "International Study TripEach year, the programme organises an international study trip during which students and lecturers visit a foreign university and/or research institute. The trip allows students to meet with leading international researchers and discuss these researchers\' state-of-the-art experiments with them.", \'Neuroscience\', \'Cognitive Neuroscience\', \'Cognitive Science\', \'University of Amsterdam Institute for Logic, Language and ComputationPsychology DepartmentSwammerdam Institute for Life SciencesAmsterdam Center for Language and CommunicationCenter for Experimental Economics and Political Decision Making\', \'Institute for Logic, Language and Computation\', \'Psychology Department\', \'Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences\', \'Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication\', \'Center for Experimental Economics and Political Decision Making\', \'Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, The Netherlands\', \'Amsterdam Medical Center, The Netherlands\', \'F. C. Donders Instituut Nijmegen, The Netherlands\', \'Center for Mind and Brain, Davis, California, USA\', \'Center for Molecular and Behavorial Neuroscience, Rutgers University, New York, USA\', \'Social Cognition and Social Neuroscience Lab, Princeton University, USA\', \'Berkeley University, Helen WIlls Institute, USA\', \'Birbeck College, University of London, UK\', \'MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK\', \'Labaratoire Cognition et Developpement, Paris, France\', \'Max Planck Institute, Leipzig/Berlin, Germany\', \'Chartie, Departement of Psychiatry, Berlin, Germany\']