Study Details: MSc 1 year full-time
Cognitive neuroscience examines the biological processes that help us to understand complex mental functions such as memory, language, emotion, perception, attention and consciousness.
While psychology focuses on understanding the structure of the mind through behavioural experiments, neuroscience provides a window on how these processes occur in the brain.
Our course gives you unique access to the York Neuroimaging Centre (YNiC) where you’ll have opportunities for hands-on experience of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), magnetoencephalography (MEG), electroencephalography (EEG) and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). You’ll learn how to design, analyse and evaluate neuroimaging experiments, and see how they contribute to our understanding of brain mechanisms.
Provided jointly by the Department of Psychology and the , the course pulls in expertise from other areas of the University, such as the Hull York Medical School.
2:2 or equivalent in Psychology, Neuroscience, Biology or a relevant discipline.We will be looking for evidence of strong marks in relevant modules including: biological psychology, neuroanatomy, neuroscience related modules, and research methods and statistics
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This MSc will enhance your transferable skills as well as the skills required for careers in a range of industries. A high proportion of our graduates go on to complete PhDs in neuroimaging, psychology or neuropsychology. Others gain further research experience before undertaking a PhD or training in Clinical Psychology; or find work as Assistant Psychologists and Research Assistants.
The Department’s Employability Coordinator works closely with the University careers service, which offers our students an additional range of career and recruitment events, skills sessions and one-to-one advice.
For information about professional pathways in psychology see the British Psychology Society website.
Core modules
Principles of Cognitive Neuroscience
Research Design and Statistics
Introduction to Programming
Data Analysis in Neuroimaging
Option modules
You will study two option modules. Examples can be found below. Some option module combinations may not be possible. The options available to you will be confirmed after you begin your course.
Mind and Brain
Body Representations
Neuroimaging of Vision
Bilingualism and Cognition
The Psychology of Number, Developmental Disorders and Mathematics Anxiety
Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention
Memory and the Brain
Animal Cognition and Communication
Perception of Actions and Human Behaviour
Face Perception
Our modules may change to reflect the latest academic thinking and expertise of our staff, and in line with Department/School academic planning.
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