COGST 4265

Translational Research on Memory and Neuroscience

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

Translational Research in Memory and Neuroscience is a 4000-level course that is intended to provide students with background in the latest theoretical ideas, empirical findings, and research methods in both the behavioral and neuroscience sides of the contemporary science of human memory. This will prepare students to understand and eventually conduct both supervised and independent research on these topics by studying and writing about the work in recent research articles and by learning some of the design, programming, and analysis tools that are required to conduct such work. Students will receive in-depth exposure to behavioral and neuroscience research on memory through a course that that focuses on mainstream, theory-driven experimentation with normal adult populations and that also focuses on developmental investigations with child, healthy elderly, and neurologically impaired populations. Students will learn about that research together with other students. During weekly class meetings, students will receive instruction and discuss research readings. They will also make formal class presentations, in which they interpret the results in those readings. To demonstrate their understanding, students will write weekly reaction responses about their readings. Weekly readings will come from the primary peer-reviewed scientific literature.

Prerequisites REF-FA25/Corequisites REF-FA25 HD 1130 or PSYCH 1101 and HD 2600. Corequisites: None.

Distribution Requirements (OPHLS-AG), (PBS-HE)

Last 4 terms offered 2024FA, 2023FA, 2022FA, 2021FA

Learning Outcomes REF-FA25

• Be able to interpret results of statistical analyses with respect to theory.

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