专业详情

The broad-based research training programme covers:

  • behavioural neuroscience, from animal models to human functional imaging and TMS
  • cognitive neuroscience, including MEG, EEG, neuropsychology
  • developmental science, comprising Babylab studies and studies with children with developmental disorders
  • social psychology and psychological disorders, focusing on inter-group behaviour, emotion, anxiety and post-traumatic stress.

The course comprises 8 modules and a research project, and all of these elements need to be passed in order to be awarded the MSc. The course is taught through seminars, lectures and workshops with some of the modules spanning two terms. The five core modules currently comprise:

  • Research Evaluation
  • Project Design
  • Statistical Theory and Methods
  • Computer Programming for Experimental Psychology
  • Philosophical Foundations of Psychology.

You will also undertake three of the four available optional modules, currently comprising:

  • Affective Science
  • Developmental Science
  • Brain and Cognition
  • Computer Modelling of Brain Function.