COGST 4331

Event Cognition: How Minds, Brains and Bodies Experience Events

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

People experience and remember complex and dynamic environments as events. This seminar draws on work from cognitive neuroscience to characterize how people shape experience into events, and how these processes support adaptive behavior. The course will start with discussions of historical and modern perspectives about the relationships between minds, bodies, and experience. We will then cover topics ranging from the perception of motion and causality to social learning and interaction. The primary goals are for you to be able to (1) read and evaluate research in psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience, and (2) describe and understand the implications of this research for how minds and bodies are adapted to everyday situations.

Prerequisites REF-FA25 a course in PSYCH, COGST, HD or NBB.

Distribution Requirements (KCM-AG), (ETM-AS)

Last 4 Terms Offered 2024FA, 2020FA

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