Attention is one of the most investigated research area in cognition. This course addresses key research on the attention process in the brain and provides in-depth discussions on issues related to perception, memory retention, and decision making in attention research.
(Recommended topical prerequisites: BCS523 Principles of Cognitive Neuroscience)

This course explores the processes of auditory perception in the brain. The hierarchy of auditory processing, cortical network circuits and the internal representation of information are discussed to understand the biological auditory system.
(Recommended topical prerequisites: BCS523 Principles of Cognitive Neuroscience)

This course is designed to introduce the academic achievements of investigation for the phenomena that occur in the brain during decision-making based on behavioral and neuroimaging experiments and neural theories. It consists of lectures on decision neuroscience and presentations of classical papers (students). It considers the cognitive processes in which decision is making, and describes the phenomena that occur in brain regions during deciison-making. In particular, the understanding of decision-making obtained from neuroeconomics, behavioral economics, and cognitive psychology is introduced, and decision-making neural processes are described.
(Recommended topical prerequisites: BCS523 Principles of Cognitive Neuroscience)

본 과목에서는 우리 뇌에서 감정이 어떻게 작용하고 다른 인지작용에 영향을 주는 지에 대한 심리학, 신경과학, 정신의학, 생물학, 행동학 등 다양한 측면에서의 접근을 소개하고 논의하고자 한다.
(권장선수과목: BCS523 인지신경과학의 원리)

The memory function is the basis for recognizing objects and social relationships, indicating that it is the basis of the cognitive process. This course introduces theories and neural mechanisms of memory processes and discusses recent issues on memory.
(Recommended topical prerequisites: BCS523 Principles of Cognitive Neuroscience)

This lecture deals with the origins and history of neurogenetics with the aim of understanding how genetic information controls brain function and development, ultimately affecting brain health and brain disease.
(Recommended topical prerequisites: BCS523 Principles of Cognitive Neuroscience)

This course provides fundamental concepts in vision neuroscience, emphasizing on the processes of visual perception. Explores the hierarchy of visual processing, from the retina through cortical networks to the internal representation of visual information, to understand what kinds of strategies the biological visual system uses, from experimental and practical perspectives.
(Recommended topical prerequisites: BCS523 Principles of Cognitive Neuroscience)

This lecture deals with the neurons and glias, the two main cellular components of the brain and their interactions. It aims to understand the structural and functional differences between neurons and the mehcanism underlying their interactions.
(Recommended topical prerequisites: BCS501 Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology)

This lecture aims to understand sleep and biorhythm at the molecular-cell-neural circuit level. It examines the meaning of circadian and circannual biological rhythms and discusses the effects on brain function and health.

This lecture provides information on the characteristics and utilization of stem cells and organoids, which are key technologies for treating future brain diseases. In-depth discussions will be held on how stem cells and organoids will contribute to the treatment of brain diseases in the future.
(Recommended topical prerequisites: BCS501 Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology)

Gene expression is the basis of life and plays an important role in brain functions. This course deals with molecular biological knowledge related to brain cognitive science. We also discuss the latest papers on the relationship between genetics and cognitive impairment.
(Recommended topical prerequisites: BCS501 Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology)

This lecture deals with the interaction between the brain and the immune system to provide information on how the brain affects our immune functions and how the immune system controls brain function.

This course aims to understand the principles of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), a key tool in the field of cognitive neuroscience, and the methods for designing fMRI experiments and analyzing the collected data.

This course aims to understand the basic principles of various neuromodulation methods, including optogenetics, bioelectronics and brain-machine interfaces, and to acquire knowledge about how each method is applied to the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nerves.

The Neuroethics class offers an informed view of how the brain sciences are being used to approach, understand, and reinvigorate traditional philosophical questions, as well as how those questions, with the grounding influence of neuroscience, are being revisited beyond clinical and research domains. It also examines how contemporary neuroscience research might ultimately impact our understanding of relationships, flourishing, and human nature. This class spotlights new technologies and historical articulations of key problems, issues, and concepts to highlight the complex interactions of concepts and ideas within neuroethics.
(Recommended topical prerequisites: BCS523 Principles of Cognitive Neuroscience)

This class is designed to offer a comprehensive introduction to behavioral biology and explains fundamental principles and illustrates them with specific examples of various animlas. This class shows all aspects of animal behavior into a coherent framework with a perspective of behavior and ecology.

This course focuses on theories to explain human thinking and reasoning processes and discusses how to understand neural space to reason in relation to language processing.
(Recommended topical prerequisites: BCS523 Principles of Cognitive Neuroscience)

This course introduces biologically inspired neuromorphic engineering mimicking the functional behavior and structure of the neural circuits. Topics include spiking neural networks and temporal neural networks for neuromorphic computing systems with biological plausibility, focusing on brain-like processing and energy efficiency.

This course provides the fundamental knowledge needed to understand how electrodes translate neural activity into signals that are useable by machines and enables readers to master the tools of design thinking and apply them to any neuroprosthetic application.
(Recommended topical prerequisites: BCS542 Modern Brain-Computer Interface)

Neurodegenerative disorders are associated with a progressive loss of structure and function of neurones that leads to neuronal death. Their aetiology combines ageing, genetic susceptibility, and risk factors including environmental exposure, balanced against protective factors. This class provides with varying combinations of progressive cognitive, emotional, motor, autonomic and peripheral symptoms, and clinical signs in the dieases. We introdces with advanced intervention for neurodegenerative disorders that help patients treat, prevent, or manage a disease and that have a proven clinical benefit. This class provides with methodologies for various methods suffering from dementia, parkinson’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases. This class is intended to provide useful information on Aging and Neurodegenerative Disorders to all neurocognitive scientists interested in clinical research and researchers involved in the treatment of neurodegenerative Disorders.

Over the last four decades, breakthroughs in genetic knowledge, together with the emergence of disciplines devoted to the scientific study of developmental disorders have resulted in much greater awareness of the many different behavioural and genetic phenotypes involved. It is now evident that not only do different disorders have different causes and different manifestations, but different neurological and biochemical bases, different responses to intervention, and different life courses. Reflecting the enormous changes that have taken place in our knowledge and understanding of developmental disorders, this class brings this vast and complex field together. We provides lectures on how current research across a range of different disciplines can inform clinical practice and help to improve the lives of individuals and their families.

Neurological and Cognitive Rehabilitation class is a class that provides a comprehensive overview of various methodologies for rehabilitating patients suffering from mental and neurological diseases. It introduces various rehabilitation methods for neurological diseases such as dementia, movement disorders, and stroke, as well as mental disorders such as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism, and teaches treatment principles and fundamental theories. This class is intended to provide useful information on rehabilitation medicine to all neurocognitive scientists interested in clinical research and researchers involved in the treatment of mental and neurological diseases.

Statistical learning theory is a framework for machine learning in the field of statistical and functional analysis, mainly dealing with the problem of statistical inference to find predictive functions based on data. This course aims to introduce the fundamental principles of statistical learning and provide with exercise in applying them to real-world problems. It firstly introduces statistical learning theory and its association with neuroscience, and describes how it has successfully applied in fields such as computer vision, speech recognition, and bioinformatics.

This course introduces quantitative approaches to understanding functional circuits in the brain that perform various tasks. Topics include mathematical description of circuits and circuit motifs of the local and global neuronal connectome in the brain.

Humans have engaged in artistic and aesthetic activities since the appearance of our species. Our ancestors have decorated their bodies, tools, and utensils for over 100,000 years. This class introduces the expression of meaning using color, line, sound, rhythm, or movement, among other means, and how human constitutes a fundamental aspect of our species' biological and cultural heritage. This class also show that art and aesthetics contribute to our species identity and distinguish it from its living and extinct relatives.
(Recommended topical prerequisites: BCS523 Principles of Cognitive Neuroscience)

This class presents a theory on the cognitive evolution of our species. It proposes that the success of modern Homo sapiens was enabled by an additive genetic mutation or epigenetic event that affected the neural organization of the brain. We introduce the notions of natural selection which apply to humans and their biological and cultural evolution. We introduce the science of paleoanthropology which explains human evolution through the study of intermediate fossil forms. In addition, we show that geneticists have been able to retrace, through the study of mitochondrial DNA and Y-chromosome DNA, the origin and migrations of prehistoric humans. This class show that the understanding of human cultural evolution has greatly benefited from the application of evolutionary thinking.
(Recommended topical prerequisites: BCS521 Evolutionary Psychology)

While “Embodied Cognitive Science” has significantly developed over the last 20 years or so, it remains unclear what it actually implies. This class emphasize that embodied cognitive science particularly implies that abstract thought, such as our ability to understand and produce a large variety of metaphors, must develop from our gathered sensorimotor experiences about our world. While we experience our body and the environment, and actively explore it, our mind produces particular neural structures to improve these bodily and environmental interactions. This class show that our minds manage to detach thought from the here and now, opening the possibility to think about social interactions with the environment including other humans, and about explanations for unexplainable observations.
(Recommended topical prerequisites: BCS523 Principles of Cognitive Neuroscience)

This class provides an up to date, comprehensive overview of the field of comparative neuroscience, integrating both evolutionary and developmental studies of brain and behavior for animals. This class introduces cognitive and associative capacities of animals, the development of the central nervous system and behavior, and the fossil record of animals including human ancestors. This class includes many examples drawn from the study of human behavior, highlighting general and basic principles that apply broadly to the animal kingdom. In addition, genetics, epigenetics, neurobiological, and cognitive advances made in recent years into this evolutionary-developmental framework are also included.

This class 'Consumer Behavior and Insights' presents a new approach to teaching consumer behavior. We moves beyond traditional psychological learning to acknowledge more holistic perspectives of consumer behavior, incorporating new areas of research, such as neuromarketing and artificial intelligence. This class includes the latest behavioral, psychological, and sociological approaches to elucidate important concepts and models of consumer decision-making. Importantly, we show important research and consumer insights to bring these concepts and models to life.

This course focuses on the development of various cognitive processes in early childhood, including perception, knowledge, concepts, reasoning, memory and language. Additionally, we also discuss the origins of various human cognitive functions.

This lecture deals with a brain-scientific approach to religion, an essential human belief. The purpose is to enhance the understanding of humans by scientifically examining phenomena related to why the brain has faith.
(Recommended topical prerequisites: BCS523 Principles of Cognitive Neuroscience)

This course focuses on the materials physics for multifunctional neural interfaces spanning individual neurons to neural networks, neural tissues, and complete neural systems.

This course introduces approaches and design principles for developing intelligent autonomous systems in neuroscience. Topics include cognitive neurorobots, neurorobots for navigation, developmental robotics, and social robots.

This course focuses on development and invention of technologies for engineering biological systems at the genomic level, and applications of engineering systems for neuroscience.

Advanced intervention for neuropsychiatric disorders are evidence-based therapeutic interventions to prevent, manage, or treat a medical disorder or disease. In other words, Advanced intervention for neuropsychiatric disorders is patient-facing online and offline applications that help patients treat, prevent, or manage a disease and that have a proven clinical benefit. This class provides with methodologies for various Therapeutics suffering from mental and neurological diseases. It introduces various Therapeutics methods for mental diseases such as dementia, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism, and teaches treatment principles and fundamental theories. This class is intended to provide useful information on Advanced intervention for neuropsychiatric disorders to all neurocognitive scientists interested in clinical research and researchers involved in the treatment of mental diseases with brain technology.
(Recommended topical prerequisites: BCS561 Neurological Disorders, BCS562 Psychiatric Disorders)

Digital Therapeutics (DTx) are evidence-based therapeutic interventions driven by software to prevent, manage, or treat a medical disorder or disease. In other words, DTx are patient-facing software applications that help patients treat, prevent, or manage a disease and that have a proven clinical benefit. This class provides with methodologies for Digital Therapeutics suffering from mental and neurological diseases. It introduces various Digital Therapeutics methods for mental diseases such as dementia, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism, and teaches treatment principles and fundamental theories. This class is intended to provide useful information on Digital Therapeutics to all neurocognitive scientists interested in clinical research and researchers involved in the treatment of mental diseases with digital technology.

This lecture deals with specific topics that were not covered in the department's existing courses among the broad topics of brain and cognitive science for the graduate students. Classes consist of lectures by professors and presentations and discussions by students. If it is conducted more than 3 times and is operated stably, it can be considered as a formal course.

This lecture deals with recent hottest topics that were not covered in the department's existing courses among the broad topics of brain and cognitive science for graduate students. Classes consist of lectures by professors and presentations and discussions by students. If it is conducted more than 3 times and is operated stably, it can be considered as a formal course.

A student selects an M.S. thesis topic with an advisor, and carries on independent research. The student is required to submit an M.S. thesis as an end product.

We invite promient researchers who have made important research achievements in the fields of brain and cognitive science, such as neurobiology, cognitive science, theoretical neuroscience, brain engineering, and brain medicine, to introduce the research results and share the research process. It will be a valuable time for both professors and students to understand the latest research results and learn the research methods of researchers.

This class is a kind of graduate internship which provides an opportunity for graduate students to gain various experiences such as research and start-up at companies, research institutes, and other universities. This class encourage global collaboration with excellent institutions.

A student selects an M.S. thesis topic with an advisor, and carries on independent research. The student is required to submit an Ph.D. Dessertation research as an end product.

We invite promient researchers who have made important research achievements in the fields of brain and cognitive science, such as neurobiology, cognitive science, theoretical neuroscience, brain engineering, and brain medicine, to introduce the research results and share the research process. It will be a valuable time for both professors and students to understand the latest research results and learn the research methods of researchers.

This class is a kind of graduate internship which provides an opportunity for graduate students to gain various experiences such as research and start-up at companies, research institutes, and other universities. This class encourage global collaboration with excellent institutions.