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Module code:PSYCGS04(Add to my personalised list)
Title:Social Neuroscience
Credit value:15
Division:Division of Psychology and Language Sciences
Module organiser:Daniel Richardson
Organiser's location:26 Bedford Way
Organiser's email:daniel.richardson@ucl.ac.uk
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Module outline:This course provides an interdisciplinary approach to the study of how neural processes implement social judgment and behavior, and how social factors affect neural and physiological activity. It combines theorizing and methods from social psychology, neuroscience, and psychophysiology to understand social judgment and action. The course utilizes electroencephalography (EEG), event-related brain potentials (ERPs), functional magnetic resonance (fMRI), and facial electromyography (facial EMG) to address socio-cognitive research questions. The course includes an overview of socio-cognitive programmatic research including the Self, person perception, theory of mind, mirror neurons, stereotyping and prejudice, social exclusion, affect and self-regulation. 
Module aims:To introduce students to the socio-cognitive components of individual and group construal 
Module objectives:Through the course, students are expected to develop knowledge and understanding of: - the social brain - the ways in which socio-cognitive issues can be examined at the brain level - experimental designs in social neuroscience - controversies in social neuroscience  
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Module timetable:https://cmis.adcom.ucl.ac.uk:4443/timetabling/moduleTimet.do?firstReq=Y&moduleId=PSYCGS04 
Module assessment:One essay 80.00%.
Assignment 20.00%.
 
Notes:This is available to a limited number of MSc Cognitive and Decsion Sciences students. 
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