Neuro-Cognitive Psychology

Neu­ro-Cog­nitive Psy­cholo­gy is an inter­disci­pli­nary re­search and train­ing field that ap­proaches basic issues of cogni­tive psy­cholo­gy (e.g., how does memory work?) not only using meth­ods and con­cepts of exper­imental psy­cholo­gy, but also those of neuro­sci­ences. The focus of the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram “Neu­ro-Cog­nitive Psy­cholo­gy” is on this inte­gra­tive ap­proach to­wards a neurosci­entifi­cal­ly-ori­ented exper­imental psy­cholo­gy.

The Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram “Neu­ro-Cog­nitive Psy­cholo­gy” pro­vides a sta­te-of-the-art train­ing in the con­tents/concepts and meth­odo­logical ap­proaches of exper­imental psy­cholo­gy and cogni­tive neuro­sci­ences. In doing so, the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram “Neu­ro-Cog­nitive Psy­cholo­gy” offers excel­lent train­ing in key quali­fica­tions as well as guid­ance to­wards post-graduate/ doc­toral stud­ies in Mu­nich (e.g., GSN-LMU) or na­tional or inter­na­tional uni­versi­ties/ re­search insti­tu­tions. About 95% of the NCP stu­dents em­bark on a PhD ca­reer.

The phi­loso­phy be­hind these labor­atory pro­jects is that stu­dents can bene­fit the most by work­ing along­side a team of scien­tists in third-party-funded re­search (e.g., pro­jects fund­ed by the Ger­man Re­search Foun­da­tion/DFG).

In the sec­ond, ad­vanced stage of the NCP course, stu­dents are pro­vided the oppor­tunity to ex­tend and deep­en their knowledge in basic-science and ap­plied-research areas of spe­ciali­zation, such as “neu­roim­aging” or “neu­roen­gi­neer­ing”.