Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Science
- Organization
- TTK Department of Ethology
- Code
- kogneusb22em
- Title
- Cognitive and neuroethology L
- Usual semester
- Spring
- Published semester
- 2025/26/2
- ECTS
- 3
- Language
- en
- Learning outcomes
- Competencies: Knowledge: Understands the advanced features of comparative cognitive neuroscience. Understands and applies the terminology required for understanding comparative cognitive neuroscience. Understands comparative cognitive neuroscience. Understands the importance of interdisciplinarity. Understands the relationships of the different disciplinal knowledge. Ability: Able to apply the advanced terminology of comparative cognitive neuroscience. Able to present her/his results on advanced level both in oral and written form. Able to recognize and integrate the interrelation of the different scientific disciplines. Able to organize data and knowledge based from scientific aspect, able to analyze and interpret. Possesses and improves the manual skills needed for experimental works, measures. Able to apply the knowledge gained in the advanced scientific interpretation of thephenomena of comparative cognitive neuroscience. Attitude: Claims to be able to use the knowledge gained in an integrative interpretation of the functioning of living systems. Open to follow the new biological and other scientific results. Rule and observe the rules of scientific ethics. Communicate the results of the disciplines. Committed and open to the scientifically sound knowledge with an integrative approach Committed to improve continuously his/her biological knowledge. Autonomy and Responsibility: Able to independently analyze and evaluate fundamental professional issues. Responsible for forming scientifically sound opinion about biological, research and bioethical questions. Responsible to understand and learn the materials related to the advanced understanding of comparative cognitive neuroscience. Understands the labour market, helps her/his partners in the planned, operative achievement of tasks.
- Course content
- The aim of the course is to introduce the topics of comparative cognitive neuroscience. Main topics of the course: The course provides an in-depth understanding of the conceptual and methodological state of the art in selected chapters of comparative cognitive neuroscience. The focus is on brain mechanisms underlying social and communicative capacities, and on dog neuroimaging. (1) Voice sensitivity across species. Functional characterization of the voice areas. Inner state processing across species. Identity recognition across species. (2) Speech perception across species. Pattern recognition and statistical learning across species. Speech detection, language discrimination. Lexical processing across species. Emotional prosody and meaningfulness. Sensitivity to phonetic details. Learning object names. (3) Visual social perception across species. Categorization of the natural world in different species. Face sensitivity across species. Brain specializations in the visual domain.
- Assessment method
- k5 = exam mark (5) (1 failed, 5 excellent) During the semester, students are required to participate actively in solving experiment planning, analysis and interpretation problems raised by the lectures. Oral colloquium during the examination period. Students must prepare to the colloquium from the material of the lectures and the given literature (conceptual and technical). The colloquium mark is calculated based on the participatory activity’s qualification (20%) and the oral exam (80%).
- Bibliography
- Lecture handouts (pdf) Bunford N, Andics A, Kis A, Miklósi Á, Gácsi M (2017) Canis familiaris As a Model for Non-Invasive Comparative Neuroscience, Trends in Neurosciences, 40(7): 438-452 Andics A, Miklósi Á (2018) Neural processes of vocal social perception: Dog-human comparative fMRI studies, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 85: 54-64. Andics A, Faragó T (2019) Voice perception across species. In: S. Frühholz, P. Belin (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Voice Perception. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press (pp. 363-392). doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198743187.013.16