A preschooler sorts bears by size. Developmental cognitive neuroscience studies how the brain learns to recognize and process the outside world from objects and faces to letters and numbers. (Image courtesy of Barnaby Wasson on Flickr.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Susan Carey
Prof. Rebecca Saxe
MIT Course Number
9.S915
As Taught In
Spring 2012
Level
Graduate
Course Description
Course Description
This course uses neuroscience methods to study the cognitive development of human infants and children. Case studies draw from research on face recognition, language, executive function, representations of objects, number and theory of mind.