Neuroscience/cognitive science majors

juillet
Wed, 10 Feb 2016 22:58:48 +0000

Also, if you are looking for where the research opportunities are, you don’t have to major in neuroscience or cognitive science to do that. Really, what’s necessary is going to college where professors are doing that kind of work - and they could be doing it out of a biology or psychology department as well. Neuroscience is probably the best major for that but a well-focused biology major with enough electives/classes focused on the brain could allow you to do that too. Really, you’d specialize on the graduate level.

I will say that Emory’s NBB program sounds exactly like what you are looking for and Emory has a robust community of scholars working on related research topics - and they come from all over the college, inclyding the social sciences and philosophy, so will add in that interest on morality and emotion. Plus you are nearby the CDC for research opportunities as well. The Yerkes Primate Center is also affiliated with Emory and has lots of Emory researchers. There’s a program at the University of St. Andrews that will let you get an M.Phil in neuroscience in one year. ANd they have lots of classes for undergrads about research: http://nbb.emory.edu/research/

All of these universities have great research going on, though.