Cognitive Neuroscience is a rapidly expanding scientific field that seeks to answer this question by developing a detailed understanding of how the mind is implemented by the brain. Using techniques such as neuroimaging, testing of brain-damaged patients, and neurophysiological recording from individual neurons, cognitive neuroscience seeks to understand the neural systems that underlie mental life. Questions we will address in the course include: Why and how do we study the brain? What are the different kinds of memories? What are the brain structures that support fundamental mental abilities such as vision, attention, memory, consciousness and social cognition? How do we understand other people?