MI543 METHODOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY OF NEUROSCIENCE
| Course Code: | 9060543 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3(3-0) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | Medical Informatics |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
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| Offered Semester: | Spring Semesters. |
Course Content
As a relatively new interdisciplinary area, brain sciences have witnessed a rapid growth and interest in the last decades. The popularity increased even more with the large scale research projects spreading to whole world. These deveoplments in neurosciences have also brought a high variety of appraches, techniques, scientific and philosophical paradigms and views under consideration.This course aims to introduce the existing most prelavent currents and discussions on the fundamental topics comprising epistemological and ontological problems of mind and brain identity, consciousness, Bayesian brain, Free Energy Principle, Brain as a Nonlinear Dynamic System and Causality, Time and Space in Brain.