【Course Requirements】
Neurobiology and Cognitive
Science Credit-Hour Program
[Program Course Requirements]
I. Total Credit Structure (Minimum 22 Credits)
Students must complete a minimum of 22 credits, distributed as follows:
‧ Required Courses: 15 credits
‧ Advanced Course I (Cognitive Science): at least 2 credits
‧ Advanced Course II (Neurobiology): at least 2 credits
‧ Elective Courses: at least 3 credits
II. Interdisciplinary & Exclusion Regulations
To ensure authentic cross-disciplinary learning, the following restrictions apply:
‧ At least 9 credits must be taken from courses OUTSIDE the required courses of your Major, Double Major, or Minor.
‧ At least 4 credits must be taken from courses ENTIRELY OUTSIDE both the required and elective courses of your Major, Double Major, or Minor (i.e., from other departments).
‧ The 9 credits and 4 credits above (totaling 13 credits) must consist of distinct courses (no double-counting is permitted).
‧ The courses “Statistics” and “Mind and Brain” cannot be counted toward either the 9-credit and 4-credit interdisciplinary requirements.
Required Courses
- Students must complete the following required courses (tataling 15 credits):
- Statistics (3 credits) {At least 3 credits; can be offered by any department (see Note 1)}
- General Psychology (3 credits) {Course code: 207 10100}
- Neurobiology (3 credits) {See Note 2 for available course options}
- Mind and Brain (3 credits) {Course code: 207 14000 (see Note 3)}
- Special Project (at least 1 credit) {Participation in a cognitive or neurobiology laboratory for hands-on research experience (see Note 4)}
- Seminar in Neurobiology and Cognitive Science (I)/(II) (2 credits total) {Course codes: 227 U1790 (I)/227 U1830 (II) (see Note 5)}
Notes
Note 1: Statistics courses should focus on biostatistics applications.
Note 2: For Neurobiology, choose one of the following options:
‧ Prof. En-Cheng Yang (Dept. of Entomology) – 612 34300 (3 credits)
Discontinued starting from the 2026/2027 academic year
‧ Prof. Pei-Yu Wang (Graduate Institute of Brain and Mind Sciences) – 454 M0040 (3 credits)
‧ Prof. Chien-Yuan Pan (Dept. of Life Science) – B21 U2270 (I) + B21 U2280 (II) (2 credits each)
Discontinued starting from the 2025/2026 academic year
‧ Prof. Chien-Yuan Pan (Dept. of Life Science) – B21 U1550 (3 credits)
Note 3: “Mind and Brain” can be waived or substituted by taking “Well-Being and Life” or “Crime, Drugs, and Humanities”.
Note 4: “Special Project” can be waived or substituted by completing a “Bachelor’s Thesis” or “Master’s Thesis”.
Note 5: The seminar consists of two semesters (1 credit per semester). You may take Fall and Spring semesters in any order and do not need to complete them in the same academic year. Different scholars are invited to give guest lectures each semester.
Advanced Courses I (Cognitive Science)
- Students must complete at least 2 credits from the following courses:
- Methods of Psychological Experiments (3 credits) {Courses codes: 207 21301/207 21400 (see Note 6)}
- Perceptual Psychology (3 crredits) {Course code: 207 34100}
- Physiological Psychology (3 credits) {Course code: 207 33300}
- Human Learning and Cognition (3 credits) {Course code: 207 34500} OR Cognitive Psychology (3 credits) {Course code: 207 34800} [Choose one]
- Philosophy of Science (3 credits) {Course code: 104 20500}
- Introduction to Linguistics (at least 2 credits) {See Note 7 for available course options}
Notes
Note 6: “Methods of Psychological Experiments” can be waived or substituted by taking “Logic” or “Elementary Logic” (Department of Philosophy), or “Experimental Design” (Department of Life Science).
Note 7: Choose one of the following courses:
‧ Introduction to Linguistics (102 21111)
‧ Introduction to Linguistics (142 U0660)
‧ Introduction to Linguistics (a) (101 212A1)
‧ Linguistics (105 21400)
‧ An Introduction to Sociolinguistics (I) (102 24630)
‧ Introduction to Psycholinguistics (142 M0310)
Course selection, add-permission, and enrollment are subject to the regulations and decisions of the offering department and instructor. Courses restricted to students of the offering department may not accept external students once capacity is reached.
Advanced Courses II (Neurobiology)
- Students must complete at lease 2 credits from the following courses:
- Neurobiology Lab. (2 credits) {Course code: B01 32700} OR Neurotechnology Laboratory Rotation (3 credits) {Course code: B21 U2550} [see Note 8]
- Neurophysiology (2 credits) {Course code: 441 M1180}
- Neuroanatomy (2 credits) {Courses codes: 401 33310/446 M1400}
- Psychoneuropharamacology (3 credits)
- Neural Transmission (2 credits)
- General Biology (at least 2 credits) {See Note 9 for accepted course codes}
- Neuroeletrophysiology (2 credits) {Course code: 629 U2040}
- Modern Techniques in Neuroscience (3 credits) {Course code: B21 U2540}
Notes
Note 8: “Neurobiology Lab.” or “Neurotechnology Laboratory Rotation” can be waived or substituted by taking “Techniques in Neurobiology”.
Note 9: Accepted course codes for General Biology are: B01 101A1, B01 101A2, B01 101B0, B01 101B1, B01 101B2, and B01 101C0.
Elective Courses
- Intro to Data Collection & Analysis for Cognitive Electrophysiological Research (3 credits)
- Introduction to Syntax (3 credits)
- Basic Issues in Cognitive Sciences (3 credits)
- Introduction to Event-Related Potential (ERP) data collection and analysis (3 credits)
- Abnormal Psychology (3 credits)
- Social Psychology (3 credits)
- Psychopathology : Theory and Practice (3 credits)
- Introduction to Communicative Disorders (3 credits)
- Visual and Somatosensory Neuroscience (I) (3 credits)
- Introduction to Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (3 credits)
- Neurology & Practice (3 credits)
- Neurological Physical Therapy and Practice (1 credit)
- Motor Control (2 credits)
- Introduction of Cognitive Neuroscience (2 credits)
- Seminar in Neuropharmacology 1 (2 credits)
- Clinical Neuroscience (2 credits)
- Functional Brain Imaging Experimental Design and Analysis (3 credits)
- Introduction to Medical Imaging (2 credits)
- Electrophysiology (3 credits)
- Modern Sciences and Science of Mind (3 credits)
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging Lab (3 credits)
- Neuroanatomy Lab. (3 credits)
- Serendipities in Our Engagements with the Arts (3 credits)
- Introduction to Electrophysiology of language processing (2 credits)
- Neural and Behavioral Modeling (3 credits)
- Child Language Disorders (3 credits)
- Theories of Perception (3 credits)
- Advanced Phonetics (3 credits)
- Psychology of Personality (3 credits)
- Advanced Methods for Analysis of fMRI Data (3 credits)
- Methods in Behavioral Neuroscience (3 credits)
- Perceptual Organization (3 credits)
- Neurology (b) (1 credit)
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Medicine (3 credits)
- Clinical Imaging & Neurological Imaging (2 credits)
- Synaptic Physiology (2 credits)
- Ion Channels and Diseases (2 credits)
- Molecular Neurobiology of Aging (2 credits)
- Neuroscience of Somatosensory Systems (2 credits)
- Introduction to Lab-on-a-chip (3 credits)
- Medical Image Analysis (3 credits)
- Functional and structural MRI of the brain (2 credits)
- Fundamentals of Molecular Imaging (3 credits)
- Computational Cognitive Neuroscience (3 credits)
- 612 21800 | Biological Clock and Introductory Sleep Medicine (3 credits)
- 104 13700 | Introduction to Philosophy of Consciousness (3 credits)
- Introduction to Philosophy (2 credits)
- Topics in Philosophy of Mind：self-consciousness (3 credits)
- Lexical Semantics (3 credits)
- Music, Evolution and the Brain (3 credits)
- Psychology of Adolescence (3 credits)
- Analyzing Neural Time-Series Data: A Basic Approach (3 credits)
- Brain and Language (3 credits)
- Blue Light, Sleep, and Psychology (3 credits)
- Application and Commercialization of Psychological Knowledge (I) (2 credits)
- Seminar in Sensory Neuroscience (3 credits)
- Introduction to Motor Control and Learning (1 credit)
- Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Physiological Imaging (3 credits)
- Theories of Motor Learning (2 credits)
- Cellular Neurophysiology (2 credits)
- Seminar in Neuropharmacology 2 (2 credits)
- Cognitive Science (3 credits)
- A Multidisciplinary Approach of Pain (2 credits)
- Physiologic MRI (2 credits)
- Principles and Applications of Digital Image Processing (3 credits)
- Medical Imaging Systems (3 credits)
- Neural Networks (3 credits)
- Introduction to Philosophy 2 (3 credits)
- Pragmatics (3 credits)
- Psychological Accessment of Children (3 credits)
- Psychoinformatics and Neuroinformatics (3 credits)
- Mathematical Tools for Neural Coding (2 credits)
- Introduction to Psycholinguistics (3 credits)
- Developmental Psychology (3 credits)
- Advanced Cognitive Neuroscience (3 credits)
- Introduction to Clinical Neuropsychology (3 credits)
- Cross-model Information Processing (3 credits)
- Topics in Neuroeconomics (2 credits)
- Introduction to Neuroscience (2 credits)
- Orofacial Muscular and Neural Physiology (1 credit)
- Advanced Neurological Physical Therapy (2 credits)
- Neurodegeneration Seminar (2 credits)
- Medical Imaging:Clinical Application and Investigation (3 credits)
- Neuroepigenetics (2 credits)
- Topics and Methods of Cognitive Neuroscience (3 credits)
- Modern Measuring Techinques of Thermal Flluid Mechanics (3 credits)
- Neurophysiology (3 credits)
- Special Topics on Medical Imaging (3 credits)
- Brain Theory (3 credits)
- Experimental Neuroanatomy (2 credits)
- 142 U0870 | Prediction, language, and the brain (2 credits)
- 104 55800 | Philosophy of Mind (3 credits)