<p>can anyone help me find some schools that have neuroscience as a major? please? thanks. =)</p>
<p>DUDE I love cognitive neuroscience. I'm gonna PM you some names, I've done research in this area and have talked to many profs</p>
<p>Emory has a neuroscience and behavioral biology major.</p>
<p>any other ones? cuz its kinda hard to find this major at many schools...</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins</p>
<p>MIT has a department of brain and cognitive sciences, and students choose whether they want a more molecular/cellular neuroscience track or more of a cognitive neuroscience track.</p>
<p>University of Chicago</p>
<p>check out brown</p>
<p>There is cognitive science. There is neuroscience. I have never heard of a major called "cognitive neuroscience", although there may be courses offered by that title. Those courses are probably found in neuroscience programs. Cognitive neuroscience is probably an interdisciplinary field of research and there are research "centers" at various universities like MIT, Duke, Northwestern, Penn.</p>
<p>MIT's department defines cognitive neuroscience as
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...a multidisciplinary field of research that encompasses systems neuroscience, computation, and cognitive science. Its goal is to further our understanding of the relationship between cognitive phenomena and the underlying physical substrate of the brain. Using a combination of behavioral testing, advanced brain imaging, and theoretical modeling, the cognitive neuroscience research endeavors taking place within the department seek to elucidate how high-level functions, such as language and visual object recognition, relate to specific neural substructures in the brain.
[/quote]
But more to the point, collegehelp is right -- you don't have to go to a school that has a specific major called "cognitive neuroscience" in order to take a lot of cognitive neuroscience classes. Look at course catalogues rather than just lists of majors.</p>
<p>BYU has neuroscience as a major. In fact, that's what my major is. We have the largest neuroscience undergraduate program in the country with great faculty and a good neuroscience center.</p>
<p>Amherst has either neuroscience or neurobiology, I can't remember which.</p>
<p>The Neuroscience Program at Colgate is one of the first two established at undergraduate colleges in the United States. A distinctive feature of the program is its interdisciplinary faculty, which includes a cell biologist/neurochemist, a zoologist/neurophysiologist, a physiological psychologist, and a cognitive neuroscientist.</p>
<p>NYU has a large and outstanding Center for Neural Science,
<a href="http://www.cns.nyu.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://www.cns.nyu.edu/</a>. The Center offers an undergraduate program in neural science, <a href="http://www.cns.nyu.edu/undergrad/%5B/url%5D">http://www.cns.nyu.edu/undergrad/</a>. In addition, a double major is possible in combination with the NYU Dept. of Psychology,
<a href="http://www.psych.nyu.edu/psychology8.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.psych.nyu.edu/psychology8.html</a>, whose undergraduate courses
cover cognitive neuroscience as well.</p>
<p>Many schools have a neurosicence concentration or focus within biology or psychology. Many schools which have neuroscience aren't on the US News list. You might also want to look into psychology, cognitive science, biology, computer science, and potentially philosophy or physics.</p>
<p>I'm interested in cognitive neuroscience too. Here's my choices:</p>
<p>Brown
Dartmouth
UPenn
Wash U (they were one of the first schools places to use PET scanning)
Northwestern</p>