PhD in Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience

Get advanced training in the scientific study of cognition, brain, and behaviour to prepare for a future in psychology and neuroscience research with the PhD in Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience degree from Victoria University of Wellington. 

A postgraduate qualification in neuroscience will help you build a deep understanding of how the brain enables us to perceive, think, feel, remember, decide, and behave.

Key facts

• If you do well in your Master’s research, you can apply to do a PhD in Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience PhD in Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience , or in Psychology at Victoria University of Wellington Victoria University of Wellington . You can also upgrade your MSc thesis to a PhD, which you can discuss with your supervisor and the programme director. 

• If you have an Honours degree or equivalent, and want to do a PhD in Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience, you should contact the programme director.

Courses include

• face perception

• prosody – the processing of emotional expression and tone of voice

• visual working memory

• implicit memory and learning within normal and special populations

• basic automatic and controlled processes underlying recognition and recall memory

• subjective experience during memory retrieval

• memory for applied materials in applied settings

• the processes and consequences of false memory phenomena