Philosophy-Neurology-Psychology (PNP)

Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology (PNP) is an interdisciplinary program at Washington University which allows students to examine the mind and cognition from multiple perspectives. This program is available to both undergraduates (as a minor, major or second major) as well as graduate students (as a PhD track within philosophy).

Undergraduate Program

Within the PNP program undergraduates students are able to choose between Cognitive Neuroscience (CN) track, examining "the study of higher brain functioning with behavioral research directed at understanding activities such as perceiving, attending, remembering, and acting" or the Language, Cognition and Culture (LCC) track, looking at "the importance of language in human cognition, and the integration of cognition with one's cultural environment" .

Graduate Program

The PNP graduate program is a track within the PhD of philosophy and is not designed to be a program in cognitive sciences as the undergraduate program May Be used as. The current program is ten students in size..

External links

• PNP program inforamtion 3