The Cognitive Neuroscience track focuses on the neuroscientific approach to cognition. It is also firmly rooted in biology, and examines how the brain processes information to facilitate complex cognitive functions. As well as the fundamental neuroscience disciplines, brain imaging, systems neurophysiology and computation are strongly featured here.

A typical question for this track would be: How do neural processes such as spikes and synaptic plasticity give rise to memory, conscious perception and behavioural decisions?

This track aims to understand how the brain implements cognitive processes not only by studying information processing in the healthy, active brain, but also by using computer stimulation and interventional approaches that target causal functions. The pathological brain and the healthy brain are of equal interest in this track, and are studied on the basis of neurological and psychiatric disorders.