Routes to Neuroscience
The York Neuroimaging Centre (YNiC) is part of the Department of Psychology. YNiC provides staff and the students they supervise with state of the art facilities for research in cognitive neuroscience. This facility and the wide ranging expertise of our staff makes York one of the best places in the UK to study human neuroscience at undergraduate or postgraduate level.
Human neuroscience is a core and increasingly important element of contemporary psychology. Courses in the Department of Psychology focus on the mechanisms of human cognition (perception, thought, memory, language, reasoning and so on). Our undergraduate programmes are accredited by the British Psychological Society and are open to students with a wide range of qualifications. All undergraduate students in our department learn about neuroscience alongside other approaches to the mind, brain and behaviour. Subject to availability, all have options to choose neuroscientific modules, projects and literature surveys. Our 4-year undergraduate degree with an integrated masters programme, leading to an MSci qualification, provides a route to specialization in human neuroscience including very substantial final year projects typically involving hands-on experience with neuroscientific techniques such as MRI, MEG, TMS, computational modelling and EEG.
For students who have already have a good degree (equivalent to UK 2.1 or better) in a relevant discipline, we also offer a one-year MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience. For graduates looking for a career in neuroscientific research (and the very advanced transferrable skills it entails) we offer a PhD programme in Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging.
