The M.Sc. program provides students with thorough theoretical knowledge and broad methodological competencies in the field of social, cognitive, and affective neuroscience. On the one hand, this entails teaching of background knowledge in a variety of domains, such as perception, learning, memory, decision making, empathy, and language, with a particular emphasis on current research and developments. On the other hand, this entails teaching and applied learning of a large array of methodological skills, including planning and programming of neurocognitive experiments, conducting experiments using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), electroencephalography (EEG), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), and near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS), and the statistical analysis of experimental data.

Career opportunities The theoretical and methodological skills for analyzing and predicting the neurocognitive foundations of behaviour qualify students for research-related employment in both private and public sector organizations and academia. Students acquire a broad set of transferable skills, such as foundations in applied programming, statistical analysis, and presentation and report writing.