Psychology
Track directors: Thérèse Collins (Université Paris Cité) and Louise Kirsch (Université Paris Cité)
Capacity: 20
General organization
The master’s student must register to one of the tracks. These tracks ensure the acquisition of genuine expertise in the concepts, methods, and techniques specific to each discipline, enhancing the clarity of skills associated with the diploma. The program establishes a common cultural foundation from the first year (M1) through a core curriculum and introductory courses to the different disciplines. In the second year (M2), the majority of courses are fully interdisciplinary and open to students from all tracks. Our goal is to cultivate cognitivists equipped with both robust disciplinary expertise and a broad interdisciplinary culture, essential elements for fostering meaningful collaboration across disciplines.
During the M2, all students will do a long internship during the 2nd semester. During the 1st semester, they will prepare for the internship. Spending one day in the lab (or a parent lab in the case of an internship outside Paris), they will work on the bibliography and clarify the research research question and forseen methods and statistical tests. At the end of 1st semester of M2, students will submit a preregistration document to their track directors, and present for 8 min in front of a jury at the end of January. This is crucial to learn more about the reproducibility crisis, and good practices to overcome it. At the end of the 2nd semester, students will submit a full report and present in front of an interdisciplinary jury the work they did during their internship.
Specific to this track
The Psychology track aims to train the new generation of cognitive psychologists in classic methods and approaches (behavior, psychophysics, signal detection theory, etc), augmented by solid training in modern scientific methods that psychology has adopted and contributed to creating through its interactions with the other cognitive sciences (brain imaging, cognitive modeling, etc).
This goal is achieved through methods and content classes, as well as internships in research laboratory during both the M1 and M2 years. Training in statistics and experimental design is also guaranteed by the core curriculum, and students can also choose from external courses to further enrich and/or specify their knowledge.
Students graduating from this program may go on to perform a PhD in cognitive science and psychology, or turn towards more applied settings in which experimental design and research methodology are crucial skills.
M1 internships
Topic: Internships must be on an experimental psychology topic. We expect students to come into contact with all aspects of study in experimental psychology: from the research question and experimental design to data collection, analysis, and article writing.”
Credits: 12 ECTS over one year (6 ECTS persemester), totaling 26 days in the lab.
Evaluation: Written report at the end of the 1st semester (intro + material and methods) and full report and oral presentation at the end of the 2nd semester.
M1 – Semester 1
Master options: 3 to 6 ECTS among these options
CORE-1 Experimental approach (3 ECTS), Christophe Pallier
CORE-2Data camp (3 ECTS), Christophe Pallier, Mehdi Khamassi
PROG-101Introduction to programming (3 ECTS), Sylvain Charron
Track core curriculum
INT-101 Internship (1 day/week) (6 ECTS)
NEURO-301 Basic methods in Neuroimaging (3 ECTS), Laura Dugué
NEURO-302 Advanced methods in Neuroimaging (3 ECTS), Laura Dugué
PSYCH-301 Methods in Psychological Science (3 ECTS), Thérèse Collins
Options: 9 to 12 ECTS among these options
LING-101 Introduction au Traitement Automatique des Langues (in French) (3 ECTS), Guillaume Wisniewski
PHILO-101 Scientific reasoning (6 ECTS), Anouk Barberousse
NEURO-101 Introduction to Cognitive Neurocience (3 ECTS), Chloé Berland, Pierre Bourdillon
NCIA-101 Introduction to Computational Neuroscience and AI (3 ECTS), Mehdi Khamassi, Benoît Girard
NCIA-201 Bayesian Modeling of brain and behavior (3 ECTS), Jonathan Vacher, Jean Daunizeau
NEURO-201 Neuropsychology as a central paradigm in cognitive science (3 ECTS) , Lucie Rose, Paolo Bartolomeo, Laurent Cohen
M1 – Semester 2
Master core curriculum
CORE-3 Literature (Meta-)review (3 ECTS), Jonathan Vacher
CORE-4 Ethics in cognitive sciences (3 ECTS), Katie Evans, Anouk Barberousse, Raja Chatila
Master options: 3 to 6 ECTS among these options
CORE-1 Experimental approach (3 ECTS), Sylvain Charron
CORE-2Data camp (3 ECTS), Christophe Pallier, Mehdi Khamassi
PROG-202Human experimental workshop (3 ECTS), Mark Wexler
Track core curriculum
INT-201 Internship (1 day/week) (6 ECTS)
PSYCH-201 Psychological functions: language, numerical cognition, animal cognition (6 ECTS), Thierry Nazzi
PSYCH-202 Psychological functions: perception-action, decision-making, memory (6 ECTS), Louise Kirsch
Options: 3 to 6 ECTS among these options
NEURO-202 Advanced Cognitive Neuroscience (6 ECTS), Louise Kirsch
NCIA-206 Model-based neuroimaging (3 ECTS), Laura Dugué
M2 – Semestre 3
Master core curriculum
INT-301 Internship preparation (1 day/week) (6 ECTS)
Options: 24 ECTS among these options
Attention (6 ECTS), Laura Dugué
Decision (6 ECTS), Mathias Pessiglione
Cognitive neuroscience of consciousness (6 ECTS), Claire Sergent, Jérôme Sackur
COG-404 Social cognition (6 ECTS), Louise Kirsch, Klara Kovarski
COG-405 Computational psychiatry (6 ECTS), Fabien Vinckier, Philippe Domenech, Renaud Jardri
PSYCH-203 Representations (6 ECTS), Thérèse Collins
PSYCH-204 Neuro-education: advanced introduction to developmental psychology and neurosciences for education (6 ECTS), Elise Klein, Arnaud Cachia
iMOV-SU-302 Physiology of perception (6 ECTS), Olivier Marre, Grégory Gauvain
MSR-SU-301 Motor control (6 ECTS), Emmanuel Guigon, Malika Auvray
BIP-SU-1 Cerveau social et émotions (in French) (6 ECTS), Jacqueline Nadel
BIP-SU-1 Development of the nervous system (6 ECTS), Richard Belvindrah, Alexandra Rebsam
PAS-1 Hearing: from mechanisms to restauration (6 ECTS?), Brice Bathellier
M2 – Semestre 4
Master core curriculum
INT-401 Internship (full time) (30 ECTS)