This course has two general teaching goals. The first one is to foster in students an advanced and up-to-date knowledge and understanding of the relationship between mind development and brain plasticity in the course of lifetime. The second is to foster in the student the ability to search, understand, report, and utilize information offered by scientific papers from the field of behavioral neurosciences.

 The laboratory will focus on specific topics in the form of a Journal club. Each friday 3 students will present an article a 9 discussants (3 for each article) will contribute to a discussion.