Faculty of Arts & Science · St. George

PSY493H1

Cognitive Neuroscience

Prerequisite2 requirements, 29 options

Total contact hours36 lecture

Evidence2 terms

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What was the average?

3 GPA across 2 observed terms. Most recent: Winter 2023.

How is it graded?

Not yet verified

No syllabus we can lawfully use has been verified for this course.

How confident is this?

Med

A small number of terms, so read it as a range. The most recent observation is several years old.

From the calendar

Official source · Faculty of Arts & Science

This is a capstone lecture course surveying research on how the mind arises from the brain. The first objective of the course is to understand how processes in human brains (ranging from the firing of a single neuron to the dynamics of billions) support cognitive abilities (such as recognizing a face, remembering a birthday from childhood, understanding the words in a spoken lecture, or planning a route home from class). The second objective of the course is to understand the methods of contemporary cognitive neuroscience research, to enable students to read primary literature and to understand ongoing debates.

Exclusions: PSY393H5PSYB55H3PSYC31H3
Contact hours: 36 lecture; Total scheduled hours for the course, not per week.

One option from each line

PSY201H1, ECO220Y1, EEB225H1, GGR270H1, IRW220H1, POL222H1, SOC202H1, STA220H1, STA238H1, STA248H1, STA288H1, ECO220Y5, PSY201H5, STA215H5, STA220H5, PSYA06H3, PSYB07H3, STAB22H3, STAB23H3, or STAB57H3

PSY260H1, PSYB38H3 and PSY270H1, PSY270H5, PSYB57H3, COG250Y1 and PSY290H1, PSY290H5, PSYB64H3, HMB200H1, or PSL300H1

What people actually got

Last observed Winter 2023

3 GPA

2 terms observed

n = 2student contributedSt. George offerings only

This is a student-contributed aggregate, not an official University of Toronto record. It is also not a measure of how hard the course is — a course average moves with who enrols in it, not only with the material.

The newest observation is from Winter 2023. Instructors, weighting and exam format may all have changed since — treat this as history, not a forecast.

This rests on 2 reported terms. It is shown because hiding it would not make it less true, but one or two results are a datapoint, not a distribution — a single unusual cohort moves this number a long way.

What we don’t have yet

Assessment weightingNo syllabus we can lawfully use has been verified for this offering. Contribute yours and the breakdown appears here.

A current averageThe newest verified observation is from Winter 2023. Later terms have no confirmed result yet.

Per-term breakdownHeld back deliberately. Splitting 2 observations across terms would be false precision.

Instructor-level detailAverages are not split by instructor. At these sample sizes the difference between sections is noise, not signal.

Archive coveragePyko holds no past paper for this course. We do not host or distribute course files in any case; the archive is what lets these pages describe how a course is assessed.

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Claim	Source	Captured	Status
Course description, prerequisites, exclusions, contact hours	Faculty of Arts & Science	2026-07-25	public fact
Historical average across 2 terms	Student contributions, consented	2026-07-25	user contributed aggregate

Page last verified 2026-07-25. A claim whose source moves is withdrawn before it goes stale.

Around this course

PSY393H5Cannot be taken with this course · Mississauga PSYB55H3Cannot be taken with this course · Scarborough

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