PSYCH 3240 Biopsychology Laboratory
This course is designed to provide an introduction to experimental research on the neural basis of behavior and cognition in animals. Topics will include basic neuroanatomy and neurophysiology, neural and hormonal control of behavior, and learning and memory. Students will gain extensive hands on experience with a variety of laboratory techniques, and animal species, and behaviors.
PSYCH 4230\6230 Navigation, Memory & Context: What Does the Hippocampus Do?
Although the hippocampus has been the subject of intense scrutiny for nearly fifty years, there remains considerable disagreement about functional contributions the hippocampus makes to learning and memory process. This seminar examines the diverse functions attributed to the hippocampus with an eye toward integrating the differing viewpoints in the literature. After a brief historical overview, students discuss cutting edge literature on the hippocampal role in spatial navigation, learning and memory, and context processing.
PSYCH 4200\6200 Advanced Topics in the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
This course focuses on the neurobiology of learning and memory, broadly defined to include such topics as LTP, model learning systems, cognitive neuroscience of memory, memory consolidation and reconsolidation, and emotional learning and memory systems.
PSYCH 4200\6200 Interference and Memory in the Brain
This course focuses on one of the primary causes of forgetting in the healthy brain, namely interference, which occurs when the retrieval of a particular target memory is impaired due to the presence of non-target (interfering) memories. We examine the nature of interference in the brain and the neural mechanisms that the brain’s memory systems employ to overcome interference.
PSYCH 6271 – Topics in Biopsychology
Neural systems underlie sensory perception, learning, memory, cognition, and other complex phenomena. Using primary sources from the current neuroscience literature, this seminar course studies neural systems from the joint perspective of physiological processes, behavioral performance, and the computational architecture of the nervous system.