Introduction and Objectives

About the Course

Behavioral Neuroscience is a course that will explore the underlying cellular mechanisms that enable an animal to solve and respond to particular problems encountered in its natural environment. Many of the animal systems presented are those that not only exhibit interesting behaviors, but have been studied in enough detail that they illustrate important and conserved principles of neural organization. The course is comparative in nature and will highlight successful neural strategies and behavioral skills used by a diverse array of animals, from insects to humans.

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This course fulfills the Group B category of electives (Neural Systems and Behavior) for the undergraduate degree in neuroscience. For more information on the degree see the Neuroscience Major Requirements.

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Photo, above: Rendered Cyberglove data depict hand shapes of the American Sign Language manual alphabet, and illustrate the design of an experiment aimed at quantifying coarticulation. The question was: Does the hand shape for the C (or the R) differ in anticipation of the upcoming vowel (A, E, I, O, or U)?

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