GSN6504 Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience (4 MC)
In this module, we take multidisciplinary approach to understand the cellular and the neural basis of relatively simple behaviours and more complex cognitive tasks. We will discuss:
- The encoding of noxious stimuli and the neural basis of the affective-motivational and cognitive effects linked to pain,
- The basic elements of the visual system and visual processing in humans and other primates, and the links between cognition (what we see) and behaviour (what we do),
- Circadian rhythms, sleep, light and cognition,
- Approaches to studying cognition in healthy humans and current insights into how cognitive processes are represented in the brain,
- Animal models of cognitive and behavioural abnormalities associated with psychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases.
When:
| Date: |
18 Jan - 19 Apr 2013, Every
Friday |
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9.00 am -12.00 noon |
Where:
NGS Multi-Purpose Room (MPR), Centre for Life Sciences, Level 1
Topics to include:
- Cellular and neural aspect of pain
- Introduction to Vision
- The neural basis of circadian rhythms, and sleep-wake cycle and their influence on cognition
- Neural systems supporting human cognition
- Psychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases
Organiser:
Assoc Prof Sanjay Khanna
Instructors include:
- Prof Dale Purves
- Prof Michael Chee
- Assoc Prof Annett Schirmer
- Asst Prof Joshua Gooley
- Assoc Prof Gavin Dawe
Assessment:
- Tutorials / Seminars (30%)
- Essays (30%)
- Final (40%): 03 May 2013, Friday.
Note:
- "Audit" option is allowed for this module.
- “S/U” option is not allowed.
- GSN6501 will be the pre-requisite module for students who DO NOT have neurobiology background.
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