Physiology of conditioning and associative learning in invertebrates. Hippocampal and cortical mechanisms of spatial and associative learning, and declarative and working memory. Role of activity-dependent plasticity in neural development.
Course involves lectures and discussion of papers.
L. R. Squire and E. R. Kandel. Scientific American Library, 1999. Neurobiology of learning and memory. Academic Press, 1998. E. R. Kandel, J. H. Schwartz, and T. M. Jessell, eds.