Students will be introduced to physiological correlates of emotions, memory, motivation learning, and perception. Special attention is given to methodology, neurotransmitters, psychoactive drugs, and physiology of sleep. Drugs and Behavior Basic principles of drug action in the Central Nervous System. An introduction to the ways we acquire data about the world through our senses and how we convert these data into information through perceptual processes. Topics surveyed will include seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, and smelling.
Students conduct laboratory experiments and write reports on the data they acquire.
Lecture 3 hours, lab 2 hours. This course is equivalent to PS 275, except that PS 276 has no laboratory component. An overview of ways information is collected from the world and transformed to meaningful perceptions. Topics include seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, and smelling. The course will cover how major sensory systems receive information by examining the structure and function of these systems.