Courses of Study 2013-2014 
    
    Mar 29, 2024  
Courses of Study 2013-2014 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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BIONB 4920 - [Sensory Function]


Spring. 4 credits.

Prerequisite: 3000-level course in biopsychology, or BIONB 2220 , or BIOAP 3110 , or equivalent; knowledge of elementary physics, chemistry, and behavior. Next offered 2014-2015. (Offered alternate years) Enrollment limited to: 25 students.

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The sense organs and their function: vision, hearing, touch and balance, in the periphery and in the central nervous system.  Functional considerations including localization of signals in space.

Outcome 1: 1) Demonstrate mastery of core principles of sensory physiology and be able to explain concepts and apply them through writing and speech.

Outcome 2: Demonstrate understanding of the scientific method as applied to sensory systems, and will be able to explain the experimental evidence for our understanding of sensory function.

Outcome 3: Be familiar with the primary literature on sensory function.

Outcome 4: Understand sensory processes at different levels of reductionistic analysis: behavioral, physiological, molecular, genetic.

Outcome 5: Demonstrate understanding of quantitative reasoning applied to sensory physiology and the application of laws and principles from physics and chemistry.

Outcome 6: Demonstrate knowledge of neuroanatomy and circuitry of sensory systems.

Outcome 7: Understand how sensory systems have changed over the course of evolutionary time.

Outcome 8: Demonstrate understanding of how sensory systems are disrupted by disease and injury.



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