PSYCH 6320 - Biopsychology of Learning and Memory

Spring. 4 credits.

Co-meets with BIONB 3280/PSYCH 3320.

T. J. DeVoogd.

Surveys the approaches that have been or are currently being used to understand the biological bases for learning and memory. Topics include invertebrate, “simple system” approaches, avian song learning, hippocampal and cerebellar function, human memroy pathologies like Alzheimer’s, and research using fMRI to study working and episodic memory in humans. Many of the readings are from primary literature. Graduate students will do a term paper on a contemporary issue in the neurobiology of learning.