Introduction to the brain and its relationship to behavior and experience. Topics covered: structure and function of the nervous and endocrine systems, sensation/perception, emotion and motivation, thinking and consciousness, learning and memory, malfunctions of the mind.

PSB 5035 Advanced Biological Psychology . . . . . 3(3,0)

Biological bases of behavior and cognition. Advanced study of the structure and function of the nervous and endocrine systems as related to: emotion, motivation, learning, memory, language, thought, sleep and psychopathology, as well as other topics.

PSB 6089 Brain and Mind: Fact and Fantasy . . . . . 3(3,0)

Seminar focusing on controversial issues in psychobiology of human information processing. Topics typically covered concern the relationship between the brain and consciousness, intelligence, memory and other mental processes.

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