📗 -> Neural Mechanisms of Behavior

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🔶 Course Description

Registrar

Relationship between brain and behavior. Identification and analysis of the relevant neural circuits involved. Examples of systems to be considered are birdsong, locomotion, echolocation.

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Instructor:

  • Natalia Caporale

📄 Class Material

Week 1 - Introduction & Orientation Movement

Week 2 - Feature Detection in Frogs & Bat Echolocation I

  • Feature Detection in Frogs (Ch 7 p.140-149; Ewert 1974) - NPB162-L3
  • Bat Echolocation I (Ch. 5 p.91-104; Suga 1990) - NPB162-L4

Week 3 - Bat Echolocation II & Barn Owl Sound Localization I

  • Bat Echolocation II (Ch. 5 p.91-104; Suga 1990) - NPB162-L5
  • Barn Owl Sound Localization I (Ch. 7 p.149-164; Knudsen 2002) - NPB162-L6

Week 4 - Barn Owl Sound Localization II & III

Week 5 - Midterm 1 & Birdsong I

  • MIDTERM EXAM 1: Introduction, Orientation Movement, Feature Detection, Barn Owl Sound Localization, Bat Echolocation (and Papers, HW)
  • Communication: Birdsong I (Ch. 12 p.281-292) - NPB162-L9

Week 6 - Birdsong II & Introduction to Movement

  • Communication: Birdsong II (Ch. 12 p.281-292) - NPB162-L10
  • Introduction to Movement & Locomotion (Ch. 6, p.114-119) - NPB162-L11

Week 7 - Locomotion: Escape Behavior in Crayfish I & II

  • Locomotion: Escape Behavior in Crayfish I (Carew, Ch7) - NPB162-L12
  • Locomotion: Escape Behavior in Crayfish II (Carew, Ch7) - NPB162-L13

Week 8 - Escape Behavior in Fish & Electric Fish

  • Locomotion: Escape Behavior in Fish (Sillar Ch 8) - NPB162-L14
  • Electric Fish and Jamming Avoidance Response (Ch 8) - NPB162-L15

Week 9 - Midterm 2 & Spatial Navigation in Rats I

  • MIDTERM EXAM 2: Birdsong, Introduction to Movement, Escape Behavior in Crayfish & Fish, Electric Fish & Jamming (and Papers, HW)
  • Spatial Navigation in Rats I (Carew, Ch12) - NPB162-L16

Week 10 - Spatial Navigation in Rats II & TBD

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