Psych 3FA3

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

1. Instructor's office hour: Thursday 1:30 - 2:30 and after classes
2. Course web address:
1. http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/Psychology/ psych3FA3/index.htm
2. check often for updates
3. Course description
1. Historical perspectives & Review of the basic concept of learning and memory
2. Top-down approach: Describing learning and memory in whole organisms and identifying the associated neural regions and systems.
3. Bottom-up approach: Describing neuronal and synaptic mechanisms and neural networks that may underlie learning and memory
4. Readings
1. Background reading
2. Required readings (courseware)
3. Supplementary readings
5. Students are expected to study the relevant readings before coming to lectures
6. Teaching philosophy
7. Pease ask questions (during and after classes) !!!
8. Relationship with other psychology courses
1. Psych 2F03 - Fundamentals of Neuroscience - Term 1 - Dr. Ron Racine, prerequisite for this course
2. Psych 3VV3 - Human Memory - Term 1 - Dr. Bruce Milliken
3. Psych 2HO3 - Human Learning and Cognition - Term 2 - Dr. Lee Brooks and Dr. Judith Shedden
4. Psych 2T03 - Principles of Conditioning - Term 1 - Dr. Shepard Siegel
9. Course evaluation
1. Assignment Due: __________