COGS department

COGS 107B. Systems Neuroscience (4 units)

Link to catalog page: https://catalog.ucsd.edu/courses/COGS.html#cogs107b

Description

This course focuses on the electrical dynamics of neurons and how their patterns relate to perception, thought, and action. Neural activity patterns underlying vision, touch, audition, proprioception, and head orientation are examined in detail. Also examined are motor control, sleep/wake state production, action planning, learning, memory, attention, spatial cognition and function of the cerebellum, basal ganglia, and hippocampus. Prerequisites: COGS 107A.

Prerequisite courses

Successor courses

COGS 107B is a prerequisite of the following 11 courses:

• BIMM 116
• BIMM 116R
• COGS 107C
• COGS 115
• COGS 116
• COGS 165
• COGS 178
• COGS 184
• PSYC 113
• PSYC 171
• PSYC 189