Handbook

This course provides an advanced examination of the processes of learning and memory and the neurobiological mechanism that underpin them. These include learning about relations between events (Pavlovian conditioning), learning about relations between one’s behaviour and events (Instrumental conditioning), and how these forms of learning control behaviours. Emphasis is placed on contemporary theories and approaches including the role of interactions between environmental events, synapses and genes. Topics include: appetitive and aversive motivation in learning, behaviour and psychopathology; Pavlovian conditioning; instrumental conditioning; the neural mechanisms that underpin memory. Students will gain advanced knowledge in Behavioural Neuroscience, via a combination of online instructional videos and activities and small-group seminars. This course is taught entirely online.