Course Description

Physiology 471a/b Physiology of the Senses

This course covers the physiology of the senses in the primate, including touch, taste, pain, smell, vision, motion and hearing. Each sensory modality is used to exemplify a particular aspect of sensory processing from stimulus encoding at the periphery to the feature extraction in the sensory cerebral cortex.

Prerequisites: Physiology 310 and 314a (formerly Biology 310, 314a); or permission of the Department.

2 lecture hours, half course.

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