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.

Prerequisite(s): Physiology 3120; or Neuroscience 2000, Physiology 3140A and registration in Year 4 of an Honours Specialization in Neuroscience.

Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.