Psychology 2360
Brain and Behaviour
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Welcome to the course
This course presents the fundamentals of Neuroscience.
Basic neuroscience – brain cells, neuroanatomy, how cells communicate.
How we know the external world (the senses).
How we interact in that world (movement).
Physiology of sex, sleep and feeling.
 Who are we?
Dr. Jonathan Marotta
• Email: jonathan.marotta@umanitoba.ca
• Office: P310 Duff Roblin
• Phone: 204-474-7057
Grader Markers
Charlotte Leferink
• Email: Charlotte.Leferink@umanitoba.ca
• Office Hours: Thursdays 1-2pm]
• P239
Dina Tabatabei
• Email: tabatabd@myumanitoba.ca
• Office Hours: Wednesdays 3-4pm
• P411
Have question you didn't think of in class?
Email your grader markers – they are happy to help.
Or, setup an appointment with them or me.
Textbook
Carlson’s Foundations of Behavioral Neuroscience
The bookstore has a custom version of this book created for this class.
MyPsychLab Course ID: marotta36713
 Do yourself a favour (i.e. DO THIS)
• read the text book before class and use the online lecture notes
• review the lectures regularly and re-read the text book after class
• this may seem like a lot to handle – trust me, its worth it.
Course web page
http://um-neuroscience.blogspot.ca/
• Will contain lectures, useful information and answers to your emailed questions.
• Lectures will be posted one week or more before they are presented in class.
• Bring lecture notes to class so that you can just add to them and not have to write
down everything I’m saying.
• I would encourage you to go through the lectures online as well because all the
material doesn’t show up in printouts.
Evaluation:
Term tests
Jan. 26, 2016
Mar. 1, 2016
Mar. 17, 2016
Apr. 7, 2016
Online writing assignments
Assignment 1: Due Mar. 7th
Assignemnt 2: Due Apr. 6th
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Which brings us to where we’ll start…
 For Next Time
Start reading Chapter 2.
 You will want to read this chapter several times before
the term test. There is a lot to learn here.