1 Semester

Approximately 4 Hours per Week

Hawthorn

HET102 Introductory Physiology or HES1610 Concepts of Biology and HET148 Technology and Data Acquisition or HET182 Electronics Systems

Nil

Credit Points: 12.5 Credit Points

Related Course/s:

A unit of study in the Bachelor of Science (Psychology and Psychophysiology).

Aims & Objectives:

To develop an understanding of human motor control systems and an understanding of psychophysics, perception, human performance and experimental systems.

Teaching Methods:

Lectures, Laboratory Work and Online/Flexible Delivery

Assessment:

Assignments, Pracs

Content:

• Physiology of the motor system.
• Peripheral motor system, effector pathways, and muscle performance.
• Motor system: peripheral effectors, muscle spindle, feedback, cortical regions, cerebellum, subcortical regions, motor pathways, control of movement, disorders of movement, Parkinson's disease, chorea.
• Early historical developments in neuroscience.
• The development of notions of cortical localisation of function.
• Cortical mapping of motor and sensory function.
• Cortical plasticity, sensory remapping and phantom limb phenomena.
• Cerebellar function.
• Perception including optical and other illusions.
• Human performance

Reading Materials:

Kandel, ER, Schwarz JH & Jessell TM, Principles of Neural Science, 3rd/4th edn, Prentice-Hall, London, 1991.
Ryan, C, Exploring Perception, Brooks/Cole, Pacific Cove, 1997.
Carpenter, RHS, Neurophysiology, 3rd edn, Arnold, London, 1997.
Bears, MF, Connors, BW & Paradiso, MA, Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain, William & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1996.
Coren, S, Ward, LM & Enns, JT, Sensation & Perception, 4th edn, Fort Worth, Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1979.
Goldstein EB, Sensation & Perception, 6th edn, Wadsworth, USA, 2002.