9.03/9.031 Neural Basis of Learning and Memory

Fall 1999 schedule:  Monday and Wednesday 1:00-2:30 in E51-361.

Physiology of conditioning and associative learning in invertebrates. Hippocampal and cortical mechanisms of spatial and associative learning, and declarative and working memory.  Role of activity-dependent plasticity in neural development.   Course involves lectures and discussion of papers. 

Lecture schedule

Reading list

Textbooks

• Required:
  L. R. Squire and E. R. Kandel.  Memory: from mind to molecules.  Scientific American Library, 1999.

• Recommended:
  J. L. Martinez, Jr. and R. Kesner, eds.  Neurobiology of learning and memory.  Academic Press, 1998.
  E. R. Kandel, J. H. Schwartz, and T. M. Jessell, eds. Principles of neural science.  Appleton & Lange, 1992.

Course requirements

• undergraduate students
  • quizzes and problem sets (25%)
  • midterm/10-15 page paper (25%)
  • final exam (25%)
  • class participation (25%)
• graduate students
  • quizzes and problem sets (20%)
  • midterm with extra questions (20%)
  • 15-20 page paper (20%)
  • final exam with extra questions (20%)
  • class participation (20%)