Behavioral Neuroscience Program Overview
The Behavioral Neuroscience area offers a course of study in neuroanatomical, neurochemical, neurophysiological, and neurocomputational aspects of brain functions as they relate to various behavioral and cognitive processes. Specific faculty research interests include learning and memory (e.g., taste, fear, eyeblink conditioning; multiple memory systems), motivation (e.g., drinking, feeding, stress), spatial cognition (e.g., place, head direction cells), and sensory processing (e.g., audition, vision). Students may also supplement their training with resources from the Neurobiology & Behavior Graduate Program and other research centers (e.g., Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences and Center for Integrative Neuroscience) in the University, and affiliated institutions (e.g., Harborview Medical Center).