PSYC2003 — Sensation, Movement, and Language
PSYC 2003 - Sensation, Movement, and Language PSYC 2003 - Sensation, Movement, and Language Hours/Week: Lecture 1 Lab None Course Description: How does the brain receive information, interpret it, and then respond? This course presents an introduction to the brain’s role in sensation (vision, hearing, and other senses), perception (creating meaning from sensory information), body movement (including disorders of movement such as dystonia and Parkinson’s disease), and language (including language disorders such as aphasia). The focus is on how the brain and nervous system sense the environment, perceive and interpret incoming sensory information, move the muscles of the body, and use and perceive language. MnTC Goals 5 History/Social/Behavioral Science Major Content Basic brain anatomy and physiology Language processing in the brain and language disorders Principles of sensation and perception Processing of body movement in the brain and movement disorders The other senses Vision and visual perception Learning
Prerequisites: ENGL0950, RDNG0940, RDNG0950, ENGL0090, ESOL0051, ESOL0052