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| Campus | Bryn Mawr |
| Semester | Spring 2025 |
| Registration ID | BIOLB344001 |
| Course Title | Sensory Physiology |
| Credit | 1.00 |
| Department | Neuroscience |
| Instructor | Weber,Alison I. |
| Times and Days | TTh 11:40am-01:00pm
W 01:10pm-04:00pm |
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| Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2195 How do animals sense the world around them? How does an animals physiology shape its experience of the world? In this class, we will cover the processes underlying animal sensing, including the senses familiar to us vision (seeing), audition (hearing), somatosensation (touch), olfaction (smell), and gustation (taste) as well as those we lack, such as electroreception and magnetoreception. The course will focus on the structures and transduction mechanisms that convert sensory signals in the outside world to neural signals. We will highlight commonalities across sensory systems in divergent organisms, as well as examine how animals have evolved unique sensory systems suited to their particular environments. Approach: Writing Attentive; Enrollment Cap: 12. If the course exceeds the enrollment cap the following criteria will be used for the lottery: Biology and Neuroscience majors and minors by class (seniors then juniors), then Senior; then Junior; then Sophomore. |
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