Contents
The course deals with vision and other types of photoreception, olfaction, taste, hearing, equilibrium, mechanoreception, pressure reception, electroreception, magnetoreception and senses for temperature and heat radiation. All senses are studied comparatively across the animal kingdom. A range of methods in physiology, ethology and human psychophysics are taught and used during the course. The course is divided into sections covering different levels of organisation:

• The molecular machinery of sensory receptors.

• The design and function of sensory organs.

• Neuroanatomy, neural processing and integration of sensory information.

• The role of sensory information in behaviour and in the adaptation of animals to their environment (sensory ecology).

Literature
According to a reading list determined by the department. This list will be available at least five weeks before the start of the course.