1.       Discuss the research method of experimental ablation: the rationale, the evaluation of behavioral effects resulting from brain damage, and the production of brain lesions. 2.        Describe stereotaxic surgery.

1.       Discuss research on the role of what we now call the VWFA before reading and writing were invented. 2.       Describe research on the neurological basis of developmental dyslexias.

1.       Discuss the role of the cerebellum and the reticular formation in the control of movement. 2.        Describe the course of a night’s sleep: its stages and their characteristics. 3.        Discuss insomnia, sleeping medications, and sleep apnea.

1.       Describe the anatomy of the visual association cortex and discuss the location and functions of the two streams of visual analysis that take place there. 2.       Discuss the perception of color by neurons in the ventral stream. 3.       Describe the role of the ventral stream in the perception of faces, bodies, objects, and scenes of places.

1.        Describe research methods for preserving, sectioning, and staining the brain and for studying its parts and interconnections. 2.        Describe research methods for tracing efferent and afferent axons and for studying the living human brain.

1.       Describe the peripheral nervous system, including the two divisions of the autonomic nervous system. 2.       Describe the routes of administration and the distribution of drugs within the body. 3.       Describe drug effectiveness, the effects of repeated administration, and the placebo effect.

1.       Describe the use of subjects with brain damage in the study of language and explain the concept of lateralization. 2.       Describe Broca’s aphasia and the three major speech deficits that result from damage to Broca’s area: agrammatism, anomia, and articulation difficulties.

1.       Describe the nature of human anterograde amnesia and the type of brain damage that causes it. 2.       Discuss the distinction between declarative memories and nondeclarative memories and their relation to anterograde amnesia.

1.       Describe the effects of drugs on neurotransmitters and presynaptic and postsynaptic receptors. 2.       Review the general role of neurotransmitters and neuromodulators and describe the acetylcholinergic pathways in the brain and the drugs that affect these neurons.

1.       Discuss how neurons in the striate cortex respond to retinal disparity and color and describe the modular organization of striate cortex. 2.       Describe the anatomy of the visual association cortex and discuss the location and functions of the two streams of visual analysis that take place there.