Plasticity, Action & Control
For the specialisation Perception, Action and Control students should have basic knowledge in the areas listed below. Students with a BSc in Physics should minimally have completed courses on Introduction in Biophysics or Introductory courses on Brain and Behaviour. The approximate level of the courses corresponds to chapters in Kandel et al. (2000), ‘Principles of Neural Science’, or R.K. Hobbie (1997), ‘Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology’. Students with a BSc in Biology should be familiar with basic principles of biophysics, corresponding to the level of R.K. Hobbie (1997), ‘Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology’. Students in BioMedical Sciences should be familiar with basic principles of Neuroscience and Biophysics, corresponding to Kandel et al. (2000), ‘Principles of Neural Science’, or R.K. Hobbie (1997), ‘Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology’. Students with a BSc in Psychology should have completed introductory courses in Psychonomics, Perception or Motor Control. The approximate levels of these courses correspond to chapters in M. Gazzaniga (2000), ‘The New Cognitive Neurosciences’, S. Palmer (1999), ‘Vision science’, and D. Rosenbaum (1992), ‘Human motor control’, respectively.
All students need to be prepared for courses at the level of Kandel, Gazzaniga and Hobbie. In case a student does not have acquired the indicated levels, he or she is expected to acquire this knowledge before starting the programme.